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by notjulianjaynes 2y ago
This is useful but I hope not-OCRing PDFs does not become the norm because of it. My local city council doesn't ocr their minutes, but they do OCR "archived minutes" (3+ years old). So if you want to do a search for some spec
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by notjulianjaynes 2y ago
Is there any quality difference between hiring a voice actor specifically to provide the voice for an AI compared to cloning an actor's voice from their movies? Much of the coverage I've seen thorough social media on this (includi
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by notjulianjaynes 2y ago
Slightly off topic question. >That compared to a package of roughly $22.6m (£17m) in 2022. This man already had $22 million dollars. What drives someone to even keep working once you have that kind of money. You could live your life over
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by notjulianjaynes 2y ago
I read an anecdote once that novelist Jonathan Franzen writes on a laptop which has had the WiFi card removed and Ethernet port glued shut. He's pretty successful so whatever works imo.
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by notjulianjaynes 2y ago
I mean, if you had purchased one Bitcoin in 2016 and held it until today you'd be be up at least $65,000. If that's snake oil then oil me up.
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by notjulianjaynes 2y ago
I'd also be curious about this as I am presently dealing with some PDFs with both handwriting and poorly scanned type. I can read and understand these documents but the text is not recognized using tesseract OCR.
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by notjulianjaynes 2y ago
The coincidence between this and bitcoin halving is fucking hilarious
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by notjulianjaynes 3y ago
I'm reminded of a quote by the late poet David Antin, which I can not find at the moment, but found one which gets at a similar idea, which I think is relevant here because really theres two types of news: the kind you can predict will
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by notjulianjaynes 3y ago
>yes. and specifically, make sure the fund is actually funding journalism The problem with this is the problem with every scheme I have seen so far alongb these lines.It gives the government more control over what is and isn't &quot
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by notjulianjaynes 3y ago
My issue with your argument is in what world is a net worth of $20 million not "ultra rich." The median net worth of an individual near retirement age is $400,000. Under 35 it's a tenth of that. I don't really have an op
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by notjulianjaynes 3y ago
This almost happened to me taking a rented U-Haul down the parkways in New York, which have notoriously low overpasses. It was like the 2nd smallest box truck you could rent and I still seem to recall having to pull off to the side of the r
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by notjulianjaynes 3y ago
You can already choose the desired date range in ngram viewer. I can see how this is troubling, but I think it could also be, if not useful, at least interesting to compare ngram results pre and post GPT.
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by notjulianjaynes 3y ago
To my knowledge, the model being used for this is "chirp" which is 'based on' bark[1], an AI text to speech model. The github page for bark links to a page about chirp, which returns a 404 page for me [2]. My guess is th
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by notjulianjaynes 3y ago
Yeah it's somewhere near half a million people per year in the US die from diseases caused by cigarette smoking. Fent's body count last I checked was like 77,000. Whether they are a fair comparison I'm not sure. It might be m
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by notjulianjaynes 3y ago
You're saying that diarization quality is dependent on speaker isolation? I should have clarified, to my knowledge whisper does not perform that step, and whether I need to do diarization is what I'm trying to figure out. (Probabl
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by notjulianjaynes 3y ago
If you're broke, get a refurbished/used Nvidia P40. Same amount of vram as a 3090, between 4 and 10 times cheaper depending on how cheap you can find a 3090. Granted it's slower of course, but best bang for your buck on vram,
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by notjulianjaynes 3y ago
The current top of the line consumer GPU seems like such a weird metric. I was "Doing AI" on a $300 laptop in 2013. (Running Dragon Naturally Speaking.)
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by notjulianjaynes 3y ago
> (though that won't work on VPNs now) Did for me just now, although as of a week or two ago reddit has been blocking many of my attempts to access through a VPN old. or not. Usually need to reconnect about 3 or 4 times before a pag
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by notjulianjaynes 3y ago
Jumping on this as a fellow idiot to ask for suggestions on having a local LLM generate a summary from a transcript with multiple speakers. How important is it that the transcript is well formatted (diarization, etc) first. My attempts have
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by notjulianjaynes 3y ago
Stupid easy. I was speaking with an LLM after pasting two lines into terminal.
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by notjulianjaynes 3y ago
Not sure if bad link or deleted tweet. OP's post 1 hour ago at time of writing maybe lines up with this tweet dated 1 hr ago (8:37 am eastern usa time). This tweet is also pinned for @wikileaks https://twitter.com/wikil
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by notjulianjaynes 3y ago
>Nvidia can't sell in China due to Department of Commerce sanctions I believe they can still do business there, just not sell cards above a (likely somewhat arbitrary) level of performance. There is a Chinese market RTX4090 they rec
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by notjulianjaynes 3y ago
EVE would be my guess too, possibly INR18650-35V, which seems totally cromulent for an ebike. EVE cells are also used in newer Ryobi power tools, it's worth pointing out: https://www.reddit.com/r/ryobi/comment
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by notjulianjaynes 3y ago
From the pictures I get the sense this guy knows what he's doing. Sure his shop's a little dusty, and that fume extractor is maybe a little ghetto (better than my aquarium filter duct taped to a fan though). It's hard to tell
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by notjulianjaynes 3y ago
I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with you, but your comment reminded me of this tax loophole, which fills me with rage everytime I see a new self-storage style business being "constructed." https://boxwell.co/s
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by notjulianjaynes 3y ago
The gist I got from reading this was the Mac Mini was serving files to employees at the ad agency, yeah? It doesn't seem that unreasonable to me either that this would be sufficient for the task (depending on the size of the agency). W
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by notjulianjaynes 3y ago
Anecdotely, a school district in a town near where I live recently signed a contract for software that purportedly had the capability to automatically generate meeting minutes for the school committee. Both the company and the district were
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by notjulianjaynes 3y ago
In Massachusetts (and presumably elsewhere) you can visit a website and pay $10 to get the "For the Record" audio recording emailed to you. You only need the docket number iirc.
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by notjulianjaynes 3y ago
I noticed this insanity on a spray can of Pam the other day as well. "0" calories if you only spray it for 1/4 second.
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by notjulianjaynes 3y ago
Sorry to burst your bubble here but there's no special meaning to my username. Whenever I created this account I was trying to think of a psudonymous name and I just happened to have The Origins of Consciousness... sitting on my desk

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