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itsadok commented on AI Guesses Your Accent   start.boldvoice.com/accen... · Posted by u/mikpanko
itsadok · a year ago
The app this is advertising helps non-native speakers with their accent, I assume to sound more American. This is a great goal, and I'm sure there are a lot of people who would be willing to pay the $200-$300 yearly subscription cost. Apparently the AI part is not even the main function of the app, that's what the extra $100 are paying for[1].

I would be interested in an AI-only product that would help me learn to passably immitate various English accents, like Australian, Irish and so forth, for fun. I know that ChatGPT Voice can do accents pretty well, I've been wondering if it would also be able to help me with mine, but I haven't tried it seriously.

[1] https://www.boldvoice.com/frequently-asked-questions

itsadok commented on Show HN: LLM-aided OCR – Correcting Tesseract OCR errors with LLMs   github.com/Dicklesworthst... · Posted by u/eigenvalue
itsadok · 2 years ago
In your assess_output_quality function, you ask the LLM to give a score first, then an explanation. I haven't been following the latest research on LLMs, but I thought you usually want the explanation first, to get the model to "think out loud" before committing to the final answer. Otherwise, it might commit semi-radndomly to some score, and proceed to write whatever explanation it can come up with to justify that score.
itsadok commented on The Quirks of Gmail UI   hanami.run/blog/posts/the... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
itsadok · 5 years ago
This is kind of like how http sites look totally fine in most browsers, but an https site with a self-signed certificate will cause a "DANGER! ENTER AT YOUR OWN PERIL" screen to be shown.
itsadok commented on Asking questions is a skill: Lessons from 10 years of Stack Overflow   blog.mattbierner.com/10-y... · Posted by u/pkilgore
tempguy9999 · 6 years ago
I guess I'm the only one who doesn't seem to have any problems with wiki[1] or SO.

Every time this comes up people will shout about how unfairly they've been treated, and sure I've seen questions closed when they shouldn't have been, but often they're closed because they're dups or just homework which could have been found with a dab of googling.

Odd that these complainers never seem to link to a question of theirs to show us an example.

So I'll present my challenge again, to the parent @kstenerud and anyone else, if you say it's happened to you, post a link so we can judge.

[1] One exception, did meet a gatekeeper on a wiki article I questioned, in the end we sorted it out civilly.

itsadok · 6 years ago
These were literally the first 3 questions on my review queue:

* https://stackoverflow.com/q/59344615 - A question by an absolute beginner, trying to do something that they have no clue how to start with. Already closed.

* https://stackoverflow.com/q/59341242 - A question about parsing a JSON response with jQuery. Two votes to close. The asker clearly does not know the word "parse".

* https://stackoverflow.com/q/57969318 - Someone trying to figure out an error message they're getting with kubernetes. This is exactly the kind of thing you get at the top of your google results when you hit the same error, and with one more vote to close, it will be forever locked with no useful information. Some asshole even downvoted the one answer that is there without adding any comments.

None of these questions are good, but they could be made better, and they all represent people with real problems that deserve help. Getting mad at people for "being lazy" (because if I, the expert, could easily find the answer to this, then why didn't you?!), is not productive.

Here's what I don't understand about all these SO deletionists: how is closing the question helpful in any way? If you don't find the question answerable, then don't answer it! But why block other people from trying to help? It's not like you're somehow "teaching" these people how to ask by blocking them. The user from question 59344615 (which got closed) did not post another question with better details. They just left the site, one more developer that doesn't have anywhere they can ask newbie questions. It sucks.

itsadok commented on Gnome has moved to GitLab   about.gitlab.com/2018/05/... · Posted by u/fiveFeet
itsadok · 8 years ago
The last time I evaluated GitLab, you needed the paid version to use features that I considered pretty basic, like merge request approvals and multiple code reviewers[1]. I'm wondering now if the GNOME people consider these unnecessary, or if I misunderstood what was possible with self hosting.

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/

itsadok commented on Open Source License Business Perception Report   writing.kemitchell.com/20... · Posted by u/adamnemecek
itsadok · 9 years ago
Are there any downsides to multiple-licensing? What happens if I say "This software is released under every license listed in https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical"?

Just curious.

itsadok commented on St – A simple terminal implementation for X   st.suckless.org/... · Posted by u/pmoriarty
pmoriarty · 9 years ago
What features do you need in iTerm2 that you find lacking in the Linux terminal emulators you've tried?
itsadok · 9 years ago
Not OP, but some cool features I haven't seen in Linux:

- Quadruple-click smart selection

- "Selection respects soft boundaries" for selecting within a tmux pane

- "Rum coprocess" on keyboard shortcut, which allows doing stuff like http://brettterpstra.com/2014/11/14/safer-command-line-paste...

I just checked, and gnome-terminal doesn't even have split-pane. What do you guys use, anyway?

itsadok commented on Waymo: Google's self-driving car company   waymo.com/... · Posted by u/_khwc
tedajax · 9 years ago
Fully autonomous fleets of cars will push societal changes we can't yet predict. Right now everyone shows up to work at about the same time. Is that a fixed position society will always uphold? I don't know, there's a lot of things I don't know. The only thing I can predict is that in the same way the personal automobile upended the social structures of the day, autonomous vehicles will likely do something similar.
itsadok · 9 years ago
While people still drive themselves, there's a huge incentive to come to work early or late, to avoid traffic. I don't see that incentive increasing with autonomous cars. If anything, I predict that more people will join rush hour traffic if they don't need to do any actual driving. However, this might be mitigated by the better driving of autonomous cars.
itsadok commented on How liars create the ‘illusion of truth’   bbc.com/future/story/2016... · Posted by u/known
itsadok · 9 years ago
This is similar to the "Contamination" effect, of how completely false statements can affect a person's judgement, even if they are told the statement are false.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/k3/priming_and_contamination/http://lesswrong.com/lw/k4/do_we_believe_everything_were_tol...

u/itsadok

KarmaCake day185May 13, 2010View Original