Metricon

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by Metricon 3d ago
Now launched => Verse Draft: https://versedraft.com - An all-in-one writing studio where fiction writers can keep all the details for their universes in one place while crafting stories, novels, movie scripts, TV series, or s
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by Metricon 3d ago
I use the "Comments Owl for Hacker News" Firefox extension - https://soitis.dev/comments-owl-for-hacker-news It has a "Dark Mode" under options, plus it allows you to revisit a thread later and know whic
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by Metricon 4d ago
What you want to look for is called "Commercial Signage Display". These are basically large "TV" monitors that are sold to businesses like sports bars. On Amazon, you can find a few here: https://www.amazon.co
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by Metricon 1mo ago
Still in beta with Verse Draft: https://versedraft.com - An all-in-one writing studio where fiction writers can keep all the details for their universes in one place while crafting stories, novels, movie scripts, TV series, or s
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by Metricon 2mo ago
It's got what plants crave. It's got electrolytes!
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by Metricon 2mo ago
Keep in mind that unlike purchasing a stock where the most amount of money you can lose is the amount of money you spend buying the stock (assuming you didn't buy it on margin), if you directly short a stock, there's technically n
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by Metricon 2mo ago
This is why I mentioned the plateauing. If for some reason that just doesn't happen and things continue at a relatively linear or even exponential rate, then all bets are off. I'd like to imagine that it's ultimately going to
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by Metricon 2mo ago
I completely agree with you, and I certainly meant no offense to anyone who's a practicing nurse. I spent some time in the military, and my expression of medics and nurses are mostly derived from that experience, where I'm referri
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by Metricon 2mo ago
I have been writing software for over 40 years and have had a long time interest in and some work in AI over that time. I wouldn’t say this gives me any more prognosticating power about how all of this is ultimately going to go, but I belie
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by Metricon 2mo ago
I've just released in beta, a web-based application called Verse Draft: https://versedraft.com I wanted to create an all-in-one writing studio where fiction writers can keep all the details for an entire universe in one pla
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by Metricon 2mo ago
Wouldn't a subjectively boring picture present an even greater challenge to the creativity of the writer involved in the competition? It could have been a picture of a Barton Newman painting; that would be a significant challenge to st
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by Metricon 2mo ago
Another to add to this list would be Isaac Asimov. Most well known as a Science Fiction writer, he actual wrote over 500 books (mostly non-fiction) on a wide variety of subjects.
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by Metricon 2mo ago
Many word processors (Microsoft Word, LibreOffice Writer, etc.) and some online editors will auto convert double hyphens "--" as they are typed into an em dash.
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by Metricon 8mo ago
This might cover what you are looking for: https://www.khanacademy.org/
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by Metricon 1y ago
It seems like some things always remain the same: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ZZJXw4MTA
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by Metricon 1y ago
You may want to have a look at Mistral OCR: https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ocr
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by Metricon 1y ago
If you run the `gguf_orpheus.py` file in that repository, it will capture the audio tokens and convert them to a .wav file. With a little more work, you can feed the streaming audio directly using `sounddevice` and `OutputStream` On a Nvidi
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by Metricon 1y ago
GGUF version created by "isaiahbjork" which is compatible with LM Studio and llama.cpp server at: https://github.com/isaiahbjork/orpheus-tts-local/ To run llama.cpp server: llama-server -m C:\orpheus-3b-
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by Metricon 2y ago
To be clear, my amusement isn't that I find this technique to not be useful for the purpose it was created, but that 40 years later, we find ourselves in pursuit for the advancement of AI to be somewhat back where we already were; albe
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by Metricon 2y ago
This amuses me tremendously. I began programming in the early 1980s and quickly developed an interest in Artificial Intelligence. At the time there was a great interest in the advancement of AI by the introduction of "Expert Systems&qu
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by Metricon 2y ago
There are a number of ways this might get solved, but I would speculate that it will generally be solved by adding image metadata that is signed by a certificate authority similar to the way SSL certificates are assigned to domains. I think
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by Metricon 2y ago
For those who might not be aware of this, there is also an open source project on GitHub called "Twinny" which is an offline Visual Studio Code plugin equivalent to Copilot: https://github.com/rjmacarthy/twinn
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by Metricon 3y ago
Started 1982 on Tandy Color Computer. Still at it. #1 Advice - Focus on getting things done (as many will not) and Lego build interconnected/isolated simplicity as much as possible.
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by Metricon 3y ago
Currently, if you disable chat history, you'll see this message: Chat History is off for this browser. When history is turned off, new chats on this browser won't appear in your history on any of your devices, be used to train our
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by Metricon 3y ago
I haven't personally tried that one, but on the HuggingFace LLM Leaderboard: Open-Orca/Mistral-7B-SlimOrca - AVG: 60.37, ARC: 62.54, HellaSwag: 83.86, MMLU: 62.77, TruthfulQA: 54.23, Winogrande: 77.43, GSM8k: 21.38 Intel/neur
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by Metricon 3y ago
BTW, for anyone who might not be aware of it, this model trained by Intel based on the Mistral architecture is probably the single best general 7B model available currently: https://huggingface.co/Intel/neural-chat-7b-v
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by Metricon 3y ago
The RSS feed for it here appears to work: https://www.latent.space/feed
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by Metricon 4y ago
While I cannot speak to the specific motivations behind these decisions, there is a broader effort at work that is likely influencing these and near future similar actions: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/job-cuts-alert
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by Metricon 4y ago
While in no way a panacea, you might want to check out Ground News ( https://ground.news/ ). They at least make an attempt to point out how different news sources respond to the same stories. Perhaps most interesting are the
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by Metricon 4y ago
To get the YouTube channel Id: on the channel home page (you may need to reload the page or open it in private mode to avoid caching), open the developer console and enter: ytInitialData.metadata.channelMetadataRenderer.externalId

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