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New comment by tednoob in "The shrinking landscape of linguistic diversity in the age of LLMs"

tednoob — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 03:08:16 +0000

Looking at how awful the timing and acting is in the generated video content and text to speech tools I think it is safe to say this area will also improve with time. The artistic tone is subtle, and often lost to us non-native speakers anyways.

New comment by tednoob in "Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs"

tednoob — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 07:26:55 +0000

It seems it is not just rest but that she had some procedure done as well. https://youtube.com/shorts/ndhu7uo3PrI?si=pPzpDk4lLw3eRf0j

New comment by tednoob in "Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs"

tednoob — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 07:19:18 +0000

My sister had ME/CFS after she had a burnout after her second kid. She was never permanently bed ridden but sometimes had to spend days resting or recovering after strain. She's not well today, but much better than at her worst. There wasn't really an accepted diagnose for it when my sister got it, and she had to fight to be recognised as sick.

I do wish Dianna the best recovery and future progress.

New comment by tednoob in "A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work"

tednoob — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 10:02:38 +0000

It happened to me, though I resigned when I hit burnout during covid. My whole identity was just being good at my job, and then I was no longer that. In part I think some blame is also to be placed on these companies who try to make the employees feel like a tribe or family. Since I've always been alone it was easy to slip into that false sense of belonging.

New comment by tednoob in "Using a LLM to compress text"

tednoob — Sun, 05 May 2024 07:07:23 +0000

Is this method used during training? Seems to me there could be a point to only backpropagate when the model is wrong?

New comment by tednoob in "Sarco suicide capsule ‘passes legal review’ in Switzerland"

tednoob — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 19:48:52 +0000

A reverse Turing test. A discussion with a computer to convince it you are a sane human.

New comment by tednoob in "RTL-entropy: Uses RTL-SDR to turn a DVB-T dongle into an entropy source"

tednoob — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 12:55:26 +0000

You have two adversaries. Adversary A have control over your hardware source, and adversary B have control over /dev/urandom. If you XOR them A and B must cooperate to compromise your random generator. You can combine as many sources of randomness as you want, and each increase the difficulty for an adversary to defeat your generator.

New comment by tednoob in "Outraged about the Google diversity memo?"

tednoob — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 13:05:43 +0000

Frankly I do not see how 50/50, or any fixed number, can be a representation of the unbiased state. The unbiased state is unknown.

If you look at what the orchestra did and remove factors you know are irrelevant for the applicants then you should move towards a more unbiased state independent of what the number actually is. The problem is to find out what bias you have. One way is to compare the people who apply with the people you hire. You can see what traits you select on, then you can decide if you think those traits are good or bad.

New comment by tednoob in "Outraged about the Google diversity memo?"

tednoob — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 09:12:07 +0000

Do you have to know the target? Correct for bias you have, then question what it is upstream that is creating that bias.

New comment by tednoob in "Outraged about the Google diversity memo?"

tednoob — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 07:27:26 +0000

Google are countering an existing bias by hiring people contrary to the bias. The orchestra is removing the bias.

Is it possible for Google to remove bias? Isn't the real problem further upstream? I bet that if you look at all applicants applying for jobs at Google you will see the same skew as Google have in their offices already.

New comment by tednoob in "Beyond the boring blockchain bubble"

tednoob — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 12:02:03 +0000

I think I would say that I have some regrets not buying/mining. When I first heard about bitcoin I thought that it was pretty neat but I did not want to support it because I thought it is such a waste of exergy.

New comment by tednoob in "UK Government proposes porn-viewing ID"

tednoob — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 10:25:37 +0000

Isn't it better to assume nothing is safe for children and to leave the internet as the wild wild west that it is? Have the Government set up their own CA to sign the stuff they approve of. A child safe web browser would just disregard anything that doesn't have a valid certificate.

New comment by tednoob in "CIA ‘Siren Servers’ can predict social uprisings 3-5 days in advance"

tednoob — Sun, 09 Oct 2016 01:00:12 +0000

I am not certain, but I think Recorded Future does something similar, and according to Wikipedia they are backed by the CIA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_Future

New comment by tednoob in "Nvidia stuffs desktop GTX 1080, 1070, 1060 into laptops, drops the “M”"

tednoob — Tue, 16 Aug 2016 11:13:58 +0000

If simply discussing current generations so yay for the Vive wireless lighthouse base stations and controllers but nay for its 12V 1.5A requirement. As for the oculus, yay for its 5V over USB but nay for its cable connected tracking.

New comment by tednoob in "What’s Next for Artificial Intelligence"

tednoob — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 15:01:02 +0000

I'm not certain I would necessarily agree with that. I think humans are limited by memory, not by technique, and I see no real reason the same way we do it now cannot scale.

New comment by tednoob in "What’s Next for Artificial Intelligence"

tednoob — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 14:57:06 +0000

I have neither an idea of how to build one, nor am I a plausible client. Sorry mate :)

New comment by tednoob in "What’s Next for Artificial Intelligence"

tednoob — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 13:07:45 +0000

I want a management assisting AI. It would be neat to have it listen into all meetings to identify stakeholders and to be able to remember all the details and place them in a larger context, so you can ask detailed questions. An AI can attend all meetings, and remember every detail. Imagine intelligent documentation.

New comment by tednoob in "Russia Is Reportedly Set to Release Clinton's Intercepted Emails"

tednoob — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 11:35:58 +0000

Why would Russia release anything until the DMC have chosen Clinton as their candidate? I think that if Russia actually prefer Trump they would not release anything that would benefit Sanders in his struggle against Clinton.

New comment by tednoob in "AI produces realistic sounds that fool humans"

tednoob — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 11:11:18 +0000

Since the discussion seem to have died down a bit I just have to say it, sorry. Quit beating around the bush.

New comment by tednoob in "Turkish Citizenship Database Leaked"

tednoob — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 11:06:56 +0000

The 'personnummer' is also publicly available, though the sites usually have to limit access in order to comply with Personuppgiftslagen/PuL (Swedish version of the Data Protection Directive).