Is there a way to run this in the browser as yet? Transformers js doesn't seem to support this. Is there another way to run this in the browser?
Probably ONNX.
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Nowado commented on ArXiv Papers as Audiobooks github.com/imelnyk/ArxivP... · Posted by u/Acsmaggart
https://www.listening.com/ does this as a service.FWIW I haven’t tried it myself.
Edit: looks like they support a few traditional publishers as well.
Last time I tried it, app literally just read papers. As in parsed arxiv pdfs text2speech. It was an awful misunderstanding of the medium. Unless it was rebuilt significantly over last months, it's just bad.
Nowado commented on Is Cosine-Similarity of Embeddings Really About Similarity? arxiv.org/abs/2403.05440... · Posted by u/Jimmc414
Would you have some in links in mind of models that were pulled from LLMs?
The last one I have in mind is BERT and it's variants.
I'm not sure if it's the most modern setup there is, but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPtG_38Oq8o gives exceptionally friendly explanation.
Nowado commented on "AI will cure cancer" misunderstands both AI and medicine rachel.fast.ai/posts/2024... · Posted by u/pratnala
> Even though we know prognosis is much better for cancer, and many other diseases, if you catch it early
This is, to some extent, misleading.
I mean, earlier treatment is beneficial, but there's a significant confound. All else being equal, if a cancer is less aggressive and slowly growing it is more likely to be detected early.
Put in other terms, the cancers detected earlier by screening are a very different population of cancers detected late and with progression.
There is even more fun aspect.
'Survival' for cancer tends to be defined as surviving 5 years. The earlier you catch, the more patient had left to live anyway.
You really don't want to have white text on light grey buttons.
Fun little thing otherwise!
Nowado commented on Show HN: An app to create asynchronous micro podcasts roadsaudio.com/... · Posted by u/1manstartup
I think there can be several ways to use it. I think passive listening can and for most will be how it's used. But people who want to discuss and "add to a conversation" will have the option.
Definitely will be modifying the experience to be fully handsfree.
I think the context issue is what can make this actually work or not. Currently it's not built out but my thinking is to have a short context of what was commented on i.e. 10 seconds before the comment. That way you can jump back into the conversation from a new comment left.
I think the context can also be determined by how long it's been since you listened to the last audio - meaning a comment left after a week might have 60s of context vs a comment after 10 mins might just have 5s.
And yes, the UI isn't great at showing what you already listened to now but that needs to be obvious too.
General tendency for internet content tends to be strong separation between creators and consumers, in particular limited interest of consumers in other consumers (think twitch chat. Each message is valued very little compared to the streamer, to the point where they always read out messages they respond to). That means unless there's something nudging people to default outside of central path of audio, adding to conversation isn't part of canon content.
There could be a way for responder to signal where the content they are answering starts, with some sort of fuzzy automation in the future. I have strong doubts about the actual experience of this for the listener, but maybe that's solvable.
I meant situation, where I already consumed the whole recording, but it gets response later on.
I do not have mental model for context being logically attached to the response. Do you think about it as response+context being a valid piece of content?
Nowado commented on Show HN: An app to create asynchronous micro podcasts roadsaudio.com/... · Posted by u/1manstartup
Do you have some user research you could share?
I remember thinking about this exact problem (branching conversations, in particular audio), but I couldn't find a reasonable consumption pattern.
Looking at how I consume podcasts, it's a completely passive experience - I probably have something in my hands and can't talk. Choosing paths is just too much interactivity.
I figured that maybe that's just a wrong mode to look at it and people can consume the whole thing differently, not as a podcast. Ok then, I'm an obsessed power user/fan, I consume the whole thing, all branches. Given how human attention/memory works, that means returning to earlier parts of recording after listening to branch at least some of the time, multiple times experiencing 'where did we start? Let me go back a bit. Oh, that topic was the starting. Let me forward a bit now that I know it'. That's horrible, I think. You were at least more reasonable than me when thinking about it and decided to have only 1 level of branching ; )
In similar vein, what happens when comment gets added after I already listened/how do I know which parts are 'the definite experience'? Unlike previous two issues, those questions are answerable, but I'd still like to hear what you think the answers are!
Nowado commented on LLMs, RAG, and the missing storage layer for AI blog.lancedb.com/llms-rag... · Posted by u/yurisagalov
Switching to Word2Vec embeddings led to a substantial improvement in my cosine similarity evaluations for text similarity, but granted I was looking for actual similarity, not relevance. I tried many different methods and had lots of mediocre results initially.
code: https://github.com/jimmc414/document_intelligence/blob/main/...https://github.com/jimmc414/document_intelligence
Interesting, do you happen to have some quantitative results on this/additional insights/etc?
I've interpreted transformer vector similarity as 'likelihood to be followed by the same thing' which is close to word2vec's 'sum of likelihoods of all words to be replaced by the other set' (kinda), but also very different in some contexts.
Nowado commented on Show HN: I automated half of my typing github.com/eschluntz/comp... · Posted by u/eschluntz
I was thinking about similar solution (actually, textblaze funded by YC is pretty much that) but I didn't like remembering the shortcuts part. So I made a different kind of indexing for it: https://discu.space/ Presentation uses 'what are you answering to' as a key, but you can use anything.
It currently exists as (hopefully working for everyone, could use more testing) Chrome extension, but there's a universal API underneath. It could be run entirely locally if one was to give up portability.
Nowado commented on If you're interested in eye-tracking, I'm interested in funding you twitter.com/paulg/status/... · Posted by u/pg
+1 +1 from another fellow BCI PhD. EOG over EEG at the moment (likely forever, non-invasively).
++ with mere MA in cog sci and psychology. If you really wanted to get EEG to work for typing, maybe you could train someone to map thinking about specific kinds of things to the keyboard, but that would be an extremely weird experience. Eyeball is going to have the best signal about eyeball-related motor cortex we can access.