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by harryf 2y ago
A technical audit would clear that up. Because the most obvious thing for OpenAI do would be training the voice on Scarlett Johansson's available body of work, from movies, audiobooks, podcasts etc. Why bother hiring a voice actor?
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by harryf 2y ago
It's a fair point. Most of our customers work with CPP, C# and Java in enterprise / back office contexts, which is why no PHP or Javascript right now - we've been tied up with other priorities. That said we just added Python
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by harryf 2y ago
EasyOCR looks like it's more focused on the mobile use case of extract text from photos. That's a little bit different from extracting text from scanned documents, where document structure is an important aspect, and Tesseract is
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by harryf 2y ago
I work at https://www.pdf-tools.com and we hear this again and again. Despite the proliferation of cloud services, most large enterprises DO NOT want their sensitive documents entering the cloud. And in some cases, e.g. patient
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by harryf 2y ago
For me it was my mum turning on the vacuum cleaner would cause a spike that could reboot the Spectrum 48K. The 128 model had a better power supply as I remember. Also the ZX81 I had before that (think I was 8 at the time) was extremely sens
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by harryf 3y ago
To me Redis has always seemed like a Trojan Horse for developers. The first impression is its this simple key-value database, so easy to use. Oh wait... it's also a cache, nice! Let's cache all the things too! And look... all the
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by harryf 3y ago
>> print(“Hello, world!”.ai_reverse()) world, Hello!
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by harryf 3y ago
Wow. This actually "just worked" for me as in followed the instructions and got a result. Meanwhile the words "jupyter notebook" I've come to associate with python dependency hell. To be fair I work as a PM and I ra
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by harryf 3y ago
One issue is the way taxes work in Germany that disincentives entering the middle rungs of a career ladder. Like if you’re a software engineer and want to become an engineering manager, you might end up earning less after tax as a manager t
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by harryf 3y ago
I used to work at https://www.local.ch/en and know Vasile, the guy that built this map. The situation with trains (and data) in Switzerland is complicated as each Kanton has it's own rail network. In 2016 the SBB _fina
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by harryf 3y ago
To prove we’re human, we need to behave in vulgar ways that generative AI is prevented from. https://youtube.com/shorts/uWgEofct9Rw?si=nE4lDqVYKa1a7XhR In this case it would be crocheting a swear word on your design.
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by harryf 3y ago
In the spreadsheet the total of ALL the hours is 93,455,200,000 or ninety-three billion, four hundred fifty-five million, two hundred thousand hours. And that's between January and June 2023. If we say the typical working day is 8 hour
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by harryf 3y ago
To me the interesting thing is how this plays out vs. commercial real estate market. Rentals in commercial real estate are generally long term (e.g. 3 years or longer). In general companies probably only started serious decision making in 2
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Fallout creator Tim Cain on why overcautious development is hurting modern games(youtube.com)
1 points by harryf 3y ago|0 comments
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by harryf 3y ago
When I read The Invention of Sound I assumed it was largely fiction, perhaps inspired by real events. So it's not that I didn't believe is was real exactly. I hadn't considered certain sound effects might be re-used in multip
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by harryf 3y ago
Oh wow. Chuck Palahniuk mentions this scream in The Invention of Sound. Hadn’t realized it’s actually real
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by harryf 3y ago
What gives me hope is if you ever take a break from social media you realize how worthless it all is. It really doesn’t hurt to disengage. For similar reasons it’s possible for new networks to show up which disrupt the old, such as TikTok.
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by harryf 3y ago
You might find https://globalhealthproject.org is going some of this direction. > We’re building a community of doctors and patients affected by medical tyranny. Our goal is to rebuild the sacred trust between the medical com
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by harryf 3y ago
> Sukanen may indeed have been mentally ill. He apparently attempted to patent wife-beating implements. This wasn’t explained either…
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by harryf 3y ago
Nutrition tip of the day: if someone is spending serious ad money to try to get you to eat or drink something, don’t. What ever it is. Don’t. It’s not going to be good for you Once upon a time consumers were being encouraged to “drink radiu
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by harryf 3y ago
In the end there’s actually doing stuff. And there’s putting it on a TODO list. Both are types of activity but only one actually got something real done
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by harryf 4y ago
This is a discussion that leads to regulation. But clearly the only way to regulate AI... is with AI. It has the potential to automate the process of monitoring and detecting potential risks or violations in AI systems, which could be diffi
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by harryf 4y ago
From hacking with XUL at around that time too, it could have been a contender if Mozilla had made more effort to document and promote it. The developer experience was like “oh this could be cool to build in XUL” … spend some frustrating day
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Post ChatGPT I am not a robot because(youtube.com)
1 points by harryf 4y ago|0 comments
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by harryf 4y ago
Am I missing something or where is the part where he contacted the school or spoke to his daughter about it, _before_ writing blog posts and getting on Twitter? It's strange to me to take the discussion like this to public forums befor
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by harryf 4y ago
With all due respect, you sound like someone who doesn't have children. Most of the argumentation for "parents should stay at home and care for their kids" is based a different world to the one we now live in - a throwback to
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by harryf 4y ago
The whole "code is a liability" mantra needs challenging IMO - it's too simplistic and "cargo culty". It's a misappropriation of a financial accounting term (where Assets = Liabilities + Equity) and liability a
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by harryf 4y ago
> That we’re still debating this stuff is ridiculous That people are still using “move along nothing to see here” is ridiculous. The world just went through an event of a historical significance comparable to a World War. And there are s
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by harryf 4y ago
Centralized authentication systems. What could go wrong ?
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by harryf 4y ago
It’s for people that find other forms of social media too slow and like a more panic inducing, crack-fueled experience

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