woodson

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Machine learning, NLP, speech recognition, speaker recognition.
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Comment · 2 months ago
This is great, as is the CasioGShockSmartSync Android app. I wish there was an iOS app, as the official app is horrible, only works after signing up for an account, and only works if given every tracking permission possible to vacuum the maximum amount of data to the cloud.
Comment · 2 months ago
To be fair, the hobbyist hardware mod variants that do step tracking only last for days, not years AFAIK.
Comment · 2 months ago
Yes, it seems to be a repackaging of the ABL-100WE and has a long battery life. Unfortunately, their app is horrible, only works after signing up for an account, and only works if given every tracking permission possible to vacuum the maximum amount of data to the cloud.
Comment · 2 months ago
If all you're looking for is a step counter in your watch, check out Casio ABL100WE. The battery lasts for two years (CR2016).
Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
Try option-click on the green icon in the app window. It’s well hidden and unintuitive, but I think it does what you want.
Comment · 3 months ago
For a long time, AI was a bad word that stood for unfulfilled promise. See AI Winter. Hence, researchers strictly avoided the term while still working on learning algorithms, the same that power LLM training.
Comment · 3 months ago
There’s a bit of a grey area, for example speech recognition. Would you classify that as analytic or generative? Whisper and speech LLMs work pretty well, but can completely make up stuff that wasn’t in the audio at all (see e.g. “thank you for watching” transcribed during silence). Other approaches are closer to the acoustic evidence but may make other mistakes (especially wrongly transcribing long tail, low frequency terms). Pick your poison.
Comment · 3 months ago
Thanks for sharing, this is a great improvement (also and especially for human use! Renders much better on mobile phones compared to Confluence).
Comment · 3 months ago
> Alongside the poorly lit spaceship. Spaceships are workplaces and workplaces should provide adequate illumination so you can see what you are doing.

I always thought the same about CSI. Have the set designers ever been to a lab?

Comment · 4 months ago
> 5090 ($2k MSRP but realistically $3-3.5k)

These days, more like >$4.1K (at least in the US).

Comment · 5 months ago
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