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by jean- 8d ago
Indeed, "Signore Galilei" makes one think "Galilei ladies" -- sisters, perhaps.
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Omnilingual ASR: Advancing automatic speech recognition for 1600 languages(ai.meta.com)
162 points by jean- 10mo ago|45 comments
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by jean- 1y ago
Indeed, I tried several low-resource Romance languages they claim to support and performance is abysmal.
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Meta announcing the Language Technology Partner Program(about.fb.com)
2 points by jean- 2y ago|0 comments
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by jean- 2y ago
Great article. One of the papers it cites is https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07183 , which is also great and looks at the issue of LLM usage to write peer reviews. It’s an issue I’ve noticed personally, as I’m seeing an incr
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by jean- 4y ago
This looks like two midshipman’s hitches without the final half hitches: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taut-line_hitch#%231855
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by jean- 4y ago
So happy to see tarot games mentioned on HN, I'm a big fan of their strategic depth and centuries-old cultural background. Something a lot of people don't realise is that when tarot cards were invented, their intended purpose was
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by jean- 5y ago
Wood gasifier stoves? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas#Stoves,_cooking_and_f...
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by jean- 6y ago
This brings back memories. I used Seat61 to plan a 40-day-long trip across Europe and Asia back when I was an undergraduate, and it was an invaluable resource. There was even a planned TV series based on the website around 10 years ago: ht
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by jean- 6y ago
For those who are wondering what the parent is referring to: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzchung_controversy They banned a player who voiced support for the Hong Kong protests.
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by jean- 6y ago
I'm a Fastmail and Google Suite paying customer. I would SO transition to a "Firefox Suite" email+calendar service if Mozilla provided one.
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by jean- 6y ago
>> left and right. > I've never had it be necessary to use these words. Often "on my/your side" if I'm walking with someone, or "beside/towards X" if there's a feature there. > (it ha
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by jean- 7y ago
> When the state-of-the-art is 97% on a task, there's only so much room for improvement. When models commonly achieve 97% on a task, it means it's time to define a harder task, as it's long stopped providing any useful sig
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by jean- 7y ago
I'm surprised that an article on the use of negation in French forgot to mention anything about "si", an interjection used to negate a negative question. [1] Example from Wiktionary: [2] Tu ne m’aimes pas, n’est-ce pas ?
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by jean- 8y ago
I'll be hiding one of these in my PhD thesis for sure. There is also a wine version, if that is your preference: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/examples/latex-wine-stains/cd...
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by jean- 8y ago
> Bilingual speakers tend to have a smaller vocabularies in each individual language than monolingual speakers Do you have any citations to support this? From the research I have read (and my own anecdotal experience) this is not necessa
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by jean- 8y ago
Absolutely. If your only input is the subject line, then you're dealing with a single-sentence classification task. You'd need to take the "class label" vector from the top layer of BERT (labelled "C" in Fig 2b
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by jean- 8y ago
True, I remember looking into that and it was all a bit of a mess.
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by jean- 8y ago
Seems like some people are working precisely on that. See for instance: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2018/01/26/extensions-firefo... (CTRL-F Decentralization) https://github.com/mozill
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by jean- 8y ago
> We always could do that with extensions You couldn't, until Firefox 59. Before that, protocol handlers were not allowed to handle links to Dat/IPFS resources [0]. And while I agree with your comment regarding the chicken and
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by jean- 8y ago
Firefox recently whitelisted a bunch of p2p protocols so that they can be used by browser extensions. One of them is the Dat protocol [0], which is similar to BitTorrent but has better support for mutable data and random access [1]. It&#x27
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by jean- 8y ago
It's much more powerful than that, though. Among other things, it integrates very well with Kakoune's excellent support for multiple cursors. You can get an idea of the kind of things that are possible from this demo: https:&#x2F
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by jean- 8y ago
There's a WIP Kakoune mode plugin for VSCode, [0] which is unfortunately unusable and unmaintained. I keep checking every couple of months, hoping the developer will pick it up again, but so far no luck. [0]: https://github.
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by jean- 9y ago
Other than the fact that credit card and auto loan numbers are not updating, I like the concept. Not using tabular figures[1] here is really unforgivable, though. Maybe I'm missing a font? [1]: https://www.fonts.com/con
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by jean- 9y ago
Starting with 1.0.1b5, uMatrix is compatible with the latest Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/versi...
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by jean- 9y ago
It's a neat idea, but I'm not entirely sold. How would you implement, amongst others: vectors and matrices, matched auto-sizing delimiters (\left and \right) \operatorname, \limits, \displaystyle, \textstyle? In my line of work, e
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by jean- 9y ago
> Habañero chile A bit off-topic, but since you mention spelling: "habañero" is one of my favourite hyperforeignisms in the English language. Wikipedia even uses it as an example in the first paragraph here: https://
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by jean- 10y ago
Good stuff. Would be even nicer if it showed information about optionally self-closing tags, which is one of the main reasons I occasionally need to look at the spec. For instance: > A p element's end tag may be omitted if the p ele
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by jean- 10y ago
If you enjoyed the style of this article, I would also recommend you have a look at the brilliant explanation of Earley parsing by the same author: http://loup-vaillant.fr/tutorials/earley-parsing/
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by jean- 10y ago
Whoa, I have been working with Rust for a little over a year, and had no idea about the [-] button. I would echo the suggestions to make that button much more visible. Or perhaps even have the top-level description expanded by default but m

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