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Re:OpenArm: An open-source 7DOF humanoid arm on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @04:46AM (#49709597)
Hi! do you have any references for VLAs using inverse kinematics? I'm very curious and can't find much
Re:MIT: 20% drop in incoming graduate students on Thursday May 14, 2026 @01:13PM (#48138203)
Are those PhDs being paid with a decent salary? If not, I can’t agree with your statement. PS. I did my PhD in an EU country where it’s treated as another researcher job with salary and benefits
Re:Apple, What Have You Done? on Monday January 26, 2026 @05:50AM (#46764096)
Re:Qwen3-VL on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @06:10PM (#45353416)
Cool! Pity they are not releasing a smaller A3B MoE model
Re:Fight Chat Control on Sunday August 10, 2025 @04:34PM (#44858080)
Genuely curious. What would the problem be if it was vibe-coded? It's an easy to read site that succeeds in communicating what it wants.
Re:QVQ-Max: Think with Evidence on Sunday April 06, 2025 @11:40AM (#43602220)
>Last December, we launched QVQ-72B-Preview as an exploratory model, but it had many issues.

That's an earlier version released some months ago. They even acknowledge it.

The version they present in the blog post and you can run in their chat platform is not open or available to download.

Re:QVQ-Max: Think with Evidence on Sunday April 06, 2025 @10:36AM (#43601689)
wisdom? I don't get what you meant with that. What is clear is that open weights benefits society as we can run it locally and privately.
Re:QVQ-Max: Think with Evidence on Sunday April 06, 2025 @10:04AM (#43601499)
Unfortunately, no open weights this time :(
Re:JPlag – Detecting Software Plagiarism on Friday August 16, 2024 @11:24AM (#41267209)
Indeed, this is exactly what I did.
Re:JPlag – Detecting Software Plagiarism on Friday August 16, 2024 @11:18AM (#41267162)
Well, in this case I noticed the same code copied while grading a project. I used then JPlag to run an automatic check in all the submissions for all the projects. It found many instances where a couple of students did a copy-paste with same variable names, comments, etc. It was quite obvious if you look in detail, and JPlag helped us spot it in multiple files easily.

*edited mobile typos

Re:JPlag – Detecting Software Plagiarism on Friday August 16, 2024 @07:56AM (#41265513)
I recently had to check code from some of my students at the university as I suspected plagiarism. I discovered JPlag which works like a charm and generates nice reports
Re:Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive on Thursday November 16, 2023 @03:34PM (#38295060)
Are you the same kind of people that think that NGO workers should work for free or for a small wage that is not representative of the market wage for their positions?
I'm curious in your statement, can you point to some papers where they addressed it?
Re:ACT test scores for U.S. students drop to a 30-year low on Thursday October 12, 2023 @03:35PM (#37862032)
Do you have numbers, data or sources to claim your first statements (not the one about teachers being underpaid)?
Never go full Blizzard
Re:We Need Scientific Dissidents Now More Than Ever on Saturday August 12, 2023 @03:42AM (#37097985)
Fortunately, expertise is not limited to a single concrete topic. There are experts in climate change from a socio-economic perspective, which are able to do science in such complex environments :)
I guess you can always use a two-stage process. First colorize, then upscale
Re:L-System Simulations on Sunday July 16, 2023 @02:42PM (#36750173)
Could you elaborate a bit more? Do you mean a paper?
Re:ChatGPT Now Losing Users on Thursday July 13, 2023 @11:05AM (#36710333)
Which client are you using? Looking for recommendations
How do you compare to Yunohost? I find the app selection of Yunohost larger and broader
Re:The Framework Laptop 16 on Friday March 24, 2023 @08:04AM (#35287915)
Care to explain how?
Re:Bing's new ChatGPT bot argues with a user on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @09:35AM (#34789869)
Just take it with a grain of salt, that's my point :)
Re:Bing's new ChatGPT bot argues with a user on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @09:34AM (#34789854)
It can be easily a fake
Maybe a smartwatch? The main reason for me to buy one was having music using spotify and blueetoth earphones while training.

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