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Was there anything about searching through our own photos using prompts? I thought this could be pretty amazing and still a natural way to find very specific photos in one’s own photo gallery.


Run OpenAI's CLIP model on iOS to search photos. https://github.com/mazzzystar/Queryable


Yes, exactly this. I have had this for a while and works wonderfully well in most cases but it’s wonky and not seamless. I wanted a more integrated approach with Photos app which only Apple can bring to the table.


Which is in turn just multimodal embedding

Besides I could do "named person on a beach in August" and get the correct thing in photos on Android photos, so I don't get it.

It's amazing for apple users if they didn't have it before. But from a tech stand point people could have had it for a while.


Photos has had this for a while with structured natural language queries, and this kind of prompt was part of the WWDC video.


The difference is that Apple has been doing this on-device for maybe 4-5 years already with the Neural Engine. Every iOS version has brought more stuff you can search for.

The current addition is "just" about adding a natural language interface on top of data they already have about your photos (on device, not in the cloud).

My iPhone 14 can, for example, detect the breed of my dog correctly from the pictures and it can search for a specific pet by name. Again on-device, not by sending my stuff to Google's cloud to be analysed.


They have been trying and failing to do a tiny little bit of this. It's so broken and useless that I've been uploading all my iCloud photos to Google as well, for search and sharing.


If you like Google using your personal photos for machine learning, that's your option. Now they have your every photo, geotagged and timestamped so they can see where you have been and at what times. Then they of course anonymise that information into an "advertiser id" they tag on to you and a sufficient quantity of other people so they can claim they're not directly targeting anyone.

I prefer Apple's privacy focused option myself.


>If you like Google using your personal photos for machine learning, that's your option.

It's a trade-off between getting the features I need and the price I have to pay. All else being equal I do prefer privacy as well. Unfortunately, all else is not equal.

>I prefer Apple's privacy focused option myself.

It's only an option if it works.


Yeah it was confusing. Idea is to press first and the last number of the equation as far as I have understood. UX is wonky but I love such math challenges so it’s all cool.


Moderators can turn archiving on or off in subreddit settings. That dictates whether someone can comment or not comment on posts older than six months.


Aha, thanks!

Edit: it is now interesting how much power subreddit mods have over AI in the near future. Have a lot of disinformation in your subreddit? Lock it, and screw up the billion dollar AI.


Some of those “hackers” are twelve years olds, so earning money may not be the most important thing for them.


Great example. Similar design patterns result in similar user experiences irrespective of platform. Who would have thunk?


You sound burnt out? Why not take a brief sabbatical and see if you still feel the same after? Since you felt passionate about what you were doing earlier but that took a hit because of that employee, and that still remains an unfinished business, that passion may come back to you.


I took a week off in January. It was much needed and I did feel refreshed, but that feeling was temporary and things haven’t really improved.

I feel awful asking for more time off. But maybe I will as a last-ditch effort.

Appreciate the reply.


Exactly. I still find noses and ears to be such noticeable protrusions once I let go of my knowledge of human faces.


Wow. Thanks for sharing.


Her work is mind blowing. The dusting zone is my new favorite game

https://thedusting.zone/


Reddit for porn already exists. On Reddit.


When I played it some three years back, one needed to find usually some oxygen plants and caves for oxygen refills. I bet core play still remains the same. It really isn’t that hard tbh.


There just aren't enough of the plants, though. I run around as fast as I can, and I still run out.


running wears out your life support faster, same with jetpacking, that may be why you're running out. sometimes the rng is just not in your favour, though, so you may need to make a new save just to wind up on a different planet, but i've never had to do this more than once, imo it was worse closer to launch when you were dependent on plutonium for launch fuel


That... makes sense, but I really wish the game would have warned about it.

By default I just run everywhere, in basically every game. I think a lot of gamers do.


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