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What am I getting wrong? you planted a coconut but grew a palm tree ?

> The coconut tree (Cocos nucifera) is a member of the palm tree family

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut


Coconut trees are in the palm tree family.

All coconut trees are palm trees, but not all palm trees grow coconuts.


Ha, I was confused too... but in the US, the terms coconut tree, palm tree and coconut palm are used interchangeably.

In India, you'd call a coconut tree a coconut tree and an arecanut tree a palm.


> I was confused too... but in the US, the terms coconut tree, palm tree and coconut palm are used interchangeably.

You're still confused. Coconut tree and palm tree aren't interchangeable; to be a coconut tree, the tree has to grow coconuts. All palm trees count as "palm trees", whether they grow coconuts or not. The prototypical palm tree grows dates.


Don’t know if I’d say dates are prototypical. Oil palms grow palm fruit, which is probably the most generic (and economically important) palm product.

And the cause of heart failure everywhere

Palm kernel oil, yes. Palm oil, no. Both come from the palm fruit and are frequently confused for one another.

I’ve never seen palm kernel oil listed as a food ingredient. It seems to be most commonly used in cosmetics.

This is a mix up on why certain oils are on the current “oils to avoid” list. Palm oil gets a bad reputation mainly because of environmental issues with how it's grown, not because it's unhealthy. But all these concerns get lumped together in the “bad oils” list.


Thanks for the info! I assume the kernel is just the seed inside?



You got it right

I think what the parent comment is saying is that, lobster was likely introduced as an elite/rare dish to people in the current century increasing the appeal


This tracks with my experience. We built a complex processing pipeline for an NLP classification, search and comprehension task. Using vector database of Proprietary data etc.

We ran a benchmark of our system against an LLM call and the LLM performed much better for so much cheaper, in terms of dev time, complexity, and compute. Incredible time to be in working in the space seeing traditional problems eaten away by new paradigms


I tried as well. Seems like it is a proprietary model.


:( I was so, so excited to try this when I found it yesterday, it has like 3 star emojis in my list of models. I’ll post here if I get it working tomorrow, I guess. I doubt they’d release a model on HF without intending to make it useable

EDIT; surely it’s just broken, the repo does include .safetensor weights. Maybe the problem is the “suspicious”-flagged PyTorch weight for “icon detection”, whatever that means?


FOSS-washing?


This literally just published, IMHO it's a little premature to be accusing them of that at such an early stage.

More likely they just slipped up with getting everything uploaded properly - it's easily done, and luckily easily corrected, so we'll likely see issues get resolved fairly swiftly.


See my more detailed comments above but I confirm this is working.

Looks like a few tweaks made to the github repo ~13 hours ago which may explain the issues those had earlier and why it's now fine for me.


I'm in the Chrome -> Arc .character arc (heh!) myself.

And, profiles is the only thing preventing me from going all in on Chrome.

I have 6 profiles across my personal, university, and work contexts. And can't imagine living without them.


likely because hassabis was a child prodigy. Was a chess master at 13. Lead Cambridge chess team. its not surmise to assume that demis had impeccable school record


Demis was a legend at Cambridge. I was in CS a few years below him. He would have had very strong recommendations from professors.


I can answer to this, having worked on an assistant that is always on, from your phone.

The platforms (ios, Android, etc.) are very limiting. It is hard to have something always on and listening. Especially apple is aggressive with apps running in the background.

You need constant permissioning and special privileges. The exposed APIs themselves are not enough to build deep and stable integrations to the level of Siri/Google Assistant.


Oh, I didn't get that it's supposed to always be listening. Maybe I'm not the target audience but I wouldn't want that anyways. If that's important, that might be a good reason. I think this needs to change in the future though if AI agents are supposed to become popular, I can't imagine buying separate hardware every time. Either the integration in the OS needs to become better or Google/Apple will monopolize the market and be the only options.


> Oh, I didn't get that it's supposed to always be listening. Maybe I'm not the target audience but I wouldn't want that anyways.

I don't know about this project, but generally when a voice assistant is "always listening" they mean it's sitting in a low power state listening for a very specific trigger like "Hey Siri" or "OK Google" and literally nothing else. As much as they would probably like to have it really listening all the time, the technology to have a portable device run actual speech recognition and parsing at all times with useful battery life doesn't really exist yet.


You are right, “always listening" they mean it's sitting in a low power state listening for a very specific trigger like "Hey Siri" or "OK Google" and literally nothing else.


Yes it does. A Nvidia Jetson Nano with a microphone running Whisper with a banana sized battery will give you 8 hours of transcription.


Yes, I thought it was button-triggered.


If you have a separate -dedicated- Android smartphone for this task, why wouldn't the app run in the foreground?


In some sense this is what, Rabbit R1 tried to do. they just shipped a low end custom android skin in a new formfactor so that they own the platform. Didn't go well for them


> The platforms (ios, Android, etc.) are very limiting.

I'm not sure what that "etc" is supposed to mean, but GNU/Linux phones run desktop OS and impose no artificial limits on you.


This is not true.

Honestly, diagnosing for ADHD accelerate the improvement.

It is impossible to fight if you don't know what you're fighting. It enables you to prevent repeated patterns, not chasing your tail in an endless struggle.


You are so right. People imagine everyone going to therapy to cope, but really it's being able to recognize triggers and adapt.

Everyone already does it in some ways - for example, you know you make mistakes when tired tired - you recognize you are tired this moment and decided to reschedule the important activity.

Therapy gives same tool - you recognize you are having an episode and take steps to avoid typical negative outcomes.


This saved me a ton when back in college in rural India without Internet in 2015. I would download whole websites from a nearby library and read at home.

I've read py4e, ostep, Pgs essays using this.

I am who I am because of httrack. Thank you


The author also has a rust based qr library that looks equally awesome

https://github.com/zhengkyl/fuqr


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