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Transformer by Hand in Excel

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Tool to transcode videos in nothing but a browser

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Satellite internet has quickly changed life in Alaska

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Three week satellite time-lapse video of earth

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Helluva pivot

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wills_forward
·25 days ago·discuss
neat
wills_forward
·2 months ago·discuss
There's a lot of opportunity in being the manager who can still see it
wills_forward
·7 months ago·discuss
Why not use both? I just built a pipeline for document data extraction that uses PaddleOCR, then Gemini 3 to check + fix errors. It gets close to 99.9% on extraction from financial statements finally on par with humans.
wills_forward
·10 months ago·discuss
https://x.com/whowillrickwill/status/1920723985311903767
wills_forward
·10 months ago·discuss
The cheap easy take: it's tragically ironic that the software running the infrastructure in Silicon Valley is such a problem
wills_forward
·last year·discuss
So this could universally decrease the memory requirements by un-quantitized LLMs by 30%? Seems big if true.
wills_forward
·last year·discuss
This paper is basically statistical mechanics with a quantum veneer. Two major issues:

1. Scale: They're simulating just 13 qubits with QuTiP and making grand claims about quantum thermodynamics. The computational complexity they're glossing over here is astronomical. Anyone who's actually worked with quantum systems knows you can't just handwave away the scaling problems.

2. Measurement Problem: Their whole argument about instantaneous vs time-averaged measurements is just repackaging the quantum measurement problem without actually solving anything. They're doing the same philosophical shell game that every "breakthrough" quantum paper does by moving around where they put the observer and pretending they've discovered something profound.
wills_forward
·2 years ago·discuss
It was funny to hear the same guy warning LMMs were getting too powerful now talking about the limits of available original training data.
wills_forward
·2 years ago·discuss
Citadel or Jump?
wills_forward
·3 years ago·discuss
I really like the elegant simplicity of tagging the screen elements like that and not obfuscating it away.

Nice work too!
wills_forward
·3 years ago·discuss
Is this part of the reason Apple decided to support RCS? They knew the iMessage system would get opened up eventually anyway...
wills_forward
·3 years ago·discuss
Aw thanks for such encouragement all
wills_forward
·3 years ago·discuss
My jaw drop to see algorhythmic complexity laid out so clearly in a 3d space like that. I wish I was smart enough to know if it's accurate or not.