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by nmfisher 4y ago
Does this have an embedded microphone for audio input? I quickly skimmed the tech specs and it looks like the answer is "no" (presumably if you want that, the intention is that you use AirPods/some other Bluetooth input devic
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by nmfisher 4y ago
"intern" doesn't qualify as hell in my books, because they still make a very decent salary - far better than your average graduate in most other fields.
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Way too far in the opposite direction IMO. I did love the series (well, right up until the last two episodes, when it was clear they ran out of money to actually conclude things properly) but it was as slow as molasses.
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by nmfisher 4y ago
+1 for this, when I was coming in as a complete newb to neural networks, this was the clearest and most accessible material I found.
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Except when you're an expat in a country that actually knows what it's doing, like Singapore. Bureaucracy here is A+, and is the yardstick we should measure every country against.
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Apple destroyed my 7-figure business(twitter.com)
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Finding an artist who is (1) capable, (2) reliable and (3) available is no mean feat. I can totally understand why someone would prefer to spend hours (if not days) using an AI tool.
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Superior hardware is useless if it can't do the things I actually want it to do.
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by nmfisher 4y ago
How did you handle the artwork?
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Or you could do what we did, which is give the baby cold milk straight from the fridge. He didn’t seem to mind, and now won’t drink it any other way!
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by nmfisher 4y ago
My app [0] currently uses a mildly customized version of FastSpeech 2 [1] with LPCNet [2] vocoder, which I consider "good quality" @ 16kHz. Faster than realtime on mobile CPU (at least, on anything upwards of a mid-range 2017 devi
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Admins can’t unflag?
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Irrespective of how many sides there are to the original story, why is the parent comment flagged? He did YC, but he's not in the directory - those two statements are true, no?
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by nmfisher 4y ago
This is achievable with a very modest (say 50-100k) budget for voice actors and compute. Less if you’re happier with lower quality. Speech synthesis is probably one of the few areas in ML that’s trivially accessible to smaller orgs. Even St
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by nmfisher 4y ago
An AI language teacher you can talk to (Mandarin Chinese only, to begin with). https://polyvox.app I'm betting there will be few of these popping up, mostly based on ChatGPT/Whisper. I'm a bit more loose with the
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by nmfisher 4y ago
I'm squarely in Kobold's userbase but hadn't come across it until your post, so thanks for your efforts to spread awareness.
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by nmfisher 4y ago
In your made-up example, though, the SEO may build a long-term pipeline whereas the ads are one-and-done. That’s without mentioning the mentality foisted on companies to “just show user growth in the next quarter, don’t worry about profitab
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Not sure if you’re looking to train your own model or just run inference on pretrained models, but if it’s the former, you can find espnet, TensorflowTTS and coqui on GitHub.
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Just curious - have the worlds collided yet, with people asking voice actors to record data for training TTS models with their voice?
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Just wanted to point out that ChatGPT is more than just a language model - from OpenAI's (very brief) description, it was also trained with reinforcement learning to select/rank the "best" answer [0]. I think the distinc
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Poland and Germany were in diplomatic talks prior to the 1939 invasion, too, and Britain told them not to make concessions and that they would back them militarily in the event of any invasion. "Give me your land and I won't kill
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by nmfisher 4y ago
I actually totally disagree with this. Developer tools are probably one of the easier segments to tackle because technical people 1) like trying new things and 2) often have company credit cards that don’t have to justify expenses.
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by nmfisher 4y ago
1) You wouldn’t work for payment of an unspecified amount at an indeterminate future date. “Eventual tax” is not the same as “tax now”. 2) Likewise, paying a 2022 debt in 2027 dollars makes their effective tax rate even lower. 3) I don’t g
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by nmfisher 4y ago
I suppose my follow-up question is: is there a sufficiently large market for that type of game? Not just blue-sky thinking, I'm more wondering if there is proven demand, as of today. Side-note: I couldn't load the game in Safari (
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by nmfisher 4y ago
No, but it is an avoidance mechanism specifically designed to avoid tax on income. If an independent third party has deemed your stock sufficiently valuable (and stable) to lend money against, then you should be taxed on that loan. You can
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Those loopholes are trivial to eliminate, because those laws are already in place* for restrictions on foreign ownership. * in many countries, I don't know about the USA.
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by nmfisher 4y ago
I wasn't aware of that (though I don't know why I would be). That's very useful to know. Is this by default on battery, or by default full stop?
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by nmfisher 4y ago
I've kept an eye on WebGL/WebGPU/etc for my own app but haven't really made any moves in that direction yet. What's the market for 3d rendering in the browser at the moment (beyond your demos)? In theory it sounds n
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Halt and Catch Fire was even better (though more niche).
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by nmfisher 4y ago
Out of curiosity, which app?

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