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NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy 9 months ago

You could do that indeed, but the performance would be abysmal. For this kind of use-case, it would be a LOT better to use a small pre-trained model and either fine-tune it on your materials, or use some kind of RAG workflow (possibly both).

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Meteorologists get death threats as hurricane conspiracy theories thrive 2 years ago

I don't think this is about education, but I suspect rather something more akin to "intellectual revenge". Let me explain : In my experience, people who are into conspiracy theories are usually people who have been intellectually marginalised or disparaged during their life. It's not about being stupid - I think that's besides the point - but it's about being called and made feel stupid, literally or metaphorically.

People don't want to believe they are stupid, and they especially don't want to believe the people (or institutions) who call them stupid are superior to them. So they find a way out, by believing something that not only makes them feel important (they know but other people don't), but also superior to those who ostracised them in the first place.

I've been thinking about this for a while, but somehow never came across any similar ideas anywhere, anybody got references (or comments) ?

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Bambu Lab A1 Mini 3 years ago

ASA is very prone to warping, and thus needs an enclosure to keep ambient temp high enough while printing. You might be able to print small parts in ASA with a non-enclosed bedslinger like this, but you will run in trouble for bigger parts.

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Magic Earth: OSM based map and routing with crowd sourced traffic data 3 years ago

If the developers are around, I would like to ask a simple question : Does this app only use realtime data for calculating ETA and routes, or does it learn some statistical regularities in the traffic patterns to make predictions ?

I'm asking because this is the main weakness of all similar apps that I know of, they always give you an estimation using only the current state of traffic on the whole journey, so if you are going towards a busy city at peak traffic time it may add one or two hours to the ETA even if you are still 5 hours away and everything will be gone by the time you get there. Obviously the reverse situation is even more annoying, I live in the Paris area, and when I leave home around 4pm and ask google maps an itinerary, it may tell me I'm only 30 minutes away, but 15 minutes later shit hits the fan and I end up an hour late on my schedule.

Obviously after a while you start learning the traffic patterns and plan accordingly, which is okay I guess, but we're in 2023, how can google not be up to the task of correctly predicting a traffic spike when it's regular on a daily or weekly basis ? Is that just too much data / compute for them ? If anybody has a clue, I'm curious.

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Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG 3 years ago

Hi Mateo, nice to see the project is still alive and evolving. I personally tried it about a year ago, and I found it really good for designing simple web pages with reusable and customisable components. But the content management system was the issue for me, I was hoping there would be a way to just drop markdown files in a folder for it to generate articles or blog posts following a template like a regular SSG. We even talked about it briefly, and I then forked the primo repo and started implementing a custom method to convert the database entries into a files / folder structure, which was going alright but the reverse operation seemed tricky to implement and I ended up going down another road, building my own custom markdown SSG inspired by this guide : https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/build-static-sveltekit-mar... Anyway, my use case is probably not the one you are targeting, but I still think it would be a dope product if everything worked the same but instead of writing the project into a database it would be a dynamic files / folder structure that could be edited and versioned like a regular sveltekit project. Basically it would be a svelte-based SSG framework with a components library and a dedicated UI to complement the regular text editor. Just dropping this in case someone reads it and wants to build it, keep up the good work.

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ChatGPT for Hardware Design 3 years ago

Github auth seems broken for me on chrome mac, anyone else ? Here's the error on the login page : You are already signed in, please try signing out and signing in again, or contact us for help. Sometimes I get sent to a profile page, but trying to create a project sends me back to the login page.

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Arduino Uno R4 3 years ago

Exactly my thought, this seems like a bunch of design compromises mostly towards backwards-compatibility, but I suspect they also did not want to make their flagship product reliant on a chinese MCU, hence the no-wifi variant.

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California bill would require high schools to hand out free condoms 3 years ago

Indeed that's more or less what it looks like, thanks for the explanation though. Reading the article, what seems even more bonkers is the fact that pharmacies refuse to sell condoms to "underage kids", is that a legal thing or just very conservative using their (admittedly very broken) personal sense of moral duty to not comply ?

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Jaron Lanier on the danger of AI 3 years ago

Yeah right, it really sounds like what most transgender people are advocating for indeed.

I asked ChatGPT to enlighten me on the subject, here's what it had to say :

The term "transsexual maximalism" is not a widely recognized or established ideology, but it has been used by some individuals to describe a perspective on transgender issues that emphasizes a strong and uncompromising approach to advocating for the rights and recognition of transgender people.

At its core, transsexual maximalism is an approach that prioritizes the experiences and perspectives of transgender people, particularly those who have undergone medical interventions such as hormone therapy or gender confirmation surgery. Proponents of transsexual maximalism often believe that these interventions are necessary to fully alleviate the distress and dysphoria experienced by many transgender individuals.

Transsexual maximalism can be seen as a response to more moderate or incremental approaches to transgender advocacy, which may focus on incremental policy changes or attempts to work within existing systems of power and institutions. Some proponents of transsexual maximalism may view these more moderate approaches as insufficient or even counterproductive, arguing that they do not go far enough in challenging the underlying structures of cisnormativity and transphobia.

However, it's worth noting that the term "transsexual maximalism" has not been widely adopted or embraced by the broader transgender community, and some individuals within the community may have different perspectives or priorities when it comes to advocacy and activism.

Me : Why would people consider this a threat ?

ChatGPT : Some people might consider transsexual maximalism as a threat because it is a highly assertive and uncompromising approach to advocating for transgender rights and recognition. This approach can challenge existing social norms and institutions that uphold cisgender privilege and transphobia.

For example, some individuals who are opposed to transgender rights might view transsexual maximalism as a threat to traditional gender norms and the gender binary. They may feel uncomfortable with the idea that gender identity can be different from the sex assigned at birth, or that medical interventions such as hormone therapy or gender confirmation surgery are necessary for some transgender people to live authentically.

Additionally, some people might see transsexual maximalism as a threat to their own power or privilege. Transgender individuals have historically been marginalized and oppressed, and advocating for their rights and recognition can challenge the existing power structures that uphold cisgender privilege. This can cause discomfort or resistance among those who benefit from these power structures.

It's important to note that concerns about transsexual maximalism as a "threat" are often rooted in transphobia and a lack of understanding or empathy for the experiences of transgender individuals. Transgender people have the right to advocate for their own rights and recognition, and it is not a threat to anyone else's well-being or identity.

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Electro Gyro-Cator 3 years ago

Even with data from all four wheels the system as it is described cannot prevent drift altogether. Wheel diameter is variable depending on many factors, tires can lose grip on the road, and also the earth is not perfectly flat. There would be other sources of inaccuracies, but basically in any real-world situation you need some kind of absolute position source to get drift-free location data. The trick is that it can be very noisy and low bandwidth if you integrate it with other sources of data like and IMU.

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