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@huseinzol05 Congratulations! One of the first TTS that support Romanian and the fact that it can mix it with english or another language is the cherry on top! It makes some pronounciation errors, but very understandable with a strong Moldovan accent. I am thankful!

Feel free to try public Hugging Face Gradio app, added some mid-sentence language switching examples,

@sharghzadeh Romanian cab drivers do it too so there is hope perhaps.

I already did this discourse a year ago. White people don't understand the eight hour WhatsApp phone call, they never will.

@giulioprisco @KennethHayworth Well then EON systems could have celebrated all the published papers that model the fruit fly brain based on the connectome, and their encouraging preliminary results instead of bullshitting they are the first to brain upload a fly.

@KennethHayworth Hi Ken. Saying that the fly was "uploaded" is overhype - I don't disagree on this point. However, to me the very fact that this experiment has been tried and even produced some very preliminary but essentially encouraging results is significant and worth celebrating.

My statement regarding the misleading EON Systems “fly upload” video: The hundreds of researchers who make up the Drosophila neuroscience community are making good progress toward eventually understanding how the intelligent behaviors of a fruit fly are produced by computations in its neural circuits. Obtaining the structural connectome of the fly brain and ventral nerve cord was a significant milestone in that quest, as was obtaining an estimate of neurotransmitter types for each cell type. What is currently most lacking is a catalog of the precise electrophysiological and molecular dynamics of each neuron and synapse type. Dozens of on-going electrophysiological, genetic, and behavioral experiments are beginning to fill in those details. But completing that task will likely take many years, possibly decades, of more research. At the end of that long road, I have no doubt, there will be a detailed paper, published in a high-quality journal with full details and carefully peer-reviewed, which will at long last make the true statement “we’ve uploaded a fruit fly”. And that future paper will have a supplementary video much like the EON Systems one, showing a fly navigating a virtual environment. But, unlike the misleading EON Systems video, that future video will be real… all 100,000+ neurons displaying dynamics that reflect those that would occur in the real fly engaged in the same sensory-motor behaviors. That paper will represent the crowning achievement of a successful Drosophila neuroscience field. What EON Systems’ misleading video and claim has done today is to try to steal that future victory and take its valor for their own, all in the hopes of raising some cash from naive investors who think they might get to human uploads soon, and all while riding a tide of hype they generated in the gullible public. The result has been a wave of secondary reporting that grossly mischaracterizes the current state of neuroscience progress, implying that it is much further along than it currently is. As a member of the Drosophila research community, and as a long-term advocate of brain preservation for eventual mind uploading, I feel it is my responsibility to call out this reprehensible behavior. Neuroscience technology is progressing fast enough that we are now able to obtain structural connectomes of small organisms like the fruit fly. But neuroscience understanding is progressing much more slowly. True uploading, even for a fruit fly, is likely years to decades away. Even obtaining a mouse connectome seems likely to be a decade or more away. Human uploading is simply not on any reasonable research or investment timeline, unless such a timeline includes many decades of methodical basic neuroscience research. Of course, we can preserve human brains today using aldehyde fixatives as is done in all of today’s connectomics studies. But we will not be able to upload a human brain for many decades, perhaps centuries to come. Please do not let today’s real scientific progress in connectomics and brain preservation be drowned out by misleading hype. -Kenneth Hayworth

@Jiminemister @ChrisCWright1 Chomsky genuinely seems to have a Fisher price toy level of understanding of the Bosnian conflict, gobbling up any anti-USA view by that point, which can sometimes lead to the truth but other times it's just propaganda from the other side. Chomsky didn't seem to discern much.

@Jiminemister @ChrisCWright1 For starters even the Serbs who were on trial said the massacre was for what the Bosnians did two years before not because of constant attacks on serb villages. By the time the massacre happened it was overwhelmingly the serbs who were attacking, shelling the most in the area.

I miss when I could go on YouTube and maybe see a new interview or talk by Chomsky. We took that guy for granted. I honestly think he was the greatest moral and intellectual voice in history. He was the culmination of it all. And he’s gone. Just when we need him more than ever!

@AndyMasley Heh, fell for the engagement bait. Gotta be more careful in the future.

It’s a sign of how far we’ve fallen in tech literacy that 20 years ago a Senator saying the internet is a series of tubes was mocked and laughed at but this (imo more embarrassing) claim is getting hyped up

@Dorialexander Who is supposed to be a structuralist here? I actually don't know who you are referring to.

@neuralisa The really thing is that they are even forgetting some of their intellectual roots. Structuralism was very much fine with whatever is happening now (we can effectively model language/reasoning patterns, because human expression is largely computable to begin with)

Wouldn’t have bet +2 years ago on Bender & co getting stuck in a weird cultish mood while EA people counteract very sensibly, but here we are.

@thothratm @BobbyBroccole @biggestjoel Nominative determinism still going strong.

@BobbyBroccole @biggestjoel You’re telling me the guy who came up with the stupid equation I need for my semiconductors class was named Bill Shockley? Ok what’s next, John Atoms?

it's odd to think about how wrong we can be about our own legacies. So many words dedicated to the "important part of his life", which was books I haven't heard of. Dilbert and his politics relegated to the cobwebs. We really don't see ourselves as others see us, I guess

@dobroslav_dev But you don't work at Google either. Do you?

> I work at Google < You don't > I'm core contributor < you are not > I signed NDA < You signed CLA, which is completely diff thing and required by bot on PRs > My code is part of Gemma Core < Your first PR is not even merged yet Your only contribution on Deepmind repo is small PR which is renaming one thing. Any LLM could have made this change in like 1 minute and open perfect PR for this. This is just pure comedy lol.

@alexocheema @penadev Wait for m5 to add matmul acceleration

@penadev What’s the alternative?

Memory prices up. GPU prices up. Macs are the new AI meta. Apple wins in the end.

@singulartens Looks like he is doing an Eric Weinstein. Semi-plausible background that intentionally burns all bridges with the scientific community while his sights are set on the largest possible group of people who are willing to be told that arrogant mathematicians are gate keeping from AI

an ex-director at deepmind, exhibit B: just a guy who waves credentials when he supposedly doesn't care about them, claims to be an artist, counts likes and impressions against an early-career researcher, and shushes people "as an adult"

@JamesGilbert___ @WillSloanEsq Interesting. I actually prefer it this way and hate the overly sanitised decors they go for now. It's like they are talking from the coms room of a space shuttle. This is more relatable to me.

@WillSloanEsq The fact these Hollywood Reporter table discussions began seemingly in a hotel room is so jarring compared to the minimalist sets these kinds of things have now.

Robert Duvall Telling It Like It Is

@xriskology You are on the right track imo. For me the reason why I dont put Dr is very simple. On twitter people talk about way way more than their expertise. Having a Dr in my name and engaging in conversation about pandemics, cardiovascular health, black holes etc can mislead people.

Some additional reflections on the issue. I'd welcome thoughts from everyone, including those who continue to disagree with me. :-)

@GaryMarcus A bit much to chase after defamation that don't mention your by name regardless of what the law is in your state. What's the injury here? 3 ML people get the inside reference, while it remains too obscure for the rest of mankind. I didn't get it was about you and I'm in ML.

only two people have ever lied publicly about my credentials Yann Lecun, and now, a guy working for Yann LeCun. who didn’t disclose that he was. Figures.

@RossMcCaff This is why I left the UK and moved to Austria. Brits call me a liar when i tell them with the Klimaticket I can travel anytime anywhere every day all year long for less than the cost of 800 euros per year. No stress, no waits, no reservations, tube and bus included.

one of the reasons we can't have nice thinks in the UK is because every time someone posts an obviously scandalous train ticket price, 300 pedants come out the woodwork to say 'actually if you book at midnight on a tuesday on a full moon while whistling dixie you can save 3%"

@opinonhaver The man never took a single IQ test his entire life. Even by IQ zealots standards no way to know if he overachieved or not. Seems to inspire more of a do what you can and let others estimate your IQ posthumously rather than obsess to a grinding halt whether you have matching IQ

this is a weird communicable mental illness you people have given each other. people of average intelligence make huge contributions to everything, every day, which is unsurprising because that is definitionally most people. get over yourselves.

@jbillinson That's a hair question.

what is even the purpose of the hair dye at this point

@AndrewGold_ok If someone told me in 2009 when I met you during my Erasmus in France that you would become such an Israeli war crimes excusing gobshite I would've said that: nah, this guy is alright. Little did I know Andrew. Little did you become. Meh.

Anyone who has actually been to Israel understands just how absurd and insane it was to ever suggest it’s an apartheid. How did we let them get away with it?