They named their tts "Deep Throat"? Why would you?
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#12They named their tts "Deep Throat"? Why would you?
It could be a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Throat_(Watergate)
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#13This is unrelated but what's with the fascination with HN users and My Little Pony? I've noticed this on a lot of posts in the past few months.
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#14This is unrelated but what's with the fascination with HN users and My Little Pony? I've noticed this on a lot of posts in the past few months.
A lot of people in or around tech are furries, are into things like japanese animation, or are into My Little Pony. I don't consider myself one, but people often jokingly say that furries run the Internet.
And it's not really specific to HN. For instance you have well-known people in the community who do vaccine R&D, or cryptography, or contribute to the C/C++ standards at ISO, or several other STEM things that are pretty outspoken about their interests.
This is made more obvious on Twitter, where people tend to blur their personal and work identities a lot.
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#15This is unrelated but what's with the fascination with HN users and My Little Pony? I've noticed this on a lot of posts in the past few months.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Little_Pony:_Friendship_Is_... explains in detail - between 2010 and ~2015 there was a massive overlap between millennial geek culture and unironic fandom of the rebooted My Little Pony show, especially among millennial men. One dedicated fan hub averaged almost 400k page views per day over its first 3.5 years of existence. And throughout it all, programming projects abounded, such as the delightful FiM++ esoteric language (https://esolangs.org/wiki/FiM%2B%2B) styled after the show's framing device. For many in tech now, it was an inescapable part of internet culture of the early 2010s, and a fond memory for many.
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#16This is really cool. It's a text-to-speech and the gist seems to be that they synthesize it from only a little audio. The results are clearly synthetic and need work. However what's cool is that there are a ton of characters (from popular shows and video games) and there are useful statistics like inferred emotion (which is also in the output). Honestly it's a big problem how a lot of AIs are like "black boxes" where…
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#17This is unrelated but what's with the fascination with HN users and My Little Pony? I've noticed this on a lot of posts in the past few months.
I mean, 15.ai started as a 4chan project for /mlp/ users to generate voice lines from official voice actors now that Friendship is Magic is over (google Pony Preservation Project). Honestly, the more impressive part is that a bunch of nobodies on an imageboard leapfrogged the rest of the industry and made a now-famous voice transformer model.
In the greater sense, though? Ponies have always been this weird relic of internet absurdity and bear-baiting. Some people rep it ironically, other people are dead-serious, but the community has significant overlap with the STEM field. As a result, a lot of pony-related stuff would end up propagating into the tech world, much like this very project.
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#18This is unrelated but what's with the fascination with HN users and My Little Pony? I've noticed this on a lot of posts in the past few months.
Friendship is Magic was a legitimately good show. (Or at least Season 1 and 2 were).
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#19This is really cool. It's a text-to-speech and the gist seems to be that they synthesize it from only a little audio. The results are clearly synthetic and need work. However what's cool is that there are a ton of characters (from popular shows and video games) and there are useful statistics like inferred emotion (which is also in the output). Honestly it's a big problem how a lot of AIs are like "black boxes" where…
You can fine tune GPT-3
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#20They named their tts "Deep Throat"? Why would you?
Perhaps as a joke?