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New comment by akreal in "macOS 27 won’t be supporting Intel anymore"

akreal — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:25:26 +0000

AFAIK all ways of running docker on MacOS rely on a amd64 virtual machine with Linux kernel in it.

New comment by akreal in "Cohere Transcribe: Speech Recognition"

akreal — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:38:10 +0000

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.

New comment by akreal in "Stdwin: Standard window interface by Guido Van Rossum [pdf]"

akreal — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:18:46 +0000

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.

New comment by akreal in "GLiNER2: Unified Schema-Based Information Extraction"

akreal — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:25:24 +0000

Docling: https://github.com/docling-project/docling

New comment by akreal in "Omnilingual ASR: Advancing automatic speech recognition for 1600 languages"

akreal — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 10:32:49 +0000

There is a dolphin language model project from Google and Georgia Tech: https://blog.google/technology/ai/dolphingemma/

New comment by akreal in "Omnilingual ASR: Advancing automatic speech recognition for 1600 languages"

akreal — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 23:58:57 +0000

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

New comment by akreal in "Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining"

akreal — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 22:18:59 +0000

How is/was the data written to disks? Something like rsync/netcat?

New comment by akreal in "A new, faster DeepSeek R1-0528 variant appears from German lab"

akreal — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 09:06:51 +0000

Probably a mix-up with the recently released Huawei model:

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

New comment by akreal in "European Investment Bank to inject €70B in European tech"

akreal — Tue, 20 May 2025 09:30:35 +0000

What is the motivation to move startup from Canada to Germany, if I may ask?

New comment by akreal in "A Surprise Hair Loss Breakthrough: Sugar Gel Triggers Robust Regrowth"

akreal — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 19:43:57 +0000

I would be interested to see this reproducibility study.

New comment by akreal in "Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code"

akreal — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 22:13:04 +0000

Could this (or something similar) be found in public access/some libraries?

New comment by akreal in "Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]"

akreal — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 23:37:19 +0000

Telegram?

New comment by akreal in "A hot day, a fan provides little benefit when the temperature exceeds 35°C"

akreal — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 17:32:43 +0000

Doesn't moving air help evaporation anyhow?

New comment by akreal in "The average age of U.S. homebuyers jumps to 56"

akreal — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 10:42:06 +0000

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.

New comment by akreal in "Ex-Meta scientists debut gigantic AI protein design model"

akreal — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 11:57:55 +0000

It took the modern human brain quite a bit of observations to discover and formulate f=ma, it was originally published in 1687.

New comment by akreal in "KDE Plasma 6.1 Performing Much Better on Older Intel Integrated Graphics"

akreal — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 11:21:08 +0000

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.

New comment by akreal in "200ms Voice LLM"

akreal — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 17:04:47 +0000

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?

New comment by akreal in "Google and AT&T invest in Starlink rival for satellite-to-smartphone service"

akreal — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 00:37:18 +0000

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...

New comment by akreal in "The possibility of making money from shredded banknotes using computer vision"

akreal — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 20:08:56 +0000

Maybe you are referring to Stasi documents: https://www.stasi-unterlagen-archiv.de/en/archives/the-recon...

Edit: link to the English version.

New comment by akreal in "Gaudi 2 – An AI Accelerator Card with 96GB of HBM2E Memory"

akreal — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 22:13:11 +0000

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