In a different state, no less.
The distance between Providence & Brookline is only slightly further than the distance between Dallas & Fort Worth. New England states are tiny.
Readit NewsMorizero commented on MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies bbc.com/news/articles/cly... · Posted by u/mosura
Morizero commented on NVIDIA frenemy relation with OpenAI and Oracle philippeoger.com/pages/de... · Posted by u/jeanloolz
I appreciate the disclosures about Gemeni and Nano Banana, but does that start to feel a little like a conflict of interest or something similar in an article discussing their competition?
Morizero commented on · Posted by u/wonderfuly
Gitlab is affected as well :(
Yeah affected me too. I have code to push dang it!!!
Morizero commented on I spent the day teaching seniors how to use an iPhone forums.macrumors.com/thre... · Posted by u/dabinat
The iPhone - and macOS too - used to be a paragon of simplicity.
Today the setup experience on a brand-new iPhone or Mac is abysmal. Entering the same username and password multiple times - then sometimes a different username and password - competing notifications, irrelevant feature nags, a popup from some random product manager about their pet thingy. Permission questions from some meddlesome privacy team about the feature you just said you wanted to turn on. Uncertainty about whether you’ll break something irreparably by “skipping” the expected setup path. A choice of several inscrutable interface modes because no one has the balls to commit to a single solution. Just terrible.
I guess this is what happens without a dictator to tell people they’re fired for shipping garbage, and when a company worries about meeting quarterly KPIs rather than doing something great.
> without a dictator
I don't know what kind of pro-authoritarian sane-washing statement you're trying to make with this line. Jobs himself would tell you that it's a consequence of letting a salesperson run the company rather than a product person.
Morizero commented on Language models pack billions of concepts into 12k dimensions nickyoder.com/johnson-lin... · Posted by u/lawrenceyan
My intuition of this problem is much simpler — assuming there’s some rough hierarchy of concepts, you can guesstimate how many concepts can exist in a 12,000-d space by taking the combinatorial of the number of dimensions. In that world, each concept is mutually orthgonal with every other concept in at least some dimension. While that doesn’t mean their cosine distance is large, it does mean you’re guaranteed a function that can linearly separate the two concepts.
It means you get 12,000! (Factorial) concepts in the limit case, more than enough room to fit a taxonomy
That number is far, far, far greater than the number of atoms in the universe (~10^43741 >>>>>>>> ~10^80).
Morizero commented on FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FF... · Posted by u/rilawa
WhipserX's diarization is great imo:
whisperx input.mp3 --language en --diarize --output_format vtt --model large-v2
> input.mp3
Thanks but I'm looking for live diarization.
Morizero commented on FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FF... · Posted by u/rilawa
Whisper is genuinely amazing - with the right nudging. It's the one AI thing that has genuinely turned my life upside-down in an unambiguously good way.
People should check out Subtitle Edit (and throw the dev some money) which is a great interface for experimenting with Whisper transcription. It's basically Aegisub 2.0, if you're old, like me.
HOWTO:
Drop a video or audio file to the right window, then go to Video > Audio to text (Whisper). I get the best results with Faster-Whisper-XXL. Use large-v2 if you can (v3 has some regressions), and you've got an easy transcription and translation workflow. The results aren't perfect, but Subtitle Edit is for cleaning up imperfect transcripts with features like Tools > Fix common errors.
EDIT: Oh, and if you're on the current gen of Nvidia card, you might have to add "--compute_type float32" to make the transcription run correctly. I think the error is about an empty file, output or something like that.
EDIT2: And if you get another error, possibly about whisper.exe, iirc I had to reinstall the Torch libs from a specific index like something along these lines (depending on whether you use pip or uv):
pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118
uv pip install --system torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118
You don't happen to know a whisper solution that combines diarization with live audio transcription, do you?
Morizero commented on Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean icm.csic.es/en/news/major... · Posted by u/riffraff
Who you going to believe, politicians or your own lying eyes? https://www.usgs.gov/centers/norock/science/repeat-photograp...
Morizero commented on The first big AI disaster is yet to happen seangoedecke.com/the-firs... · Posted by u/rbanffy
Reminds me of this supposed 1979 IBM warning https://x.com/bumblebike/status/832394003492564993
Morizero commented on Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole port.ac.uk/news-events-an... · Posted by u/zaik
Does it increase over time or does it do its thing and in our model we decided that stages of it is called time?
Absolute entropy of a system is calculated either by integrating heat capacity/temp at constant pressure from 0kelvin to the measured temperature, or by calculating via Shannon's method using average amount of information in a discrete random variable.
There is no time factor in any absolute entropy equation.
Empirically, if you measure the entropy of a closed system at a given time, and you measure the entropy of that same closed system at a different time, then calculate the deltas of each, their signs match so long as the time delta is finite and the system isn't empty. So stated plainly, as time increases, so does entropy.
By combining these first principle formulae with the empirical results on entropy, you arrive at the second law of thermodynamics. However, like I said before, we're not really sure why the signs match and it's considered to be an unsolved problem in physics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_p...