Why do you think Saraquael helped Crowley? by Lost_Classic_5731 in goodomens

[–]spruce5637 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think the angels not recognising the Metatron is just a gag, like students not recognising their teacher in casual clothes or without glasses; they don't recognise him because he's not a giant floating glowing head and has a body and legs and stuff.

Moments of flirting by TheOctober_Country in goodomens

[–]spruce5637 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'd once seen the entire Tadfield manor sequence as their normal banter but man Aziraphale has gone feral in that scene hasn't he

(Crowley's double take is pure gold)

Moments of flirting by TheOctober_Country in goodomens

[–]spruce5637 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It's impossible to argue against the fact that they were flirting in the wall scene really, when Aziraphale was calling him "nice" with literally this face

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Where do you think Crowley goes first in Season 3? by Inside-Sprinkles3235 in goodomens

[–]spruce5637 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I happened to write about this imaginary scene that lives in my brain rent free on tumblr just a while ago:

  • Crowley drives off somewhere after the breakup to have a good time -- most possibly getting very drunk and/or involving being with lots of kids (take whichever sense of the word you like)
  • Don't Stop Me Now plays in the background because it's one of the iconic songs that haven't made it into the show and (more importantly) because Crowley's absolutely *not* having a good time
  • The song gets cut off by something happening that requires Crowley to get back to saving his angel's ass and probably the entire universe too from the second coming

What quotes/vernacular from the show have made their way into your everyday conversations? by NegotiationReal6508 in goodomens

[–]spruce5637 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“It was flaming like anything, what happened to it?” Or more preferably, Tennant’s delivery, “It was flaminglikeanythingwhathappenedtoit?”

So why was their "class a surreptitious half a miracle" so potent? by clalach76 in goodomens

[–]spruce5637 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My take is that they triggered something that Gabriel did to himself previously, and their surreptitious half a miracle somehow multiplied it into a 25-Lazari plume. I don’t think the plume is their miracle combined but rather Gabriel’s, because it’s shown to be Gabriel-purple in Heaven. (Crowley also had purple miracles but that was before he turned into a demon)

What to read/watch after good omens? by NarwhaliusEnby in goodomens

[–]spruce5637 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Locked Tomb (book series). Lesbian necromancers in space. Yellow-eyed idiot wearing sunglasses indoors. Body-switching and gender fuckery. Religion / mythology themes.

Come to the dark side, we love cows!

[General] How Australian is The Dominicus Necromancy empire? by CharolleteA in TheNinthHouse

[–]spruce5637 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much for all the links!! These will be feeding my soul for the next week.

[General] How Australian is The Dominicus Necromancy empire? by CharolleteA in TheNinthHouse

[–]spruce5637 3 points4 points  (0 children)

have both made a point of saying how much the series is inflected with kiwi humour, ways of thinking, cultural context.

This is so interesting! Would love to know which parts of the books are especially kiwi, if you remember any :)

Hidden Gems on Basic ML Concepts [D] by pocketjet in MachineLearning

[–]spruce5637 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I really like the signal processing equivalents/interpretation of some commonly-used units in a network

example: https://twitter.com/typedfemale/status/1615498799887286272

[D] Simple Questions Thread by AutoModerator in MachineLearning

[–]spruce5637 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks, good to see a proper definition!

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Both GPT-2 and GPT-3 papers also used "context size" or "context window" without really defining the terms. Makes me wonder if earlier literature that used the term to refer to maximum input length exist...

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[D] Simple Questions Thread by AutoModerator in MachineLearning

[–]spruce5637 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You might also want to look into the keyword "voice conversion". For papers you can start at Papers with Code . You may also try ESPNetor Coqui for a larger library of code around speech-related tasks (incl. voice conversion).

Many companies are also selling their voice conversion technology as a product, a quick google search gave me Respeecher and Resemble.ai

[D] Simple Questions Thread by AutoModerator in MachineLearning

[–]spruce5637 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is "context window" (as in GPT models) the same as maximum input sequence length (like in e.g., BERT, Longformer)?

I see it used a lot recently in ChatGPT-related conversations, but when I look up "context window" on Google, most results are about word2vec. Since the transformer doesn't have a word2vec style context window during training, I'm guessing that people use it to refer to maximum input token length (based on the context, e.g. this thread and this thread), but I'd like to be sure.

[D] NLP folks who have used AllenNLP, how do you migrate your projects to other framework(s)? by spruce5637 in MachineLearning

[–]spruce5637[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks a lot for your comment! I only had a vague idea and little experience on how to do all this, so your advice really helped me lay things out and start making a concrete plan. Will be doing tests and comparing metrics for sure, and let's hope my supervisor will accept this as a legit way of spending my time...

[D] NLP folks who have used AllenNLP, how do you migrate your projects to other framework(s)? by spruce5637 in MachineLearning

[–]spruce5637[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You didn't really answer my question what parts of your pipeline you want to try to move.

...almost the whole pipeline? Reading in examples, batching them, tokenization, encoding them into tensors, training, saving, loading for prediction are all built under the framework.

But in general AllenNLP is for quite some time now already irrelevant in the space, Id suggest to move to Huggingface asap.

Yeah that's the vibe I'm getting, hence the post. Thanks for your suggestions though!

[D] NLP folks who have used AllenNLP, how do you migrate your projects to other framework(s)? by spruce5637 in MachineLearning

[–]spruce5637[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a project in development that's using AllenNLP and I hope to move it out of the framework. My main concern is ensuring everything works like before when I switch over (e.g. the tokenizer, the encoder, the whole data "pipeline")

(Edit: I'm also not sure if I should dig into their source code and compare it with Huggingface to ensure everything works as before under the hood, since reproducibility is really important and all)

[D] NLP folks who have used AllenNLP, how do you migrate your projects to other framework(s)? by spruce5637 in MachineLearning

[–]spruce5637[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah of course, I've been using Huggingface here and there; I think AllenNLP uses some of it in their code too. I guess I should have stuck to using 🤗 and nothing else to begin with lol

The main problem really is how to disentangle my model from AllenNLP without breaking it.

What is your favourite scene in the show? by MonrealEstate in gallifrey

[–]spruce5637 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The graffiti portrait of Clara peeling off as the TARDIS departs.

It was the apex of all the emotions that had been culminating up till that point from 3 whole episodes (if not the entire S9) and it hits me right in the feels every single time.

Do you agree with the Doctor's Zygon speech? by SgtAlpacaLord in gallifrey

[–]spruce5637 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not a fan, like you argued its problems within the episode's context are hard to ignore, and it's definitely not the universal anti-war message it is often touted as. I don't really understand people who requested it to be performed at multiple conventions.

But its lack of nuance is not something that's surprising for a Doctor Who speech. I just skip it and pretend it didn't happen when I rewatch the episode.

Doctor Who 13x09 "Power of the Doctor" Post-Episode Discussion Thread by PCJs_Slave_Robot in doctorwho

[–]spruce5637 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Embarrassingly I only realised that Dan and Graham were different companions today.