Personal question: How old is your computer?

[Xist]

Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr

I had only one audiometry, and it was easy to notice the tone. The technician who performed the test was quite confused because my responses were faster than usual.

It sounds like you don't have tinnitus.

Originally Posted by Piotrsko

freebeard: ever hear of the "brave" browser? Looks like opera with more cookie killing.

I use Brave, but for some reason I primarily use Vivaldi.

I have Facebook and my 3 main e-mail accounts in a 2x2 grid.

[freebeard]

Heard of it of course. Probably tried in at one time or another.

I checked and it is available on the Raspberry Pi, so I went looking for a download page and find:

community.brave.com/c/support-and-troubleshooting/desktop-support/75

It looks like their taking 3 or 4 problem reports an hour. Another page says TOR is available, but often never loads past 5%. I though TOR only work in a forked Firefox.

If you never hear from me again, I was swallowed by the Dark Net.

edit:
www.fossmint.com/web-browsers-for-raspberry-pi/

10. Vivaldi
Vivaldi is a free, cross-platform, and modern browser application developed by a co-founder of Opera Software and 2 other cool guys. It is probably the most popular web browser in this list and although it was first released in 2016, it was made available to Raspberry Pi users in the final quarter of 2017.

[redpoint5]

I installed Tor just to have an automatic proxy, but my guess is all their switches are getting crushed by pron users. Free services are usually worth the price paid.

[freebeard]

I just installed Vivaldi, but haven't restarted yet.

Thanks, Xist.

[Xist]

I served a purpose besides a warning to others?!

You are welcome!

[Xist]

I regularly make flashcards for my client. The one I see today and I bring my laptop and have flashcards in a PowerPoint presentation.

I just get a long list, like of age-appropriate vocabulary words, and find pertinent images, but for younger teleclients I like to find premade flashcards, which are invariably shrunk to fit on one or two pages, and not necessarily high-resolution, so I crop out each image, and put them in PowerPoint, which I use as a virtual background.

I like it because the flashcards are full-screen and the person with whom they are talking is larger than the usual picture-in-picture, but this is problematic when I am targeting articulation.

Apparently if I click on my Zoom profile I can enable side-by-side screen share, so my lucky clients can see something like:


I easily found more flashcards for irregular verbs, but most of them were in a 3x3 grid, and not only do I want 10 cards
I prefer seeing my clients, but I need to see them when we target articulation, and I want the flashcards to look good.

I ran across a blog post with 10 flashcards, but they were low-resolution.

She sold them for $15, which seemed a little high, although there were 92 cards.

I tried using Vance to enlarge them and, not only was the enlarged image larger, but it was higher-quality.

Vance adds a watermark to the bottom, so I added whitespace, but after two it cut me off without paying.

If I was paying to get high-quality flashcards I am paying the person who made them!

I tried making my own, but didn't get anywhere.

Canva has an option and everything said "Free" until I wanted to download.

I tried finding clip art on free sites, but if it was actually free it had a watermark.

After spending hours trying to get 10 nice flashcards I remembered Teachers Pay Teachers and for $3 I bought 50 more cards like the one I shared, although when I went to pull that card I saw that the lady said she got her art from My Cute Graphics, where I found this:


I don't know that anyone will be able to tell, but the image on the flashcard has watermarks--not stamps, but white lines, which are easy enough to hide, but the one I downloaded doesn't have that!

I just don't like the way the lady squished the image. I tried Gimp's aggressive crop, but for some reason it cropped the space on the left of the ball, but not the right.

I needed to get rid of transparency in order to move the boy on the right and when I copied and pasted into Paint to save it, the boy on the right had a clone!

I tried to erase the extra, but I missed a third leg!

Awkward!

I amputated it, but when Gimp got rid of the transparency it also turned the background black, so I needed to adjust it to make the edges look okay.

I am still not happy, but I need to let it go.

If I do this again I think I will paint it white first, but hopefully the rest of the images don't bother me and I can just use them.

It is annoying that I finally paid for flashcards, but I feel the need to fix them.

[freebeard]

What I don't understand is why a forward-looking individual such as yourself is not having CatsGTP/Stable Diffusion make all your cards for you.

Several hours la-ter...
SparseGPT: Massive Language Models Can Be Accurately Pruned in One-Shot

We show for the first time that large-scale generative pretrained transformer (GPT) family models can be pruned to at least 50% sparsity in one-shot, without any retraining, at minimal loss of accuracy. This is achieved via a new pruning method called SparseGPT, specifically designed to work efficiently and accurately on massive GPT-family models.... and can reach 60% unstructured sparsity with negligible increase in perplexity: remarkably, more than 100 billion weights from these models can be ignored at inference time.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by Xist

It sounds like you don't have tinnitus.

I have it, yet sometimes it's just barely annoying.

[Xist]

I already tried!

I asked 3 different AIs

Please make 10 flashcards for irregular verbs with pictures.

Two listed irregular verbs and suggested pictures. ChatGPT had a table without anything under "Picture."

Paying $3 isn't bad, but I asked ChatGPT to split the first set of flashcards that I found into one image, and it wrote something like "Here is your first image," and, since I cannot upload images to it, I linked a picture on Imgur, and it linked it back 9 times.

I asked again and it wrote:

I’m sorry but I can’t do that. I can only create images from scratch, not modify existing ones. Please ask me something else.

I asked it to make a picture based on the image suggestion Bard gave me and it made some of those notorious AI drawings.

The one that looked like a lady looked like someone gave it a picture of a woman and prompted "Make this look like an AI-generated nightmare."

Splitting up my $3 images isn't too bad, but apparently imagy.app will spit images into rows and columns.

It seems the lady who made these flashcards didn't make them the exact same size, so I needed to delete some borders, but they are TIFFs, which Imagy doesn't accept, so I opened them in Paint, used the box tool to remove the lines, saved as a PNG, uploaded it, downloaded a ZIP, extracted those, renamed the files, and moved them.

Of course, the lady didn't distribute a ZIP with images, that would be too easy, they were in a password-protected PDF, and I needed to print to PDF just to extract the images.

I have 30 now, so I am good until the next time that I need flashcards.

Maybe one of these AIs will access external images then.

Maybe I will remember Teachers Pay Teachers and will give another lady $3.

[freebeard]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35946260

Ask HN: What's your favorite GPT powered tool?
147 points by surrTurr 3 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 129 comments
There have been many tools powered by GPTs coming out over the past few months. Too many. Which ones are actually worth using?

I bailed on the 129 comments, but maybe you'd find something of interest.