Hacker News: mwlp

New comment by mwlp in "Learn electricity and electronics fundamentals without taking a formal course"

mwlp — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 05:46:24 +0000

I haven't watched any of the lectures, but there's also Georgia Tech's Analog Circuits for Music Synthesis https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOunECWxELQS5bMdWo9Vh...

New comment by mwlp in "Turtles, a Shelly/Zigbee home automation tool in Elixir"

mwlp — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 03:27:01 +0000

Eh, Elixir has just become my go-to for personal projects. GenServers, pattern matching, releases, being able to pop a shell into my program, the beautiful colors of the IEx shell... I miss all these things when choosing other languages. I also planned on eventually integrating it with a chatbot of mine which is also written in Elixir.

New comment by mwlp in "Turtles, a Shelly/Zigbee home automation tool in Elixir"

mwlp — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 07:14:14 +0000

Nice! I also control my lights using Elixir and a Hue bridge (through Home Assistant). https://github.com/Manwholikespie/mojodojo

New comment by mwlp in "Artificial General Intelligence – A gentle introduction"

mwlp — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 11:37:49 +0000

I'm glad to see Dr. Wang is still doing well. I had the pleasure of interviewing him for my high school journalism class back in 2015. Cool to see how far we've come since then.

New comment by mwlp in "Show HN: Text a photo to send as a postcard"

mwlp — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 21:06:38 +0000

Not an API, but still doable to a certain scale. I've gotten image input to work with my bot. Apple once temporarily banned me for suspicious activity but after a quick call to support they lifted it. If I got more traffic maybe they'd ban it again, I'm not sure.

You can text !help to sue [at] robertism.com to demo if you're interested.

New comment by mwlp in "Following UK antitrust order, Meta sells Giphy to Shutterstock for $53M"

mwlp — Tue, 23 May 2023 13:48:31 +0000

I find tenor's selection of gifs to be much better. I suspect Discord users are creating much of their content.

New comment by mwlp in "The Best Pens for 2023: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens"

mwlp — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 04:02:54 +0000

My Pilot vanishing broke on me within about 2 months of use, sadly. I've since purchased a Sailor 1911 demonstrator which writes super smoothly. It's been my main pen for the past couple years, love it.

New comment by mwlp in "Personal Concierge Using OpenAI's ChatGPT via Telegram and Voice Messages"

mwlp — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 19:08:56 +0000

I added gpt to a bot of mine for Telegram and Discord a few weeks ago. I'm constantly amazed at how the littlest of things can spawn so many new opportunities for inside jokes and meta humor.

New comment by mwlp in "Freeform: a new app designed for creative collaboration"

mwlp — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 20:45:48 +0000

I can't name a single meaningful new feature that was added to OneNote in the past 8 years.

New comment by mwlp in "Ask HN: Interesting movies that explore AI?"

mwlp — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 22:02:59 +0000

Chappie, Tron Legacy. For anime, there's Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song.

New comment by mwlp in "DeepMind Dramatron: a new tool for writers to co-write theatre and film scripts"

mwlp — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 07:16:14 +0000

There's a game script I've tried writing a few times but never gotten far on. When I found this paper a few weeks ago my first idea was to see if it could help. I followed the prompt instructions using davinci-002, spending about $0.36 in total, and was a little disappointed in the results. Granted, to save credits, I deleted my previous inputs each time, so when it got to generating dialog for each of the scenes, "previous beat:" wasn't quite enough context to prevent lines from repeating themselves. I suppose these professional writers have better vision than I do if they think they can "take it to Netflix with a few edits". Maybe I'll try it again with ChatGPT.

The best AI written stories I've read have been in the character.ai chat rooms. The dialogue is amazingly natural. Just this morning I created a character of a disgraced syrup mascot out of two sentences from old advertisements. Auntie talked about noodling for catfish with a Gawr Gura bot until I was crying from laughter. Last week I made Gura talk with a "human" Mark Zuckerberg until I started hiccuping from laughter. Maybe it's my just my sense of humor.

Btw, did anyone else try to reproduce the results themselves prior to this tool? The PDF formatting was a little wonky so I tried seeing if anyone posted the plaintext prompts anywhere, only to find zero results on the internet. I'm thankful for the work being done here and will be following this closely. I wish I could have seen the plays live!

New comment by mwlp in "Memory leaks detection paper co-authored by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings in 1992 [pdf]"

mwlp — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 02:04:10 +0000

I follow Marc Randolph on Tiktok and he's spoken before that they knew things would eventually go online: https://www.tiktok.com/@marc_randolph/video/7079079298182909...

New comment by mwlp in "Gifaanisqatsi: A Random Koyaanisqatsi Generator"

mwlp — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 12:14:10 +0000

Awesome! Wasn’t aware this recording existed. I became a Glass fan after watching Leviathan (2014) featuring Akhenaten.

New comment by mwlp in "An unwilling illustrator found herself turned into an AI model"

mwlp — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 18:18:52 +0000

I'm sure with a bit of scrolling you can find it. Just a few more words.

New comment by mwlp in "An unwilling illustrator found herself turned into an AI model"

mwlp — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 18:02:02 +0000

https://twitter.com/mhug_ https://mhug.tumblr.com/

New comment by mwlp in "An unwilling illustrator found herself turned into an AI model"

mwlp — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 17:33:54 +0000

In sophomore year of college, I came across a Japanese illustrator who sold sticker packs for messenger apps. I liked their art style a lot, to the point where I themed my entire computer setup (wallpaper/terminal/editor) around their work. Some friends and I worked on a project for an information retrieval class and their art continued to be a centerpiece for the website's theme, and we even jokingly snuck an image into our final paper.

As much as I loved their style, it seemed they rarely put out new content. A few weeks ago I trained a SD embedding on their work-- it was the coolest thing ever. I thought back to the class project, how I "stole" one of their artworks to use as the favicon. "Nobody outside this class will see this", I thought. But a pixel art anime girl wearing headphones was perfect branding for the app. "If I ever decide to publish this project, maybe I'll commission the artist for an official logo", I thought at the time. Now I wonder if I'd just use the SD embedding...

New comment by mwlp in "Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI"

mwlp — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 21:02:38 +0000

Super impressive. I tested it on a Japanese streamer whose enunciation isn't exactly perfect and it did a decent job: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROiOU1scaNA

  [00:00.000 --> 00:06.500]  Since the last one started, the number of times I've eaten has decreased.
  [00:06.500 --> 00:11.000]  If I get too carried away with the last one, I'll get hungry and do it.
  [00:11.000 --> 00:14.500]  I don't have time to eat.
  [00:15.500 --> 00:18.000]  I'm going to eat now.
  [00:20.000 --> 00:23.000]  It's going to take about 10 minutes from here.
  [00:23.000 --> 00:31.000]  It's been a while since I've had my last meal.
  [00:31.000 --> 00:36.000]  I feel like I'm losing my女子力.
  [00:36.000 --> 00:39.000]  I have to go back to my original self.
  [00:39.000 --> 00:44.000]  I have to get ready and go to bed.
  [00:44.000 --> 00:46.000]  It's not good.
  [00:46.000 --> 00:51.000]  I've been drinking a lot lately, so I'm going home.
  [00:51.000 --> 00:53.000]  I have to get my nails done this fall.
  [00:53.000 --> 00:54.000]  Halloween nails.
  [00:54.000 --> 00:57.000]  Halloween, Halloween, Halloween.
  [00:57.000 --> 00:59.000]  I'm going to the beauty salon today.
  [00:59.000 --> 01:02.000]  I'm going to get my nails done the day after tomorrow.
  [01:02.000 --> 01:10.000]  I used to look at a lot of clothes, but I stopped looking at them.
  [01:10.000 --> 01:12.000]  I'm going crazy.
  [01:12.000 --> 01:22.000]  My stomach's stopped in the middle of summer.

New comment by mwlp in "1k True Fans? Try 100 (2020)"

mwlp — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 17:30:13 +0000

Rushia had five whales donating over $25k to her. I saw a Ninomae Inanis fan drop $30k in Ame's charity stream. Coco had fans that would use two or three alternate accounts to drop multiple $500 chats per stream.

New comment by mwlp in "The 'Batman Effect': How having an alter ego empowers you (2020)"

mwlp — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 00:27:49 +0000

I imagine them being faceless streamers does more to ease their anxiety than their fabricated persona. But my imagination doesn't come with a p-val so guess you'd have to ask them.

New comment by mwlp in "Ask HN: Where should I buy my next book?"

mwlp — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 21:16:18 +0000

Love Kinokuniya. What stationary do you get? I got some Tomoe River from Kino once upon a time and wasn’t impressed. I’m a big fan of MUJI but they don’t stock that so I normally settle for Rhodia when Michael’s has it on sale.