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I often see charitable groups from the Sikh community in central London serving the homeless. Interesting to hear the background around that! https://asiasamachar.com/2023/10/10/me…

Well the code is there: https://github.com/voideditor/void/tree/main/extensions/void But it's super basic right now... Like literally just the bare minimum to make an LLM call in a…

Regarding hosting, it's a big pain point for companies building these systems out of China as the "great firewall" makes it really hard to have reliable connectivity between the Ch…

Something worth keeping in mind is that Chinese factories that makes things like IP cameras don't typically have their own (significant) R&D departments and instead work from examp…

A club is one of the few places where this strategy won't work, unless there's an emergency (which the bouncers would obviously know about) the only people who would show up are fr…

It's the curse of being a company with a $xxxB main product line. It becomes really hard to justify projects that could at best contribute a few million to your bottom line...

You might be interested in knowing that LCSC (same company as JLCPCB) are about to offer proper panel / membrane keypad prototyping: https://www.lcsc.com/panel-printing

That's going to be something similar to IPAdapter FaceID: https://ipadapterfaceid.com Basically you use a facial structure representation that you'd use for face recognition (which…

It's almost as if politicians are less motivated to enact legislation that is inconvenient to politicians.

Pick the ones that give a delivery deadline (5/7 days). No problems at all (at least from UK), always arrives ahead of schedule.

Came to say this too... I was really pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to get a full dev & build & test environment set up with Visual Studio Code, and how well their little …

Well, here's "Not James Hoffman" having a go: https://youtu.be/-yB6Fb05QRo?si=PqhwiRsRnz39LOYJ

The Kino introductory blog post makes quite clear that all they do is apply one of a set of LUTs that ship with their app. Personally I'd be interested in one that tried to apply c…

It's tough in this case, because if you incentivise just to save cost, it could always route you to the cheapest LLM but the quality would suffer...

Yes, but this scenario is a bit different. If you ask a connector factory to custom-make you a connector it's common that they are allowed to add it to their catalogue, though you …

There's over 182 domestic routes flown in the UK (Heathrow - Edinburgh is the most popular one): https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/domestic-flights-in-the...

But you can only really make those profitably for a few industries (military, medical, seismic come to mind). The EU does have the chip fabs for those industries, of course...

60g/l acetic acid ... that's literally just slightly strong household vinegar. (safety precautions, especially not breathing it in, are definitely advisable though, it's a fairly s…

It seems we'll have convincing AI video impersonation before practical quantum cryptanalysis, unfortunately...

It's more that the LLM non-local hosting (and training) community (on A100/H100) is big enough that it's more profitable for Nvidia to not release such prosumer GPUs ;)

None of the open source models I've seen are as "well-rounded", production ready as Eleven Labs. Though for example bark is really great at prosody: https://suno-ai.notion.site/Bar…

Yeah, sadly it'd cost about $100 to get a book per month... Not quite competitive with Audible yet, but give it a year perhaps, or a few iterations of the open source models... (fi…

thanks!

Elevenlabs is a lot closer to compelling audiobook narration (needs a better way to deal with multiple characters in a story without manual use of multiple voices): https://pub-a24…