Wednesday, June 19, 2024

What do you call it when your Apple phone is under a pillow?

This is a riddle. 

What do you call it when your AI phone is under a pillow?

I don't know; what do you call it when your AI phone is under a pillow?

AI Girlfriend


Wednesday, June 12, 2024

AI are learning to speak dog

 Towards Dog Bark Decoding: Leveraging Human Speech

Processing for Automated Bark Classification\

by Artem Abzaliev, Humberto PĂ©rez Espinosa, and Rada Mihalcea1

Similar to humans, animals make extensive use of verbal and non-verbal forms of communication, including a large range of audio signals. In this paper, we address dog vocalizations and explore the use of self-supervised speech representation models pre-trained on human speech to address dog bark classification tasks that find parallels in human-centered tasks in speech recognition. We specifically address four tasks: dog recognition, breed identification, gender classification, and context grounding. We show that using speech embedding representations significantly improves over simpler classification baselines. Further, we also find that models pre-trained on large human speech acoustics can provide additional performance boosts on several tasks.


Keywords: animal vocalizations, semi-supervised learning, audio processing


Saturday, June 8, 2024

Do raised toilet seats make it harder to poop?

 I am surprised and find it hard to believe that raised toilet seats increase constipation or make it harder to poop.

I have found through undesired research that not bending all the way down, as if you have a raised seat, makes it much easier to complete emptying the colon. I found multiple sources that contradict apparent first hand evidence. It not implausible to me that the standard American toilet seat height is near the worst possible height and the Squatty Potty makes it easier and the opposite, a raised seat, also makes it easier than the standard American toilet seat height. It's conceivable my subjective kinesthetic sense is inaccurate as to the angles involved. The sensing is being done in a time of high stress. Do you believe that extra high toilet seats, perhaps tilted so they're higher in the back than the front, would or do make it harder to go?