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by davidzweig 3y ago
Diesel engines run at higher compression ratios, 20:1 vs. 10:1 IIRC, resulting in higher thermal efficiency, and they also don't need a throttle valve, meaning there is no pumping loss at partial loads. The higher compression ratio als
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by davidzweig 3y ago
Can you just pour used motor oil into the tank of such an engine? It's always a hassle to dispose of at home.
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by davidzweig 3y ago
Running personal cars on cooking oil was legal in the UK up to a certain number of litres/year. I think it was more an issue of taxation, I'm not aware that it creates additional polution.
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by davidzweig 3y ago
I ran my 1999 Nissan Primera 2.0 turbo diesel on virgin vegtable oil for a couple of years (I had about 400L in the back when taking the channel ferry to to drive around Europe). It cost 0.40p/l instead of 1.20/l in the UK. Bought
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by davidzweig 3y ago
Presumably authors of articles holding such a view/opinion as to split people into two groups do not hold such a view/opinion as an inherent characteristic of their being.
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by davidzweig 3y ago
Well, the filtering prompt could have caused offense to someone that enjoys literature. It was the prompt I used after some iterations. If you go through gutenberg (~70,000 books), much of it is pretty undigestable to a modern reader, never
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by davidzweig 3y ago
Literature: "Anything written in print that's not Twilight." (urban dictionary) :) Yes, they could.. but we can't put Harry Potter in the public library of texts for copyright reasons, and licensing material is difficult
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by davidzweig 3y ago
Our software is used by Koreans, Turks, Brazilians, Hungarians etc. that are trying to learn a foreign language (English). If importing (and rewriting some of) Gutenburg was the best use of time for them, well, I'm not sure. If you don
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by davidzweig 3y ago
floren: In epochs bygone, a mere decade hence, I would have proffered thee the epithet of an egregiously unhinged denizen, were thou to embark upon such an endeavor. However, in these current times, wherein the domain of artificial intellig
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by davidzweig 3y ago
I did check that out. The thing is, the criteria is a little different. This is for learners who need to practice reading English. The scripts surface a lot of material in Gutenberg that otherwise would be time-consuming to find. 1950'
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by davidzweig 3y ago
It's for students learning English. The top 1000 will be rewritten and be available in addition to the original version, and about another 10,000 available in original only (selected using vocabulary frequency analysis and the chatGPT
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by davidzweig 3y ago
Oh, snap, we've been working on importing Gutenburg to LR: https://www.languagereactor.com/m/t_en_- We're ranking them using the download count, and also this prompt to chatGPT (it's primarily for langua
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by davidzweig 3y ago
Oh, this would be super neat for (our) language learning chatbot.. restricting the vocab the model uses.. if someone knows how this can be done. :)
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by davidzweig 3y ago
maybe add a VAD in front of it? faster-whisper uses silero VAD.
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by davidzweig 3y ago
We made one too. https://www.languagereactor.com/chatbot It's using the llama-2 13B model currently, running on gpus in the basement. LLama-2 is weak for languages outside of English, so we use machine translation, whi
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by davidzweig 3y ago
I was planning on renting a 1/3 rack at Hetzner Finland, but power is cheaper in Bulgaria now (I'm in Bulgaria). Currently 19c/kwh for businesses and looking like it's coming down still (used to be closer to 10c I believ
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by davidzweig 3y ago
Neat. Come to Bulgaria, I can take you to a couple of metalworking workshops, and plenty of forests to test your product. :)
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by davidzweig 3y ago
>> There is no evidence that a runaway artificial intelligence is even possible. In the space of a century or so, the humans have managed to take rocks and sand and turn them into something that you can talk to with your voice, and it
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by davidzweig 3y ago
The forum runs on the old domain still, the chatbot is on the new page (languagereactor.com).
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by davidzweig 3y ago
>> Can you really only sign in with google? We've been planning to change auth lib before enabling other login methods, haven't gotten around to it. >> I tried the phrase thingy. I don’t get it. Probably the best info
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by davidzweig 3y ago
Hello. Me and Ognjen made this, the main site is now: https://languagereactor.com/ Audio and subs usually don't match for dubbed audio tracks (it's usually ok if you watch a French movie with French subs etc.). I
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by davidzweig 4y ago
We are trying to add a chat feature to our language learning software, one idea is to practice situational language, with situations taken from the table of contents of a phrasebook. Initially I was making detailed situations, but, figured
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by davidzweig 4y ago
Added a download link to the readme: https://github.com/dioco-group/jenny-tts-dataset/blob/main/R...
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by davidzweig 4y ago
Check my other comment in this thread, you might try our dataset. :)
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by davidzweig 4y ago
I wanted to make a human-like reading feature for our language-learning software. Training a model isn't too hard using something like https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS . The weak link was the available free/ope
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by davidzweig 4y ago
Does anyone have recommendation how to 'upsample' recordings like these? [0] It's ripped from old tapes, with heavy NR, and compressed. [0] https://fsi-languages.yojik.eu/languages/FSI/fsi-french-bas
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by davidzweig 4y ago
Instead of GPT, you can take sentences from Tatoeba, and analyse and index by vocabulary. 'PhrasePump' does this already. We glued together an NLP pipeline (Stanza etc.) to capture the lemmas in sentences. https://www.l
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by davidzweig 4y ago
If you wanted pinyin output, you could use a library like pypinyin? (we use it, no complaints). I assumed GPT models performed best in English, you could machine translate the input/output. MT is pretty fantastic these days, although,
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by davidzweig 4y ago
I want to hook ChatGPT into Language Reactor (better with realtime ASR and TTS) to make a virtual conversation partner. Latency might be an issue. I was playing a bit with GPT-NeoX before. It would be nice if you could restrict the vocabula

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