lukeinator42

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by lukeinator42 1y ago
This is what a liberal arts institution is (the university I went to is one). At my uni if you are taking a science degree you need to take 4 social science classes and 4 fine arts/humanities. and vice versa for students in fine arts&#
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by lukeinator42 1y ago
https://archive.is/ntSHm
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by lukeinator42 1y ago
I think they mean Replit's CEO is the same guy.
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by lukeinator42 1y ago
If it's described in a paper doesn't that make it prior art though?
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by lukeinator42 1y ago
Does anyone know of an open-source TTS like this that can also encode speech to do voice conversion alongside TTS? i.e. a model that would take speech as input and convert it to one of the pretrained TTS voices.
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by lukeinator42 1y ago
The term neuromorphic? It was coined in 1990: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/58356
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by lukeinator42 1y ago
A good starting point is learning to use ROS https://ros.org/ . Once you learn ROS you can interact with/use a wide variety of robots. Robotics is a fairly multidisciplinary field though, so it really depends on what ar
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by lukeinator42 1y ago
Do you have examples of how this reference mapping is performed? I'm interested in this for embeddings in a different modality, but don't have as much experience on the NLP side of things
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by lukeinator42 1y ago
Is the approach being used to do accented TTS (or just reference recordings), and then a tone color conversion model that just changes the timbre? Because if I say a completely different sentence it still says the original words, haha.
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by lukeinator42 1y ago
My friend and I have been getting into forge molding carbon fibre using 3d printed molds like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25PmqM24HEk . It is a great technique for making small batches of really strong parts and I&
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by lukeinator42 1y ago
Haha "Tai's Model" is absolutely hilarious, that gave me a good chuckle. I checked and it currently is cited 568 times.
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by lukeinator42 2y ago
absolutely legendary. Like they would throw a concrete weight off the top of the wall, and you would catch it with a hip belay?
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by lukeinator42 2y ago
yeah it's almost like an uncanny valley where it sometimes feels like the voice trying to be an actor and play a character or something
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by lukeinator42 2y ago
This is great! A mode for snow would be awesome, haha. Up here in Canada there isn't always grass around in winter.
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by lukeinator42 2y ago
yes, and you can even use infrared spectroscopy to infer brain activity via the bold signal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_near-infrared_spect...
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by lukeinator42 2y ago
They also just drilled a hole through a shelf based on their description and the photos, so they could see what was on the other side of the shelf.
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by lukeinator42 2y ago
I am in a lab that does EEG research and have recently been doing research using self-supervised learning on EEG. We had to get approval for "secondary use of data" to use open datasets from https://openneuro.org/
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by lukeinator42 2y ago
A deer is like 50 lbs of venison on average, which can make a huge difference for a family in need. My dad has given a deer to people on occasions such as when he harvested a moose and a deer in the same season. And elk/moose have a lo
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by lukeinator42 2y ago
It has been clear for a long time (e.g. Marvin Minsky's early research) that: 1. both ANNs and the brain need to solve the credit assignment problem 2. backprop works well for ANNs but probably isn't how the problem is solved in
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by lukeinator42 2y ago
I brewed tea out of the leaves and also chewed them when hiking in Peru. Stimulant level-wise it felt similar to green tea. Maybe also a slight euphoria when chewing them but it's definitely still way less potent than a coffee (atleast
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by lukeinator42 2y ago
As much as people are harping on the fact that the study is N=1, the reality is that these researchers have 133 scans over 133 consecutive days, which is impressive. I think naysayers are missing the point that increasing statistical power
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by lukeinator42 2y ago
It's honestly even closer to a non-tech person complaining about the word upload being used without an explainer.
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by lukeinator42 2y ago
I'm also shocked at how readable this wikipedia article is relative to most articles about statistical methods.
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by lukeinator42 2y ago
you have to amplify electrical signals from the scalp that are in the order of microvolts, which requires having low impedance between the electrode and scalp, proper amplification circuitry, and the ability to filter out lots of environmen
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by lukeinator42 2y ago
I was curious if us Canadians were on that treaty, haha.
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by lukeinator42 3y ago
yeah, I think some of their example stimuli aren't the greatest in that figure. There are definitely some better perspective illusions online. I'm not sure if I really see the Neon Spreading Illusion in C either; maybe it's s
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by lukeinator42 3y ago
I recently discovered that you can attach an external electrode or two to a Muse headset: https://hackaday.io/project/162169-muse-eeg-headset-making-e... . This is a fairly cheap way to hack around with an EEG system th
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by lukeinator42 3y ago
The classic study of patient H.M., who had his hippocampus removed, showed that the hippocampus isn't where memories are stored long-term https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC497229/ (this was on
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by lukeinator42 3y ago
Interestingly, although the hippocampus plays a massive role in memory consolidation, memories are ultimately distributed throughout the cortex. I'm curious whether this mechanism generalizes to all neurons or is specific to how the hi
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by lukeinator42 3y ago
Alongside this, I have found that Google Scholar's search has become noticeably worse in the last year or so. I can search for an author's name and a few keywords from a paper title and it won't show up, even if the paper has

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