nichohel

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by nichohel 8d ago
You understand that any water used is not destroyed, right?
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by nichohel 2mo ago
"Last" or "latest"? Those are rather different.
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by nichohel 1y ago
Why would you put the years in hex, except to obscure? The tracingwoodgrains report is compelling, people should listen to it.
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by nichohel 2y ago
There is the Republic of Ireland, not in UK, and Northern Ireland, in UK.
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by nichohel 2y ago
Following up on Boaz Barak's comment quoted in this article, my best local model did get the answer to the kiwi problem correct when I changed the system prompt from "You are my helpful AI assistant." to "This is a math
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by nichohel 2y ago
For me the dealbreaker on Graphene was inability to record my phone conversations. I went back to Lineage.
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by nichohel 2y ago
Vision language models are blind because they lack the Cartesian Theater, which you and I have. Which you and I say we have.
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by nichohel 2y ago
Also, fraud.
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by nichohel 3y ago
Here are audio recordings from actual conversations I had with scammers trying to pull a "family member in distress" scam: http://main.interstice.com:8090/?p=49
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by nichohel 3y ago
A true control seems impossible for any "breathwork" study; anyone doing regimented breathing knows that they are doing something . And placebos work, whether you believe in them or not (say the studies ...)
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by nichohel 3y ago
Typo "signiGicant" in abstract.
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by nichohel 3y ago
"Exactly that" hardly. Reducing funding to a level of a year ago is hardly "nothing" and most states didn't even go that far.
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by nichohel 3y ago
What do you mean by "cutting state-level university funding down to nothing over the last 15 years"?
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by nichohel 3y ago
Listen to episode 157 of the excellent podcast "Blocked and Reported" before you think this is real.
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by nichohel 3y ago
(This relates to US taxes only) This very likely does not make a difference on your total tax bill, especially now that other deductions are limited (like mortgage interest). Also, even if sales tax paid did make a difference on your tax
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by nichohel 3y ago
It seems like we (good people) would want Apple to prevent these stolen, parted-out components from being used as replacement parts. Apple could prevent that, in theory through software that looks at secure serial numbers from components ..
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by nichohel 3y ago
But why CJ and not JC?
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by nichohel 3y ago
Can anyone suggest what "CJer" is short for in "AA CJer"? It apparently is used to refer to Asian American pre-med type students, but I'm curious was the CJer part is.
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by nichohel 3y ago
Let's not forget the potentially large offsetting negative impacts from schooling! Violence, abusive peers and teachers, disinterested teachers and systems leading to wasted years and loss for love of learning, I could go on. And I don
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by nichohel 3y ago
Could you explain how this relates to this discussion? I understand The Tragedy of the Commons and I don't see how that concept is relevant here.
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by nichohel 4y ago
If you would like to hear the tactics and voices of some phone scammers preying on the elderly using a "bail scam", have a listen to the audio files here: http://main.interstice.com:8090/?p=49
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by nichohel 4y ago
What do you mean by "Most privacy advocates probably do plenty of things I would be perfectly happy to see made illegal"? Can you give some examples of what you mean by things you want to see made illegal?
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by nichohel 4y ago
I think you are very wrong about a couple of things here. According to EFF: "IT APPEARS LIKELY THAT ALL RECENT COMMERCIAL COLOR LASER PRINTERS PRINT SOME KIND OF FORENSIC TRACKING CODES, NOT NECESSARILY USING YELLOW DOTS." [1] And
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by nichohel 4y ago
As mentioned in the git README (at the bottom) there is at least one Whisper port that runs natively on Android. It does not run as fast on an Android phone as on iPhone (because of whisper.cpp optimizations for Apple silicon) but it still
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by nichohel 4y ago
Yes, this could serve as the conduit from the Android phone voice input to a server-based ChatGPT (using the free Konele Android app as frontend).
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Self-hosted Whisper-based voice recognition server for open Android phones(github.com)
15 points by nichohel 4y ago|5 comments
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by nichohel 4y ago
With this little bit of code you can use excellent voice recognition (ggerganov whisper.cpp port of Whisper) hosted on your own server, for your de-Googled Android phone, for text messaging, emails, search, and so on.
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by nichohel 4y ago
Can publications please put a publication date at the top of the piece? (There is a date, at the end, with the author, which is somewhat ambiguous.)
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by nichohel 4y ago
Is this possibly protective to the user?
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by nichohel 4y ago
You have a sort of a point; what I should have said was, 'The "signal path" is simply having more money in the hands of buyers, which will then necessarily cause an increase in prices.'

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