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bradleykingz
3y ago
I was really blown away by the voice when I first heard it... but as time went by, it started to sound like someone was reading from a book... I can't explain it precisely, but there's a lack of "personality", made more
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bradleykingz
3y ago
It's one thing to use Pinterest intentionally, a whole other to have it shoved down your throat.
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3y ago
The Golden Ass of Apuleius: The Liberation of Feminine in Man. A Jungian dissection of the tale of a man that transforms into a donkey, and his journey of self discovery and redemption. It gave me a whole new way of reading books (a "s
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bradleykingz
4y ago
How I dealt with it was by first converting to HTML using PDF Box. Extracting text from there is then pretty simple.
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bradleykingz
4y ago
In a way you can... High karma/follower Reddit/Twitter/Instagram accounts fetch thousands of dollars
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bradleykingz
4y ago
A bard is something along the lines of a "poet" or "musician". More concisely, it's someone that's good with words.
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bradleykingz
4y ago
And yet humans still play chess
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bradleykingz
4y ago
Yup. Dreams are too personal to be properly interpreted by an AI without the context of a person's life. In her book, "The Cat", Marie-Louise Franz puts a lot of emphasis on associations when attempting to interpret dreams. I
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4y ago
Imagine using the same tech to make deaf speech properly intelligible.
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4y ago
Holy hell, this seems a lot more comprehensive than I'd ever expected. Good job India. I hope this spreads to the rest of the world somehow. The fact that it's impossible to uninstall YouTube or use Vanced as the default for YouTu
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bradleykingz
4y ago
Mental freduian slip?
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bradleykingz
4y ago
Curiously, how much do you think would be "fair"? $4B is a lot of money, no matter how you look at it.
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bradleykingz
4y ago
What makes you so sure?
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4y ago
The hacker must have trouble walking around... y'know, because of his gigantic balls? All jokes aside, I wonder how denialists will react to this. And I'm curious how China will attempt to explain this away. Can't wait for mo
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4y ago
Maybe we'll end up creating an artificial mind.
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bradleykingz
5y ago
Android has ProGuard, which makes decompilation harder, but certainly not impossible if one is motivated enough.
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bradleykingz
5y ago
Me too. My guess is that my brain has subconsciously tuned out engaging pdf content because of how difficult it is to use in-browser... Especially when dealing with text sizes and zooming sigh . It's even worse with pdfs on mobile :(
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bradleykingz
5y ago
Hardly an ELI5
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5y ago
I'm surprised too... He had his life savings in Bitcoin?
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bradleykingz
5y ago
Excellent job. I especially like Beam and Bauhaus. Beam should definitely be the default.
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bradleykingz
5y ago
> They have since the early 2000s become the brokers between natural resources in Africa Africa is a big place. Where exactly in Africa? If you have some sources, this sounds like an interesting read.
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6y ago
We must have been reading vastly different articles > Business has been good. “I make over $30,000 annually from forex trading now,” he revealed — a tempting figure in a country where public servants are paid some $177 a month. His earni
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6y ago
Yeah. But it's much easier to copy paste a script.
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bradleykingz
6y ago
From what I can tell, it would seem like it. Though I don't understand why it wouldn't be ideal.
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6y ago
For a person that's not a dictator, Xi sure does have a lot of dictatorial tendencies. > check and balance in China Do tell. Last I checked, China was a one-party state and doesn't have the same judiciary-executive freedom that
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6y ago
Interesting. Thanks.
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6y ago
I'd rather not be feeding my draconian regime
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6y ago
I have the exact same feeling. I'm not sure how well these will work, but if the person isn't comfortable, it only leads to mental health issues later on on life. School is tough enough to begin with. I can't imagine how much
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6y ago
I'd like to know more about the last point. Why should I always give refunds? "letting them yell at you and still feel zen". I don't know how to phrase the question, but is there something you came to understand in order
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7y ago
This makes it sound super impressive, but they really just generate a credit report from your Mpesa transaction messages (these are sent back to you via SMS)
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