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squirrel23 | 1 year ago | on: Mixtral 8x22B

Yes it's pretty cool. There was a neat comparison of deep learning development that I think resonates quite well here.

Around 5 years ago, it took a lambda user some pretty significant hardware, software and time (around a full night), to try to create a short deepfake. Now, you don't need any fancy hardware and you can have some decent results within 5 min on your average computer.

squirrel23 | 1 year ago

Thanks to the both of you. Since you were able to see this, I assume my posts are now visible to the community.

squirrel23 | 1 year ago

Thanks for confirming you could see this - this is the first time it has happened, though, as previously, I would ask colleagues to check if they could see my post, but they couldn't.

squirrel23 | 1 year ago

Hi, HN community. I hope that whatever project you are working on is going well.

I have been unable to post any links every since the creation of this account.

I was told that maybe my account had been flagged. Upon looking at deleting and re-creating my account, I read here that there were better ideas than this one.

Can somebody tell me what they think might happen and the best course of action moving forward? Thanks

squirrel23 | 2 years ago

I made an analysis on the repos starred by top devs. I found these gems and hope they can be of use to the community.

squirrel23 | 2 years ago | on: Apple is reportedly ending its partnership with Goldman Sachs

I wasn't aware Apple had partnered with Goldamn Sachs from the first place - weird that it did not work considering both are titans in their respective industries. Beyond what was provided in the article, can someone provide more clarification for why it did not work? I understand the delayed payments can be frustrating but what I can't figure out is why these gigantic firms were not able to make it work - surely they have the financial power to overcome any burden.

I'm not in the industry (obvi lol) so would appreciate any enlightenment on this. :)

squirrel23 | 2 years ago | on: The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster

What an insane story. Crazy to think that some of these engineering errors led to such a disastrous outcome...

I do resonate with someone's comments in the above sections reflecting on whether or not such a narrative would be given if it was say, a UI mistake from an enemy country.

squirrel23 | 2 years ago | on: The coolest robot I've ever built [video]

I completely get where you are coming from on this.

However, I do find it enjoyable when you allow yourself to get lost in, for instance, a great opera song accompanied with cool images.

There is beauty in letting go of this guilt for not being 100% productive all the time.

squirrel23 | 2 years ago | on: The death of a public intellectual

I really like the text. Short, concise and to the point. I also felt like you were describing a little bit of me lol. The one thing I fail to capture is, what is the solution to this problem? How can these intellectuals not "die"?

squirrel23 | 2 years ago | on: Are any languages objectively simpler to learn than others as a native speaker?

I do speak 4 languages (french, mandarin, english and spanish) and in my opinion I do think there are some language that are simpler to learn than others. For instance, if you speak any languages that are from latin than you should be able to learn other languages issued from latin as well. So if you are French, you should have more ease learning italian, spanish and portuguese. Just my two cents.
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