But no one is training these kinds of models on their personal device. You need compute clusters for that. And they will probably run Linux. I'd be surprised if Microsoft trains their large models in anything else than Linux clusters.
> But no one is training these kinds of models on their personal device
on-device transfer learning/fine tuning is def a thing for privacy and data federation reasons. Part of the reason why model distillation was so hot a few years ago.
Apple would want to train models as fast as they could. Nvidia provides an off the shelf solution they can just buy and use for a very reasonable price and sell on the second hand market.
If they wanted to use their own hardware they would either need more of it, which would cost a lot and divert production from sellable devices; or they would need to make special chips with much bigger neural engines, which would cost even more.
Also Apple uses public clouds for service stuff. They may not even own any hardware and just be renting it from AWS/Azure/GCP for training.
Have you looked at DigiKam? It offers directories, tagging (with custom tag hierarchies), deduplication and also face recognition. I think it can do quite a bit more, but I'm not a heavy user, at all. I just use it for keeping track of my modest library and it works great for that.
Another (paid) solution is Imageranger.com (don't have anything to do with them, but installed it for my father). I really like the import function that gets rid of duplicates (dedupes) and that put files into directories (video, photos, etc) and year/months based on how you have set up the import function.
The image viewing interface itself is okay although it might not be as smooth as e.g. Apple Photo (which I feel has its own challenges with how convoluted its image directories are e.g). ImageRanger has also tags and Face Detection and Recognition.
I have only installed the Home edition, and it seems to re-index the images to create thumbnails (relatively fast) if you have stored images on an external disk that is detached/attached between openings of the program. From what I understand, the Professional version does not have this issue as the images are cached (not tested out this myself). I don't think the face Detection and Recognition is on par with e.g. Apple Photo, but haven't tested it extensively enough to say that with 100% certainty.
What I like most about ImageRanger is its import functions and the way it stores the images in common folders and subfolders based on preferences and not in a convoluted DB.
I had not known about 'font-display: optional' before. Now I wish more sites used it because there has been so many times where I started reading something on my phone with slow internet when it had not fully loaded yet. It’s really annoying to see the page jump around a while later after font loading finished and you realize that you just wasted data on nothing.
In my opinion, 95 % of websites should just use system fonts. They’re good enough for almost every need really.
Although I do wish there are a few standard font that is shipped across all browser. Sometimes I want the website to appear exactly the same on all System.
See my comment to the parent for an example of a site that needs to look the same (or rather - a portion of site - an HTML Canvas) that has to look the same on every device and which needs a specific font loaded to work properly. For my case, having a font that was guaranteed the same in every browser would have been very nice, and I would have gladly used that if it worked and fit the theme closely enough.
Even if there was consistency in the actual fonts their rendering depends on the platform/engine or even just the device settings. If you want precise display metrics you should use an image (SVG counts). If I've got large text enabled on my phone we could have the same exact device and my display metrics won't match yours.
Nice, but it's more important for my browser not to leak information about me via what fonts I needed to download.
Also, it gets really annoying when sites demand that my desktop look like my mobile phone but blown up really big. Twitter's already that way, and the Facebook redesign did the same thing.
There are a few metric compatible fonts used by stuff like pdf. and so on. I believe an alias for these fonts are needed. Obviously add an emoji and UI font. that will be the best
And with smartphones, they're no longer installed on every system. I really wish that Chrome and probably other browsers would install a set of fonts from Google Fonts. I don't see a reason why this shouldn't be possible. That's what most sites use, anyway. I guess it's related to Google being able to track usage of these fonts.
Is it possible to configure your browser to treat every site as if it used 'font-display: optional'? I'd love to be able to do that. Seems like it should be up to the user to decide, not the web developer.
Browsers typically let you define a user stylesheet somewhere in the settings. I tried it in Safari with a simple `body {@font-face {font-display: optional;}}` but I could't verify if it has any effects. I think it is difficult because @font-face will be evaluated differently than usual css, say `color: red`. Maybe someone who has a better understanding of css could try it...
I took a look at your link and I don’t understand why you feel it’s “really risky”. To me (a German), it seems like any other playground with quite common elements. Sure, the climbing web (if that’s what it’s called) is high, but this is a structure where kids will not even get that high if they are not skilled.
All the images and videos just looked so American to me. A guy pulling kids in wagons with his motor vehicle, where I’m just asking myself: Why? And of course, almost all the adults and a fair amount of the kids are overweight …
I’m not trying to bash America, but this did confirm quite some stereotypes of mine.
I have a smartphone and use pass via the app Android Password Store [1]. You have to set up your GPG key of course and also an SSH key for the sync with the remote repository, but once that’s done, it works perfectly fine.
I suspect you're overestimating the number of developers who know or use Linux. Many developers use Git on Windows and don't know anything about Linux, let alone about the workflow of the kernel team.
While GitHub and its clones have taken over, Git was intended to be used with emailed patches. The Linux kernel is a good example of a project using Git that way. It’s reasonably common among mature projects and it’s really not that hard: https://git-send-email.io/
The git project uses the same workflow for development that the Linux kernel does. That is, using a mailing list to submit and discuss commits before merging them into the maintainer's repository.
Sure. But many users of git don't know (or care) about the workflow of the git team. They know github. Maybe gitlab. Or bitbucket. They could go their entire development careers without ever sending a patch as an email, instead relying on feature branches and pull requests.
This could be completely alien to them, and it seems wrong to downvote srg for pointing that out.
git format-patch and git am are still very useful features, even if you're not Linus, not a Linux developer, or on Windows.
Basically you can serialize your git history as patches, transmit them any way you like (including email), and seamlessly re-integrate them as fully complete git commits.
I sometimes use this even when working only with myself, i.e. if I want to test a change on multiple machines before I'm ready to push. Then I can use normal git workflow to rebase, etc.
To be exact, Google did not “delete” the app. It cannot even do that. It removed the app from its own app store. The fundamental problem is that Google’s own app store is perceived by many users to be the only way to install Android apps.
Are there any ideas about how to convince users to use other app stores?
