Thanasis Kinias
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Academic historian & #histodon. Research race and whiteness in the British Empire (especially Queensland & British Columbia). Teach British Empire and world […]
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And it's a little sad. Because it's not like there aren't a few dozen exciting use cases for LLMs and image generation engines.
For example speech to text. Using an LLM to clean up dictation, which tends to be horrible, is pretty effective. What LLMs do well is find the most obvious answer […]
For example speech to text. Using an LLM to clean up dictation, which tends to be horrible, is pretty effective. What LLMs do well is find the most obvious answer […]
Original post on sauropods.win
sauropods.win
October 2, 2025 at 1:03 PM
And it's a little sad. Because it's not like there aren't a few dozen exciting use cases for LLMs and image generation engines.
For example speech to text. Using an LLM to clean up dictation, which tends to be horrible, is pretty effective. What LLMs do well is find the most obvious answer […]
For example speech to text. Using an LLM to clean up dictation, which tends to be horrible, is pretty effective. What LLMs do well is find the most obvious answer […]
Reposted by Thanasis Kinias
One thing I really love about the woods at this time of year is the colours give away which trees are actually the same tree: aspen poplars like these send up shoots, so many trunks are actually the same tree, even if they're separated by a large distance […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
October 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
One thing I really love about the woods at this time of year is the colours give away which trees are actually the same tree: aspen poplars like these send up shoots, so many trunks are actually the same tree, even if they're separated by a large distance […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Reposted by Thanasis Kinias
Suvarth Mahadevan talking about Habitable-zone Planet Finder instrument on Hobby-Eberly Telescope (which incidentally has a bullet hole in the mirror, because... Texas)
This is optimized for cool M stars - smaller planets around small stars produce larger radial velocity signatures. M stars are […]
This is optimized for cool M stars - smaller planets around small stars produce larger radial velocity signatures. M stars are […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
September 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Suvarth Mahadevan talking about Habitable-zone Planet Finder instrument on Hobby-Eberly Telescope (which incidentally has a bullet hole in the mirror, because... Texas)
This is optimized for cool M stars - smaller planets around small stars produce larger radial velocity signatures. M stars are […]
This is optimized for cool M stars - smaller planets around small stars produce larger radial velocity signatures. M stars are […]