Tootfinder

The anonymous Christian author of *The Cloud of Unknowing* spoke of contemplative practice as "a naked, blind feeling of being."
The Buddhists, especially in #Zen, speak similarly of practicing "thusness" or "suchness."
Tonight that came to expression for me as:
the way things are is what does the practice
.
(I'll be away on a Zen retreat…

So, I have the feeling that the #fediverse is a very left-wing dominated space. Let's see if that feeling is correct.
Please boost for reach.
I consider myself:

Trump to campaign in Arizona following hush money conviction (Jonathan J. Cooper/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-arizona-speech-conviction-turning-point-c4c2de44823c2fbf9cb9dec105e92a22
http://www.memeorandum.com/240606/p7#a240606p7

Having trouble following conversations? Neosensory could help you get an auditory seat back at the table https://www.rollingstone.com/product-recommendations/lifestyle/neosensory-clarify-review-1235033842/

Having Trouble Following Conversations? Neosensory Could Help You Get An Auditory Seat Back At the Table
Neosensory Clarify is a wearable device aimed to help with speech comprehension using a unique sensory method. We tested it out — here's how it works

"Rather than maintain a safe distance and operate as a “machine politician” ... Faiza has tramped the streets to talk to people about local issues, earning a great deal of respect as a result. The fact that the #LabourParty has so easily brushed aside this work by deselecting Faiza suggests a basic lack of awareness of the very problems that they are claiming to have the remedies for.

Microsoft decides to disable Recall feature by default following security concerns. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1daikq2/

Speech-based Clinical Depression Screening: An Empirical Study
Yangbin Chen, Chenyang Xu, Chunfeng Liang, Yanbao Tao, Chuan Shi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03510

Speech-based Clinical Depression Screening: An Empirical Study
This study investigates the utility of speech signals for AI-based depression screening across varied interaction scenarios, including psychiatric interviews, chatbot conversations, and text readings. Participants includes depressed patients recruited from the outpatient clinics of Peking University Sixth Hospital and control group members from the community, all diagnosed by psychiatrists following standardized diagnostic protocols. We extracted acoustic and deep speech features from each part…

I continue to progress and enjoy the Adrift Expedition in No Man's Sky. I have acquired a couple more starships to go along with the basic ass hauler I started with. The Solar Ship came by way of the Phase 2 "find a crashed ship and repair it" milestone. Oddly enough, I could swear I got one with the same name in the last Expedition I played through. I've been carrying around some odd thing in my inventory almost since I started, and finally used it and had a Sentinel ship …

Yankees Call Up Ben Rice Following Anthony Rizzo Injury | Prospect Profile
#MLB #Baseball #BaseballAmerica

DiscreteSLU: A Large Language Model with Self-Supervised Discrete Speech Units for Spoken Language Understanding
Suwon Shon, Kwangyoun Kim, Yi-Te Hsu, Prashant Sridhar, Shinji Watanabe, Karen Livescu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09345

DiscreteSLU: A Large Language Model with Self-Supervised Discrete Speech Units for Spoken Language Understanding
The integration of pre-trained text-based large language models (LLM) with speech input has enabled instruction-following capabilities for diverse speech tasks. This integration requires the use of a speech encoder, a speech adapter, and an LLM, trained on diverse tasks. We propose the use of discrete speech units (DSU), rather than continuous-valued speech encoder outputs, that are converted to the LLM token embedding space using the speech adapter. We generate DSU using a self-supervised spee…