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Yep, I need to compare the new models and update everything. Foolish of me to generate ahead at all!

Fair points, thank you for the very thoughtful feedback! "Alexandrian who found area from mere sides" is a bad hint because it is fairly obscure, and really just a history trivia check. And the image is a bit random. You can view the explanation for the hint by clicking the ? button in the upper right corner after a word is completed if you are curious about the models reasoning.

As a bit of an explanation I generated these before Nano banana pro came out, and at the time I made a large comparison grid for various image and text models. For this style qwen image performed very well. LLM wise I started with 5.1 and updated to 5.2. Of course with the rate of model release my choices are pretty much already obsolete... Expense is also a factor for a hobby project, and NB pro is 7.5x more expensive than Qwen image.

Just a python script to render then api call with a prompt to check if the render looks right.

I tried this a few months back with claude 3.5 writing cadquery code in cline, with render photos for feedback. I got it to model a few simple things like terraforming mars city fairly nicely. However it still involved a fair bit of coaching. I wrote a simple script to automate the process more but it went off the rails too often.

I wonder if the models improved image understanding also lead to better spatial understanding.

Yeah, I definitely see using this for literate programming. Not quite sure the best way to organize it. Maybe use a static site compiler to auto host documentation version.

It was a stupid and shameful tweet. The thing that elevates this above a drunk tweet though are the "real life" postcards. Should we ignore the fact that the postcards seem very much a false flag?

It has been interesting seeing the sleuthing on this one. IMHO it is unfortunate to have this happen to a company that has been very pro open source.

The link just changed. Why? The original was the verge article, that was frankly terrible. It really read like the author had a specific goal.

Have you tried using ChatGPT to study? It's pretty incredible for learning, particularly interactive exploration. The point of this plugin is to give ChatGPT access to reliable information to help it be more accurate and informative, as well let it provide real sources so you can verify and continue learning. MIT OpenCourseWare is a great resource (the quality of the teachers is amazing), but it isn't easy to find what you want, and it lacks the interactive component of a real class. I made this to try combining the strengths of both.

This is a shame as bing search api was much better documented, and supported (at least as of a few years ago). Google switched api specs and dropped features at an even faster rate than their consumer facing products.

I feel like this headline is deceptive. This is a Jax reimplementation, and it was released a year ago. It is a cool library though. The basic operation of muzero is very simple, but training it efficiently is tricky.

We can define intelligence in a very real, practical way now. We see and identify intelligence all the time in humans and in animals and in AI. We may not be perfect at identifying it (just like grog might mistake a rising sun for a forest fire), but we don't need a perfect mathematical or philosophical definition that we all agree on to create it. We just need to rub sticks together really hard.

Mog: “What truly is fire? The divine blessing stolen by Prometheus? Concentrated Phlogiston? The element of change? Is it not madness to seek to create something we don’t even have a good definition of?”

Grog: “Grog rubs two sticks together” Lowers voice and looks around furtively “really hard.”

Maybe that post has been edited into coherence, but when it was posted that summary was misleading or flat wrong about a lot of points.

I've been using a modified version of lsteins fork since almost the beginning. Recommended! It does lack some of the features of eg automatic1111, but it has good cli, and actually has a license, which is pretty important (as novelai has learned).

I agree that declaring a win is a bit impolite _if_ the other person hasn't agreed. But changing "farmer" to "robot farmer" because Google won't allow him to generate pictures with humans is obviously not changing the goalposts in the usual meaning of the term.

The power of allowing everyone to make foundational types and functions that work together is indeed dangerous. I'm not sure you are better off in the even more dangerous waters of c/c++/fortran, except that they are older and more established with many times the man-hours sunk into them. Is there a good way to control the interaction of these many different libraries with losing the generality and composability of Julia?

I will say that as a matter of language design 1 based indexing is perfectly fine, 0 based indexing is perfectly fine. Choose your own indexing is a hilarious foot gun, so no surprise it went off sometimes. Fortunately using it seems to be quite rare.

How much did Sonos pay to get this article written? It's tripping over itself praising Sonos and repeating over and over that Google should pay Sonos.

I suspect that's the point.

I feel like this is one of those infomercials where the actor in black and white is super clumsy. Looking up what time it is in Melbourne? Google. Looking up whether the sun is up new in Melbourne? Find a webcam in Melbourne.

Timezones are pretty crude method of figuring out if someone is awake, or the sun is up anyway.

The name of the show is a play on the DnD feature of rolling a critical. Seems a bit unfair to criticize someone else borrowing a classic DnD term just because Critical Role got so popular.

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If you somehow got your hands on a modern nuclear weapon and you had a team of PhD engineers, a year of time, and the best tools in the world, you might be able to get the radioactive material out, but you absolutely would not make it explode.

I'm saying that there's no "might" about extracting the radioactive materials. Nor do you need "a team of PhD engineers, a year of time, and the best tools in the world". An angle grinder and a couple days should suffice.

As for making it explode, that may indeed be very difficult, but I am not highly confident given the military's general attitude and track record. Hopefully my cynicism is unfounded, but supercomputer simulations primarily designed to ensure that aging weapons still function doesn't really help with security.

That last sounds wildly implausible. Are you saying they booby trap it to set off the high explosive if someone tampers with it (making it a booby trapped dirty bomb)? Because otherwise there's really nothing stopping some dude with an angle grinder from getting the 'radioactive material' out in a day or two.

Generally this sounds nice, but I don't really believe it without some evidence of actually motivated red teams testing the system.

Excellent. You should have different premade profiles like SexyMysteriousCool, LovingCharitableResponsible, FunPopularWanted, HasACutePuppy so users don't need to plan how to look interesting.

Put this on the moon and we are talking. I'm not sure I see this being too useful otherwise, considering how much extra fairing mass those gforces are going to require

HN has been pretty hostile to the idea. I submitted Jeremy Howards video and research collation, and got a single borderline insulting comment. Unfortunately people have largely made up their minds thanks to the plethora of attacks on masks.

moral "Your stealing them from healthcare" (lots of people have a couple old masks, or can make one from a t-shirt)

paternalistic "You'll go do stupid stuff if you have a mask" (Exactly why we shouldn't have people wash their hands)

ridiculous "You'll touch the mask and get it on your hands" (Is that worse than inhaling it? Plus it physically prevents you from touching you mouth or nose, which is the real danger.)

insulting "You can't possibly wear a mask correctly" (and why can't we figure that out? Plus it still helps both for protecting other people and ourselves. If something doesn't work perfectly then we shouldn't do anything at all?)

just false "it doesn't work" (except in asian countries and for healthcare workers, and in studies, and in common sense)

I mean half the video is talking about the (proven) effectiveness of homemade cloth masks of various materials vs N95 and surgical masks, so you certainly can't accuse them of not understanding the difference.

You are making quite a strong claim. Do you have any evidence for that? Why would getting some coronavirus on your hands when you take the mask off be worse than inhaling it? Of course many healthcare workers are being issued only one respirator per day, and they are exposed to drastically more coronavirus. It's not exactly difficult to simply wash a cloth mask like any other piece of clothing, and a surgical mask isn't very difficult to sanitize either.

Moreover if you are sick and don't know it a mask protects everyone else from the primary infection route.

Seems like a reasonable fit for HN. If you are skeptical look at their collated list of papers on the effectiveness of homemade masks. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HLrm0pqBN_5bdyysOeoOBX4p...

Has no one tested putting it in a plastic bag and boiling it? At the very least they ought to explain why that's a bad idea if it is, because I can't be the only one to think that's the obvious solution.

Yes, its infuriating but hardly surprising. This is what happens when you don't have a responsible adult in charge during a crisis. The economy does matter, but the longer we wait, the longer we'll have to endure a crippling lockdown. So far some governors have filled in for the missing executive function of this country. Unfortunately that's localized and states simply cannot apply the same level of resources or coordination that the federal government can.