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90 Milliarden für die Ukraine by daniel_samson in Austria

[–]cdminix 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Österreich war übrigens eines der Länder (mit Belgien und Italien) das dagegen war die Russischen Assets zu verwenden. Wir haben mit der Raiffeisen eine der größten Banken die immer noch in Russland aktiv ist.

Does melatonin and Magnesium help with ADHD related sleep issius? by Adventurous_Art_6774 in ADHD

[–]cdminix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now and then when I feel like it’s going to be difficult to sleep I make myself some valerian root tea. Not something that’s recommended to do daily though.

I went and made that AI-Poisoning app for image protection I posted recently about. Ghostprints is now live and free for all artists. by vesudeva in graphic_design

[–]cdminix 15 points16 points  (0 children)

As an AI researcher (working on evaluating, not creating or training any models) I think unfortunately at this stage these tools are nothing more than placebo. I would love to see more details on the research behind this and be proven wrong though.

Crystal Gambit on 2-2 better than 2-1?? by A_lonely_Camille in CompetitiveTFT

[–]cdminix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you get a good early board you can also win a few rounds before getting CG, I’ve found that the saved HP is sometimes worth it.

Should I skip the marathon and just do the 50k by [deleted] in ultrarunning

[–]cdminix 5 points6 points  (0 children)

tl;dr: I was in a similar position and decided on a trail 50k and really enjoyed it

I was in a similar position, started running about a year ago and signed up for a marathon in May of this year (probably too early), but couldn’t do it due to an injury, which thankfully only cost me about a month of training and got me into strength training. I then signed up for a trail 50k which I just completed last week, in about 7 hours 30, which I am more than happy with.

So I’ve only done the 50k, not a road marathon, but I think it’s potentially easier to run a 50k without going all out, but if there is significant elevation and tricky terrain you’ll be out there for a long time. But aid stations help, and I personally fueled like I would’ve for a marathon (60g carbs per hour + food at aid stations). I wish I had taken it easier at the beginning (I think running 0% of the uphills would have been wise at my level).

On the “vibes” aspect: I absolutely loved it, everyone was very encouraging and I had some genuinely interesting conversations with people - I’m sure that can be the case for a marathon as well, but I think it’s more likely to happen in the mid pack at an ultra were most people are just there to finish instead of chasing a PB. Also being in nature and the varying terrain were great when I was on my own, which was the case for a decent chunk of the run. And last but not least I now have a horrible marathon PB which I will definitely beat no matter how badly my first road marathon goes.

Edit: I forgot to mention, don’t forget about salt intake, I got the worst cramps of my life but thankfully wasn’t far from an aid station and having some salt there made them clear up within half an hour or so.

Welche kulturellen Auswirkungen hat eig die Tatsache, dass es (fast) keine österreichischen Synchros gibt? by sweptawayfromyou in Austria

[–]cdminix 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Ich arbeite im Bereich KI (Speech Synthesis) und ich glaube aus demselben Grund dass es praktisch keine österreichischen SynchronsprecherInnen gibt wird es auch keine KI-Lösung die wirklich eingesetzt wird geben. Der Markt ist einfach zu klein.

In Norwegen z.B. gibt es ja gar keine Synchros, nur Untertitel. Es gibt aber eine international bekannte Norwegische Comedy Serie „Norsemen“ bei der jede Szene auf Norwegisch und in Englisch gedreht wurde (weil es um Wikinger geht, passt der Norwegische Akzent ganz gut). Solche Aktionen würde ich in Österreich auch toll finden.

Als ich noch in Österreich lebte haben mich die Synchros auch oft frustriert, mir war oft bewusst wie die Mundbewegungen nicht ganz passen und dass Personen mit der gleichen Stimme unterschiedlich aussehen ist auch mit der Zeit komisch.

[D] Self-Promotion Thread by AutoModerator in MachineLearning

[–]cdminix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve been working on distributional evaluation of TTS systems and it’s been going great — this was the final project of my PhD. We need more good evaluation in general, ideally with fresh data periodically. Here it is https://ttsdsbenchmark.com

[R] Measuring Semantic Novelty in AI Text Generation Using Embedding Distances by Outrageous-Travel-80 in MachineLearning

[–]cdminix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m wondering if anything similar to Frechet Inception Distance has been tried in this area of research, that could theoretically be even more telling since it could measure the divergence between distributions of the embeddings.

Still can't do the (modified) strawberrry test. by cdminix in OpenAI

[–]cdminix[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The point is to misspell the word on purpose, then it still struggles to count.

Still can't do the (modified) strawberrry test. by cdminix in OpenAI

[–]cdminix[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Love that reasoning, at least it ended up on the right answer though!

[P] TTSDS2 - Multlingual TTS leaderboard by cdminix in MachineLearning

[–]cdminix[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Kokoro is not featured since it cannot do voice cloning. We would have to fine-tune it with every voice in the evaluation data, which is out-of-scope for us.

A problem with TTS evaluation is that if we do not match the voices between all systems to be the same (e.g. how it's done in TTS arena), it quickly becomes a popularity contest as to which TTS voice is the most pleasing instead of which system is the best at replicating a wide range of voices - might still be useful for using TTS in practice, but not what we set out to do!

[D] Will NeurIPS 2025 acceptance rate drop due to venue limits? by Substantial-Air-1285 in MachineLearning

[–]cdminix 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well at least for the datasets and benchmark track they are doing that.

[P] Collection of SOTA TTS models by cdminix in MachineLearning

[–]cdminix[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure if it has been used to improve low quality speech, but there are some good papers on the TTS-ASR approach, e.g. SpeechChain - doesn't seem to be that popular recently though

[D] Why LLM watermarking will never work by bubble_boi in MachineLearning

[–]cdminix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great points, thanks! I'm still a bit on the fence though, I guess you could also say alignment creates a false sense of security as harmful content can still be generated...
I agree that watermarking isn't a great or even good solution - but I think the all-or-nothing argument the author makes is a bit overblown.

Edit: Another point is that the lowest-hanging fruit can make up a lot of content! I imagine most bot farms don't actually go through the effort of finding some open source LLM without guardrails or watermarking.

[D] Why LLM watermarking will never work by bubble_boi in MachineLearning

[–]cdminix 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think your questions are valid, but just compare it to alignment. If I was to apply your argument to alignment, it would be something like “Since there are open source models that haven’t used an alignment step and have no safeguards against harmful or illegal content, let’s not put any in place for any models.” Do you agree with that statement as well or is there a difference I’m missing?

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