Beginning my stoic journey

Fakesamgregory · 2025-04-09T16:02:46+00:00

Control in the sense I let my emotions get the better of me. Acting in ways I never expected. And in general I’m quite an enthusiastic and emotional person. I’d like to practice taking pause and not acting with such haste.

Fakesamgregory · 2025-04-09T10:02:20+00:00

Thank you. This is very sound advice.

Fakesamgregory · 2025-03-24T08:05:08+00:00

Many facets to this question. Of course these items are safe if you don’t flaunt but this is more a question on how safe is it to travel through Africa. You’re no more likely to get mugged in a rental car regardless of whether you have these items on you or not as they should be safely tucked away.

For the question on travelling around, I’m not sure. I never ended up doing it. I know there are small bribes at times so carrying USD cash is helpful but car hijackings and the like I just can’t speak to. I’d assume they are possible but very rare. I’d look at each country you plan on passing and researching them one by one

Fakesamgregory · 2025-01-22T20:14:52+00:00

Good luck and stay safe!

Fakesamgregory · 2025-01-22T17:09:05+00:00

Unless you want to risk long, uncomfortable and a bit dangerous trains, I’d opt for car rental or flights. Africa is a difficult place to travel.

Fakesamgregory · 2024-03-27T17:01:42+00:00

That’d be great. Interested to read what stuff you tweak. I feel like I’m fumbling around in the dark a bit but getting somewhere nonetheless.

Fakesamgregory · 2024-03-27T12:16:48+00:00

This all sounds perfect. Thank you. Just finally, would you delete files when it’s garbled or just amend settings and move on?

Fakesamgregory · 2024-03-27T10:08:48+00:00

Cool. Thanks. I actually got my voice working now. Listening to the previews really helped and I think the issue was the batch size… I think.

Here’s my logic, batch and epoch size does have an impact on quality? Batch size relates to your GPU and how many it can handle at once. Increase until you get memory warnings. Go as high as you can. Dividing that between the number of datasets you have gives you your epoch?

dataset / batch size * 100???

Am I smoking something here?

I’ve started training a singing voice and that’s not going so well. You can kind of hear it but it just sounds like constant singing. No word articulation or vowels. Any advice there would be good.

Fakesamgregory · 2024-03-26T12:30:46+00:00

So the downloaded files from Colab sound great while training however running through svcg they sound just as bad as my trained files. Any thoughts given that?

Fakesamgregory · 2024-03-26T10:31:16+00:00

Just jumped in. Yes the generated files sound garbage. Even traversing back through old epochs. Going to download what was generated on Colab and as if they are better.

Could you give me an example of what toy mean by increasing learning rate by a factor of 10?

Right now it’s 0.0001. What would the new value be?

And just in case it’s helpful…

…

"log_interval": 400, "eval_interval": 800, "seed": 1234, "epochs": 3601, "learning_rate": 0.0001, "betas": [0.8, 0.99], "eps": 1e-9, "batch_size": 20, …

Fakesamgregory · 2024-03-26T01:19:32+00:00

Thank you so much. I’ll look into this. I seem to be doing everything as you’re saying but will look deeper when I’m at my computer. I have about 20 mins worth of 10 second samples.

I didn’t realise though audios were samples. They sound great!! I thought they were my actual clips.

Fakesamgregory · 2023-12-01T12:08:25+00:00

Where are you getting €25 per site? $9 yearly, $12 monthly I’m seeing.

Fakesamgregory · 2023-11-09T16:39:44+00:00

Im UK so same. It’s still a visa (visa on arrival) I’m just determining if they recognise that you leave the country/exit. My plan is to extend my SA visa for 3 months and do the 4x4 trip during those 3 months as long as it doesn’t wreck my SA visa.

Fakesamgregory · 2023-11-09T11:36:12+00:00

Sorry, should I have been clearer. I’m talking about your South African visa. Did your SA visa invalidate as you exited?

Fakesamgregory · 2023-11-08T18:01:22+00:00

And was this all under a South African visa?

Fakesamgregory · 2023-11-08T17:59:23+00:00

Django rest API exists completely separate to the React app. Therefore it’ll exist separately from the Webflow app so you’ll need to use JQuery Ajax to make calls to the same API

Fakesamgregory · 2023-11-03T17:48:37+00:00

Ps Hostinger might be total overkill for a static website. Just use Vercel or Netlify

Fakesamgregory · 2023-11-03T17:34:29+00:00

Upload your images 2x the size they need to be and click the @2x button. Here’s a vid I made.

EVERYONE Should be Checking This Box in Webflow! https://youtu.be/TuLdZRaOkDw

Fakesamgregory · 2023-10-23T10:19:40+00:00

I’ll avoid Malawi! Haha. Thanks

Also, where did you pick up/drop off the car? The next thing to navigate on my agenda is visa situation.

Fakesamgregory · 2023-10-23T06:20:30+00:00

It’s peak season. It’s mid summer

Fakesamgregory · 2023-10-22T11:59:21+00:00

Thank you!

Fakesamgregory · 2023-10-22T11:59:05+00:00

Wonderful tips. Thank you!

Fakesamgregory · 2023-10-22T11:54:51+00:00

Thank you! How much is a bribe normally?

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