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Major Open Source Engine is Coqui. Others to consider -- Whisper, and Piper. XTTS model weights from Coqui - coqui-ai/TTS: 🐸💬 - a deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech, battle-tested in research and production KoljaB/RealtimeTTS…

Articles James Lovelock remembered by John Gray | James Lovelock | The Guardian; archive.is The experimental station was so called because Jim made most of his income throughout his life as an inventor. He was among the last in that…

smoler the better

I should ideally start any and all new projects here so that I can keep track of what I've started and yet unfinished. Inspired by main.horse (who talks about "unfinished plans", slightly different, but a good idea worth stealing). See…

Hutter Prize -- 500'000€ Prize for Compressing Human Knowledge sponsored by Marcus Hutter This compression contest is motivated by the fact that being able to compress well is closely related to acting intelligently, thus reducing the…

Hutter Prize -- 500'000€ Prize for Compressing Human Knowledge sponsored by Marcus Hutter This compression contest is motivated by the fact that being able to compress well is closely related to acting intelligently, thus reducing the…

Some notes on Local-First Development Show HN: ElectricSQL, Postgres to SQLite active-active sync for local-first apps It's an open source, local-first sync layer that can be used to build reactive, realtime, offline-capable apps directly…

metas segment anything model

Some notes from the Coursera Course

Some notes from the Coursera Course

information security

C++

HumanEval is an evaluation harness for the HumanEval Problem solving dataset described in the paper (Chen et al. 2021); arXiv. The code is available on github You can see this being used to evaluate new models like here - Beating GPT-4 on…

bun is a JavaScript runtime. Run run a .js or a .ts script: First install the deps: $bun install markdown. (Which also installs a binary md2html to where exactly I don't know.) Run the script: $ bun hello.ts hello world --- Hello from Bun!…

Melange is a backend for the OCaml compiler that emits JavaScript.

Meta L5 interview leetcode 150 blind 75 grind 169 grind 75 neetcode 150 sql 45 behavioural interview notes Comprehensive Guide to Prepare for LeetCode Interviews --- The Algorithm of an Algorithm. Working at Outco for the better part of… |…

OCaml's build system

Notes on Buffalo Go web framework

Data Query Languages

Linux containers from scratch in C.

How To Style An Atom Feed With XSLT Show HN: JavaScript-free (X)HTML Includes | Hacker News, and ...tried that, getting an empty match. here is the actual stylesheet i am using ...

Fundamental rule -- Friends don't let friends make certain types of data visualization - What are they and why are they bad. Vega-Lite Vega is a declarative format for creating, saving, and sharing visualization designs. With Vega…

Meta-Transformer: A Unified Framework for Multimodal Learning -- Unified Multimodal Learning. Meta-Transformer utilizes the same backbone to encode natural languages, images, point clouds, audio, video, infrared, hyperspectral, X-ray…

Notes on Hypermedia Systems web applications are not islands. We’re writing HTML not just for a particular application, but also to play along with other members of the web. When we write with the hypermedia system in mind, we’re better…

Essays A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis - Lin Yangchen The Futures of Typography Typographic Portrait Composed Entirely of Brass Rule and notes on Finnish typographer Valto Malmiola. Videos Designing with Ghosts - Great Minds…

Hyper Text Markup Language

Low level, high performance programming

one, two, buckle my shoe

k-v engine to build your own database

O'Reilly Webcast: Bayesian Statistics Made Simple - YouTube by Allen Downey, author "Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers" in Python. Bayesian Data Analysis 3rd edition by Andrew Gelman et al..; Feb 2025. ( PDF ).

prep material

When you log something, make it searchable and analyzable.

Stigler diet - Wikipedia is an optimization "Optimization (mathematics)") problem named for George Stigler, a 1982 Nobel laureate in economics, who posed the following problem: For a moderately active man weighing 154 pounds, how much of…

Why Are There So Many Python Dataframes? pandas/Modin, Polars, RAPIDS cuDF, Ibis, Snowpark Dataframes, Vaex, Dask, PySpark, Daft, BigQuery Dataframes, etc. Dataframe users and maintainers think of dataframes in at least four ways — as…

Hydro - Build Software for Every Scale ; via HN The Hydro Project at UC Berkeley is developing cloud-native programming models that allow anyone to develop scalable and resilient distributed applications that take full advantage of cloud…

the thing that acts like the other thing

There is a niche for "small"ish books of about 100 pages that can be useful for survey books "what is there to know about X" "what's new in X since Y event/version/year" deep dive into a niche topic "asyncio in python and how it is used in…

An educational side project -- article by Gergely Orosz Challenging projects every programmer should try - Austin Z. Henley Why I prefer making useless stuff - Austin Z. Henley My Approach to Building Large Technical Projects – Mitchell…

a notebook for programming

serverless platforms

Policy-based control for cloud native environments