The_Amp_Walrus

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   by The_Amp_Walrus 7y ago

   So, the coaches of an athletics program underfed an athlete to the point where she "lost her period for three years and broke five bones". Sounds terrible. The article claims: > A big part of this problem is that women and girl
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   by The_Amp_Walrus 7y ago

   I think it was this blogger: https://www.google.com/amp/s/srconstantin.wordpress.com/2019...
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   by The_Amp_Walrus 7y ago

   This is very cool. I want to do something similar, with a particular focus on enhancing audio quality. How many ideas did you try and discard before deciding to do your "background remover" service? What were they, if you don&#x27
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   by The_Amp_Walrus 7y ago

   Location: Melbourne, Australia Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python / Django + React + AWS Résumé/CV: https://mattsegal.github.io/resume/ Email: mattdsegal@gmail.com Interested in part-tim
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   by The_Amp_Walrus 7y ago

   Some AI researchers believe that using learning methods with no built-in prior knowledge and throwing a bunch of compute at them is the path to building effective AI. I'm thinking of Richard Sutton in particular: - Bitter Lesson essay:
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   by The_Amp_Walrus 7y ago

   You can also make the same argument for owning a car as well. After registration, mandatory insurance, petrol and maintenance, it's not clear that owning a car is a financially sound decision for me, personally. I've run the numbe
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   by The_Amp_Walrus 7y ago

   I made this website because I had a fun time making a code-generated t-shirt design, and I wanted to make it easier for other people to do it themselves. Give it a try! I'm keen to see what other people come up with.
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   Show HN: Design your own t-shirt using JavaScript(codeyourowntshirt.com)

   5 points by The_Amp_Walrus 7y ago|1 comments
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   by The_Amp_Walrus 7y ago

   I've tried to use Zappa for a non-trivial personal project to run a Django app and I found: - Super nice, low config API - easy to deploy - great out-of-the-box support for async tasks (no Celery! woo!) but: - It was a nightmare gettin
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    by The_Amp_Walrus 7y ago

    Cheers!
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    by The_Amp_Walrus 7y ago

    This was my initial attempt using an Illustration https://codepen.io/anon/pen/NVORrZ This is my 2nd attempt using the docs you linked https://codepen.io/anon/pen/QRZKxy?editors=0010 What
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    by The_Amp_Walrus 7y ago

    Hey listenandlearn. I like your site and app - I think they both look great. I tried out the app a few weeks ago and I liked it, although I didn't really enjoy the English accent of the reader's voice. Are you using Google's
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    by The_Amp_Walrus 7y ago

    Does this library support dynamic rendering? I tried to add extra elements to the illustration after rendering it to the canvas and it doesn't appear to work. I might be using the API incorrectly though - is the idea that you can use t
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    by The_Amp_Walrus 8y ago

    Translation is a NLP problem... Isn't it? I've used Google translate to read non-english websites and found it quite useful. Is text to speech a NLP problem? Today's TTS products are actually listenable these days.
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    by The_Amp_Walrus 8y ago

    - The Edge browser feature requires you to select text and then listen to it while you have the webpage open, my service can be used asynchronously like any other podcast - when you are commuting, cooking etc. - The Edge browser text-to-spe
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    by The_Amp_Walrus 8y ago

    Are you referring to the "basic" Google TTS or the WaveNet option? I believe the WaveNet voices are much, much better than those produced my any other TTS service or publicly available model, but I'd love to see some counter-
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    by The_Amp_Walrus 8y ago

    I've been working on this for the past few weeks and was surprised to see pretty polished competitor posted yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19454863 Oh well, great minds think alike! EDIT: Similarly, th
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    Show HN: Blog Reader – Listen to webpages via a personal podcast(blogreader.com.au)

    4 points by The_Amp_Walrus 8y ago|6 comments
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    by The_Amp_Walrus 8y ago

    I'm interested in using this for text to speech, rather than speech to text. Is wavenet still the state of the art for training on a dataset like this?
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    by The_Amp_Walrus 8y ago

    > Today, PHP is used by more than 80% of all the websites _whose server-side programming language we know_ I find it pretty annoying that they don't post stats on the websites that they couldn't classify. I think it's like
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    by The_Amp_Walrus 8y ago

    That's really interesting, thanks. How would you describe the agenda / bias of the Mercatus centre? I've developed a pretty positive view of them based on what I've seen of Tyler Cowen, Alex Tabarrok and Robin Hanson.
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    by The_Amp_Walrus 8y ago

    > High labor costs in mature economies means those economies will tend to have a comparative advantage producing high-margin products even if their manufacturing expertise is declining across the board relative to low-wage countries, and
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    by The_Amp_Walrus 8y ago

    > It’s the motivations that people have problems with I don't agree with you there and I don't think the author is being insincere. The problem with child pornography is the harm, or potential for harm, of children. Why would y
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    by The_Amp_Walrus 9y ago

    So I need to read this-that-and-the-other to really understand REST, and many other people misunderstand and misimplement pseudo-RESTful services. This implies that the 'standard' is too complicated and nuanced to be useful. Wha
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    by The_Amp_Walrus 9y ago

    So this framework generates MPI compliant code, which is intended to be sent out to a bunch of super-computer nodes and executed. What kind of existing infrastructure would you need to actually run this? I assume you would need to install a