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Training someone to change the perceived gender of their own voice is a similar process to training them to speak with a new accent. I recently prototyped a gender-affirming voice …

I think this is a super intriguing project! I’ve been experimenting with some similar work on my old unfinished songs from eons past. It’s been really fulfilling to take that old w…

Location: Oakland, California Remote: Yes, preferred. Open to hybrid in SF Bay Area. Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Gen AI (both user and engineering side), TypeScript, Reac…

I spent my day hacking on this to see what it’s capable of (built a simple little tool that displays MIDI clips as sheet music: https://github.com/madisonrickert/ableton-sheet-musi…

Location: Oakland, California Remote: Yes, preferred. Open to hybrid in SF Bay Area. Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Gen AI (both user and engineering side), TypeScript, Reac…

Redundant verification is built into the workflow, both at the agent-instruction level and downstream. Reconciling a monthly bank statement with your account register in QuickBooks…

I’ve given it access to my small business books for the last few months (attended sessions only) and so far it’s helped me clean up countless errors made by humans, at the expense …

I’ll admit this article was enough to convince me to port one of my CLI tools from Python to Rust last night and I got a 30x performance gain with a binary 20% of the size. Not bad…

I’ve been using Blender for 20 years and it’s been amazing to see how far it’s come. Sadly, the writing is on the wall for my trusty Hackintosh since they recently decided to drop …

Yeah, a USB-C hub should do it. Also some cameras record directly to USB-C drives.

Lifelong musician, originally went to school back in 2009 for media arts with an emphasis on sound engineering. It isn't my only source of income, but I've been diligent about grow…

Intriguingly, ADHD is correlated with crime as well. Some studies would estimate that it's 4-10x (or more) as prevalent in prison populations as in the general population.[1][2] We…

Growing up in the Midwest, these were a Halloween staple.

I had episodes like this when I was younger. And had them flare up when I was taking Buspirone for anxiety as an adult. They'd last about 10-20 minutes and I always described them …

That all makes a lot of sense. I wonder if those issues could be alleviated by contracting a sufficiently large outside firm to manage therapy services, thus at least creating some…

This brings to mind Poe's Law (that on the Internet, any sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality), so I would think not.

When I run a technical interview for a dev role, I make a point to ask the candidate to Google their way to a solution since I figure that's probably one of the top skills they'll …

Yes, Vanguard supports individual stocks with no trading fees.

If you haven't, try going into your video settings on Zoom and selecting "Enable HD". This solution has fixed the aspect ratio problem you're describing for my company's customers …

I let my social photos and snapshots on my phone auto-upload to Google Photos. Lightroom CC automatically ingests any raw images I take on my phone. I sort and archive those on Lig…

They don't take pull requests, but Unity has at least had their source code published for reference for a while. https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference

The Dictionary Project | Full Stack Web Developer, IT Administrator | Charlestone, SC | Full-time, ONSITE The Dictionary Project is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization whose missio…

The Dictionary Project | Full Stack Web Developer, IT Administrator | Charlestone, SC | Full-time, ONSITE The Dictionary Project is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization whose missio…

SEEKING WORK | Remote or SF Bay Area I'm a full stack JavaScript/ES2015+ developer with 15 years of programming experience. I've been helping startups build MVPs for the last 5 yea…

Makes plenty of sense. Real beef doesn't taste as good when you overcook it too.