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Jay Dec 1, 2023

Good news: cheap stable weather resistant cooling ceramic on the horizon: https://www.cityu.edu.hk/research/stories/2023/11/10/new-cooling-ceramic-can-enhance-energy-efficiency-construction-sector-and-help-combat-global-warming-cityu-research

New cooling ceramic can enhance energy efficiency for the construction sector and help combat global warming—CityU research | City University of Hong Kong

A significant breakthrough in developing a passive radiative cooling (PRC) material has been announced by researchers at City University of Hong Kong (CityU). The findings have just been published in the prestigious scientific journal Science titled “Hierarchically structured passive radiative cooling ceramic with high solar reflectivity.”

City University of Hong Kong

Jay Nov 21, 2023

Rückblick der #Urbanisten auf das Sommerprogramm 2023:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qpIF43R83A

FutureClub - Das Sommerferienprogramm 2023

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Jay Nov 20, 2023

AI feels like an overly optimistic nightmare atm. But hey, lets patiently wait how the HBOesque #OpenAI drama plays out.

Jay Nov 14, 2023

Fascinated by voice programming with #cursorless as presented by @PokeyRule
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcUJnmBqHTY

"Cursorless: A spoken language for editing code" by Pokey Rule (Strange Loop 2023)

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Jay Nov 7, 2023

Dr. Matt Welsh talking about the "End of Programming", driven by #LLM. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhCl-GeT4jw

The talk is not as fatalistic as you may think. Except it is.

Large Language Models and The End of Programming - CS50 Tech Talk with Dr. Matt Welsh

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Jay Nov 2, 2023

Promising approach to building a #DIY digital #mixer using a #Teensy: https://blog.brixit.nl/building-a-digital-audio-mixer/

Building a digital audio mixer

Hacking together bits of electronics to route audio

BrixIT Blog

Jay Nov 2, 2023

Distill-Whisper is an optimized version of the #asr model #whisper. It promises much faster operation while consuming half the size without notable regression in parformance. https://github.com/huggingface/distil-whisper#distil-whisper

Several projects based on whisper already announced on #HN to integrate or evaluate this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38093353

GitHub - huggingface/distil-whisper: Distilled variant of Whisper for speech recognition. 6x faster, 50% smaller, within 1% word error rate.

Distilled variant of Whisper for speech recognition. 6x faster, 50% smaller, within 1% word error rate. - huggingface/distil-whisper

GitHub

Jay Nov 2, 2023

Have been ingesting David Shapiros YT vids lately. Lots of interesting stuff that goes much deeper than the usual "five tricks to improve your prompt" stuff that swamps this topic on YT.