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https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice Try this. I am not affiliated in anyway. It's my must have macos app.
Tried this and really liking it so far. Question - is there a diarization support in the tui app or any of the models MetalRt supports? Any plans to add it if not already supported?
Seems to be based on See through walls by MIT (2013)? Good job porting it to esp32. I was just looking a week ago to do the same thing - basically reproducing this work. I'll definitely try this. https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/seeing-through-walls-comp...
Re:Nvidia's new 'robot brain' goes on sale for $3,499 on Monday August 25, 2025 @07:20PM (#45020397)
I was reading Xiaomi YU7 marketing page[0] yesterday and the NVIDIA AGX Thor stood out (says: NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor). I was wondering what it was and this showed up! Looks like it is (or a Drive variant of it) is already being used in newer cars for self-drive and such. [0] https://www.mi.com/global/discover/article?id=5174
Can someone (or OP) point me to a recipe to fine tune a model like this for natural language tasks like complicated NER or similar workflows? I tried finetuning Gemma3 270M when it came out last week without any success. A lot of tutorials are geared towards chat applications and role playing but I feel this model could be great for usecases like mine where I am trying to extract clean up and extract data from PDFs with entity identification and such.
Re:Show HN: OWhisper – Ollama for realtime speech-to-text on Thursday August 14, 2025 @06:53PM (#44906675)
FYI: owhisper pull whisper-cpp-large-turbo-q8 Failed to download model.ggml: Other error: Server does not support range requests. Got status: 200 OK

But the base-q8 works (and works quite well!). The TUI is really nice. Speaker diarization would make it almost perfect for me. Thanks for building this.

I tried a picture with instructions and it says "something went wrong". I would love to try and see how well it works for my use case.
Re:Show HN: Index – new SOTA Open Source browser agent on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @07:07PM (#43777645)
Yes it is, however API keys from aistudio only allows pro-experimental model. So if I select gemini-pro, I will see this: "Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview doesn't have a free quota tier. Please use Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental (models/gemini-2.5-pro-exp-03-25) instead". Can I choose exact model somewhere in the CLI?
Re:Show HN: Index – new SOTA Open Source browser agent on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @07:02PM (#43777600)
Can you open up the options to use other model/versions, especially Gemini-2.5 pro experimental models available through aistudio? Would love to try this but gemini flash fails for even simple tasks. Example: I asked it to extract all the links from comment section of a hackernews comment section and it just scrolled all the way to the end and then nothing. Maybe pro models can do it better.
This is really cool (and timely for me). Lovely work with the UX. No accounts, no nonsense. Kudos.
Re:Show HN: DeepSeek Your HN Profile on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @06:32PM (#42859560)
> Spends so much time looking for UI design tools that they could've learned actual design in the meantime

Ouch! This is really well done. :)

Re:Show HN: A Daily Digest for ReMarkable on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @02:44PM (#42702746)
I am RM2 user and this is useful for me. I signed up not expecting much but that digest designer is so well done! Kudos. Beautifully executed. Signed up and looking forward to the digests.
Re:Caltrain's New Electric Trains on Thursday August 22, 2024 @06:17PM (#41324795)
India is around 94% electrified and seems to be highest amongst larger countries.
Can't see pricing, can't even see demo video on the home page without logging in.
Looks great! Do you mind talking about your tech stack? Do you build on top of Tessaract or do you use a custom model?
Tangential - I just want a decent (financial transaction) Table to text conversion that can retain the table structure well enough (e.g. merged cells) and have tried everything under the sun short of fine tuning my own model, including all the multimodal LLMs. None of them work very well without a lot of prompt engineering on case by case basis. Can this help? How can I set it up with a large number of pdfs that are sorted by type and extract tabular information? Any other suggestions?
Thank you very much!
What's the name of the layout recorgniser model? I did not have a good experience extracting layout from tables, especially those without column boundaries (space instead of lines to demarcate boundaries)
It's trivial to run a proxy server that routes all OpenAi calls to another LLM, even local ones. See litellm-proxy.
Re:Mistral: Mixtral of Experts on Monday December 11, 2023 @01:34PM (#38603507)
Explanation from Andrej karpathy makes sense on why: ''' "8x7B" name is a bit misleading because it is not all 7B params that are being 8x'd, only the FeedForward blocks in the Transformer are 8x'd, everything else stays the same. Hence also why total number of params is not 56B but only 46.7B. '''
Re:AI and Trust on Monday December 04, 2023 @04:07PM (#38523070)
Let me put a counter point to the opening remark. We do not (just) inherently trust people to do the right thing. Law and order, refined and (somewhat, however faultily) applied over the course of decades have programmed us to not do the wrong thing (vs doing the right/ethical thing which cannot always be coded into the laws). Law and order needs to catch up to the advancement in technology and specifically in AI for us to be able to trust all the models that will be running our lives in near future.

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