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Re: TextSynth Server

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This man, Fabrice Bellard again... Frankly, I have not seen a more impressive portfolio of programming output.

I wonder if he ever went to interview they would try leetcode, or what is that squiggly thing in a code sample is for or are you a Language XXX programmer and other similar things. I can bet that this guy would probably fail many standard selection criteria.

Re: TextSynth Server

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I've been feeling FOMO (for lack of a better term) about recent AI & ML/GPT progression. It feels like ML/AI it might be the beginning of the end for a large class of things (if I wanted to be alarmist I'd say "everything") -- and the fact that Fabrice Bellard has jumped in and done the absolutely obvious rising-tide thing (building an API that abstracts the technologies) speaks volumes. Releasing something like this…

Control freak, by any chance? Is it really so hard to just "go with the flow"?

Hard to just "go with the flow" when your livelihood can be possibly threatened.

Re: TextSynth Server

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I've been feeling FOMO (for lack of a better term) about recent AI & ML/GPT progression. It feels like ML/AI it might be the beginning of the end for a large class of things (if I wanted to be alarmist I'd say "everything") -- and the fact that Fabrice Bellard has jumped in and done the absolutely obvious rising-tide thing (building an API that abstracts the technologies) speaks volumes. Releasing something like this…

I understand what you mean. I have dropped delving into other programming languages and frameworks to learn more about these AI/ML/GPT stuff.

Re: TextSynth Server

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Very interesting as usual from Fabrice Bellard, but I'm a little bit disappointed this time, because libnc is a closed source DLL. Nevertheless it will be interesting to compare it to the amazing work of Georgi Gerganov: GGML Tensor Library. Both are heavily optimized, supports AVX intrinsics and are plain C/C++ implementation without dependencies.

Re: TextSynth Server

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Very interesting as usual from Fabrice Bellard, but I'm a little bit disappointed this time, because libnc is a closed source DLL. Nevertheless it will be interesting to compare it to the amazing work of Georgi Gerganov: GGML Tensor Library. Both are heavily optimized, supports AVX intrinsics and are plain C/C++ implementation without dependencies.

I expect LibNC will be better in every aspect: performance, accuracy, determinism. But hopefully with time we will close the gap.

Re: TextSynth Server

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Everyone has an accent that tells where they are coming from. People who think they don’t have an accent simply don’t know that they have one.

Not true. I'm a French native and I've been fooled both ways: by native speakers having an accent and by non-native using idioms and tone flawlessly.

Some people are just masters at imitating tones and accents.

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