my favorite boardgame this year is "Faraway", and if anyone's curious you can find & prove the optimal score is 250 with the cp-sat solver
thinking about the sunlight today that bounced off the sea, a glint in my eyes, and back through the air and the clouds and the sky, racing through the universe as fast as possible until maybe one day someone else somewhere else sees it too
I would like to coin casadastraphilia, for the celestial feeling when you have your back on the ground and you’re looking at the night sky and it feels like it will swallow you, like you could fall forward into the whole universe
I built a website that makes you hear the voices in your head. They will complete your thoughts, in all the ways they might have unfolded, with your own voice. Everything runs locally in your browser.
Sound on:
I wanted the experience to be 1) local 2) realtime and 3) with voice cloning. Under the hood it’s VAD -> STT -> LLM -> TTS, respectively:
- Silero
- Parakeet CTC 0.6B
- LFM2.5-350
⁃ Pocket TTS by @kyutai_labs cc @honualx
Ofc, they're not technically your thoughts. I finetuned the LLM on Simone Weil’s and Albert Camus’s personal notebooks. It is a small model, dumb in a weird fun way. You can also finetune it on your own notes or messages, and the experience with both your voice and some of your thought-pieces is a bit uncanny. Here’s the repo if you’d like to try: github.com/vidalmaxime/voice…
you can try it here:
maximevidal.com/turing-patte… and also read the math explanation
love to see it. so many doctors use the free version of these models - this is very big for public health.
Verified U.S. clinicians can get free GPT-6 Astra (Pro) access today via ChatGPT for Clinicians.
Sign up: chatgpt.com/plans/clinicians…
maxime retweeted
Being unemployed doesn't prevent us from doing important science. We took things into our own hands to test which fizzy water was the best, and yOu wON't bElieVE the conclusions. This might not go in my thesis but @vmaxmc2 made a nice article.
maximevidal.com/sparkling-wa…
congrats to the winners of the aliens-are-coming-what-do-we-tell-them essay competition! dearaliens.net/
you can read my entry here if you want dearaliens.net/winners/tenth…
