Jonathan Fly 👾 @jonathanfly

CEO of bad ideas. Using the wrong tool. The least efficient way. For no good reason. 👾 https://t.co/9O94rxu31k https://t.co/DDPn3Nlhom github.com/JonathanFly/ Joined April 2009

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Jonathan Fly 👾 @jonathanfly

12 months ago

Google's NotebookLM generates an AI podcast from any document. Weirdly the podcast even had space for ad breaks. A document of only dril tweets is more coherent than I expected - mostly psychoanalysis. "He's always seeking validation, then lashing out at anyone criticizing him."

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Jonathan Fly 👾 @jonathanfly

12 months ago

2002's "Star Wars Kid" Special Edition. Gen-3 Alpha does well with fast moving lighting like at 0:50s. Some very strange lightsaber *grips* but these are complicated motions, and I made things more confusing prompting "lightsabers" plural.

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Jonathan Fly 👾 @jonathanfly

12 months ago

Ocarina of Time "Yarn-ified" editions seem to gender swap Zelda for Link? Also fun to see Gen-3 Alpha V2V interpret video that isn't consistent frame-to-frame as "Inception" style warping landscapes (text prompts are identical).

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Greg Egan @gregeganSF

a year ago

Crowdstrike have advised that the world will be reverted to its last valid backup set, dated 7 Jan 2014, within the next 30 minutes. Please make paper notes of anything important to you from the intervening period, and tape them to your refrigerator door in a prominent position.

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Robert Heaton @RobJHeaton

a year ago

I wrote a tool called PySkyWiFi that gives you completely free, unbelievably stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights. It tunnels data through the "first name" field in your airmiles account, and can reach speeds of up to several bytes per second. robertheaton.com/pyskywifi

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Jonathan Fly 👾 @jonathanfly

a year ago

Trying out new lipsync models @hedra_labs and Hallo github.com/fudan-generati… Before Suno and Udio took over AI music, I enjoyed trying to use Bark TTS as a singing text-to-music model. Bark is a terrible music model, but the 3 model architecture allows for some fun possibilities…

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Jonathan Fly 👾 @jonathanfly

a year ago

SimpleSpeech TTS models the sentence-level duration prior by asking GPT-3.5 to predict sentence durations then lets "the model learn alignment between words implicitly." Can GPT possibly be adding anything useful here over simply counting words or characters, with some…

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Jonathan Fly 👾 @jonathanfly

a year ago

I trained a mamba audio model on 150 hours of YouTube poetry videos based on 2084.substack.com/p/2084-marcran… Doesn't make sense - but it *sounds* right - like a poetry reading in "The Sims" game.