BoxOfRain

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by BoxOfRain 9mo ago
Part of why I like sailing is for a similar reason, beyond a certain range the only people who can bother you electronically are other people at sea (and you actually want to listen to them).
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by BoxOfRain 10mo ago
Swearing is a good heuristic still I think. The American corporate world remains rather prissy about swearing, so if the post sounds like a hairy docker after 12 pints then it's probably not an LLM.
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by BoxOfRain 10mo ago
I know the very roundabout you mean without having to look it up, I used to cycle in Oxford very often and while I’m sure there’s a tendency on the internet to underrate locals’ stories as hyperbolic, it really can’t be stressed enough how
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by BoxOfRain 10mo ago
> If it is possible, maybe it is what some people supposedly feel as "auras" For what it's worth, I have a disorder that causes me to see "auras" around people quite often. The nature of the disorder is that my b
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by BoxOfRain 10mo ago
I've been experimenting with something similar to this approach recently. IndexTTS2 gives you emotion vectors as an input, I used an external emotion classification model on the LLM output to modulate the TTS emotion vectors. You need
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by BoxOfRain 10mo ago
I couldn't recommend Patrick O'Brian more, I binged the entire Aubrey-Maturin series during lockdown and was genuinely sad for a week when I reached the end of it.
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by BoxOfRain 10mo ago
> Calling it "training LLM" is a bit misleading. This is a small GPT-2-sized model (~160M params), while the "L" in "LLM" stands for large... I've always felt the natural way of referring to smaller LLM
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by BoxOfRain 10mo ago
The exclusion of women from clinic trials is one of those things that makes me really angry, there's many women in my life who've been adversely affected by various medications and essentially palmed off about it, being made to fe
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by BoxOfRain 10mo ago
I think the problem is we'd then have to include a high number of other objects further than Pluto and Eris, so it makes more sense to change the definition in a way 'planet' is a bit more exclusive.
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by BoxOfRain 10mo ago
The water infrastructure isn't great in the UK (there's a lot of first-mover curses in UK infrastructure generally), specifically there's quite a lot of shared sewage and storm drains. As a result sometimes the local water mo
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by BoxOfRain 10mo ago
No they can browse them, Ofcom literally compiled the sites it doesn't want everyone to browse in an easily-accessible list.
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by BoxOfRain 10mo ago
I genuinely think the public sector being a bit hopeless is a major check on tyranny in the UK. Ofcom (the communications regulator charged with imposing the censorship laws) literally maintains a public list of non-compliant websites that
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by BoxOfRain 11mo ago
You probably can take an ox to Oxford, there's horses there so I don't see why oxen would be ruled out. What you probably can't do is get an ox through the traffic on Abingdon Road if you're taking it to work.
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by BoxOfRain 11mo ago
As an Oxford native I'd advise that anyone attempting to do this checks Thames Water's sewage dumping schedule beforehand!
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by BoxOfRain 11mo ago
This would be an excellent way to make sure the standup stays terse, we could even put lead weights in the handsets to further increase this virtue.
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by BoxOfRain 11mo ago
Honestly I've been pleasantly surprised with CachyOS, admittedly I've been using Linux for over a decade but it was my first foray into Arch-land and I'm genuinely impressed with it. The stability is very good, and I'm y
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by BoxOfRain 11mo ago
I like Orwell a lot, especially as a political writer. I do think Newspeak would have got a rethink if Orwell had lived today though; as irritating as algospeak words like 'unalived', 'sewer slide' etc are to read they d
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by BoxOfRain 11mo ago
Interesting, definitely agree it likely shares an underlying cause with tinnitus. It's also linked to migraine and was sometimes conflated with unusual forms of migraine in the past, although it's since been found to be a distinct
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by BoxOfRain 11mo ago
Ah that's interesting, mine is omnipresent and occasionally bad enough I have to take days off work as I can't read my own code; it's like there's a baseline of it that occasionally flares up at random. Were you born wit
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by BoxOfRain 11mo ago
Isn't this idea demonstrably false due to the existence of various sensory disorders too? I have a disorder characterised by the brain failing to filter own its own sensory noise, my vision is full of analogue TV-like distortion and ot
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by BoxOfRain 11mo ago
Yeah the industrialised world wasn't maligned by Blake as 'dark Satanic mills' or as Mordor by Tolkien because they found it an artistically fulfilling place.
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by BoxOfRain 11mo ago
If you cough up for private healthcare maybe, when it comes to the NHS if it's not going to kill you immediately it's more or less 'take a spot in the waiting list and God will sort it out' these days.
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by BoxOfRain 11mo ago
> Real engineers can face personal liability and even jail time for negligence. To be fair, software engineers can face similar liabilities in highly-regulated fields. When you're dealing with software regulated as a medical device
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by BoxOfRain 11mo ago
> everything slows down during storms One problem I've found in my current house is that the connection becomes flakier in heavy rain, presumably due to poor connections between the cabinet and houses. I live in Cardiff which for th
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by BoxOfRain 11mo ago
Yeah British trains are often absolutely awful for this, I started putting music on my phone locally to deal with the abysmal coverage.
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by BoxOfRain 11mo ago
I think that's a little simplistic, I have liberal (in the British English sense) views specifically because I think humanity is fundamentally flawed. If we are all flawed particularly when it comes to wielding power over others, it&
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by BoxOfRain 1y ago
'Oxford Time' is still used for a few things in Oxford, the clock at Christ Church reads five minutes slow with respect to GMT for example.
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by BoxOfRain 1y ago
Interestingly part of the UK approach then was to make street lighting more efficient, around that time a lot of low-pressure sodium lamps were installed. They used so little energy they were only beaten for efficiency by LEDs in this decad
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by BoxOfRain 1y ago
There's quite a few extensive underground structures scattered around the UK too that were built to defend against Soviet bombers, some of them started life as part of the original Chain Home system from the Second World War and were r
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by BoxOfRain 1y ago
Is it even worth it to pirate on FM these days? People don't really scan the band looking for new stations, I know the aim is often to provide for an underserved audience but anyone can set up a web stream for this purpose now and avoi

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