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vidyava commented on How to Write the Worst Possible Python Code (Humor) effective-programmer.com/... · Posted by u/naveed125

sunrunner · 3 months ago

Hey now, at least the dictionary has keys that _could_ hint at the contents (or be completely misleading). What about the tuple with just positions?

    image.size
    ndarray.shape

Are the image sizes (width, height) or (height, width)?

Trick question of course, it's (height, width, channels) for numpy. numpy is fairly well known though and sort of gets away with it, but when your never-seen-before internal company starts doing this, well...

vidyava · 3 months ago

Serious question, but what is the best practice for keeping n-dimensional arrays organized/labeled? Pandas? Xarray? Converting everything to netcdf before using it?

vidyava commented on They see your photos theyseeyourphotos.com/... · Posted by u/vladyslavfox

throwaway81523 · 9 months ago

For all 4 of their sample photos and one that I uploaded, their thing failed to notice that there were humans in the pictures. It said the opposite, that there weren't any. I'm disappointed. The one I uploaded is one that I took some years ago, but I've forgotten the time and place, and I'd like to have had it tell me.

vidyava · 9 months ago

If you're using a browser with heavy anti-fingerprinting capabilities it will upload a randomized canvas image instead of the intended image, and you'll get a lot of descriptions of pictures of wavy lines and no people.

vidyava commented on Mozilla introduces updates to tab management in Firefox support.mozilla.org/en-US... · Posted by u/sam29681749

permo-w · a year ago

have you tried Tree Style Tabs? if so, how do they compare? I use TST, but I'm never 100% pleased with it

vidyava · a year ago

I also switched over a year or so ago and find it a significant improvement with one notable exception: in TST when you hover over a collapsed tab group it would show you a list of all tabs in the group while Sidebery doesn't. Similarly when closing a group Sidebery doesn't show all of the tabs that would close, just the total count.

I submitted a feature request a year ago but got no traction, and now I just expand and re-close groups before mass closing to double check if I need anything.

vidyava commented on Milk watcher en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

inanutshellus · a year ago

> > Like a ridiculously long knife with a slightly curved blade, rounded tip, and blunt edge.

> A cake-icing spatula of some kind?

Perhaps! The blade is not tall/wide like a spatula, and the handle is oriented like a knife would be, not a spatula, but... it could be!

> > Or a serrated knife with [a blade] that curves back on itself.

> If the end can also be used as a fork, then that's a cheese knife.

Maybe! I've seen a lot of cheese knives over the years but this one is unlike any I've ever seen.

My guess is that it's for hollowing something out. If so, it'd be for something that's hard to get into but isn't super tough. Like... maybe scraping all the seeds out of a squash or something.

The blade is straight for maybe 4-5" then does a ~80 degree bend to the right and then curves back around to make a full circle back to the blade, making a roughly 2" circle of metal. I'm writing this from memory, so could be off a bit.

... it's basically bent to be a question mark.

vidyava · a year ago

My first thought was gut hook knife, but if it's especially question mark shaped it could be a "rescue knife". They often have a backwards facing cutting edge for seatbelts and the like.

Example: https://eknives.com/microtech-combat-troodon-rescue-otf-tool...

vidyava commented on Ontario family doctor says new AI notetaking saved her job globalnews.ca/news/104635... · Posted by u/davidbarker

popinman322 · a year ago

Tangent here: really? I've found base Whisper has concerning error rates for non-US English accents; I imagine the same is true for other languages with a large regional mode to the source dataset.

Whisper + an LLM can recover some of the gaps by filling in contextually plausible bits, but then it's not a transcript and may contain hallucinations.

There are alternatives that share Whisper internal states with an LLM to improve ASR, as well as approaches that sample N-best hypotheses from Whisper and fine-tune an LLM to distill the hypotheses into a single output. Haven't looked too much into these yet given how expensive each component is to run independently.

vidyava · a year ago

I've found that WhisperX with the medium model has been amazing at subtitling shows containing English dialects (British, Scottish, Australian, New Zealand-ish). It not only nails all the normal speech, but even gets the names and completely made up slang words. Interestingly you can tell it was trained from source material with dialects because it subtitles their particular spelling; so someone American will say color, and someone British will say colour.

I can't speak to how it performs outside of production quality audio, but in the hundreds of hours of subtitles that I've generated I don't think I've seen a single error.

vidyava commented on How to delete your data from data brokers cybercollective.org/blog/... · Posted by u/jyunwai

vidyava · 2 years ago

What I wish I had, and maybe someone here knows of something that fulfills the role, is a means of providing erroneous information about myself to data brokers. I'd like to insert some fake addresses, wrong phone numbers, made up familial relationships, etc and let that propagate, rather than go through all the hoops to try (largely in vain) to have the information removed.