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by thomashop 2y ago
> To be honest, that HN thread was the first time I saw someone complaining about male and female voices in ChatGPT. It's the fifth place I've seen it since yesterday. And I haven't been looking. Even my mum sent me a Guar
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by thomashop 2y ago
In your bubble. In mine this is totally fine, even encouraged.
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by thomashop 2y ago
She's trans, so probably yes. But in an interview she says she is very happy to having been chosen as the gender-neutral voice of Berlin's subway.
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by thomashop 2y ago
Because assigning genders to computers makes as much sense as giving your toaster a name, it’s 2024, so why not keep the gender out of it? The why question is easily answered if you see how many negative reactions their choice of voice caus
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by thomashop 2y ago
Maybe it works for a younger generation of nerds? Don't judge a book by its cover.
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by thomashop 2y ago
Through regularization techniques, data augmentation, loss functions, and gradient optimization, ensuring the model focuses on meaningful patterns and reduces overfitting to noise.
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by thomashop 2y ago
This recent article on Hacker News seems to suggest similar inconsistencies. GPT-4 Turbo with Vision is a step backward for coding (aider.chat) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39985596 Without looking deeply at how cro
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by thomashop 2y ago
Some sources are needed to back those claims up. Which VCs are you talking about?
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by thomashop 2y ago
It takes literally 10 minutes to try it out. I'd suggest trying it instead of recycling other people's opinions.
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by thomashop 2y ago
Couldn't it be that training it on 4chan makes it more truthful for some reason?
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by thomashop 2y ago
I spend most of my time with AI assistants simplifying complex code other humans, including me, have written. They have made me much more efficient at refactoring spaghetti code and removing unnecessary complexity. It all depends on how you
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by thomashop 3y ago
That's just not the reality anymore. You can run a decent open source coding language model on local hardware. Just needs a bit of work and it's not quite as seamless.
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by thomashop 3y ago
I've been using https://cursor.sh/ heavily for about 2 months and I'm pretty happy. Cursor is a fork of VSCode focused on AI. I'd prefer to use something totally open-source, but Cursor is free, gets regular
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by thomashop 3y ago
Any corporately run platform needs to be financed. In this case it seems the advertising model works best. Many platforms have tried subscription options but people prefer to not pay and become the product.
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by thomashop 3y ago
Isn't recursion solved by just feeding the output of the LLM (with some additional instructions) back into the input? That's how a lot of complex problems are already tackled with LLMs.
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by thomashop 3y ago
Idea: Use blockchain to make the music industry fairer for artists by ditching intermediaries. Reality: out of 34 music blockchain projects analyzed, over 30 fail to - Significantly benefit artists. - Escape centralization or scams. Issues:
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Decentralization Dilemma: Unpacking Blockchain's Broken Promises to Musicians(bequietmusic.com)
1 points by thomashop 3y ago|1 comments
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by thomashop 3y ago
sentient spreadsheets. i love it. can I use that as my next band name?
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Nudging ChatGPT to Render 'I am annoying' in an Image(old.reddit.com)
1 points by thomashop 3y ago|0 comments
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One-Liner Using ChatGPT for Concise, Automated Git Commit Messages(gist.github.com)
1 points by thomashop 3y ago|0 comments
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by thomashop 3y ago
Bash runs the code before and then calls git commit.
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One-liner to automate your Git commit messages using ChatGPT
2 points by thomashop 3y ago|2 comments
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by thomashop 3y ago
exactly. if they always use the same initialization seed then this isn't very surprising. one would have to do many runs for each point in the grid and average them or something. but i didn't read the paper so maybe they did.
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by thomashop 3y ago
Yes
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by thomashop 3y ago
Please do provide some source
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by thomashop 3y ago
The music analogy doesn't work for me at all. So much about music appreciation is about knowing the artist and for example knowing that what they sing about is shaped by their personal history allowing you to identify with it. A lot ab
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by thomashop 3y ago
A lot of decisions are not based on intelligence alone. A lot is about personal beliefs and tastes. I've never totally understood this binary moment when AGI does "everything" better. How can one even define everything? Our A
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by thomashop 3y ago
They're becoming ubiquitous last time I checked. LLMs are almost commoditized.
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by thomashop 3y ago
That sounds like a myth to me. An Nvidia H100 consumes up to 700 watts. The same as hair dryers and microwave ovens. Sure you have big data centers full of them but that's already happening with other hardware in other businesses too.
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by thomashop 3y ago
The parent commenter is saying that the moment automation entirely replaced traditional typesetting, people moved on and started using the new technology. Sure a part of the population is slow to adapt and therefore at a disadvantage. But t

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