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ideashower

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    Comment #48929325

    I would add supporting literacy programs to that list. Unfortunately, many Americans struggle to read beyond the sixth grade level.

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    Comment #47980968

    I was in route to Zambia when rumbling started happening that the event was in trouble. I boarded a 15 hour flight at JFK and landed in Nairobi with the news that it was done. You …

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    Comment #47521001

    Is there a local model that this would work with?

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    Comment #47394768

    Yeah. I feel like I recall Matt Damon or some similarly famous actor saying that the reason there's been such a shift is largely due to the loss of physical media. It would give ev…

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    Comment #47394703

    I went to the recent re-screenings of the Lord of the Rings movies -- and maybe 30 minutes into the first film, I realized I'd never actually seen it in a theater before. It was gl…

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    Comment #47047847

    This is well made - is it open source?

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    Comment #46721765

    Huh. One of the English Voice Clone examples features Obama.

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    Comment #46660056

    Wouldn't that break Jagex's TOS though? Is there a way of getting caught?

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    Comment #46491018

    You’re describing how Iraq was sold, not why it was justified.

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    Comment #46480366

    Yeah, I also read that in the news, which was the thought behind my comment honestly.

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    Comment #46479921

    Replace Venezuela with Iraq, and Maduro with Saddam, and read this whole comment section. We never learn.

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    Comment #45946978

    I like the idea of using vintage LLMs to study explicit and implicit bias. e.g. text before mid-19th century believing in racial superiority, gender discrimination, imperial author…

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    Comment #45755556

    They also search online and return links, though? And, you can steer them when they do that to seek out more "authoritative" sources (e.g. news reports, publications by reputable o…

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    Comment #45740261

    Wouldn't being a UK company not shield you from the "eyes" surveillance apparatus?

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    Comment #45594141

    Can you back up your claim that it's slow?

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    Comment #45430306

    A side project that takes legal documents and uses TTS models to create a narrated read out of the whole document. Part of the reason I'm building my own solution is that legal doc…

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    Comment #45372565

    Oh so cool! Do you know of other themes like it, also open source?

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    Comment #45220897

    What does it mean though, practically? What could I do with a thread-enabled iPhone?

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    Comment #45140287

    Completely agree. I jumped back in recently for some electronics work and was surprised to learn that the Raspberry Pi imaging tool allows you to set the root user, WiFi SSID, and …

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    Comment #44957234

    Do you know if there's any kind of writing about the different types of diarization methods?

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    Comment #44944742

    Is there speaker detection?

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    Comment #44806791

    What can you do with this information, I wonder? Like what's the point?

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    Comment #44662456

    PDF of the plan: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Americ...

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    Comment #44662453

    PDF: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Americ...

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    Comment #44555889

    Damn. I want to try this, now.