simsla's comments

On: Show HN: Gemini LLM corrects ASR YouTube transcrip...

[simsla]

Same thing, but ASR is the 'official' term for it.

On: No GPS required: our app can now locate undergroun...

[simsla]

I was thinking in a different direction. Maybe we can fingerprint the turns or other jerks/shakes along a route. Accelerometer Shazam.

On: Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating...

[simsla]

At my uni, you could prepare a written answer. The professor would read your written answer and ask follow-up questions.

On: Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating...

[simsla]

As a student of the previous generation, I much preferred exams with an oral defence component. Gave an opportunity to clear up any miscommunications, and I always walked away with a much better estimate for how well I did.

[slt2021 → simsla]

this was Soviet system as well, where student draw a random card with 3 exam questions (out of all curriculum) and had to prepare and answer question in person verbally in from of a panel of professors.

This system truly forced students to grind the hell out of science

[jimhefferon → simsla]

Hard to see, though, how to do that with hundreds of students in a room, and be reasonably uniform and fair about it.

An argument perhaps that there should not be hundreds in a room.

On: Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby ...

[simsla]

I used to search in English to get more results. Short-term, I might start searching in my native tongue to get less results.

On: Serving 70B-scale LLMs efficiently on low-resource...

[simsla]

Depends, shipping part of it (just an encoder or decoder) could still work.

[lxgr → simsla]

Even if bandwidth weren't an issue and all users had compatible hardware: You'd still be offloading a (semi-)trusted computation to user hardware, which is usually completely untrusted.

On: 84–24

[simsla]

I get not wanting to redesign everything for portrait mode, but a simple "This page was mainly designed with desktops in mind, please turn your phone to landscape" would've done the trick just as well.

[lagniappe → simsla]

Phone people don't read, that's nonsense. Just put a series of next and I Agree buttons that does it for them.

On: 84–24

[simsla]

Firefox mobile does (with add-ons).

[causality0 → simsla]

Unfortunately it does nothing for the View Window and sites still detect mobile.

[self_awareness → simsla]

On Android only I think?

On: Tegelwippen

[simsla]

> That being said, I am now finally at the stage where I can go on a day trip to Amsterdam and the locals don't speak English back to me when I speak Dutch. :)

That's seriously impressive. Dutch is my mother tongue and they still respond to me in English! (Although I speak a slightly different dialect, Flemish, from Belgium.)

On: Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the Ap...

[simsla]

I don't. And I don't actually know many people with iPhones apart from my parents who've been buying everything Apple releases since the nineties.

There seems to be a big difference between the US and the EU here.

(FWIW, I love MacBooks, but in my opinion iOS is just subpar.)