Folks, I'm starting my post-#PhD job search low-key on the side while I write up my #thesis.
I have an odd collection of skills - #Linux, #Python, #Jupyter, #pandas, #DevRel, and I've done a lot of work in team leadership and management, and have led a multi-million $ not for profit in the past. Keynote speaker.
I'm looking for something that harnesses all of these skills - and it will be a senior role with senior pay, given my experience, qualifications and proven capability. I have time and will be discerning about my next step.
Job titles that might fit here would be Senior Research Engineer, Engineering Lead, Lead AI Engineer or similar.
Looking for fully remote work, with one day a fortnight max in #Melbourne, AU. If you don't believe in #RemoteWork or #WFH, we're not a good fit.
Super keen on something full time rather than splitting my attention over multiple part-time roles.
Looking to start around August, so a fair amount of lead time.
Keen on organisations that have strong values alignment - #FAIR and #CARE data use, #EthicalAI, AI for social good.
A demo of a #spiel sample app, the voices used in order are: eSpeakNG's "Andy" variant, MBROLA US2, and Piper's Amy. You can observe the different features like word tracking and quality. #speech#tts#gnome#linux
You can say the #First#Amendment only applies to the #government, not #private entities—which is undeniably true—and therefore #social#media sites have no obligation to provide a platform for speech the owners of the site don’t like. This is a reasonable and defensible position.
Or you can say social media sites are the new #town#squares, and therefore the owners have a moral if not legal obligation to allow anyone to say practically anything using their platforms. You can even point out that the government charters corporations, and is responsible for a lot of #telecom#infrastructure, so by allowing censorship in that particular environment, the government is at least complicit in interfering with free speech rights. This is also a reasonable and defensible position.
Maybe you can even try to find some kind of well-articulated middle ground between these positions, although I have to say I don’t remember ever seeing anyone do so. I think most people do hold opinions somewhere between the two, but they don’t tend to spell it out.
What they do instead is argue either side as it’s convenient, which is irritating as hell. And yes, this is a rare bit of “both sides” on my part. I see a whole lot of leftish folks, who are generally not big fans of corporate power, deploying the first position against right-wing types—while complaining about the arbitrary and often clearly biased way #Facebook et al. censor left-wing statements.
The complaints are justified. Hypocrisy is not.
Just pick a position, be honest with yourself about what that position is, and stick to it. No matter where you fall on this spectrum, you have to be aware that the mechanisms of speech, and by extension the press, have changed dramatically over the last thirty years and will continue to do so. Knowing where you stand is important.
The folks at LouderPages.org have been working on creating TTS voices for a number of languages. Currently they are looking for testers of Setswana language (A Bantu language spoken in Botswana, South Africa, and Namibia). They have also just released a Nepali voice (used in Nepal). If you would like to try these, please visit their website or write to inq (at) louderpages dot org #Synthesizer#Speech#NVDA#Accessibility#A11y#Language#Africa#SouthAfrica#Neapl
I sent my first call for proposal to a free and open source conference and realized the title 'Running a community workshop with free and open source software' could sound boring.
Could you advise how to rephrase it to sound engaging and entertaining?
1-FEB-2024
Study discovers neurons in the human #brain that can predict what we are going to say before we say it
Findings could be used to develop new treatments for speech and language disorders
How speech is produced and perceived in the human cortex | Nature, by Yves Boubenec
A neural probe has been used to capture the activity of large populations of single neurons as people are #speaking or #listening, providing detailed insights into how the #brain encodes specific features of #speech.
Something spending a semester studying #fascsim has taught me is that fascism is a form of terrorism and therefore being a fascist (including a #Nazi) is NOT A PROTECTED FORM OF #SPEECH.
A core tenet of fascism is replacing political debate with violence and using terror to control your opponents because you see all opposed to you as ENEMIES.
If we met and I told you I was a serial killer and Hannibal Lecter was my idol you'd rightly feel threatened