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This audio book trained TTS gets some sort of brain spasm when it encounters characters or words it can't easily pronounce. Feels like they should have trained it on IPA instead of regular token streams.

Here's what happened when I tried to get it to say a few tongue twisters ripped from wikipedia. It sounds drunk or like it's language center is being put through a blender.

huggingface.co/spaces/parler-t

Watching my partner play Minecraft Legends. NGL it's kinda confusing. and this is coming after playing Scorn whicb seems to have zero guidelines at the beginning.

After struggling for a week to get ANTLR4 to parse/transform/serialize this obscure programming language, I've ditched it and got everything working in about two days of work.

It's not perfect since I'm skipping tokenizing some of the language constructs, but it's easy to iterate on and has just enough for the analysis/transform stuff I need to do.

Here's a half-formed thought I need to mull a bit on:

Somehow, algorithmic (and especially "AI-driven") decision making tends to only be proposed in contexts where it can only — or mostly — affect those with the least power in the system.

Migrants and asylum seekers.
Prisoners.
Families using any form of state support (child benefits, foodstamps, etc).
Palestinians in Gaza.

It somehow never gets proposed for use-cases where it might affect the wealthy and powerful.

One wonders why. 🤔

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I sometimes forget that my experience with AI is totally different from either the corporate or consumer experiences. Folks are talking about gpt 4 or claude or whatever while I'm focusing on tinydolphin and hermes 2 pro.

Shit I might get a beefier version of my GPD Win 4 so I can fit larger models into video ram. 😭

My matrix server is like a hungry beast. I feed it CPU and RAM and it just keeps asking for more. Then again it is handling thousands of chat rooms and accounts at this point and needs to calculate a huge diff to send to my client every time I load. :P

Heads up: Matrix like all append only log systems sucks when you're not always online and loading data.

fun fact: if you have a laptop or desktop that has an intel cpu with "vPro" on the sticker there's a chance the management engine in your CPU is just hosting a web server at all times.

It's at port 16992

🆕 blog! “The Fediverse of Things”

One of the most frustrating things in modern technology is the effort spent trying to artificially restrict abundance. Take, for example, this tale from museum-worker Aaron Cope: I was out with a friend who worked for Twitter and I asked them whether it would be possible for the museum to “create 200,000 Twitter accounts, one […]

👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/04/the-f

#ActivityPub #fediverse #IoT #SocialNetworks

What are folks using for subscribing to software? We basically want something to manage email signups which we can use with an API to send out emails to everyone. Ideally they should be able to unsub if they want. We'd want to be able to send either html or markdown via api.

Bonus points if the tool can subscript to an ActivityPub actor. :P

My favorite @agregore feature is the built in "Reader Mode" which makes it easier for me to read articles without all the random styling and page sizing assumptions websites add.

“The Insurance Buys The Wheelchair, But Not The App To Run It”
hackaday.com/2024/03/09/the-in

Which covers this post from a wheelchair user who had to hack his wheelchair to get basic features:
lemmy.zip/post/11077316

Because Alber’s ‘Mobility Plus Package’ locks features (like speed control) behind a payment:
alber.de/en/help-service/alber

via @eric:
social.ericwbailey.website/@er

#accessibility

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