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JohnHammersley
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PhD in Mathematical Physics. Co-founded Overleaf (formerly writeLaTeX). Previously designed control systems for driverless cars at Ultra PRT. Fascinated by science and the mathematics of the world.
- JohnHammersley parentThanks for sharing, I'm interested to know more about how you did this if you have a longer write up somewhere? (or are considering writing one!)
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- Yes when I saw stick figures mentioned on HN I immediately thought of his "Animator vs Animation" [1] (to which I've just rediscovered the title!)
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- Thanks for the quick reply -- yes, I imagine there is some prior art for this, although I'm often amazed at how hard it still is to print (even just to print to save a pdf) from many websites!
- Thank you for working on and sharing this project, it's a wonderful example of how maps help tell / connect the stories through the years. It was also nice to see the piece you drew inspiration from that you linked to in another comment.
I'm curious -- each section (after the transitional animation) seems like it translates quite well to being a fixed page, and I'm wondering if you've looked at there being an easy way to generate a version that could be printed?
The reason I ask is that I'm working on a family history project which involves various locations, maps, newspaper stories and old photographs, and whilst something interactive feels like it would be an engaging way to do it, for the long term it's always good to have a printed copy of anything :)
I could imagine if there was an easy way to generate a print version of your articles, some people would pay for a copy (that was printed professionally in a suitable photobook-style format).
Apologies if there is a simple way to generate this and I've missed it in my cursory glance around the code :)
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- > For example, they seem to not care about instructions to only write a response and no explanation, thus making it impossible to use them in a pipeline
I was doing some local tidying up of recording transcripts, using a fairly long system prompt, and I saw the same behaviour you mention if the transcript I was passing in was too long -- batching it up to make sure to be under the max length prevented this.
Might not be what's happening in your case, but I mention it because it wasn't immediately obvious to me when I first saw the behaviour.
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- Ollama post: https://ollama.com/blog/llama3.2
- Amazing, thanks, and thanks for responding to this comment, much appreciated :)
- As others have said, a filter on item location would be ideal, but the region might also work. Specifically UK/GB for my use case :)
Thanks for putting the site together!
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- Ah yes, I missed some important context - one of the reasons for moving to a name without LaTeX in it was because we'd just released the first beta version of the visual editor (the rich text mode at the time), and the goal was to keep lowering the barriers to getting started with LaTeX, and to make collaboration easier for non-LaTeX users. And so Overleaf came from a search for a broader name than writeLaTeX.
That's an interesting point about the pronunciation - overleaf is a standard English word, and certainly seemed less confusing than writeLaTeX when said aloud, but I agree it's not perfect! Was the best we could find at the time (especially given the other needs mentioned above).
- I wish I could claim we were that clever! :)
Took us about three months to pick Overleaf, we went for it largely because it was a single word, hard to confuse/mispell when said aloud (unlike writeLaTeX), had a connection with writing "over the page", and probably must importantly, we could get the .com domain.
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