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Comment Re:Never let perfect be the enemy of good (Score 2) 137

by psm321 on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @05:07PM (#64832177) Attached to: California Bans Legacy Admissions At Private, Nonprofit Universities

Googling is not hard

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Comment Re:Enhance the User experience (Score 1) 262

by psm321 on Friday September 16, 2022 @03:20PM (#62887679) Attached to: YouTube Irks Users by Displaying 5 To 10 Unskippable Ads in a Row

20-30 dumb-as-fuck ads about 'natural soap' from that "Dr. Squatch" lame-ass

You're not a DISH, you're a MAN!

Comment Re: So what? (Score 1) 302

by psm321 on Friday March 18, 2022 @06:31PM (#62370337) Attached to: Everyone Was Surprised By The Senate Passing Permanent Daylight Saving Time. Especially The Senators.

Hi, meet me. I'm in Michigan, not a morning person. Am super excited about the possibility of permanent DST.

Comment Re:What do people use for Maildir now? (Score 1) 217

by psm321 on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @04:29PM (#62296415) Attached to: ReiserFS Proposed To Be Removed From Linux In 2022

Maybe if we had systemd-maildir that could efficiently store them all in a binary database? I kid. I kid!

Shh... don't give them any ideas!

Comment Re:So give them mutt already (Score 1) 77

by psm321 on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @03:47PM (#62227707) Attached to: Gmail's Next Big Redesign Starts Rolling Out Next Week

It was a thing when GMail first launched

Submission + - Systemd-Free Devuan 4.0 'Chimaera' Officially Released (devuan.org)

Submitted by Luna on Monday October 18, 2021 @03:55AM

Luna writes: From the Devuan Web Site :

"Devuan Developers are delighted to announce the release of Devuan Chimaera 4.0 as the project's new stable release. This is the result of many months of painstaking work by the Team and detailed testing by the wider Devuan community."

This release is Based on Debian Bullseye (11.1) with Linux kernel 5.10 and lets you choose your init system : sysvinit, runit, and OpenRC.

Comment Re:Microsoft just needs to.. (Score 1) 77

by KPU on Thursday November 12, 2020 @03:05PM (#60716788) Attached to: Python Creator Guido van Rossum Joins Microsoft

They could call it vcpkg or chocolatey.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fmicrosoft%2Fv...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchocolatey.org%2F

Comment Can we kill blockchain hype with blockchain? (Score 1) 164

by KPU on Sunday December 08, 2019 @10:22AM (#59497642) Attached to: Can We Kill Fake News With Blockchain?

Can blockchain be applied to stop blockchain hype?

Comment Re:!cloud == privacy (Score 2) 50

by KPU on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @05:10PM (#59340536) Attached to: Firefox To Get Page Translation Feature, Like Chrome

Our current launch plan is browser addon or plugin. That got lost in the news articles. I'm the project coordinator.

Comment Re:Sounds like a great extension (Score 1) 50

by KPU on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @04:50AM (#59338190) Attached to: Firefox To Get Page Translation Feature, Like Chrome

We've been debating a few integration options including an extension, a plugin with an install on first usage, or a captive process that Firefox launches and communicates with. Part of this depends on how much performance we can get out of WebAssembly vs native C++ code with CPU-specific routines. I'm the project coordinator.

Comment Re:Deep Leaning seems so slanted (Score 1) 50

by KPU on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @04:09AM (#59338118) Attached to: Firefox To Get Page Translation Feature, Like Chrome

Yes, we are worried about bias in translation. Here's a specific example from people we collaborate with: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgenderbiasnlp.talp.cat...

Comment Re:The German one is CATASTROPHIC. (Score 1) 50

by KPU on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @05:18PM (#59336806) Attached to: Firefox To Get Page Translation Feature, Like Chrome

I can't speak to the spellchecker. But the translation system is able to handle German compounds via Byte Pair Encoding: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Frsennrich%2Fs... .

Comment Re:!cloud == privacy (Score 2) 50

by KPU on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @03:26PM (#59336310) Attached to: Firefox To Get Page Translation Feature, Like Chrome

Would you be interested in joining a user study? The difficulty with addons is that WebAssembly doesn't support vector instructions over 128 bits wide, which make neural machine translation's matrix operations faster.

Comment Re:!cloud == privacy (Score 4, Informative) 50

by KPU on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @03:16PM (#59336284) Attached to: Firefox To Get Page Translation Feature, Like Chrome

That's a good suggestion! The main difficulty with PDF files is you have to reassemble soft-returns into sentences (but not hard returns), possibly OCR, avoid page numbers in the middle of things, etc. It's doable with heuristics but a lot more software is involved.

Comment Re:!cloud == privacy (Score 5, Informative) 50

by KPU on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @03:14PM (#59336276) Attached to: Firefox To Get Page Translation Feature, Like Chrome

Your desktop does the translation. The models will be trained on a cluster at Mozilla. I run the project.

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