AP Leith, PhD

Associate Professor at SIUE. Local-first software for serious work at SIM DAD LLC.

[AP Leith, PhD @APLeith]

https://t.co/5cgIZQQelt

[AP Leith, PhD @APLeith]

Google says that Hasan Piker stayed at the Gran Hotel Bristol in Havana.

Hasan Piker claims this hotel isn't on the banned list.

Gran Hotel Bristol Kempinski, 485 Av. Bélgica, La Habana, Cuba is on the Cuba Prohibited Accommodations List.

What am I missing?

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Hasan Piker on Cuba: “We obviously didn’t stay at a fucking hotel the American government has made illegal to stay in. Nick Shirley on the other hand, whether because he’s a fucking idiot or because it doesn’t really matter what he does because he’s basically an agent for the state, did stay in a hotel that was illegal for him to stay in. The federal government got clickbaited by Twitter headlines”

[AP Leith, PhD @APLeith]

I've never had an AI tool fight so hard for me not to want to use it. Congrats, @MiroHQ.

[AP Leith, PhD @APLeith]

@shannonplante @MurrayHillGuy1 I wish I were number 7. Mine was officially going number 6 during my PhD.

[AP Leith, PhD @APLeith]

I just listened to an hour-long discussion about the SCOTUS ruling on the VRA. What did I learn? Republicans would rather throw out the VRA than pursue the Black American vote.

[AP Leith, PhD @APLeith]

Two-hour Wed morning sprint, Lector's listen-edit Tier 1 closes. Backstep on pause + per-document position memory. Small things, but they're what make read-aloud feel like an editor instead of a toy.

[AP Leith, PhD @APLeith]

@briebriejoy: Populist means popular.
@hasanthehun: Authoritarian means authority.

Come on, guys. Stop hallucinating definitions for words that have specific, significant meanings.

[AP Leith, PhD @APLeith]

Populist doesn't mean "advancing popular policy items."

You're pushing for POP politics.

- Mudde, C., & Kaltwasser, C. R. (2017). Populism: A very short introduction. Oxford University Press.

[AP Leith, PhD @APLeith]

Populism is "a thin-centered ideology that considers society to be ultimately separated into two homogeneous and antagonistic camps [...] and which argues that politics should be an expression of the volonté générale (general will) of the people."

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

Watch the nearly 3 hour interview here for full context. https://t.co/RSVA64vHpA

[AP Leith, PhD @APLeith]

Two days into the indie launch. Reminder to myself: the slowest part of every conversation about local-first tools is explaining why local-first matters. Cloud is fast to explain because it is expected. The audience that needs the long version is the audience worth the time.

[AP Leith, PhD @APLeith]

The Ibis Product Hunt listing is up. The most durable thing is the substantiation paper being publicly available at https://t.co/I2ItPghikw. Word Error Rate on LibriSpeech, conditions documented. For research tools, the audit-trail matters more than the launch-day noise.

[AP Leith, PhD @APLeith]

A line from Otter's privacy policy: they train on de-identified audio and on transcriptions that "may contain Personal Information." Nothing hidden; it's in the policy. Not good for an interview where you promised confidentiality. https://t.co/eDoAfolDcn

[AP Leith, PhD @APLeith]

Ibis ships today. $24, one-time, three devices. https://t.co/eDoAfolDcn

[AP Leith, PhD @APLeith]

Today I am releasing Ibis: local Whisper transcription for Windows. Files do not leave your machine. $24, one-time, three devices. https://t.co/eDoAfolDcn

[AP Leith, PhD @APLeith]

Methodology, accuracy benchmark (1.94% WER on LibriSpeech test-clean), and encryption design in the substantiation paper: https://t.co/I2ItPghikw

[AP Leith, PhD @APLeith]

This article perfectly summarises my core contention with the modern state of "journalism" via podcast and streaming.

https://t.co/39lFcLMUMG

[AP Leith, PhD @APLeith]

If you believe a group is immoral and they are supporting a cause in which you believe, there are probably at least a dozen other places that also support that cause.

[Page Six @PageSix]

Katherine Heigl hits back at fans politicizing her attendance at Mar-a-lago rescue event: ‘Animals don’t vote’ https://t.co/GMrMnl8PgT