I migliori Read On podcast (2024)

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Indie Intermission Ep. 17- I'm Sure This Is Someone We've Met Before (The Fires of Treason) 55:13

2d ago55:13

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Hannah and Laura are on Indie Intermission and finish up their coverage of the plot of The Fires of Treason by Michele Quirke!! They chat about YouTube channels Laura has been watching, Hannah's recent read about the history of D&D, and movies that hit them "right in the nostalgia." They also go in depth into Hannah's farm on Stardew Valley leaving…

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Episode 221 - Trial by Ambush with Marcia Clark and John Valeri 1:51:55

3d ago1:51:55

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We had the good fortune to talk with Marcia Clark and John Valeri about TRIAL BY AMBUSH, Marcia’s first foray into the true crime genre, for which John served as her researcher. TRIAL BY AMBUSH is an investigation into the 1953 trial of Barbara Graham, a petty criminal whose life took a hard turn the night of a home burglary that ended in murder. G…

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425 - Australia's Social Media Ban 1:01:45

4d ago1:01:45

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RED BUBBLE STORE: https://rdbl.co/2BXMEkq DISCORD: https://discord.com/invite/uWZkb2a 10:00 - Read It On Reddit 20:49 - Ask Reddit 29:00 - Today I Advice 34:58 - Shower Thoughts 41:26 - Podnapping - Guess The Movie From The Letterboxd Review AMA - readitpodcast@gmail.com - Ask Us Anything! LET YOUR GUARD DOWN!…

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398: Samantha Harvey - Orbital - Booker Winner 2024 57:44

7d ago57:44

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Today a long chat with Booker Winner 2024 Samantha Harvey and a listen to her winning book Orbital. We hear about the quirks of living on the ISS, about sleeping in orbit, and closer to home we hear about the importance of accessible reading and that Samantha is currently training a guide dog puppy. All that plus some new books in the RNIB Library …

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Fall Haul & Reading Recap 11:58

15d ago11:58

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Back with some books I hauled and read (and they are not the same 🥴) in September and October.

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ToolAlpaca: Generalized Tool Learning for Language Models with 3000 Simulated Cases 32:59

21d ago32:59

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Enabling large language models to utilize real-world tools effectively is crucial for achieving embodied intelligence. Existing approaches to tool learning have either primarily relied on extremely large language models, such as GPT-4, to attain generalized tool-use abilities in a zero-shot manner, or utilized supervised learning to train limited s…

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TV Tuesday Ep. 18- "Everyone loves and loses. That's part of being a human." (Agatha All Along Season 1 with Ashley Anglin) 1:23:41

3d ago1:23:41

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Hannah and Laura are going down, down, down the road, down the witches' road and they've brought along the newest member of their coven, author Ashley Anglin!!! The three witches avoid the Salem Seven, gush over Sasheer Zamata's performance, and try to decide if there were any bad parts of the show. ***This episode contains full SPOILERS for Agatha…

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Indie Intermission Ep. 16- Eating Scones Is Pretty Much Regal (The Fires of Treason) 1:19:14

9d ago1:19:14

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It's time for Indie Intermission!!! Hannah and Laura are covering the first half of The Fires of Treason by Michele Quirke and trying to decide whether or not treason was in fact committed. They also discuss the latest entry in Jonathan Nevair's spy-fi series, Domingo, a great memoir, and Hannah's wedding. **This episode contains SPOILERS for The F…

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Booker Winner 2024 - Samantha Harvey (Extract) 8:04

9d ago8:04

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Full interview on Friday's show, but here's a clip from my interview with Booker winner 2024, Samantha HarveyDi RNIB Connect Radio

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Bonus Episode - Booker Shortlist Special 2024 39:14

10d ago39:14

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We have spoken to all of the Booker Shortlisted authors here at Read On, many on the days leading up to, or in one case the day of, the award ceremony, far too soon to get them onto a regular episode of the show. So here, ahead of the ceremony tonight, is a supercut of all six interviews featuring Percival Everett, Samantha Harvey, Yael van der Wou…

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424 - The Elephant In The Room 1:03:15

11d ago1:03:15

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RED BUBBLE STORE: https://rdbl.co/2BXMEkq DISCORD: https://discord.com/invite/uWZkb2a 4:00 - Read It On Reddit 21:04 - Ask Reddit 28:42 - Today I Advice 32:05 - Shower Thoughts 38:18 - Podnapping - Guess Celebs By Their Voices AMA - readitpodcast@gmail.com - Ask Us Anything! MAP OF USA vs AUS: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/bad_map_projection_the_uni…

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397: Booker Prize 2024 57:45

14d ago57:45

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This week features each book on the 2024 Booker Prize shortlist and a listen to the audio versions, plus some book recommendations from last year’s winner Paul Lynch. Image shows the shortlisted books on a shelf, spines towards the camera.Di RNIB Connect Radio

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BONUS EPISODE- "I wanted to put my heart into my story." The Forsaken Planet by Bryan Wilson WITH BRYAN WILSON 50:54

16d ago50:54

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Hannah and Laura are thrilled to be able to talk to science-fiction/fantasy author, Bryan Wilson, about his series, Power of the Stars! They chat about Bryan's publishing journey, writing fictional friendships and complex families, and navigating intergalactic politics. **This episode contains mild spoilers for The Forsaken Planet by Bryan Wilson.*…

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Episode 220 - A Shocking Buddy-Read with Our Mystery Man John Valeri 1:32:25

17d ago1:32:25

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Welcome to Episode 220 – It’s another 10th episode, which means it’s giveaway time! One lucky newsletter subscriber will win copies of The Gardener’s Plot: A Mystery by Deborah J. Benoit and The Author’s Guide to Murder by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White. We send one newsletter per month, and it is free. Sign up on our website, and…

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423 - Entire Population Disappears 59:57

18d ago59:57

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RED BUBBLE STORE: https://rdbl.co/2BXMEkq DISCORD: https://discord.com/invite/uWZkb2a 1:30 - Read It On Reddit 13:05 - Ask Reddit 19:57 - Today I Advice 31:15 - Shower Thoughts 37:53 - Podnapping - 8 Out Of 10 Cats AMA - readitpodcast@gmail.com - Ask Us Anything! LET YOUR GUARD DOWN!Di Read It Podcasts

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396: Ariane Bankes, Irvine Welsh and Elizabeth Oldfield at the Wigtown Book Festival 57:45

21d ago57:45

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This week on Read On we have three very different authors, Ariane Bankes discovers her mother's and aunt's correspondence in The Quality of Love: Twin Sisters at the Heart of the Century, Irvine Welsh tells us about the third Ray Lennox book, Resolution, and Elizabeth Oldfield is Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times in her book, Fully Alive. All …

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Mini-Omni2: Towards Open-source GPT-4o with Vision, Speech and Duplex Capabilities 30:12

22d ago30:12

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GPT-4o, an all-encompassing model, represents a milestone in the development of large multi-modal language models. It can understand visual, auditory, and textual modalities, directly output audio, and support flexible duplex interaction. Models from the open-source community often achieve some functionalities of GPT-4o, such as visual understandin…

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Hallo2: Long-Duration and High-Resolution Audio-Driven Portrait Image Animation 39:12

23d ago39:12

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Recent advances in latent diffusion-based generative models for portrait image animation, such as Hallo, have achieved impressive results in short-duration video synthesis. In this paper, we present updates to Hallo, introducing several design enhancements to extend its capabilities. First, we extend the method to produce long-duration videos. To a…

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Ep. 135- Harry Dresden Sees Karrin Murphy In A Different Light Now That He's Seen Her Panties (Blood Rites) 1:23:35

23d ago1:23:35

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Hannah and Laura wrap up The Year of the Dresden: 6A by discussing the characters and themes of Blood Rites by Jim Butcher. They miss Billy the werewolf, talk a LOT about vampires and discuss how there may just be a bit too much going on in this novel. Hannah and Laura also chat about some fun graphic novels, a book that gives Hannah vibes of 90's …

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422 - 'I've Never Made A Doctors Appointment In My Life' 1:04:18

25d ago1:04:18

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RED BUBBLE STORE: https://rdbl.co/2BXMEkq DISCORD: https://discord.com/invite/uWZkb2a 4:00 - Read It On Reddit 15:51 - Ask Reddit 30:50 - Today I Advice 35:53 - Shower Thoughts 41:59 - Podnapping - Blind Top 5 AMA - readitpodcast@gmail.com - Ask Us Anything! LET YOUR GUARD DOWN!Di Read It Podcasts

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395: Josie Lloyd - Miss Beeton’s Murder Agency 57:44

28d ago57:44

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Today we're chatting to Josie Lloyd about her brand new cosy crime adventure Miss Beeton’s Murder Agency and we get an exclusive news about a brand new book Josie is writing with Emlyn Rees. Plus we'll find some new books in the RNIB Library. The image shows the cover of the book "Miss Beeton's Murder Agency" by Josie Lloyd. The design features a r…

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Ep. 134- They've Been In Harry Dresden's Apartment For Two Hours (Blood Rites) 1:06:13

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Hannah and Laura finish covering the plot of Blood Rites by Jim Butcher and wonder when things went off the rails and why Karrin Murphy had to take her pants off. They also chat about an excellent independently published novella, a fun, fantasy series with lots of smut, and their new favorite spin-off TV show. **This episode contains SPOILERS for B…

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Episode 219 - Exploring Picture Book Art 1:10:13

1M ago1:10:13

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Welcome to Episode 219! In this episode, we recap some exciting Biblio Adventures, including trips to the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, the Montague Book Mill, the Montague Center Library, and an author event at RJ Julia Booksellers with Betsy Lerner.Chris talks about a handful of picture books she read:The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach …

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421 - Pick Your Guide To The Afterlife 53:15

1M ago53:15

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RED BUBBLE STORE: https://rdbl.co/2BXMEkq DISCORD: https://discord.com/invite/uWZkb2a 4:00 - Read It On Reddit 10:54 - Ask Reddit 17:45 - Today I Advice 26:40 - Shower Thoughts 34:31 - Podnapping - Guess The Movie Intro AMA - readitpodcast@gmail.com - Ask Us Anything! LET YOUR GUARD DOWN!Di Read It Podcasts

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F5-TTS: A Fairytaler that Fakes Fluent and Faithful Speech with Flow Matching 35:59

1M ago35:59

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This paper introduces F5-TTS, a fully non-autoregressive text-to-speech system based on flow matching with Diffusion Transformer (DiT). Without requiring complex designs such as duration model, text encoder, and phoneme alignment, the text input is simply padded with filler tokens to the same length as input speech, and then the denoising is perfor…

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394: Coinneach MacLeod, Pen Vogler and Julian Baggini at Wigtown Book Festival 57:45

1M ago57:45

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There's a food theme in this week's episode as we head to Wigtown to chat to The Hebridean Baker Coinneach MacLeod, food historian Pen Vogler on her books Scoff and Stuffed and philosopher Julian Baggini tells us How The World Eats. Plus we get the Books of Your Life from Gareth Brown and find new books in the RNIB Library. The image used is a fun …

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LightRAG: Simple and Fast Retrieval-Augmented Generation 37:42

1M ago37:42

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Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems enhance large language models (LLMs) by integrating external knowledge sources, enabling more accurate and contextually relevant responses tailored to user needs. However, existing RAG systems have significant limitations, including reliance on flat data representations and inadequate contextual awarenes…

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Aria: An Open Multimodal Native Mixture-of-Experts Model 17:56

1M ago17:56

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Information comes in diverse modalities. Multimodal native AI models are essential to integrate real-world information and deliver comprehensive understanding. While proprietary multimodal native models exist, their lack of openness imposes obstacles for adoptions, let alone adaptations. To fill this gap, we introduce Aria, an open multimodal nativ…

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Ep. 133- Harry Dresden Finally Has The One Thing He Always Wanted... (Blood Rites) 1:21:41

1M ago1:21:41

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Hannah and Laura are in the midst of Blood Rites by Jim Butcher, and friends, there are lots of vampires in this book. So many, in fact, that it is confusing. They also chat about Disney movie sequels with great songs, a book series that Hannah couldn't wait to finish, and feminist icon, Moo Deng. **This episode contains SPOILERS for Blood Rites by…

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AgentKit: Structured LLM Reasoning with Dynamic Graphs 30:22

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We propose an intuitive LLM prompting framework (AgentKit) for multifunctional agents. AgentKit offers a unified framework for explicitly constructing a complex"thought process"from simple natural language prompts. The basic building block in AgentKit is a node, containing a natural language prompt for a specific subtask. The user then puts togethe…

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TV Tuesday Ep. 17- "A flower is only a flower because it falls." (Shogun Season 1 with C.M. Caplan) 1:38:19

1M ago1:38:19

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Hannah and Laura join their friend, C.M. Caplan, in a quest to become samurai for a powerful daimyo and take down their political rivals. That's right! Shogun (season1) is the subject of today's TV Tuesday!! **This episode contains SPOILERS for Shogun, the television series, on Hulu/FX.*** **CW for the episode: discussions of war, violence, blood, …

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PDF-WuKong: A Large Multimodal Model for Efficient Long PDF Reading with End-to-End Sparse Sampling 33:45

1M ago33:45

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Document understanding is a challenging task to process and comprehend large amounts of textual and visual information. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly improved the performance of this task. However, existing methods typically focus on either plain text or a limited number of document images, struggling to handle …

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420 - This Room Freezes Time 54:23

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RED BUBBLE STORE: https://rdbl.co/2BXMEkq DISCORD: https://discord.com/invite/uWZkb2a 2:40 - Read It On Reddit 14:16 - Ask Reddit 25:00 - Today I Advice 33:42 - Shower Thoughts 41:21 - Podnapping - Guess The Movie Theme Music AMA - readitpodcast@gmail.com - Ask Us Anything! LET YOUR GUARD DOWN!Di Read It Podcasts

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Les Vamps? 6:39

1M ago6:39

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Just a quick little tryst into some vampire recs.

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393: Gareth Brown - The Book of Doors - Wigtown Book Festival 57:45

1M ago57:45

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In a talk sponsored by RNIB Connect Radio, Gareth Brown talks to Teddy Jameson live on stage at the Wigtown Book Festival about his best-selling time-travelling page turner, The Book of Doors. Plus we find some brand new books in the RNIB Library.Di RNIB Connect Radio

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Diffusion Models are Evolutionary Algorithms 31:05

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In a convergence of machine learning and biology, we reveal that diffusion models are evolutionary algorithms. By considering evolution as a denoising process and reversed evolution as diffusion, we mathematically demonstrate that diffusion models inherently perform evolutionary algorithms, naturally encompassing selection, mutation, and reproducti…

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Is Safer Better? The Impact of Guardrails on the Argumentative Strength of LLMs in Hate Speech Countering 39:11

1M ago39:11

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The potential effectiveness of counterspeech as a hate speech mitigation strategy is attracting increasing interest in the NLG research community, particularly towards the task of automatically producing it. However, automatically generated responses often lack the argumentative richness which characterises expert-produced counterspeech. In this wo…

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Ep. 132- Harry Dresden Can Barely Contain Himself (Blood Rites) 1:22:31

1M ago1:22:31

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Hannah and Laura are covering the first third of Jim Butcher's book, Blood Rites, and seeing Harry Dresden as a detective in a [fairly] straightforward murder mystery. They also chat about a show that Hannah is making part of her personality, depictions of chronic illness in books, and Laura's preference for learning about the histories of Middle E…

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LLMs Know More Than They Show: On the Intrinsic Representation of LLM Hallucinations 36:51

1M ago36:51

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Large language models (LLMs) often produce errors, including factual inaccuracies, biases, and reasoning failures, collectively referred to as"hallucinations". Recent studies have demonstrated that LLMs' internal states encode information regarding the truthfulness of their outputs, and that this information can be utilized to detect errors. In thi…

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Episode 218 - Playwright Spotlight with Laura Thoma 1:43:27

1M ago1:43:27

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Welcome to Episode 218, featuring a Playwright Spotlight with Laura Thoma about her new Christmas play, MISS MARGARET’S BARTON COTTAGE CHRISTMAS SURPRISE, coming this December to Drama Works Theatre in Old Saybrook.We made up for lost time with a slew of Biblio Adventures, starting with a discussion with James R. Benn at the Mystic & Noank Library,…

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Internal Consistency and Self-Feedback in Large Language Models: A Survey 1:20:28

2M ago1:20:28

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Large language models (LLMs) often exhibit deficient reasoning or generate hallucinations. To address these, studies prefixed with"Self-"such as Self-Consistency, Self-Improve, and Self-Refine have been initiated. They share a commonality: involving LLMs evaluating and updating themselves. Nonetheless, these efforts lack a unified perspective on su…

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419 - Movie Critic Critics 41:59

2M ago41:59

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RED BUBBLE STORE: https://rdbl.co/2BXMEkq DISCORD: https://discord.com/invite/uWZkb2a 2:47 - Read It On Reddit 9:55 - Ask Reddit 17:33 - Today I Advice 22:46 - Shower Thoughts 28:54 - Podnapping - Were These Celebs Ever Married? AMA - readitpodcast@gmail.com - Ask Us Anything! LET YOUR GUARD DOWN!Di Read It Podcasts

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A Few Fall Recs 6:44

2M ago6:44

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Just a few of my personal recommendations to get into the spirit of the season.

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392: Wigtown Hidden Gems 57:45

2M ago57:45

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As I'm down in Wigtown recording next week's show, here's a collection of hidden gems we've recorded at the festival over the years.Di RNIB Connect Radio

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On the Diagram of Thought 17:27

2M ago17:27

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We introduce Diagram of Thought (DoT), a framework that models iterative reasoning in large language models (LLMs) as the construction of a directed acyclic graph (DAG) within a single model. Unlike traditional approaches that represent reasoning as linear chains or trees, DoT organizes propositions, critiques, refinements, and verifications into a…

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BONUS EPISODE- INDIE INTERMISSION #6 ANNOUNCEMENT 26:46

2M ago26:46

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Hannah is getting married soon! So that means Indie Intermission looks a little different this time around. Hannah and Laura have created a bracket of some independently published books that have been participants in previous Indie Intermissions and they use a random generator to choose the next Indie Intermission winner!! This is a shorter episode…

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3DTopia-XL: Scaling High-quality 3D Asset Generation via Primitive Diffusion 46:12

2M ago46:12

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The increasing demand for high-quality 3D assets across various industries necessitates efficient and automated 3D content creation. Despite recent advancements in 3D generative models, existing methods still face challenges with optimization speed, geometric fidelity, and the lack of assets for physically based rendering (PBR). In this paper, we i…

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StoryMaker: Towards Holistic Consistent Characters in Text-to-image Generation 28:41

2M ago28:41

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Tuning-free personalized image generation methods have achieved significant success in maintaining facial consistency, i.e., identities, even with multiple characters. However, the lack of holistic consistency in scenes with multiple characters hampers these methods' ability to create a cohesive narrative. In this paper, we introduce StoryMaker, a …

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418 - Stay At Home Contest! 49:28

2M ago49:28

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RED BUBBLE STORE: https://rdbl.co/2BXMEkq DISCORD: https://discord.com/invite/uWZkb2a 3:36 - Read It On Reddit 14:05 - Ask Reddit 20:12 - Today I Advice 27:59 - Shower Thoughts 36:52 - Podnapping - Guess The Movie Intro AMA - readitpodcast@gmail.com - Ask Us Anything! LET YOUR GUARD DOWN!Di Read It Podcasts

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391: Lucy Ellmann, Stephanie Ellyne and Tia Fisher 57:44

2M ago57:44

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Another collection of narrators in today's show as we celebrate the voices who bring RNIB Talking Books to life, including two very personal tales for becoming a narrator, how an epic stream of consciousness was recorded over months, and we get the Books of Your Life from Yoto Carnegie Shadower Award winner, Tia Fisher. Plus some new books entering…

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