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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cry Harder, Kid⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
If you have never seen a scallop run away, google it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She-Ra Lives!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Personally I find it weird that we do generalities about a this population as it is very likely that they had all different cultures on the tribe level.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amateur Entomologists⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Nah the game is about friendship and time travels. The boss is kinda irrelevant.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amateur Entomologists⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The court was one of the best moments!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Penguins 🐧⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
PENGUINS! IM TALKING ABOUT PENGUINS!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amateur Entomologists⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Chrono Trigger is fun!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amateur Entomologists⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
In DnD I believe it is called a Tarrasaque
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DNA Horror Movies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I’d roll my eyes over the last one but instead I just spinned them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Womp womp⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yes, they get confused with us evil engineers.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨smart engineering⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That’s not the history of that thing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IS THIS REAL CHAT??⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
THANK GOD YES! Imaginary matrices are a pain to multiply!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A decline in arable land⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Is this a bad thing? I always heard that here in France we have increasing forest coverage.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ahoy me hearties⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Alexandra Elbakyan deserves a Nobel and a presidential pardon. I doubt any other person alive now has made more for science.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pick some unrelated lectures, they said.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
A someone not in the field (CS/Machine learning) what did you expect these to be?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pick some unrelated lectures, they said.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
But… but… these are my maths shoes!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Publishers Always Innovating⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yes, PDFs are much more permissive and may not have any semantic information at all. Hell, some old publications are just scanned images!

PDF -> semantic seems to be a hard problem that basically requires OCR, like these people are doing
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Publishers Always Innovating⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

I love that PDFs are so difficult to transform into HTML, too

FYI, if that’s relevant to your field, every new article published on arxiv.org now has a HTML render as well.

And on many older publications, transforming “arxiv.org” into “ar5iv.org” leads to an HTML rendering that is a best-effort experiments they ran for a while.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Publishers Always Innovating⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You are welcome.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hmmmm⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Me as an intern in a lab, being asked among others to review a draft

Hey, can you explain to me equation 3.1? I am not sure what N and Q refers to?

Oh that one I just copied from another paper, it is not really important to the argument.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nobel Prize 2024⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Actually I endorse the fact that we are less shy of calling “AI” algorithms that do exhibit emergent intelligence and broad knowledge. AI uses to be a legitimate name for the field that encompasses ML and we do understood a lot of interesting things about intelligence thanks to LLMs nowadays, like the fact that training on next-word-prediction is enough to create pretty complex world models, that transformer architectures are capable of abstraction or that morality arise naturally when you try to acquire all the pre-requisites to have a normal discussion with a human.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inferno Beyond the Frame⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Oh I don’t want to be confrontational at all! I am just trying to understand what I am missing, as usually I am nitpicky with perspective too but could not spot the mistake there! Please dont see that as a very serious or angry argument!

I am not assuming a ship, but a cave, so from a point of view of low altitude. I imagine the camera being horizontal, at the level of the tallest person’s head. I see 3 layers on the background: the canyon wall on the right, fairly close, the small ridge with what looks like a nice ski slope on it and a big mountain in the background. Granted, that one is huge, you may need a 1500 or 2000m differential between the window and the background mountain top but I think I could find such spots on Google Earth in the Alps or the Himalayas.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inferno Beyond the Frame⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
They live on the side of a canyon. The fog comes from the river at the bottom. They are looking at a mountainside facing the mouth of the canyon. I live in the Alps, you have such views on the small mountains leading to the higher ranges.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inferno Beyond the Frame⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
How so?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Surreal Convergence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
This image woke me up. Downloading it now. I had not realized that models could handle this type of scene composition nowadays.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Last View⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

If you have a craft capable of launch and re-entry, do you even try?

It is basically having to choose between two inhospitable nuclear barren lands. But one has oxygen on it. Hell yes I try.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crimson Mist Apparition⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Straight from Avalon.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The cloud is over-engineered and overpriced⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’d have a slightly different take: managing things in-house is going to be cheaper if you have a competent team to do it. The existence of the cloud as a crucial infrastructure is because it is hard to come up with competent IT and sysadmin people. The market is offer-driven now. IT staff could help the company save money on AWS hosting but it could also be used in more crucial and profitable endeavour and this is what is happening.

I see it at the 2 organization I am working at: one is a startup which does have a single, overworked “hardware guy” who sets up the critical infra of the company. His highest priority is to maintain the machine with private information that we want to host internally for strategic reasons. We calculated that having him install a few machines for hosting our dev team data was the cheapest but after 3 months of wait, we opted out for a more expensive, but immediately available, cloud option. We could have hired a second one but our HR department is already having a hard time finding candidates for out crucial missions.

On the non-profits I am working on, there is a strong openness/open-hardware spirit. Yet I am basically the only IT guy there. I often joke they should ditch their Microsoft, Office and Google based tools, and I could help them do it, but I prefer to work on the actual open hardware research projects they are funding. And I think I am right in my priorities.

So yes, the Cloud is overpriced, but it is a convenience. Know what you pay for, know you could save money there and it may at some point be reasonable to do so. In the end that’s a resource allocation problem: human time vs money.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inadvisable Eggsperiment⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
“Cooking with my stepmom”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Darkness Holds Light⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
In the barren lands the faint sobbing voices of innocents dying was generally unheard by anyone except the uncaring cold winter tundra. Yet, occasionally, through some obscure motive of a somber chtonian deity, the useless tears would be magnified as drops of martyr blood calling for more blood. It would become a beacon of red light for the righteous and the outraged. Grief turned to flame and blood. Indifference turned into fire and statu-quo into chaos. In such times despair could become hope and indifference was banned. But even the heroes of these times of change knew better than to praise the nightly hands that ignited the ashes.