Open source AI enthusiast.
Maintainer of several generative AI open source projects on Github.
I post about AI and open source.
| Blog | https://balisujohn.github.io/ |
| Github | https://github.com/balisujohn |
I'm pleased to announce localwriter, a libreoffice writer extension that allows local-inference language model editing using text-generation-webui as a backend.
Repository:
https://github.com/balisujohn/localwriter
Demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rassvcjpTA0
#opensource #libreoffice #LibreOfficeWriter #localllama #generativeAI
If anyone is interested in converting PyTorch models to GGML, I have a new blog post on the subject, complete with example code.
If you want to get GGML and C++ experience and work on a (hopefully) impactful FOSS project, feel free to join the tortoise.cpp discord. I have tasks to work on for all skill levels. If you see this after the link is expired you can also DM for an invite.
tortoise.cpp (tortoise-tts ggml rewrite) is looking for open source contributors! Feel free to DM if you are interested. All C++ skill levels welcome.
If anyone is looking to work on an #opensource #AI (text to speech) project and have some C++ experience, here is a great first task to work on!
If people are interested in contributing to tortoise.cpp, a great first task would be getting the tokenizer to always match the tokenization tortoise-tts uses. The tokenizer I'm using in tortoise.c...
Does anyone know of a Linux app that will let me create forms in non-form PDFs? Because occasionally I get PDFs that definitely should be form-fillable but aren't
I am specifically talking about forms, not freeform editing/annotations.
I keep being pleasantly surprised by how frequently just reporting an open source software bug or packaging issue with specific examples -- often not much more than I needed to do to figure out that it wasn't *me* causing the problem -- results in the thing being fixed.
Honestly, given how effective it is (and how good it feels!) I'm kind of shocked that more people don't report issues. Like how am I the first one to report this when the package has 1,000,000+ downloads?
Chris 🌱 
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