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Re:Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX on Saturday October 31, 2026 @02:21PM (#50318570)
Another implementation of the same idea which I think looks even better: https://flora.alpacasoft.dev/
Re:Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:27PM (#50308999)
Not just the README, all of it. The author gives more details about it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/LaTeX/comments/1xixznw/comment/19rv...
Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @09:09AM (#50242987)
You should try
Yes it is. I've bought a MacBook air despite despising MacOS (with the hope that Asahi support will come eventually) because the processor currently has no competition.
Re:GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast on Monday August 17, 2026 @03:37PM (#49336474)
That's promising but did they publish any code? I can't find anything in the abstract.
Re:1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse on Monday June 08, 2026 @06:19AM (#48443451)
Let's not persecute anyone.
> the author also misses an important piece of functionality of meshcore: If I lose power, the mesh still works.

Isn't it the case with Meshtastic and Reticulum too? It feels like it should be part of the definition of mesh network.

Re: on Thursday May 14, 2026 @02:52AM (#48131963)
It seems to be a USA only thing, Chinese models and Mistral don't show any downward trend.
There are some nice ideas but no continuity, it's just random bits put together. ♫ tekisco, tekisco, tekisco ♫
Re:Fontcrafter: Turn Your Handwriting into a Real Font on Monday March 09, 2026 @06:35AM (#47307223)
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to support cursive, which is how I and most people I know write.
Summary: We've use the most complexest, buzzwordiest training infrastructure to increase the performance of our base model by a whopping 0.5% (±1%).
Re:Learn Arabic on Saturday March 08, 2025 @09:10AM (#43300386)
But is there such a thing as "modern standard Arabic"?
Re:Seeing Through the Spartan Mirage on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @11:06AM (#43103617)
If it just means "don't take my guns", that's what they would write on their merch instead of some greek letters most people can't read. By using this Spartan phrase they're trying to evoke the mythical greatness of Sparta, and that is what this article is about.
The main problem with this is that we're looking at the evolution of inflation-adjusted prices for common ressources. By definition, inflation-adjusted prices for common ressources must be constant, that's how we measure inflation. So it shouldn't come as a surprise that the prices do not change much in the long term.
Re:New Mac Mini with M4 on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @02:30PM (#41987838)
You don't have to, you can run your favorite flavor of Linux. Unlike with the Mac Mini which can only run macOS.
You're just saying that Cobalt is small and non-profit so they must be good and YouTube and ByteDance are big and rich so they must be evil. But if you only look that what they are actually doing here, it's very similar: bypassing protections to use a service in a way that the service provider doesn't like.
Short version: a service known for evading YouTube's bot protection is complaining that ByteDance is bypassing their own protections. I agree that it's not nice from ByteDance but I find it hypocrite from Cobalt to call it evil.
Re:GitHub Notification Emails Hijacked to Send Malware on Friday September 20, 2024 @07:20AM (#41600852)
Their claim that nothing tells you the email corresponds to the new issue is wrong, the "(Issue #1)" in the title means exactly that. I have actually received the same email myself and immediately recognized it as a new issue created on the repo. This user is obviously not used to GitHub issues as is made clear by the fact that this is the first issue on this repo. I guess GitHub needs to do a better job teaching new users.
I don't understand the use of a textual description. In which scenario do you not have enough space for a lens and yet have a textual description of the scene?
Re:Base 3 Computing Beats Binary on Friday August 09, 2024 @10:32AM (#41202216)
> Tonal languages allows individuals to express way more than Latin based languages.

Do you have any evidence of this? I've never heard this claim before.

Re:Training AI on Saturday June 22, 2024 @12:28PM (#40760184)
I don't see how opt-in solves the problem of people who content they don't own. They could opt-in your content just as they can currently post it on their website.
Could you expand on this? Where is the line? What's work and what's business?
The Nobel prize is usually awarded to old (around 60) researchers at the end of their career whereas the Fields medal is only awarded to researchers under 40 (and since it's only awarded every 4 years, the cutoff age can even be 36 if you're not lucky). In that sense the Abel prize is more of a Nobel equivalent than the Fields medal.
Re:Gemini – Google DeepMind on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @10:48AM (#38545414)
Technical report: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemini/gemini_...

"We trained Gemini models using TPUv5e and TPUv4"

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