Meta Patents AI Glasses to Use Facial Recognition to Identify People, Make Highlight Reels of Your Dinner Party
Meta has patented a smart-glasses system that could use facial recognition to identify people and automatically create personalized highlight reels of events such as dinner parties. The patent doesn’t guarantee the feature will ship, but it offers a detail … ⌘ Read more
I took the day off to get some stuff done around the house, but I wound up spending most of the day making #Dune-themed proxies for #Magic.
I had hoped to print them out for tomorrow night’s games, but I’m up to 20 cards and 20+ tokens, so… we’ll have to wait and see what tomorrow brings.
Here’s a couple to share and enjoy:
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@itsericwoodward Can I count you in as a potential customer then? I'll find a way to DM and share details with you. But rest assured it'll have everything you could possibly want 😅
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@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Dropped you en Email 📧
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@prologic@twtxt.net Sure, I’m curious to see what you’re offering.
My email is hey (at) itsericwoodward.com.
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@prologic Potentially, depending on the features supported / hardware used.
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@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Can I count you in as a potential customer then? I’ll find a way to DM and share details with you. But rest assured it’ll have everything you could possibly want 😅
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$599 retail purchase
$9.95/month optional subscription
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@prologic@twtxt.net Potentially, depending on the features supported / hardware used.
I’ve long wished for an appliance (like a video game console) that hosts my essential services - email, shared files, social media, etc. - but which “just runs” in a box behind the TV.
So what do you have in mind? 🤔
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@david@daiwei.me I’ll DM you 😅
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@david@daiwei.me Haha 🤣
@creeper@twtpub.com Hey ! 👋 Welcome to Yarn.social / Twtxt 🤗
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It is such a nice feeling that Mu is such a capable little language 😅 And I decided to write code code in Mu by hand 🤚 haha 🤣 and start solving Project Euler problems, like Problem 8 which works out to be a nice elegant solution in Mu:
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Robots That Walk and Talk Are Coming To Car Factories
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: At a BMW factory in South Carolina, a human-shaped robot with a screen for a face recently stepped from a charging station toward a stack of green plastic boxes. It grasped an auto part from one of the boxes, pivoted, placed the part in a trolley, then pulled the trolley across the floor. The robot’s slow … ⌘ Read more
$599 retail purchase
$9.95/month optional subscription
☝️ Would you pay this for a fully self hosted home cloud? 🧐
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It is such a nice feeling that Mu is such a capable little language 😅 And I decided to write code code in Mu by hand 🤚 haha 🤣 and start solving Project Euler problems, like Problem 8 which works out to be a nice elegant solution in Mu:
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And just like that Problem 10 is done and correct whoohoo 🥳 It was easy because in Problem 7 I’d already written an iterator to produce infinite primes. So the solution for finding the sum of primes under 2,000,000 is basically (shortened):
primes := iter.take_while(iter.filter(prime_candidates(), is_prime), fn(p) { p < n })
print(iter.sum(primes))
And of course the answer is: 142913828922 which took ~21.ss for the Go Vm to compuete.
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It is such a nice feeling that Mu is such a capable little language 😅 And I decided to write code code in Mu by hand 🤚 haha 🤣 and start solving Project Euler problems, like Problem 8 which works out to be a nice elegant solution in Mu:
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What’s interesting here… Which is the interesting thing about Mu is the dual runtime. So the above solution for Euler Problem 9 finds the solution in ~429ms with the Go VM and ~327ms natively compiled to darwin/arm64. Not bad for a language I haven’t really done any optimization work on yet (correctness first obviously).
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Oh man wow 😮 Problem 9 was quite hard 😱 I had to build two new functions in the Mu stdlib for computing combinations and permutations, but then the combinations of range(1000) for triples such as a + b == c is enormous! So i had to write iterator versions of these to do lazy evaluation. Anyway solution follows:
#!/usr/bin/env mu
// Special Pythagorean Triplet
import "iter"
fn usage() {
print("Usage:", args()[0], "<n>")
}
fn sqr(x) { x * x }
fn main() {
if len(args()) < 2 {
usage()
exit(1)
}
n := must(int(args()[1]))
print("n:", n)
// For a < b < c and a + b + c == n, both a and b are strictly less
// than n/2. Generate only (a,b) combinations and derive c directly. This
// keeps the search lazy and reduces n=1000 from C(999,3) = 165,668,499
// candidate triples to C(499,2) = 124,251 candidate pairs.
pairs := iter.combinations(iter.range(1, n / 2), 2)
triples := iter.map(pairs, fn(xs) {
a := xs[0]
b := xs[1]
return [a, b, n - a - b]
})
// Enforce b < c; a < b is already guaranteed by combinations over an
// increasing range, and a + b + c == n holds by construction.
triples = iter.filter(triples, fn(xs) {
return xs[1] < xs[2]
})
// Euler 9 has one answer for n=1000. find() stops the entire upstream
// iterator chain as soon as the first Pythagorean triple is found.
answer := iter.find(triples, fn(xs) {
return sqr(xs[0]) + sqr(xs[1]) == sqr(xs[2])
})
print(answer)
if answer != nil {
print(answer[0] * answer[1] * answer[2])
}
}
main()
It is such a nice feeling that Mu is such a capable little language 😅 And I decided to write code code in Mu by hand 🤚 haha 🤣 and start solving Project Euler problems, like Problem 8 which works out to be a nice elegant solution in Mu:
#!/usr/bin/env mu
// Largest Product in a Series
import "fp"
import "sys"
fn usage() {
print("Usage: cat |", args()[0], "<n>")
}
fn products(xs) {
return fp.reduce(xs, 1, fn(x, y) {
if y == nil {
return x
}
return x * y
})
}
fn main() {
if len(args()) < 2 {
usage()
exit(1)
}
s := must(sys.read_all(0))
if len(s) == 0 {
usage()
exit(1)
}
n := must(int(args()[1]))
r := fp.max(fp.map(fp.sliding(fp.map(s, int), n), products))
print(r)
}
main()
AMD Posts Massive 109 Patch Series For GFX 12.1 RAS Support On Friday Evening
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Linux 7.1, Linux 7.2 Performance On The Intel Xeon 600 Series
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The LULULOOK Gaming Pillow for Steam Deck is the ultimate way to be lazy
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Scientists Turn Starlink Into a Giant Scanner For Earth’s Upper Atmosphere
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UK Scientists To Grow Miniature Human Organs For Drug Testing
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