I asked o1-preview what the fastest way to get to a Fortune III enchantment was. My options were: Using a Fishing Rod with Luck of the Sea III + Lure 3 and repeatedly fishing. Using an Enchanting Table repeatedly until I get Fortune 3. Factor in the time that it would take to get the experience for these experiments Making a Villager a Librarian and breaking their Lectern and setting it up again In short: ...
The Gemini documentation is clear: The File API service extracts image frames from videos at 1 frame per second (FPS) and audio at 1Kbps, single channel, adding timestamps every second. These rates are subject to change in the future for improvements in inference. Note: The details of fast action sequences may be lost at the 1 FPS frame sampling rate. Consider slowing down high-speed clips for improved inference quality. Individual frames are 258 tokens, and audio is 32 tokens per second. With metadata, each second of video becomes ~300 tokens, which means a 1M context window can fit slightly less than an hour of video. ...
Preserving this post by Daniel George showing the IIT Bombay 2014 GPA vs JEE Rank on a log scale. What I found interesting was: A higher JEE rank generally means you won’t score too low, but you needn’t score too high. The higher the JEE rank, the greater the spread of GPA. A high GPA can come from any rank (8+ GPA is uniformly distributed across ranks), but a low GPA is generally only from the lower rankers (6- GPA is mostly from 500+ rank.) So, it’s better to recruit based on GPA rather than JEE rank, unless you’re going after the very best students (where it makes less difference.)
It's surprisingly easy to clone a voice using F5-TTS: "A Fairytaler that Fakes Fluent and Faithful Speech with Flow Matching". Here's a clip of me, saying: I think Taylor Swift is the best singer. I've attended every one of her concerts and in fact, I've even proposed to her once. Don't tell anyone. (Which is ironic since I didn't know who she was until this year and I still haven't seen or heard her.) ...
How can non-programmers build apps? Claude.ai, Replit.com, Bolt.new, V0.dev, Pythagora.ai and a few other tools write and deploy code just based on a prompt. You should try them out. “But how do you build the skill? Is there a tutorial?” I’m often asked. No, I can’t find a tutorial, but here is my suggestion. You probably can’t guess what’s easy or hard. e.g. “Take my picture in black & white” is FAR easier than “When’s the next lunar eclipse?” So if the app doesn’t work, try 2-3 times, then GIVE UP! Note it down. Then try something else. (You’ll soon get a feel for what’s possible.) Revisit what failed 3-6 months later. It might suddenly become possible.
Arun Tangirala and I webinared on “AI in Education” yesterday. This post isn’t about the webinar, which went on for an hour and was good fun. This post isn’t for my preparation for the webinar, which happened frantically 15 minutes before it started. This post is about how I created the annotated talk at https://github.com/sanand0/ai-in-education-webinar (inspired by Simon Willison’s annotated presentations process) – a post-processing step that took ~3 hours – and the tools I used for this. ...
Yesterday (15 Oct 2024), I used Cursor to code more than I ever have. (Doing's how we learn, I guess. Not just reading.) DateUsage05-10-20241506-10-20242707-10-20248708-10-20241609-10-202410-10-20244211-10-20242412-10-20245713-10-20241514-10-20242815-10-2024186 This was mainly to create and publish 2 libraries on npm over 6 hours: ...
I gave a bonus assignment in LLM coding to ~1,000 students at the Tools in Data Science course at IITM. Here is an OPTIONAL project: Record a 10-minute video in which you create an application entirely using LLMs and deploy it. Any app is fine. Any language. Simple or complex. Business or gaming. Anything is fine. Your choice. Create the app only using LLMs. You can use an LLM (ChatGPT, Claude.ai, Gemini, Cursor, Cody, etc.) but you can only prompt the app to write code. You can copy-paste code and run code don’t write or edit even a single line of code directly. Use LLMs to debug and edit. Code completion is NOT allowed – only prompting/chatting. Record the entire process in 10 min. Don’t edit, trim, enhance, or annotate the video. You should record yourself creating the entire app from start to finish. Practice beforehand if you like. Record in 1 take. Share the video and app. Publish the video publicly anywhere (e.g. YouTube and share the link.) Publish the app publicly anywhere (e.g. GitHub pages, Glitch.me, Heroku, etc.) or upload a ZIP file with the code (for slightly lower marks.) Submit via a reply to this thread. Multiple submissions per person are fine. Work in groups if you like but only the submitter gets marks. ...
I was in Seoul for KHF 2024, a healthcare event, staying at Hotel in 9. The hotel was great. The toilet was hi-tech. Perhaps a bit too high-tech for me. I couldn’t figure out how to let the water through on the sink. After 15 minutes of a hard struggle, I finally asked ChatGPT “How do I open the thing that’s closing the sink to allow the water to go down?” ...