Damus

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as of today we've finished with the tts reading of the first amber chronicles book :blobcatread:

somewhere about half way in i discovered i could run some tools to clean up the voice samples. so there's a huge quality jump :blobcatlaugh:
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reminder that google and openai basically wrote letters years ago talking about making high end compute inaccessible to the common person. this was part of a plan to curtail consumer AI since gooners on chans were slaughtering them in the AI race.

i wonder if they remember writing those letters or today is just a happy accident.
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microsoft execs mad everyone hates their new toys and calls it slop

the funny part is people are actively using LLMs to code--they just hate copilot specifically. like even among people who engage in slopcore microsoft is at the bottom of the list.
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> requirements
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PostgreSQL 14+ with pgvector extension
MongoDB for metadata storage

who the fuck

:neocat_gun: you have postgres you don't need mongo, stop that
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people talking about "the AI bubble"

:neocat_googly: yeah sure. i don't know what you mean by this. i have nothing but cynical market theories about why there's so much investment in a product people don't want and especially in the avenue of research least likely to successfully pull it off.

how many billions you gotta set on fire before just making and using the neuromorphics becomes the obviously better idea
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:neocat_laptop: yeah we're trying to work through this issue. i've been embedded in a community for three weeks with these observational notes, i've got this stack of books from international scientists on social psychology, and have been running our conclusions through en AI model
:revblobfoxscared: allow me to enter this conversation to whine about AI slop!

realizing machiaveli's rule that responding to an argument is implicitly accepting to have it

:revblobfoxscared: :neocat_gun: i decline your tangent, help or fuck off