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- Comment on The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work 3 hours ago:
Not specifically. Ultimately, ComfyUI would build prompts/API calls, which I tend to do in Python scripts.
I tend to use Mikupad or Open Web UI for more general testing.
There are some neat tools with ‘lower level’ integration into LLM engines, like SGlang (which leverages caching and constrained decoding) to do things one can’t do over standard APIs: docs.sglang.ai/frontend/frontend.html
- Comment on The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work 19 hours ago:
I mean, I run Nemotron and Qwen every day, you are preaching to the choir here :P
- Comment on Reddit bought a giant ad in Paris, urging young french people to create an account 22 hours ago:
Unfortunately, most are moving to Discord :(
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 1 day ago:
They need to give it to the current marketing team. And save some for me.
- Comment on The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work 1 day ago:
AI is a tool (sorry)
This should be a bumper sticker. Also, thanks for this, bookmarking 404, wish I had the means to subscribe.
My hope is that the “AI” craze culminates in a race to the bottom where we end up in a less terrible state: local models on people’s phones, reaching out to reputable websites for queries and redirection.
And this would be way better for places like 404, as they’d have to grab traffic individually and redirect users there.
- Comment on How did websites like TinEye recognize cropped photos of the same image (and other likened pictures), without the low-entry easyness of LLM/AI Models these days? 1 day ago:
making the most with what you have
That is, indeed, the motto of ML research for a long time. Just finding more efficient approaches.
It’s people like Altman the introduced the idea of not innovating and just scaling up what you already have. Hence many in the research community know he’s full of it.
- Comment on How did websites like TinEye recognize cropped photos of the same image (and other likened pictures), without the low-entry easyness of LLM/AI Models these days? 1 day ago:
Oh and to answer this, specifically, Nvidia has been used in ML research forever. It goes back to 2008 and stuff like the GTX 280. Maybe earlier.
So have CPUs. In fact, Intel made specific server SKUs for giant AI users like Facebook. See: servethehome.com/facebook-introduces-next-gen-coo…
- Comment on How did websites like TinEye recognize cropped photos of the same image (and other likened pictures), without the low-entry easyness of LLM/AI Models these days? 1 day ago:
Machine learning has been a field for years, as others said, yeah, but Wikipedia would be a better expansion of the topic. In a nutshell, it’s largely about predicting outputs based on trained input examples.
It doesn’t have to be text. For example, astronmers use it to find certain kinds of objects in raw data feeds. Object recognition (identifying things in pictures with little bounding boxes) is an old art at this point. And yes, image similarity is another, though not entirely machine learning based. IDK what Tineye does in their backend, but there are some more “oldschool” approaches using more traditional programming techniques, generating signatures for images.
Seperately, image similarity metrics (like lpips or SSIM), that measure the difference between two images as a number (where, say, 1 would be a perfect mach and 0 totally unrelated) are common components in machine learning pipelines. So are text embedding models, which do the same with text.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 5 days ago:
Coffee Stain’s another good example on the bigger end.
It does seems like there’s a danger zone behind a certain size threshold. It makes me worry for Warhorse (the KCD2 dev), which plans to expand beyond 250.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 6 days ago:
Not everyone’s a big kb/mouse fan. My sister refuses to use one on the HTPC.
Hence I think that was its non-insignificant niche; couch usage. Portable keyboards are really awkward and clunky on laps, and if its a trackpad anyway the steam controller is way better.
Personally I think it was a smart business decision, because of this:
It doesnt have 2 joysticks so I just buy an Xbox one instead.
No one’s going to buy a steam-branded Xbox controller, but making it different does. And I think what killed it is that it wasn’t plug-and-play enough, eg it didn’t work out of the box with many games.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 6 days ago:
With respect, this doesn’t make any sense. If you want a joystick controller, just buy an Xbox controller that everything’s compatible with anyway?
The trackpads shine when one needs to emulate a mouse/kb, a nightmare with joysticks.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 6 days ago:
My sister still has a working one that she treats like a religious artifact, as it’s the best way to play mouse/KB games from the sofa.
I see why they discontinued them though. They need custom configs for most games, and I think post people don’t like that much tweaking.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 1 week ago:
Also a crime. Not just a great game in their niche, but a long history of them.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 1 week ago:
Never underestimate Phil Spencer.
- Comment on Jupiter 1 week ago:
The junocam page has some from the actual device: www.msss.com/all_projects/junocam.php
Caption of another:
Multiple images taken with the JunoCam instrument on three separate orbits were combined to show all areas in daylight, enhanced color, and stereographic projection.
In other words, the images you see are heavily processed composites…
Dare I say, AI enhanced, as they sometimes do use ML algorithms for astronomy. Though onces designed for scientific usefulness, of course.
- Comment on Mullvad's ads are good 1 week ago:
Nah I meant the opposite. Journalistic integrity was learned through long, hard history.
Now that traditional journalism is dying, its like the streamer generation has to learn it from scratch, heh.
- Comment on Mullvad's ads are good 1 week ago:
Its kinda like influencers (and their younger viewers) are relearning the history of journalism from scratch, heh.
- Comment on Mullvad's ads are good 1 week ago:
Surpressing sponsors is a perverse incentive too; all the more reason to not disclose who’s paying the creator.
- Comment on RIP America 2 weeks ago:
There’s always parts of the population that believe in this.
…The remarkable issue here is the elites/rules we handed the reigns now drink their own kool-aid. The very top of most authoritarian regimes are at least cognisant of some hypocrisy, even if ideology eats them some.
- Comment on Repeat 🔁 2 weeks ago:
Is this an ADHD meme?
I’m afraid it might be, cause I have a trail of ‘one giant playlists’ and songs on repeat.
- Comment on So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to distract americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance... 3 weeks ago:
A huge chunk of Americans enthusiastically support warring with Iran (or will, soon). Don’t like we aren’t culpable.
Is it because they’re glued to feeds and TV news? Yeah, but that’s also ours, and we basically elected Big Tech and Newscorp to the presidency so…
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 3 weeks ago:
TBF those companies don’t have the budget for a astroturfing bot campaign, or at least can’t afford the PR hit.
- Comment on Confirmed - China bans NVIDIA chips and accelerates its total independence from US technology 5 weeks ago:
Yeah honestly the Nvidia ban was stupid.
Everyone in the AI research space was saying it, but no, our old policymakers are captured by Altman, Musk and tech bros who would burn anything for their two years of pure anticompetitiveness.
The running joke is that the Nvidia ban was the best thing to ever happen to Chinese research, as it made them thrifty, while big US companies are lazily burning huge GPU farms scaling up and… not improving anything.
- Comment on How does HTML actually run on a computer? 1 month ago:
TBH 2-3 would be good, since each browser takes a monumental amount of effort/money to optimize.
Like, my best case somewhat plausible scenario would be Apple (and maybe some other vested interests?) merging Firefox and Safari into one open source effort that can keep up with Google (with Safari being a “branded” Firefox). There just isn’t enough money for a couple of open efforts to keep up with Chromium.
- Comment on X's new 'encrypted' XChat feature seems no more secure than the failure that came before it 1 month ago:
I have to wonder who this appeals to?
Most are already trapped in something established like Discord, WeChat, FB Messenger. As said, security isn’t a strong point, and there’s no engagement angle.
I guess if you already spend tons of time on X it’s kinda convenient?
- Comment on 'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Fatally Shot in Texas 1 month ago:
It turns out that’s likely the case, at least going by the surviving husband’s public statement.
- Comment on How does HTML actually run on a computer? 1 month ago:
Seems like your really pondering “HTML should be conspicuously slow for such a widely-used standard,” right?
The answer is that modern browsers are complex and highly optimized rendering engines.
Read back through this blog: mozillagfx.wordpress.com
But in a nutshell, there’s a lot of talk about how modern browser are analogous to tuned game engines, heavily relying on the GPU and all sorts of hacks to render HTML efficiently. V8 is another good example, taking what was a notoriously slow language (JavaScript) and hacking out a fast JIT engine for it.
- Comment on 'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Fatally Shot in Texas 1 month ago:
Ken Hotate
- Comment on 'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Fatally Shot in Texas 1 month ago:
Dang, and his house just caught fire too:
ksat.com/…/jonathan-joss-king-of-the-hills-john-r…
Too many of the show’s VAs met an untimely end.
- Comment on The Witcher 3 is getting cross-platform mod support 1 month ago:
I have lost track of them, lol. Isn’t that just SE underneath… I think I inherited that too, somehow.
