events/2023-04-05-hwc-europe
Homebrew Website Club Europe/London was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2023-04-05.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/HWC_Europe_2023-04-05
Participants
Kevin MarksSara JakΕ‘a
capjamesg
Tantek Γelik
Angelo Gladding- ender
Yousef Amar- Add yourself here⦠(see this for more details)
Notes
- James is talking about training LLMs on code samples
- Yousef suggests training with examples for ender's 'write me a shader' use case
- Personal search engines
- I wonder whether I linked this already? this researcher studies productivity/personal software + AI: https://paulbricman.com/thoughtware
- Tools for thinking conference https://www.kevinmarks.com/toolsforthinking.html
- Image to text models: https://huggingface.co/tasks/image-to-text
- https://github.com/IDEA-Research/GroundingDINO
- https://huggingface.co/spaces/pharma/CLIP-Interrogator
- midjourney /describe is what I was thinking of https://twitter.com/LibertyRPF/status/1643617310458953729?s=20
- "Neural Codec Language Models are Zero-Shot Text to Speech Synthesizers": https://valle-demo.github.io/
- https://playground.play.ht/ (15 to 60 secs of voice to replicate (not great though))
- https://www.descript.com/ (much longer sample needed, much better quality though)
- https://www.prankgpt.com/
- Ice Ice Matrix - voice generation based on the actors voices, mouth morphing of real footage to match https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnEIeVWLtbU
- https://replicate.com/
- also https://beta.elevenlabs.io/voice-lab
- WaveNet paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.03499
- https://openai.com/research/jukebox
- DittyToy is a js-based synthesis engine. I bet you could teach ChatGPT 4 to generate these for you https://dittytoy.net/ditty/568826700e https://dittytoy.net/ditty/59b8a8d54d
- Digital gardens - Maggie Appleton: https://maggieappleton.com/garden
- Outboard Brain by Cory Doctorow https://web.archive.org/web/20020802094408/http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/01/01/cory.html
- https://twitter.com/Mappletons/status/1398333256014123010
- Maggie Appleton on Dark Forests and AI https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest
- digital gardens as "moods" for writing - Ender
- Gardens and streams https://hapgood.us/2015/10/17/the-garden-and-the-stream-a-technopastoral/
- commonplace_book#Split_page_question (please add your support)
- support from Ender
- +1 from capjamesg
- "mood of writing" in digital gardens
- https://fediversereport.com/talking-fediverse-at-fediforum/
- https://mastodon.social/@fediforum/110113212290601749
- https://andy-bell.co.uk/i-think-im-not-alone-that-mastodon-is-giving-me-the-ick/
- Is there not enough dissatisfaction with current social platforms, or are the new platforms (i.e. Mastodon) not yet good enough to warrant entire communities moving?