skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're right, I meant to say that chess engines usually have book openings built into them which derive off of human chess theory but you're absolutely right in that they don't play in a human form.

It's kind of crazy how AlphaZero has managed the success it has. Stockfish calculates roughly 60 million moves per second and AlphaZero calculates at only 60 thousand per second. Three orders of magnitude less yet its brilliance is mesmerizing, tearing Stockfish apart in certain matches.
I mean, I don't like Pepsi and understand people being pissed, but going out to protest with hundreds of other 'winners' when its obvious this must be a big mistake is pretty ridiculous. The fact that Pepsi regained market share only shows that its easier for people to bust shit up then boycott a soft drink.
this, holy cow, this is certainly uncouth
I can freely attribute my previous and current job, as well as my current partnership (emerged from the current job) to LinkedIn. I've been reached out by recruiters both times and apparently it did work out.

From another POV I understand the criticism, it's been a while I haven't visited LinkedIn, nor have I updated the profile, and it's mostly caused by the "noise" I feel on social networks. But, it still can be beneficial for some professionals at a certain phase of their career.
We get quite a few requests for this at Resemble (https://resemble.ai). We can get her to record right on our website or you can upload an existing file (along with a video of her consent) on the platform. Feel free to shoot me a message and I'd be happy to help build a voice for her.
> Does this mean that MIT can now do research and not be required to publish this anywhere, not even journals?

They were never required. Scientists do research and share their results so they can be improved and combined and provide insight. It started out with private letters between scientists in the early days, then journals appeared that would distribute the incoming letters to other interested parties. Over time it became a formalized system with metrics, incentives, publish or perish etc. But the original goal was to share and announce your results.
Yeah, 100%. I would do it even for a lesser amount of money.
Consider investing in a good microphone for recording. A Blue Yeti is ~$200.
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You are trying to do a beautiful thing. I don't have a knowledge of this subject, but I really wish you good luck on this project.
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She's not losing her knowledge of English. The odds are overwhelming that she'll prefer to communicate by English text (where she'll have native fluency) than in a new language.
And get a high quality mic to do it with!
"When you say you are good at something, that's arrogant."

Learned that the hard way.

When I was young (college in the 90s), I had a Software Development class. We formed small teams and created a piece of software in a waterfall methodology.[1]

Why I thought I was so great: I had taken independent study in high school to learn algorithms and data structures to take the Computer Science AB(now discontinued) AP test (covers recursive algorithms and dynamically allocated data structures, in Pascal at the time) and got a 5 out of 5.

So when we got together to discuss who would work on what, and we needed to code our own data structures in C/C++ for the project, I was excited and said "I'm the master!" of that. There was an older member of the team (who even developed and sold his own software product, a program to print booklets, for DOS already) who later in the meeting made a very sarcastic reference to me being the "master" of that and it really stung.

[1] Looks like they still have it. They added github, UML, and user stories. C S 371 https://pixl.nmsu.edu/files/2017/05/syllabus-SDev-2017-1-V10...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP_Computer_Science#AP_Compute...
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You may want to look up what was done for Roger Ebert. He has lost his voice due to surgery, but because of the vast corpus of audio recordings of him, a viable text to speech engine was able to be created.

It’s a bit dated at this point, but I imagine the research has vastly improved since then.

It’s a very good question though. A decade ago this was able to be done for one man. Is it now possible to be done for anyone? Like others, I’d guess the first step is to record everything while you can.
Organizing is not expensive.

What is expensive is paying the typesetters to place the movable type in various places, and to create plates with the various graphics. Oh wait, we don't need to do that anymore.

At this point, there is no rational justification for what Elsevier is doing now except greed. They actually have some other services that makes sense, but this lock on academic papers is simply a historical accident that is no longer relevant.
If she has time get here to read the most common english words. Then parse the text and play the audio for the known words and use traditional speech synthesis for the outliers. It will not be perfect but you can then possibly train an AI to pronounce the outliers.
That's true, but machine learning models are not twilio or sendgrid, you have to tune them for your use case, monitor their performance and handle the uncertainty of their outputs. Doing that well requires a data scientist and if you have one they will be much more productive iterating on their own models instead of depending on a 3rd party black box.
It's not nearly as complex as paging, which has a similar purpose of limiting single-query complexity.
So what you really want is what Speed Queen would make if they made refrigerators. I am 100% with you.
Sports in general may help keep kids out of trouble, but I'd argue football is trouble: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_traumatic_encephalopat...
I only really get on LinkedIn when I need a job which I hope I don't see any need for in a long, long time.

That said, LinkedIn got me my first job out of college and continues to provide opportunities, so I drop in once in a while to like colleagues' accomplishments when prompted. I see value in it.
The ease of straight up abandoning countries could have a minor rise in extremism leading to a full-on takeover. All the decent people would want none of that, and life would be easier elsewhere anyway.

Such infighting and geopolitical issues would just get us back to where we are now, with maybe a few more EU-esque bubbles remaining.

Sounds rather dystopian.
I'll join you, but I still have hope for this one. So I'll keep avoiding ad blockers.
Stop caring what other people think of you. The ego is the problem.
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> Why are you announcing your good deeds to the whole world? A lot of religions and cultures condemn things like that.

Most religions are built upon stories of other people's good deeds. It seems hardly fair to disallow people from airing their own :)
When my dad lost his speech, we had Boogie Board Jot devices all over the house. It made writing short notes and simple dialogs much less tedious.

We also used the Verbally premium iPad app to help give him a voice and make transactions on easier.

Wishing you all the best.
I don't really get your questions. Elsevier was never the one who demanded that MIT published research, so this shouldn't change anything there.

When a researcher publishes with Elsevier, the common practice when not transferring copyright is to give them a perpetual licence to publish the work.

Additionally, presumably MIT requires their researchers to publish their work as Open Access, i.e. with a licence that allows re-use and distribution for everyone - so they cannot disallow use of the contents of the papers arbitrarily. Elsevier is not needed for that.
I don't know, I like keeping up with what my old co-workers are up to without actually hitting them up. It's also my go-to place for job hunting. It seems like the most popular.
Mozilla's is licensed CC-BY, which is pretty liberal. In case the Attribution license is a blocker, here's CMU_ARCTIC's, which is built from copyright-free sources and has no licensing restraints: http://festvox.org/cmu_arctic/
Is she on board with this? I can imagine a lot of people being severely put off by being asked to record "a corpus of approximately 1000 hours" in advance of what sounds like a stressful surgery.
It's a strange but good example of the effects of AI on society.

It tells me that we are far away from being able to produce models that incorporate and aim to optimize a broader notion of human wellbeing.
Lessons from the video:
Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible.

Fitt’s law is a good guidepost for efficient GUI design.

Don’t break backwards compatibility.

The GUI should immediately show the information the user demands when he commands it to.

Unnecessary UI elements should be hide-able.

Mouse gestures are underutilized and should be standardized.

The UI shouldn’t interfere with the user’s tasks; hitting the Windows key shouldn’t kill your game.

GUI is actually pronounced “Gee-you-eye” and not “gooey”.

Steve Jobs was actually GUI Hitler and Microsoft killed baby GUI Jesus.
Pardon my naivete, are the benefits of the flexibility that GraphQL give worth the unpredictability costs (or costs of customizing to add limits) of that same flexibility compared to writing a tailored server side call to do those calls and return the limited data instead?
If that's all they did, it makes one wonder if the publishing corporate leadership teams understand how laws are made, or rewritten? They completely missed their interface with IA.

IA now has a lot of social leverage thanks to these publishers being about as creative and flexible as a concrete patio.
The point is not that I am hurting Sony with my protest of their actions. The point is I am not compromising my values on what I think is right and wrong.

The difference between them and anti-cheats in games are that they installed it without your permission, Sony took existing open source tools (violating the GPL in the process), that while legitimate where often used by black hats to invade and exploit systems and made it into a tool to spy on users, placing a Sony audio cd into your computer would put a rootkit onto your computer. It evaded detention and resisted removal, it would report to them any suspicious activity that they deemed piracy, which they would then turn over to the RIAA to sue you. Their root kit did not protect the single album you put into your computer it spied on all your activity to report back any activity Sony deemed suspicious and again once it was there, you where spied on until you reformatted you drive and installed a clean OS. It was by every definition an intrusion virus and a rootkit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...
I started hunting through the edit history which is pretty involved to see if I could find some examples. I notice that MAD is mentioned in the section "RAND Corp".

I gave up then!
Here's a recent work [0] where you can train the model with 10s audio and convert any "text to speech" (all doable in the browser). I tried with Google Colab demo [1] and its performance fluctuates with the training audio sample that you give it so might need some trial and error to get the sweet spot.

Also the model is not saved in the browser with Colab so you might also want to do it locally to save it eventualy (if it comes to that).

All the best mate!

[0] Main repo: https://github.com/CorentinJ/Real-Time-Voice-Cloning
[1] Google colab repo to try it out: https://github.com/CorentinJ/Real-Time-Voice-Cloning/blob/ma...
Facial recognition tech should really have more regulations in place. What if this was done at the recent protests and there's now a database full of facial data that associates those people with likely political affiliations, etc.

Imagine in hitler had access to this tech and simply purchased a database of "Likely Jewish" facial data?
>"MIT has long been a leader in open access. Adopted in 2009, the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy was one of the first and most far-reaching initiatives of its kind in the United States. Forty-seven percent of faculty journal articles published since the adoption of the policy are freely available to the world.

Could someone comment on the figure of 47%? What are the reasons this wouldn't be higher than this given that the policy has been in effect well over a decade now?
The data stored on the disk drives is what the world values, but it actually has very little economic value. Internet Archive should start selling off the storage/server setup to a different nonprofit at fair market value ("Internet Cloud"), and renting continued access. If some eventual creditor wants to claim that the specific data collection on the disks had a value that was improperly sheltered from bankruptcy, they would be free to make a copy.
Can blosc be used to compress/decompress regular zlib streams?
The paper "Generalization Of Audio Deepfake Detection" gives an overview.

The paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05441 has a list of spoofing methods.

Here's one method as paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.04558.pdf

And here on GitHub https://github.com/CorentinJ/Real-Time-Voice-Cloning
Make the winner number outside the normal printed range.
Good advice! Maybe a few shoutouts to your future children.
Most religions are built on third-party narratives of other people's good deeds; it's absolutely self-consistent for them to have negative view of first-party narrative of the same topic.
I did something like that long ago; stole md code and made my own raw block i/o routines where low cost data was raid0 and (re)generate it at need; but indexes and pointer tables were duplicated across all the spindles and even allowed greater parallelism.

It was a lot of work; it had advantages but today it probably wouldnt be worth the effort.
Edited to add: Original FT piece syndicated in the Irish Times, no paywall:

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/the-united-states-h...

Non-paywalled article based on the linked FT piece:

The US is losing the ‘discipline’ to fight coronavirus and is ‘leaving the battlefield before the war is over’

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/the-us-is-losing-the-discip...
> Learn sign language, instead of holding on to the past.

What the fuck, man?
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IDK about the tech, but I would not worry about it right now. You dont need to play with the tech unless the bad unlikely outcome comes to pass.

The only tip I have is from a bit of amateur sound editing I did: collect many samples, and beware of big phrases: Like, ask her to say the same thing many times. And ... sometimes ... to ... stop ... at ... each ... word. And ... so ... me ... ti ... mes at each syllable.

Otherwise, if you ever need to create a sample that contains a single word/syllable, you cant. It is weird how much sound that contains clearly distinguishable syllables for the human ears still is not separable when you go to edit it.

Also, you might want to check wordlists by frequency to get a menu of common words, and ipa notation, to ensure you cover a good range of sounds
Would like to point out that we're still allowing 18 year olds to pick up smoking, and we're still emitting greenhouse gases.

I think driving is one thing humans will clearly not be doing in 100 years and it will be considered incredible that we put up with the human toll (injuries & deaths) that it caused.
Huh, the median income of Christiansburg, VA is way higher than I expected. $60-80k?
I took mushrooms once at a strange house. I didn’t correctly anticipate how strong they were. The kitchen table had violent police tabloid magazines that I skimmed before my trip. Insanely terrible idea.

I ended up staying up for hours hallucinating that the world was covered in undercover police. A car would drive by and I would see the police. It was just a barrage of bad thoughts stacking on each other. Reality got lost somewhere and I forgot that I was tripping. I basically thought I was in a modern 1984-style society.

I could have probably kicked myself out of that with some logical thoughts: “How does the government afford to make 80% of the population a cop?” The feelings were too overwhelming for me to get there, and I don’t think my friends realized how bad of a time I was having.
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I have noticed a few comments about the 'clickbaity-ness' of this blog post. Aside from the debate of whether the title of this article is fairly (or truthfully) representative of the content, our tendency towards compelling, exotic and exciting stories reveals much of our human desire for communion with one another. We love a good story that draws us in and pulls us away from reality, if even for a few minutes.

I enjoyed the story and grieve the corporate strong-arming. I would not say that the company is ethically vindicated for the collateral: the addictive sugary drinks and desire to wring dry this already-impoverished market for executives living in the U.S. is an ethically irresponsible and selfish venture covered by the ideology of capitalism.
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Having seen many product teams implement graphQL, concerns were never around performances, and more around speed of development.

A typical product would require integrations with several existing APIs, and potentially some new ones. These would be aggregated (and normalised) into a single schema built on top of GraphQL. Then the team would build different client UIs and iterate on them.

By having a single queryable schema, it's very easy to build and rebuild interfaces as needed. Tools like Apollo and React are particularly well suited for this, as you can directly inject data into components. The team can also reason on the whole domain, rather than a collection of data sources (easier for trying out new things).

Of course, it would lead to performance issues, but why would you optimise something without validating it first with the user? Queries might be inefficient, but with just a bit of caching you can ensure acceptable user experience.
Good point, the military is a necessary evil right now, but it could be disbanded if we learn to solve conflicts the proper way. I see robot vs robot battles as and intermediate step in this direction.
When thinking about the cost of providing the services journals provide, I’m always struck by the example of PloS - non-profit, set up with the mission of promoting open access, and just about surviving by charging authors $2000-$3000 per article.

I can only conclude that managing journals is not as cost free as most people in this thread seem to think, for whatever reason.
Perhaps it is the wikipedia administration, moderation, and editing team that have put up such barriers who are selfish. It is selfish to expect others to jump through your hoops to contribute advanced technical knowledge out of the kindness of their hearts.
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I'm of the same mind, and tire of the noisy power tools. I'm more likely to reach for my pull saw than unbox and set up the circular saw. I _think_ I've learned how to do it right; online instruction, Jacques?
Just about the bandwidth costs: You can rent a server at Hetzner.de for 40 EUR with 1 Gbit/s. Let's say each PDF is around 100 kb, then you can serve 1000 PDFs per second. Say there are 50 million active research students in the world, then the single 40 EUR server can serve them about 10 PDFs/week on average.
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I remember the Car Talk guys Click and Clack talking about their tongue-in-cheek (or maybe not) advice for being married. It was something like:

"The very first time that they ask you to do the laundry, say 'Yes, honey! I'd love to!'. Then, do it so horribly bad. Turn everything pink or whatever. Shrink, ruin some clothes. Then, they'll never ask you to do the laundry again."
Indeed, this unfortunately does happen. There are also very smart but relatively inexperienced people who need to pick good technologies due to circumstance. Younger technical founders or early engineering hires come to mind.
It is also true that heat will add resistance to the electrical installation. So most of the time energy producten is way better when there is sun but it's cool.

Energy producten can be much better in spring than in summer for this reason.
Some (decades old) research on this involved a research team creating a video of JFK saying "I never met Forrest Gump". I found a writeup in Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=mQtGVQeQplcC&pg=PA208&lpg=...

> We evaluated our Kennedy results qualitatively along the following dimensions: ... naturalness of the composited articulation; ...

Obviously the state of the art will have advanced, but maybe this can point the way toward more current research.

While I tend to agree with everyone else that this can be a great idea, my instinct is to float the idea to your wife first and see how she responds. I can imagine someone taking this negatively.
During the 2016 election cycle I started unfollowing everyone who posted political stuff unless it was someone I was actually close with (immediate family and a handful of close friends) or I thought their posts were actually interesting or insightful. My Facebook has been much nicer since. I still have a feed but it's people I care about and people who post actually interesting stuff.
It looks like GE sells a bypass kit for $20 now: https://www.amazon.com/GENERAL-ELECTRIC-Plug-Bypass-WR17X236...
Curious... do you consider these instances of recruitment to be incidental to your use of LinkedIn? I.e. do you get value out of LinkedIn other than these offers?

Or is attracting these sorts of offers the only/main reason you're on LinkedIn?
Except the point of these larger transformer models is they generalize well over a wide range of domains or only require a small amount of transfer learning for really specific domains.

I'd say they're perfect candidates for the API as a service model.
The feed is nothing but useless hustle porn. 99.99% of recruiter messages I get are offering the same position I have now, but at a less mature company. However I got my first software job using it (don’t have a degree), and found my most recent job via the easy apply. LinkedIn has been a net positive for me, and can safely be ignored for a long time while not hunting.
Is it? My first thought was “is your ideal also her ideal?”.

We cannot rule out she wants to spend quality time with her partner instead of spending time in a recording studio, so that, if the worst outcome comes, her husband can remind her of what she lost.
While it would be nice to have the core and the framework dissociated, stating that it provide no advantage over Ansible seems overly broad.

You can use python logic to compose your deployment scenario, use imports to reuse features, package modules the same way, etc. The whole ecosystem is also at your disposal, be it libraries, IDE support, linters, formatters, debuggers and so on.

It doesn't need to reinvent the wheel, and you don't need to learn a new syntax.

I would call that a win.

Now, is pyinfra well designed enough to be practical in production, that's another matter that needs testing.
I mean, the reality of any large institution (or even a single human being) is that there will inevitably exist many contradictory "rules" that must be handled. I'm not sure how it is amazing. It's a fundamental necessity for their existence.
Right. Implementation of encryption is the easiest part to fuck up and/or backdoor.