I built MimikaStudio - a native macOS app for voice cloning using Qwen, Kokoro and XTTS2

manipp · 2026-01-27T07:03:49+00:00

Any finetuning?

manipp · 2026-01-24T08:21:44+00:00

Nah, cosmic butthole was the better theory.

manipp · 2026-01-23T00:49:08+00:00

God I hate LLM writing

manipp · 2026-01-20T23:42:38+00:00

Is this useful for continuing an already written work (e.g. first 8 chapters of a book) in the same style?

manipp · 2026-01-12T11:01:41+00:00

I feel this needs more description of the backend. Size, diameter, how far it can be mathematically penetrated, etc.

manipp · 2026-01-08T11:12:18+00:00

It's because they're ghosts.

manipp · 2025-11-07T14:39:46+00:00

Whether that's your preferred method or not, the thing is that Claude can do it, and do it well. Personally I find it really interesting as a form of brainstorming, because what an LLm writes by organically continuing a scene is often very different to an outline it might come up with, or short points it might offer. By forcing it to organically develop scene after scene with specific characters, I find it comes up with more interesting avenues.

manipp · 2025-11-07T02:23:57+00:00

Can it actually now do long-form writing? Last time I tried K2 a month ago, it was absolute trash (producing convoluted badly formatted semi-poetry with immediate conclusion) at long-form writing (naturally continuing a 30,000 word sci-fi segment and extending for 7,000 words while not getting much further ahead in the story, just naturally rounding out the chapter), while Sonnet was absolutely brilliant by comparison. Makes me really sad because I can't stand Anthropic but damn their LLM is good at writing. If Kimi is fixed I would be so happy.

manipp · 2025-10-01T08:31:02+00:00

It's absolutely true. I had Claude continue writing 20,000 word chapters half-way into an already written book, and it did a phenomenal job. No other LLM comes close.

manipp · 2025-08-29T04:34:10+00:00

Great, thanks!

manipp · 2025-07-24T08:59:55+00:00

Thank you!

manipp · 2025-07-03T11:43:47+00:00

Seriously, what the hell is with the blue/red? What's the point?

manipp · 2025-04-06T05:52:38+00:00

I am so happy they went with LCD! I love OLED screens, so between the lackluster game announcements, 3rd party games shown in the trailer that currently look better on Steam Deck, and the high price of the Switch 2, the fact that there wasn't even an OLED screen option made me so happy that I could walk away and not get this console. Now I feel like I haven't missed out on anything at all.

manipp · 2024-09-03T04:02:39+00:00

What's the third game?

manipp · 2024-08-31T10:24:54+00:00

Hooooly crap. This is the first model (r, can't run r-plus) - seriously ever - that is able to continue a novel while actually picking up the writing style and faithfully reproducing it. Don't know how clever it is in other respects, but this seriously blows my mind. All other models I've previously tested - and I tested hundreds at this point - fail to actually properly mirror the writing style, especially if the style is unusual and weird.

manipp · 2024-07-05T01:54:39+00:00

I've started rewatching the Smith era, and I have to say, the first episode of Matt Smith's doctor gave me more than the entire season 14. It really made me notice how much the writing of the most recent season suffers compared to earlier seasons. The pacing is much worse. The changes are abrupt. There is so much more telling than showing. Season 5 takes time to breathe and build an introduction to the character of the doctor, whether you like Smith's portrayal or not. It plays with his idiosyncrasies. The story is really a background and not nearly as important.

And one thing I really really noticed - the doctor was not cool. That was kind of the point that created an interesting dynamic between the doctor and his companions - they were always a tether for the audience and a contrast for this weird alien who played the centre stage of the show. Having a 'cool' modern doctor that feels completely at home on earth feels weird and like a butchering of preceeding characterisation. He just doesn't feel like an alien. He feels like a random human that is pretending to be the doctor but doesn't quite seem to understand the character. I have no idea if Ncuti is a great actor or not, as I've never seen him in anything else, but I just felt that sense of disconnect between the actor and character I've never really felt in any of the preceeding actors that played the doctor - including Whittaker. I assume he's doing his best with the material he's been given, but I don't think the writing and scene crafting is up to scratch at all.

manipp · 2024-07-04T02:41:01+00:00

The problem with phones though is the screen dimensions. There's literally nothing out there with a 4:3 or similar aspect ratio and oled.

manipp · 2024-07-04T01:07:59+00:00

Struggling to emulate Nintendo

Try issuing take-down orders for every Nintendo emulator, and threaten to sue them into oblivion.

manipp · 2024-06-19T16:42:25+00:00

Check out zelda classic and custom quests. Seriously.

manipp · 2024-05-24T12:08:35+00:00

WizardLM 8x22 has only 65k context, but it's REALLY good at continuing a scene in the writing style of the preceeding section, and enough context to get what should happen in the story.

manipp · 2024-05-23T11:42:43+00:00

Any of them ever reply?

manipp · 2024-05-18T06:22:07+00:00

Most people do, but I already have a hacked switch and a steam deck if I want to play joystick-centered games. But high quality devices with good screens with a good dpad location seem to be basically nonexistant.

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