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Is there something like this for handwritten documents? I know newer models have been really good at handwriting transcription.

I think so, the content also required one or two F5s for me.

This is a cool website, would love to see more like it in other states.

Why avoid Langchain?

Can anyone share what a training dataset would look like for something like this? What are some use cases?

This is interesting but are they really going to sit here and update all of this manually? What is the impact scale?

Not diminishing the effort, but it is a lot. It reminds me a lot of engineers turning out in droves to civil society organizations in 2017, only to not involve themselves in sustained manners.

I'd love to see an automated tool that can link to authoritative sources about their status.

I think a lot of those offered would understand how people on TikTok would turn on them for selling out. They're not stupid, quite the opposite. I detest how the political landscape of the internet has evolved to such an extent that it now influences our decisions about posting or not posting content online.

can I ask, what do you do with it on your home server?

I was laid off from my first engineering role at the age of 22 and it broke me. Poor leadership, and infighting between me and my supervisor who couldn't reasonably manage me and support a new engineer (he monitored my git commit history to see if I was "working," leading me to make smaller and more frequent commits to inflate my work). He clearly was a legacy engineer that didn't code much anymore (I had to teach him how to use Git) and due to his age, was promoted to management. I was mid restructuring the UI on their shitty product and dated codebase when I got the news. Up until that point I had been pretty excited for what was supposed to be my first engineering gig.

My whole view changed on work and tech companies in a second.

how about fingerprinting? Not versed in this space but might be worth looking into.

That's... exactly what's happening though?

It's funny, my friends and I all entered CS around the same time (2010-2013) and I remember thinking it was weird for NEU to be using Racket. Clearly it's successful, and has proven itself to be a great place to start a CS career.

I always advocated a C based language, like C or C++. That's where my program (not NEU) began and I hated it but am grateful. We eventually moved onto Java. Later courses through my 3rd year allowed me briefly work with functional programming. We never touched Python or web frameworks until our Junior and Senior year projects, and even then it was generally voluntary and depended on the project we had proposed for our databases or algorithms classes.

What I do think CS programs should be evolving for are LLMs. Python + ChatGPT are powerful without the user knowing too much of the logic off-hand. That's a problem for new CS students who need to learn the fundamentals of logic, reasoning and programming. I don't know what languages work "less-better" with modern LLMs, all I know is that ChatGPT and Claude work exceptionally well with Python.

I suppose, as long as we keep paper exams, all hope is not lost. Maybe just a little, in my opinion.

Precisely. We must recognize this as a fundamental issue of workers’ rights and personal autonomy in the digital age, beyond viewing it as a technical challenge. Without proper protections, voice cloning technology risks concentrating power in large companies and undermining creative workers’ economic security.

For people's image being used without their permission: strengthen U.S. right of publicity laws with private right of action, enabling people to sue for unauthorized use of their voice or likeness.

> Indirect involvement can still be ok within the confines of a license agreement for using the actor's voice.

This assumes existence of a license agreement or likeness/right of publicity law that prevents unauthorized use. But this is far from the case.

Companies have shown willingness to use actors’ voices to create synthetic voices without permission, compensation, or regard for their livelihoods. [1][2][3]

[1] https://animehunch.com/popular-japanese-voice-actors-band-to...

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/05/eleve...

[3] https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/morgan-freeman-calls-una...

If foreign journalists could report from there we would have more reliable sources.

It does default to chronological, though?

I’m struggling to recall some of those early fun accounts. Do you remember any interesting automated feeds from Twitter’s early days?

This plus the fact that starting Nov 15 tweets become by default training material for their language models: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/x-is-using-y...

It’s definitely a whole different platform now, compared to when the first exodus happened. I’m loving it!

The “starter pack” feature is great. There’s also this website where you can browse created starter packs for groups/interests you care about: https://blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs/all

thanks for checking! I think I'll get the M4 Pro and max out the RAM. I don't have the budget for whatever the future M4 Studio would look like, so this seems like a nice sweet spot.

Did your old mini have FileVault enabled?

Super cool yeah I'm mainly looking to create 8K fisheye footage for the Vision Pro so that's really good to hear!

Wondering if it's worth spending that much money on the M4 Pro or just building a PC tbh.

Can you run it headless? Like, if I have it power on after a reboot, is it possible to log in remotely?

Have you tried 8K video? How does each machine handle that?

I’m contemplating whether this can handle editing 8K video. Does anyone have any idea?

My goal is to venture into 180-degree VR production. With the Canon R5C and the RF 5.2mm f/2.8 Dual Fisheye Lens, I want to produce stereoscopic video at 8K. However, rendering such high-resolution footage demands substantial processing power, and my current setup definitely isn't enough.

Someone did this to the Ring mobile app to get a dataset of all (public) Ring cameras across the US

https://gizmodo.com/ring-s-hidden-data-let-us-map-amazons-sp...

Thanks :-)

> platforms should

> Anti-discrimination law should

I don't disagree with you. But you must distinguish between what the law does, and what it should do, in your view. Otherwise you are misleading people.

Bingo. If you threaten, or promote harm/hate speech, you're not suddenly immune from the consequences of that. It's that the platform is (generally) immune from those same consequences.