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llm_trw
·last year·discuss
Other than sugar none of those are spices used for food.

And even sugar became much less commonly used to in Europe.
llm_trw
·last year·discuss
The wildest thing about European colonialism is that it was kicked off to get more spices for European food. Then in the worlds most bizarre twist European food gave up all spices a few centuries later and colonies had to invent something else to sell back to the colonial centre.
llm_trw
·last year·discuss
That's the third major use of the printing press.

The first was for catholic indulgences.

The second was for religious propaganda during the European wars of religion.
llm_trw
·last year·discuss
As we have seen here it won't be a Western company that saves us from the dominant monopoly.

Xi Jinping, you're our only hope.
llm_trw
·last year·discuss
The word you're looking for is copyright enfrignment.

That's the secret sause that every good model uses.
llm_trw
·last year·discuss
Hate is too weak a term for what I feel for Adobe.

Adobe kept PDF as a proprietary format from 1992 to 2008. You got the reader for free ... on windows, with a single executable. You didn't get an editor and had to pay through the nose for one from Adobe.

It wasn't until the late 2010s that it actually became a free-ish standard, if you think that a 3,500 page document is a 'standard'.

The only reason why adobe did it is because djvu was eating their lunch, between 2002 and 2008 it was the defacto standard for scanned documents in academia. The documents were easy to edit. The image compression is still better than the native compression on PDF.

To add insult to injury after displacing postscript on windows in the name of security, not only did they add a scripting language to PDF, they added one written in two weeks at a time when it was so bad no one used it for anything but pop-ups and with more security vulnerabilities than you could shake a stick at. I suppose we should be happy Adobe didn't put flash in. Oh wait, they did: https://www.reddit.com/r/Adobe/comments/yqisho/flash_content...
llm_trw
·last year·discuss
We had that language, it was postscript.

Then pdf came along and said: no this is too dangerous the only thing in a document should be layout information not arbitrary code.

And here we are two decades later.

My hatred of pdf has no end. It killed postscript for dynamic pages and djvu for static pages.
llm_trw
·2 years ago·discuss
Markdown is a very poor language to try and use for anything other than single column typewriter like text.

As evidenced by the fact that every project which uses it for more than that adds arbitrary extensions.

The minimum viable language for non-mathematical technical documentation is reStructuredText.
llm_trw
·2 years ago·discuss
You're as helpful as the original gpt2.
llm_trw
·2 years ago·discuss
You're welcome to provide the code.
llm_trw
·2 years ago·discuss
For those wondering what the state of the art is, I did this in 10 min between meetings.

The most challenging thing was getting the right indexing on the lists since it could be an empty list, a list with a single value, or any number of values.

    from ultralytics import YOLO
    
    model = YOLO("yolov10x.pt")
    results = model("birds/*", classes=[14])
    
    for result in results:
        if 14 in list(result.boxes.cls):
            print("Bird!")
        else:
            print("Not Bird")
I will now take my 5 billion dollar please.

Ironically enough the meeting I'm going in to is to explain why I need to use $100,000 worth of hardware for three months before I can answer the business side if what they want to do is possible or not.
llm_trw
·2 years ago·discuss
https://tech.amikelive.com/node-718/what-object-categories-l...

Bird is in the default COCO dataset. I haven't look for birds in images, but for people yolov10 is fewer lines of code to detect if there is someone in the frame than it is to setup a flask server for the API calls.
llm_trw
·2 years ago·discuss
Taking a swipe at Musk in an article about dating isn't any less weird.
llm_trw
·2 years ago·discuss
I don't know, ask the guardian why they had to take a swipe at free speech in an article about dating.
llm_trw
·2 years ago·discuss
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·2 years ago·discuss
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llm_trw
·2 years ago·discuss
>Prior to 1910, for every 1,000 babies born in the United States, 165 died before their first birthday (Newmayer 1911).

https://www.demogr.mpg.de/papers/working/wp-2011-005.pdf

Today it is at 5 per 1,000.

Please read a history book before you start supporting a reset to what we used to have.
llm_trw
·2 years ago·discuss
I keep hearing all these people talking about kidding together.

Kidding together means setting a cat on fire and laughing when it's screaming running around. It means beating the fat kid till he can't stand up.

The idea that kids don't need adults is laughable to anyone who remembers being a kid.
llm_trw
·2 years ago·discuss
Birth rates did not fall below replacement until 1972.

Blaming the depression and word war is a bit of a stretch.
llm_trw
·2 years ago·discuss
Let me tell you about fall out and how the majority of people who die in a nuclear attack will feel the meat peel off their bones over two weeks of unimaginable agony with nothing that can be done for them.