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Still in beta with Verse Draft: https://versedraft.com - An all-in-one writing studio where fiction writers can keep all the details for their universes in one place while crafting…

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Keep in mind that unlike purchasing a stock where the most amount of money you can lose is the amount of money you spend buying the stock (assuming you didn't buy it on margin), if…

This is why I mentioned the plateauing. If for some reason that just doesn't happen and things continue at a relatively linear or even exponential rate, then all bets are off. I'd …

I completely agree with you, and I certainly meant no offense to anyone who's a practicing nurse. I spent some time in the military, and my expression of medics and nurses are most…

I have been writing software for over 40 years and have had a long time interest in and some work in AI over that time. I wouldn’t say this gives me any more prognosticating power …

I've just released in beta, a web-based application called Verse Draft: https://versedraft.com I wanted to create an all-in-one writing studio where fiction writers can keep all th…

Wouldn't a subjectively boring picture present an even greater challenge to the creativity of the writer involved in the competition? It could have been a picture of a Barton Newma…

Another to add to this list would be Isaac Asimov. Most well known as a Science Fiction writer, he actual wrote over 500 books (mostly non-fiction) on a wide variety of subjects.

Many word processors (Microsoft Word, LibreOffice Writer, etc.) and some online editors will auto convert double hyphens "--" as they are typed into an em dash.

This might cover what you are looking for: https://www.khanacademy.org/

It seems like some things always remain the same: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ZZJXw4MTA

You may want to have a look at Mistral OCR: https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ocr

If you run the `gguf_orpheus.py` file in that repository, it will capture the audio tokens and convert them to a .wav file. With a little more work, you can feed the streaming audi…

GGUF version created by "isaiahbjork" which is compatible with LM Studio and llama.cpp server at: https://github.com/isaiahbjork/orpheus-tts-local/ To run llama.cpp server: llama-s…

To be clear, my amusement isn't that I find this technique to not be useful for the purpose it was created, but that 40 years later, we find ourselves in pursuit for the advancemen…

This amuses me tremendously. I began programming in the early 1980s and quickly developed an interest in Artificial Intelligence. At the time there was a great interest in the adva…

There are a number of ways this might get solved, but I would speculate that it will generally be solved by adding image metadata that is signed by a certificate authority similar …

For those who might not be aware of this, there is also an open source project on GitHub called "Twinny" which is an offline Visual Studio Code plugin equivalent to Copilot: https:…

Started 1982 on Tandy Color Computer. Still at it. #1 Advice - Focus on getting things done (as many will not) and Lego build interconnected/isolated simplicity as much as possible…

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I haven't personally tried that one, but on the HuggingFace LLM Leaderboard: Open-Orca/Mistral-7B-SlimOrca - AVG: 60.37, ARC: 62.54, HellaSwag: 83.86, MMLU: 62.77, TruthfulQA: 54.2…

BTW, for anyone who might not be aware of it, this model trained by Intel based on the Mistral architecture is probably the single best general 7B model available currently: https:…

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