> Or to put it another way: I actually view it as a red flag if an engineer or team gets into a predictable “flow” because it means that there is a promising opportunity for automation they’re ignoring.
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
I don’t think it’s appropriate to call the first Black woman presidential nominee by her first name. If you say Biden and Trump, you should say Harris.
Vorverurteilt und missverstanden – so fühlen sich viele Palästinenser, die ihre Stimme im Nahost-Konflikt erheben. Die Angst vor Konsequenzen ist groß.
"We explore the cost and security of reCAPTCHAv2 and conclude that it has an immense cost and no security. Overall, we believe that this study’s results prompt a natural conclusion: reCAPTCHAv2 and similar reCAPTCHA technology should be deprecated." arxiv.org/pdf/2311.10911
Ура! Подкаст, в котором мы записывались на прошлой неделе и с которым потом было так много странных историй, всё же выложен в архив вместе с кратким резюме. Мы с @Destranis были очень рады рассказать незрячим венграм о новом синтезаторе речи, с которыми в Венгрии прям беда и грусть.
Our final day of #GUADEC2024 BoFs and Workshops will start up soon. Make sure to check the website for BoF meeting links and your emails for access codes: events.gnome.org/event/209/pag…
Parabéns ao ganhador do Pants of the Thanks Awards deste ano, Felipe Borges @felipeborges ! Obrigado por todo o seu trabalho duro e muitas contribuições para o #GNOME! 👣 fixupx.com/guadec/status/18150…
MacOS kernelové ovladače třetích stran zakázal, v Linuxu běží Falcon jako eBPF. Za to, že Microsoft nebyl schopný poskytnout vhodná API, není přece problém antimonopolní regulace.
A ta perlička o úderu blesku - Kurtz to posral v McAfee a teď to podělal v CrowdStrike. To, že se podobná chyba stala na dvou místech zároveň je záležitost firemní kultury, viz např. zde: hachyderm.io/@shanselman/11281…
V pátek se zastavil provoz v největším evropském přístavu v Rotterdamu, na zemi zůstala letadla desítek leteckých společností. Jen v USA došlo během pátku a soboty ke zrušení více než pěti tisíc letů.
Že to hlásá Microsoft, který využívá situace, chápu. Ale, že ten blábol přebírají Hospodářky. 🤦♂️ To je jak tvrdit že za špatné jídlo v restauraci může hygienická stanice, která kuchaře obtěžovala s čištěním kuchyně.
No, Southwest Airlines is not still using Windows 3.1
A story that's been persistently making the rounds since the CrowdStrike event is that while several airline companies were affected in one way or another, Southwest Airlines escaped the mayhem because they were still using windows 3.1. It's a great story that fits the current zeitgeist about technology and its role in society, un
To je snůška kecu jak od nějakého dezolata, ano zla EU může za to že Microsoft neumí udělat APi tak aby to nepodělalo ten jejich shit který nazývá prý operačním systémem ..m
Koncem předminulého desetiletí hrozilo americké firmě vyšetřování a tučné pokuty ze strany Evropské unie, a to kvůli údajně nesoutěžnímu jednání. Takže roku 2009 raději s Bruselem uzavřela dohodu
Oh, the new option resolver-use-dns64 is cool! 👍🏻 bind9.readthedocs.io/en/v9.20.… That means you can run your DNS64 resolver as a part of your IPv6-only infrastructure without provisioning it with dual stack connectivity or CLAT.
It's vital, over the next few weeks, to remember that Republicans, foreign powers, and extremists will be working to make Democrats and people who vote for them angry with each other.
In dictatorial countries, it's best to use cloud services for both files and passwords so that you have as little sensitive information on your devices as possible
Recommending password-manager? Good idea! Rcommending 2FA/MFA? Even better! Recommending to put both password and second factor in the same password-manager? Meh... I don't know, if you meant it that way, but it somewhat reads it ...
@cart1082 Thanks for the feedback! We would agree that it is best not to keep your eggs in one basket. Secure unique passwords stored in a password manager + a physical U2F key is our go-to wherever possible.
This post was a bit surprising: Mozilla's ad tracking feature is part of an "origin trial", which means the new API is only exposed to websites on an allow list. Currently that list is empty, so the it doesn't do anything even if you've left the feature enabled.
They generated all that bad publicity, and the feature isn't even collecting any data yet.
that's cool and all, but isn't this what libreelec is basically made for? That's what I use to control my tv amd watch netflix or whatever streaming service.
I'm a big fan of LibreElec, have a RPi4 running it for my TV. But it's very much Kodi and no other apps. Nothing for viewing PDFs, no browser, no messaging, just Kodi. Which is generally fine! But this hack-a-TV can do all of those other things, and has more CPU grunt for it.
I'm glad to share with you this early sample of my new neural TTS model OptiSpeech. The model is end-to-end, and this variant is based on ConvNeXtTTS architecture. Noticeably, the model is trained using 24KHz sampling rate, while being very performant. Thanks for Pneuma Solutions for providing access to the hardware I'm using to train the model.
@matt The dataset used for training this voice is released under a non-commercial license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Here's the release announcement page: ast-astrec.nict.go.jp/en/relea…
Thanks. Also, is optispeech still using the espeak phonemizer? Or when you say it's end-to-end, do you mean the model goes directly from text to speech?
@matt It does use eSpeak-ng's phonemizer since a good and portable phonemizer is not currently available. But the developer of Piper is currently working on an MIT licensed phonemizer that's compatible with eSpeak-ng's phoneme-set.
@matt A truly end-to-end TTS model, that maps from characters to waveforms, is not currently possible except with extremely large model sizes. It can be done with compact models, but don't expect good results with phonemically irregular languages like English.
Is there any data yet on how many utterances the training dataset needs to have? I assume there's a reason why the HFC datasets have as many utterances as they do, but I wonder if that decision was based on the needs of models like yours, or something else.
@matt Regarding single speaker datasets... There is no exact figure. Not scene a paper analyzing that neither. The general consensus is that at least 10 hours is needed for good quality speech. 30 to 40 hours seams to be the norm in the industry. But it also depends on the model. Some models are data efficient; learning from very few utterances. What people usually do is to train on a single, high-quality and large dataset, then fine tune the model on other smaller datasets.
@asael @matt There are multiple good data sets available. You can check out Piper's voices repository on hugging face. With each voice comes a model card that contains information about the data set used to train that voice.
@asael I found and even easier way for you. 1. Visit Piper samples page rhasspy.github.io/piper-sample… 2. Select the language/voice you want to learn about 3. After the audio player you'll find a read-only edit box containing voice information, arrow up to the dataset section. Note that some datasets are exclusive, but most of them are openly available.
@Lino_JR I chose it because all the good names have been taken by other TTS models 😄 Fast Speech, Light Speech, Lean Speech, Efficient Speech, Speedy Speech..etc.
How does it handle punctuation differences? My biggest pet peeve with virtually all synths apart from Espeak and Eloquence is that a comma, period, exclamation point, semicolon, two dashes etc. all sound the same! Same amount of pause and same voice inflection. With eSpeak, for example, the voice will pitch up and sound more excited if the sentence ends with an exclamation point. Is that something LLM’s can do?
@drew It's one of my biggest issues too. And it's one of the things I'm trying to address through this effort. It largely depends on the model's design, given you have a good dataset. With large models, it is almost a solved issue, but with compact models it is a challenge. Large models have grater capacity to learn sentence-level as well as character-level prosody.
hey @FreakyFwoof. For some reason I had a copy of this 3 years ago that I don't remember reading.
Finished it yesterday. it was ... kinda OK, guess. clever twist on if just one small thing had been different.
A Better Man By: Valandar Vernon changed in the beginning to be a better man, thanks to a wish. How will this affect Harry, and the entire Wizarding World? Now complete! Please R&R. AU, HPGW, RWHG, RLNT Rated: Fiction T - English - Drama - Ginny W., Harry P. - Chapters: 54 - Words: 192,896 - [A Better Man](fanfiction.net/s/2531438/1/A-B…)
Neural networks surround us, in the form of large language models, speech transcription systems, molecular discovery algorithms, robotics, and much more.
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Yeah, and they'd have 300+ million more potentially if they actually allowed America to access their content. It's far less biased on American issues since they don't live directly in America and are therefore less affected.
Immer wieder findet man private Aufrufe zur Suche von vermissten oder gesuchten Personen. Warum es keine Gute Idee ist, diese zu teilen, haben wir hier für euch zusammengestellt.
Was noch fehlt: Solche privaten Suchmeldungen werden teils auch von Tätern selbst erstellt, um eine Person ausfindig zu machen, die sich vor ihnen versteckt. Zb. weil sie aus einer gewalttätigen Beziehung geflohen sind. In so einem Fall bringt man die gesuchte Petson in grosse Gefahr.
Episode 3 is live. https://slate.com/podcasts/navel-gazing
Ep. 1 is about marriage.
Ep. 2 covers parenting.
Ep. 3 is about our dog George and mornings.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Per this episode: Dogs Can Smell Your Stress and Make Choices Based on It - New research seems to support the notion that dogs can read a person's mood via their scent. Dogs involved in an experiment appeared to have their own moods changed by the human sweat/breath odors presented to them. This "contagious emotion" then appeared to inform choices and actions made by the dog. dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar…
Researchers from the University of Bristol have discovered that dogs really can tell when you are stressed and are even put in a bad mood by the smell of worried humans.
Something you may not have realised is right-handed: playing cards.
When you pick up a card with your dominant hand and add it to the front of a card you're holding in your non-dominant hand, you create a fan towards your dominant hand.
Standard playing cards have a small version of the number and suit in two corners so that you can see them no matter which way up the card is, *as long as they're fanned right*, and many modern card games follow suit (ha!) without thinking, for the convention or aesthetic
Consider mirroring important summary information in both left and right corners (Ticket to Ride does a great job putting the suits in both corners while maintaining the pleasant asymmetrical feel of having them in one)
It's admittedly only a tiny accessibility issue, but it IS an accessibility issue, so have think about it.
In case you missed it: Accrescent is now mirrored in the GrapheneOS App Store! This helps GrapheneOS users securely and easily obtain Accrescent from a trusted source.
GrapheneOS highly values privacy and security as we do, so we're excited about this collaboration.
GrapheneOS App Store now includes a mirror of Accrescent, which is a privacy and security focused alternative to the Play Store distributing developer builds of apps:
https://accrescent.
@klingerman01 We don't have a clear timeline for this yet. We'd like to ensure that sufficient automation, scaling, and anti-abuse features are implemented first. We also want to ensure the platform is stable enough to handle an influx of developers without excessive maintenance and support.
I know it might not be feasible but is there any way you could get the included icon packs to work with graphene OS's default launcher? When I first installed it I was immediately drawn to the icon packs but they didn't work with the default launcher.
@klingerman01 Icon pack support has to be implemented by launchers, so this is outside of our domain. The alternatives are having GrapheneOS implement icon pack support in their default launcher or using another launcher which supports them.
@PaintedDurian We don't plan on allowing other app installers such as Obtainium in Accrescent at this time. But in general, all apps in Accrescent are uploaded by their respective developers, so it's up to them to determine whether they want their app in Accrescent.
Companies can now analyze and progress their disability inclusion efforts in Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Japan, the Philippines, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
After much back and forth, Google has decided to keep third-party cookies in its Chrome browser. Turns out all the fuss over the years wasn’t in vain after all; the ad industry’s cries have finally been heard.
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