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by nmfisher 3y ago
I got the weights via BitTorrent, so no I didn't sign/agree to anything.
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by nmfisher 4y ago
The free tier only gives you 60 seconds of animation per month, and also isn't licensed for commercial use. Even for a hobbyist, 60 seconds wont go far!
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Completely tangential point - Rokoko Video is fine for a free tool, but if you need something better and you're willing to pay, there are other options. I spent a couple of days evaluating various video-only mocap and in the end went w
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Totally agree. My first soldering iron was a cheap ($20) Chinese POS that simply couldn't get hot enough. Every time, I'd end up with crusty misshapen blocks because the solder would partially solidify before it even came off the
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by nmfisher 4y ago
I'm not sure how deep that moat is. As soon as you open up the API, anyone can distil ChatGPT (or at least, some smaller part of it) by fine-tuning another model on its outputs[0]. I'm guessing that this is the #1 fear for people
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by nmfisher 4y ago
I have one specific task where GPT-3.5 failed completely, but GPT-4 succeeded spectacularly (generating correctly formatted AutoRig Pro bone mappings in Blender from one armature to another). 4 still fails regularly on a lot on seemingly ba
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by nmfisher 4y ago
That list was from 2021 when rents were high, but not ridiculous. Back then, the slightly higher rents were offset by the lower income tax rate. In the last 12 months, though, it's become obscene. It would definitely top the list.
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by nmfisher 4y ago
I agree. I can't take claims of consciousness/intelligence seriously but that doesn't mean I throw the baby out with the bathwater. GPT4[0][1] isn't perfect, but it's an incredibly useful tool, and I encourage every
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by nmfisher 4y ago
I tried this the other day for generating basic Chinese conversations - the quality is surprisingly good. While it's still behind the latest GPT, but the gap isn't as large as I thought it would be.
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by nmfisher 4y ago
There’s a repository with a VITS model for English/Chinese/Japanese voice cloning that was pretrained on Genshin Impact voices. I’m not actually sure whether that’s illegal (in the civil/IP sense), provided you’re not using t
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Join the LAION Discord #audio-generation - some of us are literally working on this right now.
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Actually you’ve already been able to do that for a few years now with Epic’s LiveLinkFace app (which was basically just a wrapper around Apple’s ARKit). This is just their own (much higher quality version) of it.
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Exactly the same thing happened in Australia. We lived in an apartment with flammable cladding in Melbourne that would have cost $50-100k to replace. Luckily we were just renting, so it wasn't our responsibility (we moved out shortly t
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by nmfisher 4y ago
If I had any artistic talent whatsoever, I'd probably agree with you!
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Just yesterday I was literally musing to myself "I wonder if NeRFs would help with 3D object synthesis", and here we are. It's definitely a fun time to be involved.
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by nmfisher 4y ago
I’ve been using ChatGPT to help generate sentences for an interactive/dialog-based virtual Chinese tutor [0]. The sentences still need human vetting as it will occasionally get things wrong, but it’s a massive productivity multiplier.
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Once someone creates SmarmyNerdGPT, it's all over for HN.
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by nmfisher 4y ago
It really worries me that you might be correct.
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by nmfisher 4y ago
I'm working on an adjacent field (3D avatar for interactive language learning), and I often see the angles for repurposing it into a "digital friend". The whole concept just strikes me as kind of...skeezy. You're not ju
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by nmfisher 4y ago
As a client, what are my alternatives to Upwork?
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Why do you say Hungary is low trust?
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by nmfisher 4y ago
If they're universally bad though, they will flood the world with crap and make it very difficult to find the great (i.e. human-written) literary works.
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by nmfisher 4y ago
I don’t think that’s true. Recent (2020) stats at https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/housing/housing-occ... “…from 1999–00 to 2019–20, the percentage of Australian households that own their own home: …
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Not sure what makes you think I'm diminishing its utility as a tool; like I said, it's an incredible tool and I lean on it very heavily for various speech-processing pipelines. I'm just pointing out that Whisper definitely ha
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by nmfisher 4y ago
I occasionally get a single hallucinated word (more like a mis-transcription) where the audio contains a clunk/bang/cough/etc, but I've never had full hallucinated phrases from clean silence. There are a couple of GitHub
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Whisper is great, but I also wouldn't overlook other next-generation models (RNN-T/Zipformer/etc) trained on 50k+ hour datasets. These also perform very well. That being said, Whisper is clearly a far cry from "intellige
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Show HN: ChatGPT-generated dialogue for Chinese language learners(twitch.tv)
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Slightly out of left field - I'm using it to generate Chinese conversations for foreign language students, paired with TTS voices and 3D avatars, streaming live on Twitch. https://www.twitch.tv/polyvoxlive It's no
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by nmfisher 4y ago
I'm designing a Chinese learning app and I'd mostly agree with this. My working hypothesis though? Most adult learners don't have the time/patience for massive/lengthy exposure, so grammar lessons are a shortcut to
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Hasn’t this already been happening for the past 5 years?

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