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Re:BJJBench – tracking AI video model progress on Brazilian Jiu Jitsu ... on Saturday February 21, 2026 @02:28PM (#47103829)
Video models are impressive but still clearly have a ways to go for that "last mile". I'm excited to test Seedance 2.0 when it's available. Also, the scores are completely vibes based (this is a fun weekend thing, not a serious benchmark) so if you complain enough I might change them if you make good arguments.
Re:PDFtoAnki: A simple open-source utility to convert PDFs into Anki c... on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @12:13PM (#41778954)
Hi all, I just wanted to share a quick utility for converting a PDF to Anki cards. I saw some paid options, but this is a simple enough process that it seemed an open source version should exist. You just have to add your API key in a file called "key.txt" in the same directory.

If anyone wants to improve upon it by refining prompts or doing some post-processing of the cards, please feel free! Also, if anyone knows of a better developed open-source version that's already out there, I'd be happy to start using that instead.

Re:Meta Llama 3 on Friday April 19, 2024 @03:43AM (#40084327)
I actually think Dwarkesh is usually pretty good - this interview wasn’t his best (maybe he was a bit nervous because it’s Zuck?) but his show has had a lot of good conversations that get more into the weeds than other shows in my experience

Show HN: Remi, the easiest way to remember every day (A journaling tool I made)

Posted by bricee98 on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @11:20AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://remijournal.com/

Hello HN! My name is Brice. Remi Journal is a project I've been working on with my sister to make it easier to remember thoughts, memories, and little moments from every day. It also helps you stay on top of habits, track personal stats, and stores images to go with your journal pages.I made Remi since I've always wanted to look back on old memories, but I'm too lazy to sit down and write a...

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Re:Launch HN: Retell AI (YC W24) – Conversational Speech API for Your LLM on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @11:29AM (#39455882)
The demo was incredible, and this seems perfect for my current project. I am going to try to integrate this as soon as I can to see if it works for me. How responsive can I expect the support to be?
Re:Considerations for a long-running Raspberry Pi on Saturday February 17, 2024 @10:35AM (#39410374)
I’m trying to make a smart speaker where you push a button to talk and when you release it sends the audio to a server for transcription and response. It also has to do some basic logic with LEDs. I also want it to be always on and available as long as it’s plugged in. Do you have any advice on what might be a better alternative to a Pi? This is basically my first foray into hardware so I’m trying to learn as much as possible!
Re:Launch HN: Univerbal (YC W23) – Language learning with a conversati... on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @09:28PM (#39199015)
That is true of LLMs, but if you’re looking to replace iTalki, the standard to meet or beat on grammar correctness and explanation is that of a human instructor - this is not the type of mistake that my native tutor would make, and if he somehow did, I would find a new tutor that I could be confident is teaching me correct grammar.

I certainly don’t point it out to be discouraging - on the contrary, I feel like I am the exact target audience for a product like this and would happily pay for it if it can reach or be near the trustworthiness of a human teacher.

Re:Launch HN: Univerbal (YC W23) – Language learning with a conversati... on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @01:25PM (#39193703)
I like the idea, but when I started practicing some Spanish, I noticed it gave me incorrect grammar advice (it claimed that the subjunctive form of “creer” is “creen” - it was right that the subjunctive was needed, but that would be “crean”). That makes me nervous to use it for a language that I know less well like Korean because I won’t be able to tell if the grammar feedback I’m getting is accurate.

If there’s a way to make it more robust on that front I could definitely see myself using it!

Re:Show HN: Instantly transcribe/translate any audio playing on Window... on Thursday August 31, 2023 @03:09PM (#37342240)
Here is the YouTube link to the demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl734JTCaIQ

Show HN: Instantly transcribe/translate any audio playing on Windows with alt+B

Posted by bricee98 on Thursday August 31, 2023 @03:07PM
from the show-hn dept.

Hey all,I've been learning Spanish for about 2.5 years, and consider myself upper intermediate.I made a tool for when you're watching a Spanish YouTube video, Netflix show, or listening to a podcast and don't quite catch something that was said. I wanted to go ahead and post it here since I could easily expand it to work with any language, and was curious if others might find it useful.When the...

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Re:A $3B bet on finding the fountain of youth on Friday January 21, 2022 @02:07PM (#30028417)
Understood haha! Just joking around :)
Re:A $3B bet on finding the fountain of youth on Friday January 21, 2022 @12:37PM (#30026942)
I'm no demographer, but I would hazard a guess that >1% of folks are young