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vick21, 3 days ago to accessibility

How NVDA & OSARA are empowering blind people globally - Audio described Version: https://youtube.com/watch?v=N-y3yomLLSk&si=xiibf5ZxJzrlDnES #accessibility

vick21, 15 days ago to accessibility

I believe this is the first of its kind implementation on the web, i.e. first-letter navigation, so kudos to the Drive team! :) #accessibility #ux https://unmute.community/@payown/112369398805758817

vick21, 17 days ago to random

Hello @MonaApp A Voiceover user here! Not sure if this is even feasible, but I thought I'd ask. It would be really awesome if there was a way to either collapse or mute threads. My biggest thing here is to be able to skip long threads instead of having to swipe through multiple posts that belong to it. What do you think? :) Thanks for reading!

vick21, 18 days ago to random

Google Drive keyboard shortcuts on the web are changing https://9to5google.com/2024/04/30/google-drive-keyboard-shortcuts-update/
But we may need to remind you about this again on August 1st? :)

vick21, 1 month ago to random

Nearly half of China's major cities are sinking, researchers say - Reuters https://apple.news/AkkICxNTPSNCdnGqg47HyAw

vick21, 1 month ago to random

Key points generated with Google AI:

• This article describes how to use the tagging feature in Google Gemini to find specific YouTube videos.

• To use the feature, type @YouTube into a chat with Gemini, then add your query.

• Gemini can also tag other Google products like Docs, Drive, Flights, and Maps.

See the full article to learn more. https://search.app/G47DzXYiDLE7z26j7

vick21, 1 month ago to LLMs

Here is an example of how bad #LLMs are with math. I asked about velocity in the context of Agile process. The answer?
“Sure! Let's say that an Agile development team has completed four iterations, each lasting two weeks. In the first iteration, they delivered 12 user stories; in the second, they delivered 10; in the third, they delivered 9; and in the fourth, they delivered 8. The total number of user stories completed by the end of the fourth iteration is 49 (12 + 10 + 9 + 8)”.

vick21, 1 month ago to random

This is indeed a good news and should simplify the number of components involved when building RAG with Ollama: https://ollama.com/blog/embedding-models

vick21, 1 month ago to random

I’ve been wondering why most the AI and non AI powered TTS engines shy away from using breathing when generating speech? Seems like Mac OS’s Alex and ChatGPT’s TTS are the only ones?

vick21, 1 month ago to random

I am, of course, late to many things, the latest one being "static site generators". I believe there are quite a few people using these? What would you say about the following article comparing Jekyll, Hugo and Eleventy? https://tomhazledine.com/eleventy-static-site-generator/
With SSGs, can I insert Youtube players, polls, comment forms and other dynamic content features though?

vick21, 1 month ago to random

Good stuff coming to Windows users interested in LLMS and RAG! https://reddit.com/r/ollama/comments/1bqr2os/ollama_now_supported_in_brainsoup/

vick21, 2 months ago to accessibility

I think this article, while somewhat radical and presumptuous, does have some good points, at least the ones I agree with.
I do think generative AI might have a potential of creating on-demand user interfaces to “personalize” #accessibility, but I think we forget about a human element here. Someone has to build such smarts and, as long as disabled people are deprioritized, whatever the reasons may be, the outcome will likely be not much different.

https://jakobnielsenphd.substack.com/p/accessibility-generative-ui?utm_source=practicaltips&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=we-need-to-talk-about-jakob

vick21, 2 months ago to random

Do you think it’s fair that Open AI charged me for the following completion? I'm sorry, but I can't provide visual descriptions for images that may contain copyrighted content, such as software user interfaces or personal computer screens. If you have any other inquiries or need information that doesn't involve describing copyrighted material, feel free to ask!
Prompt tokens: 1146
Completion tokens: 51
Total tokens: 1197
Cost: 1.299 cents. :)

vick21, 2 months ago to accessibility

Ableton on Live 12's #accessibility revolution: "When you say 'accessibility is not on your roadmap', you’re cutting out a lot of musicians from being able to use the tools that you make"

https://www.musicradar.com/news/ableton-live-accessibility-revolution

vick21, 2 months ago to LLMs

This is a really nice read about whether #LLMs can actually reason: https://aiguide.substack.com/p/can-large-language-models-reason
I think expecting language models to reason like the math engines maght be a bit out of range! Nice try!

vick21, 2 months ago to random

Now this message from a hotel wifi is rather interesting. "We use cookies, pixels and other technology to collect the information about you ..." Say what?

vick21, 3 months ago to random

Beautiful Soup is such a wonderful library but it is abbreviated as “BS”. Believe it’s quite the opposite! :) So, don’t be discouraged when you import!

vick21, 3 months ago to random

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/3cd4c800-304f-4a4a-81af-16225c998148

vick21, 3 months ago to random

So, here is how I made VOCR super-useful to me yesterday. There is this cool plugin I love called Adaptiverb. Inaccessible, true. Reached out to devs, true. They said they will introduce a work-around for some things, but no definite timeline. So…
In VOCR could not recognize many icons in their toolbar, so I turned on “mouse navigator”, then “real-time scanner”, then got to the approx location of the toolbar, then slowly move left/right across. Guess what? I heard tooltips spoken. It worked!

vick21, 3 months ago to ai

I am not able to find any LLMs that are able to solve the following prompt: "Please generate a chess game where the black side wins after two moves". Only bard.google.com is able to give me the right answer. #AI #LLM #chess

vick21, 3 months ago to random

This is rather fascinating... Except for the somewhat overwhelming use of the "some of the" and "most of the" clauses... But really, interesting bits about the teacher-student model training process.
https://www.unite.ai/zephyr-7b-huggingfaces-hyper-optimized-llm-built-on-top-of-mistral-7b/

vick21, 3 months ago to random

It's so easy to get rich on eye-candy stuff! Try to do the same with ear-candy! :)

vick21, 3 months ago to random

@MonaApp So sorry to bother you with my suggestions, but your features are too great to pass them by… So, here is one more…
In the “Actions > Filters”, would it be possible to offer an additional option to unselect all the filters? As it stands right now, I have to go through each filter and unselect it if I want only one to be active.
I may be doing something wrong, of course…
Thanks!

vick21, 3 months ago to random

I remember some kind soul around here wrote a utility that would allow one to switch between sound devices on Mac OS using keyboard shortcuts. Does anyone happen to know what that utility may be? Thanks!

vick21, 3 months ago to random

Hello @MonaApp I wonder what you think of the following suggestion: to provide an option under the Actions menu to allow spawning an empty web view or the view with a user-defined URL, say a search engine, as a Split View? Sometimes it would be nice to be able to search for something within the context of a post you're looking at. Anyway, just an idea! :)