Could you elaborate on the progress that has been made?
To me, it seems only small/incremental changes are made between models with all of them still hallucinating.
I can see no clear steps towards AGI.
I suspect instructing the model to respond with "I don't know" more readily will result in more of those responses even though there are other options that seem viable according to the training data / model.
Remember, LLMs are just statistical sentence completion machines. So telling it what to respond with will increase the likelihood of that happening, even if there are other options that are viable.
But since you can't blindly trust LLM output anyway, I guess increasing "I don't know" responses is a good way of reducing incorrect responses (which will still happen frequently enough) at the cost of missing some correct ones.
Last time I tried Elevenlabs for German text, it got a lot of numbers and dates wrong.
E. g. saying "1963" when the actual year in the text was 1967. Yeah, the voices sound very realistic. But I'm not sure how useful that is if you can't trust the spoken words.
Does anyone know if it got better in the last weeks?
I'm currently building an open source CMS in Golang. Meaning fully implemented backend and frontend + support for custom themes in the frontend and custom collections/items in the backend.
Now, there is a lot of CMS software out there. Some of the better ones are paid products.
What I'm hoping to eventually accomplish is easy local creation of a website (content and themes) and after that easy one click deployment to a cheap hosting provider. Alternatively just copying a local folder to your own vps/server with the CMS should be enough.
My dream outcome would be a CMS that is a one-stop solution for most types of websites (blogs, company sites, shops, ...). To hopefully contribute to making people stop using facebook, twitter, other centralized and eventually login seeking services for hosting content people would like to read.
For this, a free/cheap one click hosting solution after locally creating and previewing a site would be necessary.
PHP is still pretty widely used here because cheap web hosting package support that.
I like PHP, but for open source projects I prefer Go because of the maintainability and fun of writing it.
Sorry, but that doesn't work in real world applications. Multiple requests are fired simultaneously all the time. E. g. browsers starting with multiple tabs, smartphone apps starting and firing multiple requests etc.
I've heard that CRDT needs to be the source of truth for certain features to work (handling users going online/offline?). I was never quite sure why it would not work to just create a new CRDT document from another source of truth (markdown, database, ...) when starting an editing session. Maybe someone else can explain.
I'm using your service (found it on HN too) for a side project and I'm very happy with it. Good job!
One nitpick: I'm seeing occasional timeouts (probably because the residential endpoint went down recently). Do you have a best practice on how to work around that?
I've looked at the compute module. It is positioned as the way to go for mass production - but the price point seems higher than the Rpi as you still need a base board for it to function.
I'm currently prototyping a product using the Raspberry Pi + GPIO. I've often wondered - if the thing makes it to market - how I would substitute the Rpi in mass production (1000+). The SD card is a big point of failure for many Rpi users for example. So storage is probably something I would change.
Does anyone have experience with a mass produced product that used the Rpi in prototypes?
I know element14 is offering Raspberry Pi customization for mass production.
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Apps you'll be working on include SPIEGEL ONLINE, DER SPIEGEL, and SPIEGEL TV which are used by millions of readers daily.
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SPIEGEL Tech Lab | Android Developer | Hamburg, Germany | Full time | Onsite | http://www.spiegel.de
We're looking for someone to dive into our existing Android code bases as well as develop new mobile apps from the ground up.
Apps you'll be working on include SPIEGEL ONLINE, DER SPIEGEL, and SPIEGEL TV which are used by millions of readers daily.
We need you to be proficient in Java, Android SDK, and Git. We would be very pleased if you bring a curious mind as well :) In addition to that, familiarity with relevant technologies used within SPIEGEL will be a plus (e.g. SQL, HTML, CSS, JS, iOS development, Java server side).
Due to the nature of our industry (publishing), you should be able to read/write/speak German on a native level.
They used to hand out Turkish Delight after take off. They didn't the last time I've flown with them though (October 2016, economy).
Did they stop doing that altogether?
I feel the same.
Maybe we should pool some money to train it on AWS.
Is there a community where Machine Learning hobbyists can pool money to train models that are open sourced afterwards?
Great idea! Are you planning to support F-Droid or other non-Play store sources?
I know first hand[1] that visibility of an Android game is basically zero if it's not on the Play store. So something like this could help alternative ways of distribution to become feasible.
Gatekeeping is a complex job of managing boundaries that do not just define others but that also define ourselves. Status symbols — silk shells, designer shoes, luxury handbags — become keys to unlock these gates.
Pierre Bourdieu's "La Distinction" is a great text that investigates this topic in depth. It's (among other things) about taste. How it's inherited through generations, how it's a gatekeeping tool for jobs and status.
What you wear isn't the whole story btw. It's also how you wear it (as exemplified above ("Chavs" wearing Burberry)). One of Bourdieu's examples is art and how one speaks about it (using certain words, knowing the "right" works of art etc. Another example might be wine).
I don't know if Bourdieu is widely read in the US, but he certainly influenced my thinking about class, class boundaries, and taste. Highly recommended.