Al Merose (he/him)
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Technical staff @OpenAthena.ai, community member @pangeo.io & @m2lines.bsky.social. Weather, Climate, Oceans Research. Programming, Politics, Postmodernism (oPinions are my own).
Yes, and this works, but I have a few bones to pick: 1. The synthetic voice quality is poor and not natural sounding to me 2. It lacks mobile support IIRC.
November 15, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Yes, and this works, but I have a few bones to pick: 1. The synthetic voice quality is poor and not natural sounding to me 2. It lacks mobile support IIRC.
(full disclosure: I used to work at aira).
November 15, 2025 at 2:22 AM
(full disclosure: I used to work at aira).
spaCy, like a lot of traditional NLP, was outmoded pretty immediately post-GPT. Likely, not worth learning too much about (alas).
I think TTS and screen readers have been a long time huge win for accessibility. Maybe a frontier with AI involved would look like this: aira.io/projectastra/
I think TTS and screen readers have been a long time huge win for accessibility. Maybe a frontier with AI involved would look like this: aira.io/projectastra/
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November 15, 2025 at 2:22 AM
spaCy, like a lot of traditional NLP, was outmoded pretty immediately post-GPT. Likely, not worth learning too much about (alas).
I think TTS and screen readers have been a long time huge win for accessibility. Maybe a frontier with AI involved would look like this: aira.io/projectastra/
I think TTS and screen readers have been a long time huge win for accessibility. Maybe a frontier with AI involved would look like this: aira.io/projectastra/
I haven’t tried that yet! My plan was to use the ar5iv.org html pages and maybe pandoc to get an initial string for further processing. I think some good ol’ spacy and nltk utilities would make for good TTS post processing scripts.
ar5iv – Articles from arXiv.org as responsive HTML5 web documents
ar5iv offers a modern web view for arXiv's preprints. An open community resource, on a quest to a full collection of high-quality documents.
ar5iv.org
November 15, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I haven’t tried that yet! My plan was to use the ar5iv.org html pages and maybe pandoc to get an initial string for further processing. I think some good ol’ spacy and nltk utilities would make for good TTS post processing scripts.
My idea for a scrappy prototype would be to create a little webpage that just did the text processing to convert HTML versions of the paper to a Google doc, and then let ppl use their premium workspace subscriptions to listen to the document. A pure copy doesn’t make for good TTS/audio.
November 15, 2025 at 2:04 AM
My idea for a scrappy prototype would be to create a little webpage that just did the text processing to convert HTML versions of the paper to a Google doc, and then let ppl use their premium workspace subscriptions to listen to the document. A pure copy doesn’t make for good TTS/audio.
I bought the domain aarxiv.org with the intention of doing the same thing, but it would generate a dictation of the paper. Still haven’t got around to building this, but it’s something I know I would use (dreaming of taking a walk while consuming papers).
aarxiv.org
November 15, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I bought the domain aarxiv.org with the intention of doing the same thing, but it would generate a dictation of the paper. Still haven’t got around to building this, but it’s something I know I would use (dreaming of taking a walk while consuming papers).
Have you tried replacing the “x” in an arxiv URL with a 5?
November 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Have you tried replacing the “x” in an arxiv URL with a 5?
I think this is how gmail implemented undo send!
November 11, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I think this is how gmail implemented undo send!
Goddamn you weren’t kidding.
Grotesque poetry if there is such a thing.
Grotesque poetry if there is such a thing.
November 10, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Goddamn you weren’t kidding.
Grotesque poetry if there is such a thing.
Grotesque poetry if there is such a thing.
I don’t know if I can do body horror
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I don’t know if I can do body horror
My mistake, Doll, does it also go by “you”?
I like AethelOS so far.
I like AethelOS so far.
November 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
My mistake, Doll, does it also go by “you”?
I like AethelOS so far.
I like AethelOS so far.
Btw, have you seen twizzler.io?
Twizzler is a research operating system, written in Rust, designed around the data-centric programming model. It is built from scratch with a new kernel focused on simplicity to facilitate direct access to shared, persistent data for applications with minimal OS involvement and interposition. Twizzler is motivated by the convergence of the memory hierarchy for traditionally "far away" memory, brought about by the increasing closeness of persistent and distributed memory. Twizzler is developed by the CRSS at UC Santa Cruz.
twizzler.io
November 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Btw, have you seen twizzler.io?
Oh, and I would recommend using Arrow as a IPC format, especially if you have a DB based FS
arrow.apache.org
arrow.apache.org
Apache Arrow
The universal columnar format and multi-language toolbox for fast data interchange and in-memory analytics
arrow.apache.org
November 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Oh, and I would recommend using Arrow as a IPC format, especially if you have a DB based FS
arrow.apache.org
arrow.apache.org
I’m catching up on the sources. At a high level, if you wanted to implement the best ideas from arcs:
- I would take the IFC as a type system idea from Raksha… github.com/google-resea...
- …and implement them as rewrite rules with e-graphs: egraphs-good.github.io
- I would take the IFC as a type system idea from Raksha… github.com/google-resea...
- …and implement them as rewrite rules with e-graphs: egraphs-good.github.io
github.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I’m catching up on the sources. At a high level, if you wanted to implement the best ideas from arcs:
- I would take the IFC as a type system idea from Raksha… github.com/google-resea...
- …and implement them as rewrite rules with e-graphs: egraphs-good.github.io
- I would take the IFC as a type system idea from Raksha… github.com/google-resea...
- …and implement them as rewrite rules with e-graphs: egraphs-good.github.io
Atom54 Overview
YouTube video by Atom54
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I’m glad I saw it in theaters, you’ll have a great time :)
November 8, 2025 at 7:03 AM
I’m glad I saw it in theaters, you’ll have a great time :)