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jannem

@jannem@fosstodon.org

Programmer and computational neuroscientist, now HPC support engineer in Okinawa, Japan.

Photography, bouldering, recreational programming and playing the sanshin are things I do.

Sweden, Osaka and Okinawa are places I particularly care about.

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gsuberland, to random
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I was looking into Codec 2 for low bitrate telephony, and it turns out some researchers made their own decoder for it called Parametric WaveNet, which is a deep learning model that generates speech directly from the Codec 2 data stream.

listen to the Codec 2 samples, then the Parametric WaveNet samples. they're both the exact same encoder at 2400bps. the difference in quality and inteligibility is outstanding.

https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/icassp2018/index.html

jannem,
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@gsuberland
for this kind of model-based decoder I'd really like to hear the result with a) heavily accented speakers; b) a couple of speakers with speech defects; and c) a couple of non-English language speakers.

jannem,
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@gsuberland
I was thinking not of less clarity, but more of when the speech doesn't conform to typical patterns they may have trained the model on.

I suspect that a DL model will handle distortion and other "low-level" variation a lot better than, say, a whole different statistical set of phonemes. It'd be really impressive if, for instance, it really is language independent.

kushal, to random
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I cooked lunch, it is terrible. A different level of bad taste.

jannem,
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@kushal
Vad lagade du? Och vad gick fel?

jannem, to GraphicsProgramming
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@VileLasagna Has a blog post on the relative speed of different compute frameworks on the same hardware and driver.

Tl;dr: on an card, with Nvidia drivers, is the slowest, by far. Fastest is our old stalwart - almost twice as fast when used only for compute. is good, and the least affected by using the card for your desktop at the same time. Read it - it's good.

https://vilelasagna.ddns.net/coding/if-you-want-performance-maybe-you-should-drop-cuda/

jannem,
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@hyc @VileLasagna
It's a simple computing test. Results are of course going to differ by the task - and ultimately the only benchmark that matters is your production code.

With that said, there's nothing odd going on with the source that I can see; this kind of simple structure isn't very rare in "real" code; and the difference is quite striking.

It's not the only data point I've seen - there's a recent CFD code that also shows impressive results with opencl.

janeadams, to linux
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This is a hilarious* way to start a class mostly full of bio grads who are just starting to dip their toes into programming 🥴

*terrifying, deeply alienating

#linux #gradschool #bioinformatics #phd #mac #computerscience

jannem,
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@janeadams
If the course is about bioinformatics specifically it's not exactly wrong - a lot of bioinformatics software doesn't run on Windows. And a lot of it effectively does require you to learn a bit about using a terminal.

But the way forward is not to tell people to buy new, alien stuff. Give each a login to a common computing resource. Failing that, arrange a lab space with preconfigured machines for those who can't or won't rip out their current own setup.

liztai, to random
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    jannem,
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    @liztai
    Difference is Substack the company has been actively promoting them, specifically, and monetizing them, even as they downrank or remove other content. They make it clear they don't just tolerate it; they like that content just fine.

    kfury, to random
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    If you told 1998 me one thing about the future that would convince me we were in a dystopia it would be that in 25 years JavaScript will be the most sought-after programming language.

    jannem,
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    @kfury
    Also, there's more Ruby jobs than there are Go, Rust, and Swift jobs combined.

    simon, to random
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    It’s OK to call it Artificial Intelligence: I wrote about how people really love objecting to the term "AI" to describe LLMs and suchlike because those things aren't actually "intelligent" - but the term AI has been used to describe exactly this kind of research since 1955, and arguing otherwise at this point isn't a helpful contribution to the discussion.

    https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jan/7/call-it-ai/

    jannem,
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    @simon @codinghorror @richardsheridan
    Has "AI" ever carried connotations of actual intelligence in the CS field? "AI" used to mean expert systems, logical inference, playing chess, "fuzzy logic", and so on and so on - none of which had any more to do with actual intelligence than deep neural networks.

    glassbottommeg, to gamedev
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    Random trick: increase your gravity to 3.5x real, but decrease gravity when you're holding the jump button down. Nothing fancier, literally just "jump button decreases gravity to 1x when held".

    It's what Metroid Prime did. It WORKS. CHECK THIS OUUUUUTTTT.

    (I detect the falling when reducing gravity state and put out lil glidey wings to contextualize it)

    Bird with a sword doing cool heavy jumps and glides

    jannem,
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    @glassbottommeg
    Why not normal gravity, then 0.3g while jumping? Wouldn't 3.5x normal make things fall too fast?

    jannem,
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    @glassbottommeg
    Is it scaling? Things in-game aren't human sized?

    futurebird, to random
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    One of the more confusing concepts in evolutionary biology is when biologists call a particular species "primitive"-- for example the bull ants (genus Myrmecia) are often call "primitive ants" because they tend to be solitary hunters. Diacamma is described as "primitive" for being solitary hunters and for having gamergates. (workers that become queens.)

    The concept is that these species have retained some trait that has largely vanished from other ants. 1/

    jannem,
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    @futurebird
    Correct me if I'm wrong: you could have convergent evolution where we have two species; one is still solitary from before ants started building large nests, and the other evolved from a social species to specialize as a solitary ant.

    They could be all but indistinguishable in morphology and behavior, yet one would be "primitive" and one "highly evolved".

    gamingonlinux, to random
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    Running an advert test for a while, more info: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/5957/page=1/

    jannem,
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    @gamingonlinux
    I logged out and took a look.

    Good: it's game ads! And localized to my location (Japan). On topic and relevant!

    Less good: it's all animated. As someone with the attention span of a squirrel, it's distracting.

    Overall, okay. Yes, you need and deserve the money. Go for it.

    kev, to DuckDuckGo
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    Search is quite topical at the moment, especially . I have to say, I’ve been very happy with and find myself using !s (Startpage) and !g less and less.

    I actually don’t remember the last time I used either. 🤷‍♂️

    jannem,
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    @kev
    I do use g! for specific error messages and, occasionally, for searches in japanese. Google is still better at both.

    Other than that, yes I agree.

    kev, to random
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    Matt asks “Here’s an uncomfortable question: when do I stop blogging?”
    https://kevquirk.com/when-will-i-stop-blogging

    jannem,
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    @kev
    I finally walked away last year. And just the other day I'm back blogging again.

    I don't think it has to be a definite single period. Be on then off again, switch blogs or platforms, change your subjects, take a break - and don't worry too much about it. Do it when it's fun. Don't do it when it's not.

    graemeinnes, to random
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    Happy World Braille Day. Invented by a blind person, and maintained by us despite opposition from some in the sighted community - now and in the past - Braille is the script that has enhanced my life. I use it every day. If anyone tells you Braille is no longer necessary they are wrong. Try not using print for a day or a week and then tell me Braille is not necessary. I could not have achieved much of what I have in my life without Braille. Thanks, Louis.

    jannem,
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    @graemeinnes
    I moved to Japan twenty years ago, and didn't know the language or writing system at all. It was debilitating - I couldn't even tell basic groceries apart in the store without the help of a dictionary and very cumbersome comparison character by character.

    Being able to read is essential.

    danluu, to random
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    What's gotten more and less reliable & durable over time?

    I'd be interested in seeing a breakdown of this by category, the way people break down inflation and find that some things have gotten cheaper while other things have gotten more expensive, but I'm not sure that exists?

    I think it's clear that some things last longer and are more reliable than they used to be (cars, computers, lightbulbs, etc.) and some things are less durable and reliable (jeans, some small kitchen appliances, etc.)

    jannem,
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    @jason @danluu
    They are out there. I buy the thick cloth T-shirts from Uniqlo (the ones that cost ~2000 yen - $15? - a piece), and I've got some that still are fine for work ten years after I got them.

    One thing that has changed is that many people now tumble-dry their clothes rather than hang to dry. And that rapidly wears out the cloth. Changing washing habits may explain part of the difference as well.

    jannem, to Blog
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    Wrote my first new post in almost a year!

    It's basically a lament that the web is broken, and a resolution to start blogging again, and to stop taking it so seriously.

    https://janneinosaka.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-web-is-broken.html

    frameworkcomputer, to random
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    What would you like to see from us in 2024?

    jannem,
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    @frameworkcomputer
    ARM laptop? Probably not possible...

    coffeegeek, to coffee
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    One of the main complaints again the Lagom Mini is the big power brick it ships with.

    But it's not that big. And in truth, it sticks out from a wall outlet only a bit more than most of the plugs on Breville devices.

    Still, it would be better if the plug wasn't built into the brick - if it could be detatched, extended, so the brick could be further hidden away.

    cc @coffee

    White power brick for the Lagom Mini, plugged into a wall outlet, with a breville plug above it.

    jannem,
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    @coffeegeek @coffee
    This is my general solution:

    https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.3SdtnP4SJtTP_Z9EOdEt-QHaF-%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=06b5b24dc98605898cdfb96037f063bb46d61365a253e54dca5131fddcaa4166&ipo=images

    Cdespinosa, to random
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    I’m looking at the final Billboard Hot 100 for 2023 and I can’t find a single song that would be considered “rock” of any kind. There’s R&B, adult contemporary, pop, K-pop, country—even the usual five Christmas songs. But no rock. Last year there were a couple rock-ish pop songs and a Kate Bush reissue.

    There was a lot of good rock this year. A new song by the Linda Lindas, new Stones and Metallica, Geddy Lee, Chemtrails, Big Wreck, Palaye Royale, Cassidy Paris. None of them made the charts.

    jannem,
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    @Cdespinosa
    Rock is aging out and going the way of jazz. It'll never be a dominant style again, but it will heavily influence current and future forms of music.

    xahteiwi, (edited ) to random
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    Are any of you aware of a contemporary issue tracker system that is in reasonably widespread use, has email integration, and will

    • parse an incoming message's In-Reply-To or References headers,
    • check whether they contain any message IDs that are referenced in already-tracked issues, and then
    • link it to that issue/those issues automatically,

    even if the sender has messed with the email subject, potentially removing the issue ID?

    Update: @antondollmaier pointed out Zammad and Znuny/OTRS.

    jannem,
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    @xahteiwi @antondollmaier
    For what it's worth, we use zammad at work for our section issue tracker and it's been a very good experience so far.

    I'm the main user contact and so far I haven't had the issue you're concerned about - in what situations would that happen?

    It is fairly easy to add filters on the incoming mail, and it's easy to merge tickets so it's quite possibly a solvable issue even if it doesn't do what you want out of the box.

    irfan, to Steamdeck

    I'm surprised the does not support .heic images by default. Not sure if that was also the case on and I installed something to have it compatible, or it was compatible from the get go.

    jannem,
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    @irfan
    The HEVC encoding format is not royalty free. Valve would have to pay a per-unit license fee to include it in a device.

    Not worth it when the Steam Deck doesn't need it to work just fine. And as an end user you can always install it for yourself without any legal issues (AFAIK).

    Edit: I took a look at the patent and licensing situation, and yikes! I get why so many companies want to get away from the format. No, it may well not be technically ok even as an individual user...

    futurebird, to random
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    I just saw a sport drink labeled "3x the electrolytes!"

    Talk about missing the point. The idea of a drink with some salts and vitamins to replenish you after sweating isn't totally crazy, although most of our diets have too much salt, the idea of a carefully balanced, tasty drink for after a sweaty run ... made a little sense at least.

    You'd be paying for them to put in a little salt and potassium but not too much since then...

    Clearly I'm overthinking this. More is better drink seawater.

    jannem,
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    @futurebird
    "Most stuff is fine in moderation. Don't overeat."

    Unfortunately not what most people want to hear.

    kfury, to random
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    This is how major media publications write stories nowadays. These aren’t key points. They shouldn’t even be commas.

    jannem,
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    @kfury

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