EconoBen

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Adding Text-to-Speech to Your Blog with OpenAI's TTS API(econoben.dev)
2 points by EconoBen 1y ago|1 comments
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by EconoBen 1y ago
I built a pipeline to automatically convert blog posts into audio using OpenAI's TTS API. The implementation handles chunking long articles (due to the 4096 character limit), generates separate audio files for each chunk, then combines
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by EconoBen 2y ago
In this post I walk you through how to host your own, private and secure LLM from anywhere. Here I use Synology and Raspberry Pi, but the principles are largely universal.
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My 2024 in Review: AI, Archery, and Goals(benjaminlabaschin.com)
1 points by EconoBen 2y ago|1 comments
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by EconoBen 2y ago
In which I discuss the idea of writing yearly reviews in the first place, some professional wins this year, some personal goals I'd like to achieve, and the state of my health.
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by EconoBen 3y ago
Hey thanks! I like writing. This one took me a few days to write, but formed inchoately in the back of my head for years. Sometimes it's nice to finally just let the words spill out on "paper".
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by EconoBen 3y ago
I wish I could emphasize this comment more. Thank you for posting this. This reflects my thoughts exactly and the purpose of the post. There are so many more people whose stories you don't hear, who go through much harder times than I
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by EconoBen 3y ago
really appreciate all the thoughtful comments! Better than I could have imagined. Thanks all.
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by EconoBen 3y ago
fixed.
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by EconoBen 3y ago
yeah, absolutely abnormal.
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by EconoBen 3y ago
doesn't hurt, apparently.
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by EconoBen 3y ago
Oh my gosh! I didn't know this was a trend. This is somehow very reassuring to hear, all these years later. Thanks for mentioning this.
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by EconoBen 3y ago
tell your friends, hah!
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by EconoBen 3y ago
A few years ago, I set myself the goal of paying off all my student loans before I'm 30. I turn 30 in two months. And as of this month, I paid them off. All $194k of them... Obviously, this was a significant milestone for me. So, I too
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I Paid Off $194k in Student Loans in Six Years. It Wasn’t Easy(benjaminlabaschin.com)
48 points by EconoBen 3y ago|102 comments
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by EconoBen 4y ago
By the way, only tangentially related, but my favorite book on standardization is Nature’s Metropolis by William Cronon. It’s inspired a lot of my interest in the intersection of economics, tech, and nature and how we impose standards upon
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by EconoBen 4y ago
I’m not going to try to convince you in particular one way or another. I’ve just been reflecting about what you’ve said in general, because I think it’s insightful and it’s gotten me thinking. While I think your analogy is more or less accu
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by EconoBen 4y ago
Welcome to the most impactful API you've never heard of! From the creators of NormConf the conference, happening December 15. Using latent-space embeddings we synthesize every arxiv deep learning finding in the last 10 years into a k8s
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The Official NormConf API Is Live(github.com)
2 points by EconoBen 4y ago|1 comments
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by EconoBen 4y ago
Completely free. Completely virtual. 20 minute stalks. Register today! List of speakers: Vicki Boykis Vincent Warmerdam Tim Hopper Lynn Cherny Matthijs Brouns Guenia Izquierdo JD Long Helena Sarin Zachary Blackwood Joel Grus Peter Sobot Jer
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The *Right* Way to Use 1Password SSH Keys to Maintain Multiple GitHub Accounts(benjaminlabaschin.com)
1 points by EconoBen 4y ago|0 comments
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by EconoBen 5y ago
Yeah this seems like a copy
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by EconoBen 5y ago
I’m just discovering this site even exists and it’s shutting down… Are there similar sites out there people recommend?
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by EconoBen 5y ago
Yeah, that would be confusing. I'd personally suggest making them a bit more specific and, if you can, creative—just not so creative as to be unintuitive to their purpose.
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by EconoBen 5y ago
So you're suggesting that instead of names, we refer to UUID's when talking about a service?
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Legacy Naming Conventions Are Holding Us Back(benjaminlabaschin.com)
2 points by EconoBen 5y ago|6 comments
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Advanced Groupbys with Grouper, Assign, and Query(benjaminlabaschin.com)
3 points by EconoBen 5y ago|0 comments
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Advanced Groupbys with Grouper, Assign, and Query(benjaminlabaschin.com)
1 points by EconoBen 5y ago|0 comments
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Heads Down: A simple app for productivity enhancement(github.com)
1 points by EconoBen 6y ago|1 comments
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by EconoBen 6y ago
Heads Down is a Mac app that lives in your ribbon. With a click of the mouse, temporarily block distracting websites and applications to encourage "heads down" time. Inspired by a tweet from Vicki Boykis, Heads Down is a free, eas

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