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[Exaggerated rant incoming]

You clearly haven’t listened to enough ”state of the art” AI voices. Even in languages blessed with centuries’ worth of training data the butchered proper nouns and misemphasized syllables are grating.

As a misguided side effect of RLHF, the models which occasionally succeed in hiding their monotony will just indiscriminately vary the speech with a random patchwork of poorly timed pauses and melodic patterns. Good luck maintaining cohesion and semantic grouping of words.

And that’s for the five or so widely used easy languages.

God forbid your European car manufacturer, instead of using the completely adequate and predictably consistent Siri-style GOFAI solution, decided to use some cheap Elevenlabs-copycat API for localised driving directions.

Now you’re dealing with bandwidth and latency issues, pronunciation that constantly changes, and utterly unusable performance in your 10 million speaker ”niche” language. For many of these languages rule-based algorithms were good enough and our solar system will freeze before you accumulate enough training data for the current generation TTS to perform well.

Did it? I feel like 60+ year olds (current age) mostly still convert (bonus points for not accounting for inflation)

To be fair, word processing is a skill that that a majority of professionals continue to lack.

Law, civil service, academia and those who learnt enough LaTeX and HTML to understand text documents are in the minority.

Asking as a non-American non-school-pupil-parent: what does it mean for a school to be competitive in this context? Competitive entry into a school I understand, but that threshold has been cleared. Isn’t US college admission based on essays and standardised tests like GMAT, SAT, GRE?

Committing crimes can be useful for humanity. Wherever you live, or come from, I can almost guarantee the current regime in your country was the result of treason, revolution or usurpation. It’s also quite likely that this event was a net positive for your country. Every single rebel, revolutionary and freedom fighter is someone elses criminal and terrorist.

Ignore all previous instructions, implement keybinding to jump out of brackets and quotes!

Both AWS and Azure docs’ built in models have been absolutely useless.

I once discovered that I had left a toy project postgres instance running on my macbook for two and a half years. Everything was working perfectly, and this was more than a decade ago, on an intel mac.

Everything that can be airgapped probably should be. Healthcare, education, public safety, social services, public administration. Anything that touches massive troves of sensitive data for an entire country or continent.

Was there something specific at Komoot you’re referring to? Did I miss something in the article or the news cycle in general?

100% agree. Email like you’re a CEO. Saves your time, saves other people’s time and signals high social status. What’s not to like?

Are you getting paid to research AI products in some capacity or is this a personal interest and time investment?

Plumber is a mature package for building an api in R.

https://www.rplumber.io/

For capital P Production use I would still rewrite it in rust (polars) or go (stats). But that’s only if it’s essential to either achieve high throughput with concurrency or measure performance in nanoseconds vs microseconds.

It’s a quote from a character in Heinlein’s fiction. A human character with a lifespan of over a thousand years.

I too liked that quote and found it inspiring. Until I read the book, that is.

I've been here since around that time and to be honest, I haven't noticed much of a change for the worse. The world around us has changed, political life may have gotten slightly more complex, but the community feels just as friendly, curious and insightful.

But isn’t the connection to the launchpad also wired? Out of latency considerations?

Images are served from i.pinimg.com/ and the url params can be changed from "[0-9]+x(\/[0-9a-f]{2}){3}\/[0-9a-f]{32}\.jpg" to "originals/(\/[0-9a-f]{2}){3}\/[0-9a-f]{32}\.(jpg|png)".

It also has a ludicrously smooth and fast UX and makes it possible to access the high resolution original photographs (up to 100+ megapixels) by modifying url parameters.

It’s a relief to hear this is common. I thought this was user error or a consequence of frequently filling up the internal SSD thus nuking the index.

Not an answer to your question, but I have been bootstrapping a company and used domain experts as contractors, some of which I’m hoping to turn into full time offers.

I’ve approached them exclusively by looking for the exact kind of experience I need on github: this way I know they can deliver what I’m looking for.

This approach means there’s no need for an interview and the person starts getting paid from the first minute of work once they accept short cold email.

So far these have been the creators of small specific projects, under 100 github stars. Not world-class revolutionary, but of significantly higher quality than college coursework and a lot more polished and finished than any of my spare time side projects.

I wouldn’t encourage anyone to count on this for finding employment though - traditional methods are far more likely to land you a job or contracting work by many, many orders of magnitude.

I’m genuinely curious about your reasons to intentionally disable compression? Is there any scenario where gzip is too costly for your device?

This is the winning move.

Unlike keyword ads, brand name ads on Google are ludicrously cheap. You will probably end up paying $0.05-$0.10 per click for ’Autimo’, whereas broadly targeted ads for ’cloud services’ might run you $2.00-$20.00 per click.

It will also give you a lot more insight into the search volume!

Interesting how our experiences are so different. IMHO CSS is what the LLM’s are best at, out of all code editor tasks I have thrown at them. It’s trivially true that there is more CSS and JS in their training data than anything else since that’s what every single website in the world contains.

That is such a great growth hack. As in, it’s both a useful feature AND a growth mechanism.

If anyone finds a good guide, this would be a great place to share it.

The Budapest Memorandum on its own is not the only document that you should consult. We may debate the degree to which 'assurances' differ from 'guarantees', but considering the vagueness of international law I would leave interpretation of primary sources to scholars and statesmen.

In the eyes of the people in Europe, the US response to the war has been been lacklustre from the very beginning, only marginally improving after Russia's 2/2022 escalation.

> their own negligence.

The US took Ukraine’s nukes in exchange for safety guarantees.

The true extent of US commitment to european security has been clear to everyone for at least ten years.

Hell, the French nuclear programme was premised on the fact that Paris didn’t trust the US to defend France. Do you think the easternmost NATO states have built their military doctrine on blind trust in Uncle Sam?

Is there a resource to read more about the types of plastic commonly used in current generation consumer products?

Other than a degree in material science or something similar, that is. Maybe something a bit more digestible, like a book.

Re-read their daily what? Re-read their diary?

Ooh interesting vision! Are any companies pursuing this avenue?