Query Answering Puns

Hey all,

I wanted to detail two responses I received yesterday afternoon while working on the latest video. These 2 responses should really make anyone who is skeptical about this process pay attention to this research for the following reasons:

1. I have all of the raw audio from both recording devices saved. This audio can be verified by any legitimate institute as being unedited, unaltered, and pure in its recorded state with all details remaining unmanipulated.
2. I recorded this session with both my yeti Mic (hooked into my pc) as well as the Sony Handycam (standalone). That's two separate devices both filtered separately by KRISP- The yeti in real-time, and the Handycam after the fact in a separate filtering stage.
3. Both of these responses are clear and of better quality. I would suggest that most people hearing these responses (those that have watched a lot of this research and heard a lot of the responses would rate these responses on the high end of the clarity scale). For me I’d give them 7.7/10 for clarity.
4. The Software KRISP is leaving behind all of the sounds it determines to be HUMAN speech. The biggest push back I have received (from most of those who are skeptical) since starting this is that the A.I algorithm of KRISP is:

A) leaving behind random syllables that my brain is now putting into form and making up words that not everyone will agree are there – PARADOLIA

B) or leaving behind random words from KRISP’s Word Bank

C) or smart enough to know what I am asking and is answering my questions (presumably from its word bank)

I have provided literally thousands of responses that have been recorded in my sessions. I think we can rule out A) as there have been hundreds of words and sentences that we can all agree have been said in response to my questions. The recorded responses vary from unintelligible to “holy shit, was that guy standing just off camera to Grant’s left?”

I also think we can rule out B) as the answers make sense in regard to what was asked. I’d say a good 90% of the time this is true. And this is noted throughout the 200 sessions and 2000+ hrs of work.

Now as far as ruling out C) we get to yesterday’s question. I asked the following question of the spirits:

"On a scale of 1 to 10, how badly do you need the light?

Yeti Mic Response:

See I am thinking now about

Five

Still Need It

Sony Response:

Five’s Enough

You Think?

We’ll See

Now in order to rule out A) on this specific question you’ll have to wai

I have applied for MS in ChemE to the top schools, namely: Cornell, Columbia, UPenn, UCLA, UMich, UCSD, TAMU. Could yall let me know by when they let us know the decision, based on the trends of previous years. Been extremely difficult to cope up with post application anxiety. Sorry for the ranting/venting.

Customer support can be unintuitive to first time startup founders.

I've distilled my learnings from answering 800+ customer support queries in the last 2 years as a startup founder into 11 actionable tips here.

TLDR:

1. Make it easy for your customers to reach you. Use live chat.
2. Respond immediately. Even if the actual resolution will take time.
3. Get context.
4. Hear them out.
5. Ask questions.
6. If you have to say no, explain why.
7. Apologize for your mistakes.
8. Apologize for their mistakes.
9. Don't respond when you're angry.
10. Make it easy for customers to help themselves.
11. Focus on solving their problem, not just answering the question. Go the extra mile if you can.

Let me know what you guys think.

Link to my previous post: https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/qv4eam/im_a_chartered_accountant_freely_ask_me_anything/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

Thanks for the great response, I have seen that many aren't aware of basic tax related information which they should be aware of, so i created a group where i can send basic income tax related information and also will share recent amendments. Pleas join the link below: https://chat.whatsapp.com/CaQW5XmBWD5EmO1X2QJv3D

Also created a group where people can raise there queries and have a general discussion regarding income tax and gst. Join the link below: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HPiIfjP32fU7mmkDFQPe0O

But I've another question. In the last week I've applied to over 50 gaming, animation and vfx companies and sought out an internship. It didn't exactly pan out correctly. Ofcourse i applied to AAA game studios and major vfx houses so getting rejected is pretty obvious. I am also planning on opening a LinkedIn in a couple of days to correspond with the recruiters.

But I wanted to know what companies can provide me an internship? Country and city doesn't matter, as one of the commenters on my previous post mentioned; you just need to get a digital foot in the door. Can someone link me to a couple of websites or recommend gaming and animation houses that have internships open, or if someone has worked there in the past?

I know I'm asking a lot, but I'm just trying to understand everything better. Plus all that application filing has made me a bit stuck on what to do next. Thanks in advance.

Ticket 1101851 I opened ticket on Nov 2, 2021. Replies are generic and not helping to fix the problem.

I requested my transaction history. It has been sent by Kucoin but it is missing transactions. My NPXS transactions are missing. I received 2 replies each time the question is ignored and I just get sent the same transaction history. I need to understand why there are missing transactions and my balance is not adding up.

Hi Experts,

FortiGuard subscription has expired, so, I want to use NextDNS as DNS server (answering offensive DNS queries with dummy IP). Fortigate is set up as LDNS but to recurse to NextDNS.

My problem is that Fortigate is still resolving and I don't know why. Any suggestions?

Al.

PS. internal network is connected via Fortigate's "wire_less_ssw" interface (192.168.1.2).

PPS. I’ve provisioned DoT, but same result with UDP/53.

C:\Windows\system32>nslookup pornhub.com 192.168.1.2

Server: UnKnown

Address: 192.168.1.2

Non-authoritative answer:

Name: pornhub.com

Address: 66.254.114.41

C:\Windows\system32>nslookup pornhub.com 45.90.28.154

Server: dns1.nextdns.io

Address: 45.90.28.154

Non-authoritative answer:

Name: pornhub.com

Addresses: ::

0.0.0.0

FortiGate configuration:

FWF # show system dns

config system dns

set primary 45.90.28.154

set secondary 45.90.30.154

set dns-over-tls enforce

set domain "lan"

set cache-notfound-responses enable

end

FWF # show system dns-server

config system dns-server

edit "wire_less_ssw"

set dnsfilter-profile "Clone of default"

next

edit "wifi-wpa2-ent"

set dnsfilter-profile "Clone of default"

next

end

FWF # show system dns-database

config system dns-database

edit "myzone-lan"

set domain "lan"

config dns-entry

edit 1

set hostname "gs108tv2_1"

:

I purchased a Koinly sub - mostly on the positive noises here.

But it seems like they aren't answering support tickets? Loads of posts with no response on their support forum at https://discuss.koinly.io/c/koinly-support/8.

I've also had a direct in chat window support message unanswered - and they are estimating a week to reply to me.

I also saw discussion on this ticket that there was a bug in the application of same day/30 day/ section 104 pooling for UK customers as part of this larger thread https://discuss.koinly.io/t/trying-to-understand-cost-basis-using-shared-pool-individual/1160/31

Are people still confident these guys are good? Should I look elsewhere?

Early this year we visited a tax consultant to see if he is a good one to file taxes. We met him twice. Once for introductory meeting and again for couple of tax queries. However, we decided not to proceed with him as his service was not good. We didn’t sign any contract or were informed that this is paid consultation. After 8 months he sent an invoice for huge amount of $450 saying that he should be paid for answering couple of queries and 2 meetings and it doesn’t matter if any contract was signed as there is something called implied contract which gives him the right to charge money even if he didn’t inform us about these charges in advance and he will be taking legal action if not paid. Is it true? Are we liable to even if we were not informed about it in advance about any charges ?

I will PM you if you mind

Hey. This might be a really silly question.

What are some of Evan's hobbies? (geez, I'm such a nerd)

The questions are:

What is the human race’s biggest weakness?

and

How do you use the implement known as a “spork”?

These question will be very helpful to my academic studies relating to various concepts that I study at the human school I attend.

Human school life is a drag, huh fellow humans?

I appreciate all input and require these answers before invasion day October 1st.

My Homepod has started making a strange little chirp/pop sound sometimes immediately before its answer/feedback when I ask something of Siri, like to tell me the weather or news or to switch a light on or something. It doesn't sound like a static burst or anything, it's not a click either but what sounds like a definite intentional sound. It doesn't happen all the time, but I have tried rebooting and it still happens. Anyone else seeing / hearing this. Typically, whenever I try recording it, it doesn't seem to do it.

I have PowerDNS Authoritative & Recursor running on a server in my environment. When I use this node as my a DNS Server, it responds to A record queries without any issues. However, when I attempt to perform a reverse lookup it fails. Any idea why?

Here is a screenshot of some DNS Lookups exhibiting the behavior.

Here is a screenshot depicting the configuration for Mars in the Forward Lookup Zone.

Here is a screenshot depicting an automatically created record for Mars in the Reverse Lookup Zone.

Here is the pdns.conf file.

Here is the recursor.conf file.

So as I said, I own the Xbox One version of Cities: Skylines. I have never owned the PC version, so I'll be talking mostly from a console perspective. I'm fairly certain (like 99% certain) that the game will land on the PS4, especially since it has been rated, at least in Brazil.

I saw a couple of hypotheticals, assumptions, comments, queries and concerns in the thread linked above and thought I might provide some clarity and thoughts on the game as an Xbox One version owner. I responded to a couple of folks in the aforementioned thread, but hopefully this reaches more people... So here goes:

> Performance

So I'd wager this is a major point of interest since the game can be rather intense, even straining some higher-end PCs on occassion. Fret not, the game runs swimmingly on the Xbox One so far, and I'd expect the same or better performance on the PS4/Pro. The game appears (at least to my eye) to maintain 30fps well even in the larger cities and I'm yet to notice any major dips or any drops that cause detriment.

That said, the game does have a small amount of slowdown (though not really enough to consider detrimental) when zooming in. This can be observed mostly when zooming in on congested roads.

Small amounts of pop-in does occur when zooming in as well. Civilians, traffic, trees and so forth are all affected by this. However, they load in pretty quickly so it's not much of an issue, if at all. I'd like to wager that this (and the above zooming-performance) will be either far less or non-existant when using the Pro's Boost Mode (or on the Xbox Scorpio when that releases).

Interestingly, the speed-up feature has been ommitted from the Xbox One (and presumably PS4) version of the game. I read that this heavily affected performance when used so the developer chose to remove it for the console release.

P.S.: Didn't quite know what section to put this in, but I'll place it here - Aspect Ratio can be an issue on some TVs, with parts of the HUD being off-screen. They have announced they're working on this however after feedback.

> Accessibility and Menus

It's hard to imagine that a game made for the PC which uses multiple interfaces at once would translate well to a console setup. Well Cities: Skylines does incredibly well in this regard.

Navigation through menus is carried out through radial menus which due to the stick-like nature of controllers, f

I am moving to PC as soon as I can today, having just built my PC. Need answers to a couple questions:

1. Will I need to purchase the “Destiny 2: Forsaken - Complete Collection” on battle.net to get all the licences I need?

2. Shortly after which will I need to do the steam transfer and THEN pre-order Shadowkeep on steam?

Many thanks.

A Microsoft engineer in China mentioned Surface Phone while talking about how Cortana will work perfectly on it. While he did edit his post later to say he's not sure if there will be a Surface Phone, it might be because he noticed his mistake by leaking some information.

It seems development is going well and it might launch soon. it's weird though, the fact he called it "Phone".

This article can be found in WinCentral or MSPoweruser.

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