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by nmstoker 6y ago
It didn't strike me as that complicated or hard to follow. The method you describe is fine but the average user will quickly run into a lack of features that are taken for granted with that approach, and if they then progress to someth
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by nmstoker 6y ago
Likewise data quality from trustees in the financial sector can be pretty variable. I suspect that areas where data crosses from one company to another (or even department to department) without some strongly enforced standard will have the
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by nmstoker 6y ago
Here's another sample with the same model+vocoder, this time reading from a Wikipedia article: https://m.soundcloud.com/user-726556259/q-learning-wavegrad-...
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by nmstoker 6y ago
It's about 32 hours of audio. As some of the audio is read in different accents to the main accent used, ideally the different accent audio would have been removed. Doing so would be expected to help with voice quality, reducing the ov
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by nmstoker 6y ago
There's the demo server which has a simple web UI where you can input text to be spoken, but in regards to setting it up locally it's not that suited for a non developer https://github.com/mozilla/TTS/tre
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by nmstoker 6y ago
There's Mozilla TTS https://github.com/mozilla/TTS Here's a sample from a TTS model + vocoder I released for it. I've no wish to deter the motivated, but it'd take a bit of figuring out how to set t
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by nmstoker 6y ago
Is the suggestion meant to be that this only applies in certain kinds of brain function areas (eg for continuous senses, ie sight, sounds, etc) The reason I ask is that I don't need to repeatedly dream of bicycling actions to be able t
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by nmstoker 6y ago
Maybe the children are simply rationalising by saving those who would tend do them less harm? An adult needn't make that call as they tend to be able to look after themselves.
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by nmstoker 6y ago
And the GitHub repo is here: https://github.com/nicolaipoehner/blocklysql
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by nmstoker 6y ago
I think you raise a fair point here regarding the unproven harm/benefit. The same default to "it must be bad" happened with mobile phone radiation. If people are going to be in business of unsubstantiated claims then that one
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by nmstoker 6y ago
This feels ill thought through and likely to cause unintended side effects. There's no strong reason why we don't all get our purchases done my machine, it could be much handier if we said "Alexa buy item X from shop Y with s
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by nmstoker 6y ago
Yes, it's basically this applied to a keyboard.
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by nmstoker 6y ago
Not sure if I mentioned this last time this topic came up, but I wondered about the idea of making a keyboard that had keys that deliberately sounded detectably different. Then you could make it wireless and battery free simply by using the
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by nmstoker 6y ago
Google Assistant on my phone just got better at handling timers. It used to do a cheesy "Starting your timer.... Now", which would have been okay if a bit tedious repeatedly, apart from the fact that actually you could see that th
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by nmstoker 6y ago
It'll depend on your ISP but I believe arbitrary sharing of internet access is likely to be prohibited under some ToS. I wonder if it will be acceptable in Germany as I understand they do not allow unsecured WiFi either (whether this c
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by nmstoker 6y ago
Looks like a great initiative and glad to hear this is getting attention. The technique of observing syscalls has clear benefits. However might there be ways of evading this simply by setting up a some kind of delayed process so the syscall
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by nmstoker 6y ago
Is there some reason they seem to studiously avoid screenshots of the apps? I looked over the site and couldn't see anything, even in the PDFs of their presentations except for one which had a tiny image that looked awful and had rathe
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by nmstoker 6y ago
My experience is reasonably narrow but it strikes me that whilst this scenario is frustrating for Marek, an overall worse issue comes from naive time wasters being disruptive with issues. It's a balance and one shouldn't have unre
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by nmstoker 6y ago
This is part of the reason why, when LCD screens were being introduced as "the new thing" most large shops would not display them side by side with CRTs - so you didn't notice how aspects were much worse, like responsiveness
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by nmstoker 6y ago
It seems a surprise Apple and Telegram can't find a better compromise from a global perspective. Bear in mind they're being pushed around by a country of just 9.5m people.
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by nmstoker 6y ago
Just a small nitpick point: data is collected in the order of a GB per minute so there's no way they're reporting back even a fraction of the data gathered.
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by nmstoker 6y ago
I think you're spot on here. Whilst I suspect they've a long way to go, it seems likely to mirror the situation Google had with early search growth where the more they had people use it the better it got, quickly feeding a cycle t
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by nmstoker 6y ago
I get the reasons recurring sponsorship helps projects, but is there any chance to sponsor as a one time payment? As a resident of a non-USD country, my bank shafts me for foreign currency payments, which is partly a fixed fee and partly dr
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by nmstoker 6y ago
Looks cool. Out of interest, are you doing anything to mine the data gathered, eg building models of common typos or for user "fingerprinting" from key timing? (the latter may be a bit creepy if users aren't aware this could
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by nmstoker 6y ago
This is also very cool. I had heard of efforts using things like decellularised mouse hearts but with plant structures it bypasses the need for a living animal to die before a scaffold can be created. The video shot where you see the blood
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by nmstoker 6y ago
Surprised this did not trigger discussion. Interesting idea but the anonymising efforts seem a touch basic. It always seemed strange to me that Google Glass didn't counter the "are you recording?" concern by simply letting th
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by nmstoker 6y ago
Presumably there is some kind of bias in the training set causing this. It does seem subtle but noticeable, although I wouldn't say it's just the males.
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by nmstoker 6y ago
You haven't give any details about programming language preferences but if you're interested in a Python approach then Newspaper3k is worth a look https://github.com/codelucas/newspaper
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by nmstoker 6y ago
I agree that the right to repair needn't overlap with user replacable batteries but it seems a false choice that we have to make between thin and replacable batteries. In the time of the Walkman there were some seriously compact device
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by nmstoker 6y ago
Looks really cool, although it's a shame the description isn't a bit more "plain language" - a simple summary of what it is intended for, before going into jargon would help people realise why it's valuable. The fac

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