BasilPH

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by BasilPH 3y ago
Here's some context [^0]: > While Portugal clearly has the most divorces per 100 marriages, looking at divorce rates per 1.000 inhabitants in other European countries alters the picture of the country as one unsettled by significant
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Zipline unveils their next generation delivery drone system(twitter.com)
2 points by BasilPH 4y ago|0 comments
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Founder of Mars Society talks about human future in space(withfanfare.com)
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by BasilPH 4y ago
We only have an SVB account because of Stripe Atlas. Back then (2020) SVB was the only option, they hadn't added Mercury yet. I wonder if you still get SVB as an option today, or if Mercury is the default. I got annoyed with SVB becaus
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by BasilPH 4y ago
Back in the early 2000s when I studied computer-science, one of our professors Rolf Pfeifer[^0] was famous for being the father of embodiment. The way I understood it, the idea was that the physical shape of a human is also part of our inte
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by BasilPH 4y ago
I just gave it a try, and the results are impressive! Do you also offer an API?
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by BasilPH 4y ago
We're using AssemblyAI too, and I agree that their transcription quality is good. But as soon as Whisper supports world-level timestamps, I think we'll seriously consider switching as the price difference is large ($0.36 per hour
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by BasilPH 4y ago
As far as I can tell it doesn't support world-level timestamps (yet). That's a bit of a dealbreaker for things like promotional clips or the interactive transcripts that we do[^0]. Hopefully they add this soon. [^0]: https:/
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by BasilPH 4y ago
I can imagine. He has a short, spoken course on the Waking Up mediation app that closely mirrors the book and I found it amazingly well done.
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by BasilPH 4y ago
I'm having the same experience. And what I love, is that he proposes solutions that work, without sugarcoating things. One of the biggest learnings from this book so far, is that a certain level of anxiety is inevitable. Especially whe
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by BasilPH 4y ago
Reading it right now, but I already think it's the test thing: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals I was (and still am) obsessed with productivity. But I more and more my tasks had felt like something I needed to get done,
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by BasilPH 4y ago
Thank you! Yes, exactly. We do forced alignment when you edit your transcript. The new words don't have any timestamps, so we need to align them. For short sections we use interpolation. If we need align whole sections we use Gentle[^1
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by BasilPH 4y ago
Thank you! I wrote your points down. We're still learning how to make it most usable. We know the start and end timestamps on a word level and we know the current player time. So all we do is set a CSS class on the words that are curre
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by BasilPH 4y ago
This is cool! We're doing forced alignment with audio recordings i.e. podcasts. Here's an example from a test client: https://www.withfanfare.com/p/seldon-crisis/search-by-the-fo... Grateful for any feed
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by BasilPH 4y ago
The perspective of the photograph makes me think the collector is the size of a small house. Is this true, or just an optical illusion?
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by BasilPH 4y ago
You're right. That's what I found in the Wikipedia article[^1]: > The film required 800,000 machine hours and 114,240 frames of animation in total, divided between 1,561 shots that totaled over 77 minutes. This comes out to 24
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by BasilPH 4y ago
> Disk resources are equally vast, with a DiskFam of around 260 gigabytes of on-line storage containing approximately 140,000 digital image files. The 140'000 image files would translate to an 80 minute runtime at 30 fps. So I assum
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by BasilPH 4y ago
At the very end of the post: > Those 6 files is all you need to create a Mastodon user. Here are some caveats you may have already noticed. > - Following doesn’t work > - Posts don’t work > - Only 1 user per domain The post migh
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by BasilPH 4y ago
The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. It merges science and storytelling in an amazing way, I can highly recommend it. The books are long, but they didn't seem like it. Neuromancer by William Gibson. The book that started cyberpunk
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by BasilPH 4y ago
I listened to the course on Waking Up too, and I can highly recommend it.
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by BasilPH 4y ago
I would try to understand why you can't sit for the task for long. Maybe it's too boring, or too hard. Maybe it's unclear what the task even is. A somewhat spiritual take on the whole issue is Steven Pressfield's &quot
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Day to day at a small startup: October 22(withfanfare.com)
1 points by BasilPH 4y ago|1 comments
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by BasilPH 4y ago
They mention that users can invest in them through SAFEs. This only makes sense if they plan an exit, either by selling or through an IPO, or am I missing something?
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by BasilPH 4y ago
Pretty cool, it taught me how to write a Haiku: > Monkey eats apple > Monkey prefers banana > Suck it up monkey
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by BasilPH 4y ago
Thank you for that rabbit hole! The most expensive one is the 777-9. It's apparently the longest and widest plane ever[^1]. [^1]: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/boeing-777x-9-first-fligh...
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by BasilPH 4y ago
I agree with you. Last weekend I had the same realisation and thought how that as a programmer it's comparatively very easy to make weird stuff for fun. But somehow we rarely do. I made a page that converts sentences to GIFs a couple o
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Don't obsess over when to post, but be consistent(withfanfare.com)
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by BasilPH 4y ago
I'm sticking with my monthly company updates. I hope they are interesting in their straightforwardness and honesty.
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Honest company update: September 22(withfanfare.com)
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by BasilPH 4y ago
I've done fun things with p5.js, which might have the primitives you need to do what you described.

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