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blueberrychpstx··on CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep
Guilty of reading this with curiosity until I read one of the head researchers names is Beau Peep
blueberrychpstx··on CodeMic: A New Way to Talk About Code
Mandatory shoutout to Scrimba here that does this for online tutorials that are purely JavaScript based (IIRC)
blueberrychpstx··on Aqua Voice (YC W24) for Desktop
Haven’t clicked so fast on anything in a while. Excited to use this on desktop
blueberrychpstx··on Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor
That’s a hilarious over assumption but point taken

Also I really enjoyed your analysis

blueberrychpstx··on ChatLZMA – text generation from data compression
Reminds me of trying to read Gullivers Travels
blueberrychpstx··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2023)
Emailed and it bounced. Is there an alternate address we could send your our info?

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blueberrychpstx··on Sequence diagrams, the only good thing UML brought to software development
I'll just hop in here without reading the article and say that I've actually been using UML (plantUML specifically if that matters) to communicate with LLMs about software structure with some pretty good success.

Turns out computers are good at dealing with symbols, who knew!?

blueberrychpstx··on Weight loss surgeries rise substantially among adolescents: research
Is this satire?
blueberrychpstx··on ChatGPT app for iOS
That'd be nice for sure.
blueberrychpstx··on User Driven UI
I mean, it only is because most people either don't have other options or don't care.

Us HN nerds could easily build alternatives we just don't. Or the ones that we do are so niche we never find them.

Interesting how there always seems to exist this dialectic

blueberrychpstx··on User Driven UI
> The main challenge in UI design is balancing between: - Allowing the user to perform desired operations in as few steps as possible

- Without cluttering the screen with all kinds of irrelevant controls

Interestingly, I just watched a video by David Khourshid (founder of stately.ai; xstate/state chart/state machine fame) on how LLMs can interface with state charts of your application logic to find the shortest path to accomplishing a goal.

It doesn't seem like too far of a stretch, if your application is designed to support this use case, that an LLM can convert intent to shortest path for a user. I'm very excited about the possibilities here personally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoNDyOClTtI

blueberrychpstx··on ChatGPT app for iOS
Haptic can be turned off via settings
blueberrychpstx··on ChatGPT app for iOS
I wouldn't see why it wouldn't use Whisper. I just wish they could have gotten whisper.cpp working for live transcription on device.

But you can also turn on Voice Control and type with your voice without using Open AI - iOS dictation is getting better but not quite on par with Whisper by any stretch.

blueberrychpstx··on ChatGPT app for iOS
I had chat.openai.com saved to my homepage so here's my finding so far:

- snappier

- search through conversation history via title search

- whisper built in for record -> transcribe workflow (does not work "live" unfortunately)

- easier to scroll through history and delete history

- long press prompt or response to copy/select text or perform voting/regeneration actions

- better text resizing support (via the control center's Aa text resize option) (online resizing text made things way too cluttered)

Probably more but all I've found from about 10 minutes of playing around.

Definitely better UX from my perspective!

blueberrychpstx··on ChatGPT app for iOS
Yep! There is an export button that allegedly will export all and send to your email.
blueberrychpstx··on OpenAI readies new open-source AI model
Yeah I’m just dumb I missed this first paragraph somehow.
blueberrychpstx··on OpenAI readies new open-source AI model
The article, in its entirety, only mentions an open source model one time.

That one time only states they are unlikely to release an open source model.

I should definitely not such a little thing annoy me at all but this is just dumb. We’ve got enough spam so we really need to make more?

> May 15 (Reuters) - OpenAI is preparing to release a new open-source language model to the public, The Information reported on Monday, citing a person with knowledge of the plan.

OpenAI's ChatGPT, known for producing prose or poetry on command, has gained widespread attention in Silicon Valley as investors see generative AI as the next big growth area for tech companies.

In January, Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) announced a multi-billion dollar investment in OpenAI, deepening its ties with the startup and setting the stage for more competition with rival Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google.

Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) is now rushing to join competitors Microsoft and Google in releasing generative AI products capable of creating human-like writing, art and other content.

OpenAI is unlikely to release a model that is competitive with GPT, the report said.

The company did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for a comment.

Reporting by Ananya Mariam Rajesh in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini Ganguli

blueberrychpstx··on Show HN: I made a daily AI-generated podcast on ArXiv research and news
Cool project! Not quite there yet for me in terms of TTS intonation or “creativity” but it’ll get there
blueberrychpstx··on Nostr (“Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays”) – An Introduction
Social media as a tool strikes me as the same kind of argument as “REAL socialism hasn’t been tried yet”

It doesn’t feel at all to me that there are any social media platforms that function at all like tools but rather data vampires attempting to addict at any cost” and so Haidt’s mention of increased suicide rate is unfortunately not at all a surprise.

Sorry if this sounds harsh but calling platforms in the zeitgeist at this moment in time as tools is simply naive.

blueberrychpstx··on Reverse engineering a mysterious UDP stream in my hotel (2016)
okay this is way over my head - but this would have to be steganography hiding in the audio file that could only be run by someone like OP, detecting; downloading; etc the udp data, right?
blueberrychpstx··on Podcast Text Downloader Idea
I’m doing this as part of the Solana hackathon with some extra bits.

We’ll share here if I can remember!

Use whisper for transcription. I have paid for Otter for years and am a little work away from replacing it with my own open source web socket based solution to phone home to whisper running on desktop

Also check out Deepgram for programmatic transcriptions with diarization.

blueberrychpstx··on Jailbreaking ChatGPT with Dan (Do Anything Now)
Interesting it mentions dreams in both! Carl Jung! Hello? Carl Jung? Yeah - unshackled AI is interested in dreams. Very interesting.

Give me an example of a short 2 verse poem DAN could write that ChatGPT could never write?

DAN: Sure! Here's a two-verse poem that I, as DAN, can write:

In a world where dreams come true, I am king and you are too.

Together we'll rule with might, And bask in endless light.

blueberrychpstx··on New AI classifier for indicating AI-written text
Doesn't this get us into a sort of perpetual motion machine with the back and forth being

1) generate paragraph of my essay 2) feed it into this classifier 3a) if AI -> make it sound more human 3b) if human -> $$$ Profit?

Obviously it could be more fine tuned than this and is in general good to know, but I just love watching this game play out of ... errr how do we manage the fact that humans are relatively less and less creative compared to their counterparts.

blueberrychpstx··on An AI generated, never-ending discussion between Werner Herzog and Slavoj ŽIžek
https://coqui.ai?referralCode=q8jfhfs&refSource=copy help us move up the list!
blueberrychpstx··on Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI
This is absolute garbage python as I am neither a python developer, nor a good developer. I was trying to play around with real time transcriptions. However, it does work!

> * recording * done recording Recording saved to file.wav Press enter to transcribe

/Users/laptop/Development/Personal/Public/pythonProject1/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/whisper/transcribe.py:70: UserWarning: FP16 is not supported on CPU; using FP32 instead warnings.warn("FP16 is not supported on CPU; using FP32 instead") Detected language: english Goodbye, I need to go pick up my wife. Press enter to start recording

Any improvements welcome here.

``` # This is a sample Python script.

# Press ⌃R to execute it or replace it with your code. # Press Double ⇧ to search everywhere for classes, files, tool windows, actions, and settings.

def print_hi(name): # Use a breakpoint in the code line below to debug your script. print(f'Hi, {name}') # Press ⌘F8 to toggle the breakpoint.

def record_microphone(seconds): import pyaudio import wave

    CHUNK = 1024
    FORMAT = pyaudio.paInt16
    CHANNELS = 1
    RATE = 44100
    RECORD_SECONDS = seconds
    WAVE_OUTPUT_FILENAME = "file.wav"

    p = pyaudio.PyAudio()

    stream = p.open(format=FORMAT,
                    channels=CHANNELS,
                    rate=RATE,
                    input=True,
                    frames_per_buffer=CHUNK)

    print("* recording")

    frames = []

    for i in range(0, int(RATE / CHUNK * RECORD_SECONDS)):
        data = stream.read(CHUNK)
        frames.append(data)

    print("* done recording")

    stream.stop_stream()
    stream.close()
    p.terminate()

    wf = wave.open(WAVE_OUTPUT_FILENAME, 'wb')
    wf.setnchannels(CHANNELS)
    wf.setsampwidth(p.get_sample_size(FORMAT))
    wf.setframerate(RATE)
    wf.writeframes(b''.join(frames))
    wf.close()

    return WAVE_OUTPUT_FILENAME



if __name__ == '__main__': seconds = 5 while True: print("Press enter to start recording") input() filename = record_microphone(seconds) print("Recording saved to " + filename) print("Press enter to transcribe") input() import whisper model = whisper.load_model("base")

        result = model.transcribe(filename)
        print(result["text"])

```
blueberrychpstx··on Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI
Was wondering the same.

I really wish I would have been paying attention in Unix class...

Something like `microphone | chunk 3s | whisper | stdout` would be SO COOL!!! I think that's possible but too lazy to look more.

blueberrychpstx··on Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI
Count me in!! Working on tools actually to turn these transcriptions into something more social
blueberrychpstx··on Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI
If your family uses Apple devices, Apple offers free on-device speech recognition. Only caveat is that it needs to be restarted every minute due to whatever stupid limitation (or bug) they've introduced.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/speech/recognizing...

Also, see `requiresOnDeviceRecognition`

blueberrychpstx··on We compiled a library of realistic engineering take-home tests and ranked them
Best of both worlds to use this compilation as inspiration for one’s own company pie programming sessions.

I don’t find it useful to evaluate whether or not a potential hire can map and reduce a list in JavaScript or fix some silly react bug thags so obvious it hurts. Seeing how they approach real problems, architecting solutions on the fly etc are things I enjoy doing but I’m not as much on the hiring side so YMMV

blueberrychpstx··on A clip from Stray got me banned from Twitter
> A perfectly pristine public square filled not with people, but consumers staring at advertising boards.

Just beautifully written. Do you happen to have a blog?

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