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akreal··on Transcribe.cpp
This field got reactivated recently, some new models were released (in the order of release, but the last one seems the best at the moment):

1. ZIPA https://github.com/lingjzhu/zipa

2. POWSM https://huggingface.co/espnet/powsm

3. PhoneticXEUS https://github.com/changelinglab/PhoneticXeus

I would be curious to know how to help people to use these models, or what kind of tasks they could be applied to.

akreal··on macOS 27 won’t be supporting Intel anymore
AFAIK all ways of running docker on MacOS rely on a amd64 virtual machine with Linux kernel in it.
akreal··on Cohere Transcribe: Speech Recognition
WhisperX is not a model but a software package built around Whisper and some other models, including diarization and alignment ones. Something similar will be built around the Cohere Transcribe model, maybe even just an integration to WhisperX itself.
akreal··on Stdwin: Standard window interface by Guido Van Rossum [pdf]
I also expected screenshots there, especially given the word "interface". Turns out, it's not about user interface (UI), it's about programming interface (kinda API). It allows calling window-related functions on Macintosh, X Window System, and Atari. So the resulting windows were looking like a native UI, I assume.
akreal··on GLiNER2: Unified Schema-Based Information Extraction
Docling: https://github.com/docling-project/docling
akreal··on Omnilingual ASR: Advancing automatic speech recognition for 1600 languages
There is a dolphin language model project from Google and Georgia Tech: https://blog.google/technology/ai/dolphingemma/
akreal··on Omnilingual ASR: Advancing automatic speech recognition for 1600 languages
As far as I understand, the MMS TTS models are trained from scratch (section 7.1 of [1]), they do not employ any SSL models. So the OmniASR SSL models are not useful here.

What might be interesting is the newly released OmniASR data, because the MMS data, which was used for the MMS TTS, was never released.

Also, the OmniASR can be used to transcribe some untranscribed speech to train a TTS on it.

[1] MMS paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.13516

akreal··on Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining
How is/was the data written to disks? Something like rsync/netcat?
akreal··on A new, faster DeepSeek R1-0528 variant appears from German lab
Probably a mix-up with the recently released Huawei model:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44441447

akreal··on European Investment Bank to inject €70B in European tech
What is the motivation to move startup from Canada to Germany, if I may ask?
akreal··on A Surprise Hair Loss Breakthrough: Sugar Gel Triggers Robust Regrowth
I would be interested to see this reproducibility study.
akreal··on Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code
Could this (or something similar) be found in public access/some libraries?
akreal··on Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]
Telegram?
akreal··on A hot day, a fan provides little benefit when the temperature exceeds 35°C
Doesn't moving air help evaporation anyhow?
akreal··on The average age of U.S. homebuyers jumps to 56
The infrastructure problem should also have a relatively cheap technical solution. I assume the major bottleneck is bureaucracy, which largely has no technical workarounds so far.
akreal··on Ex-Meta scientists debut gigantic AI protein design model
It took the modern human brain quite a bit of observations to discover and formulate f=ma, it was originally published in 1687.
akreal··on KDE Plasma 6.1 Performing Much Better on Older Intel Integrated Graphics
I was surprised to see this headline, because I had been using Plasma 5 on Intel graphics for almost a decade without any issues. After reading the article, it turns out that this is about Wayland, and I used X11. Wayland was indeed quite laggy when I tried it once, it's good to know it is solved now.
akreal··on 200ms Voice LLM
Cool!

HF Transformers is great for prototyping and research, but should not an interactive tool like this be based on something more speed-focused, like llama.cpp?

Any plans for languages beyond English?

akreal··on Google and AT&T invest in Starlink rival for satellite-to-smartphone service
Maybe this: "top designer Mark Krebs, who worked in Google's satellite and aircraft division"

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spacex-starlink-insight-i...

akreal··on The possibility of making money from shredded banknotes using computer vision
Maybe you are referring to Stasi documents: https://www.stasi-unterlagen-archiv.de/en/archives/the-recon...

Edit: link to the English version.

akreal··on Gaudi 2 – An AI Accelerator Card with 96GB of HBM2E Memory
I was curious about energy efficiency and took two samples from the linked MLPerf GPT3 results. H100 seems about three times more efficient than Gaudi2.

  256 Gaudi2 600W TDP: 256 * (442.578 / 60) * 0.6 = ~1133 kWh
  512 H100 700W TDP: 512 * (64.264 / 60) * 0.7 = ~384 kWh
akreal··on Built-in software death dates sending 1000s of schools’ Chromebooks to the bin
Can't they install a normal Linux?
akreal··on Year of the Voice – Chapter 2: Let's talk
A shameless plug, my colleagues made a demo where you could create a virtually infinite amount of voices with some sort of control of how they sound like: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Flux9665/ThisSpeakerDoesNotExi...
akreal··on Show HN: Llama-dl – high-speed download of LLaMA, Facebook's 65B GPT model
Which prompt did you use for translation? I'd be curious to try it for my task too.
akreal··on How to get your backup to half of its size – ZSTD support
What else do you store besides movies and audio so that it becomes noticeble for you? I also use btrfs with zstd, but mainly see the difference for OS/apps files. Movies and audio don't compress as you noted, and code and scripts take tiny space anyway.
akreal··on FreeBSD optimizations used by Netflix to serve video at 800Gb/s [pdf]
Not true for macOS.
akreal··on Meta earnings presentation Q1 2022 [pdf]
One could outsource the work to other people.
akreal··on Lingua-Go, the most accurate language detection for Go
There is also a comparison with CLD 2 in the repo of sister Python library:

https://github.com/pemistahl/lingua-py#4-how-good-is-it

CDL 2 seems to be slightly less accurate than CLD 3 on average.

akreal··on NASA boosts impact risk from 'potentially hazardous' asteroid Bennu
Redirect it. Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission is going to test soon if this would work in practice:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Asteroid_Redirection_...

akreal··on Sueface temperatures in Siberia heat up to a mind boggling 118 degrees
> 118 degrees Fahrenheit (48 degrees Celsius)
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