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New comment by foobarqux in "A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample"

foobarqux — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:20:32 +0000

You seem to be saying that you would upvote an empty article (or a gibberish article) with the title "Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample", is that right?

New comment by foobarqux in "A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample"

foobarqux — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 22:52:03 +0000

In what way is it interesting compared to the myriad of other posts on this topic that has content you can understand?

New comment by foobarqux in "I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs"

foobarqux — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:15:25 +0000

The rush project page on Github itself says it is only "slightly" faster.

New comment by foobarqux in "I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs"

foobarqux — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:53:45 +0000

But bashenumerate doesn't do that? The parent is saying you should zsh shortloops instead of bashenumerate not zsh shortloops instead of xargs.

New comment by foobarqux in "Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark"

foobarqux — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:42:02 +0000

Yes that's the obvious thing to do and why straightforward variants of known tests would also be treated as contaminated by anyone being even somewhat rigorous.

I don't know why the standard is is to be sure that it is happening versus it being a plausible risk of making the results useless.

New comment by foobarqux in "Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor"

foobarqux — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:05:07 +0000

Thanks!

I use fluidaudiocli and it's unfortunate that it doesn't support streaming (e.g. from a named pipe); that would have been an easy workaround to both the pipelining problem and the faster-decoder problem.

New comment by foobarqux in "Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor"

foobarqux — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 02:41:16 +0000

The difference using an mp3 seems to be smaller: yap seems to use about the same time but fluidaudio seems to take twice as long. Do you happen to know why?

New comment by foobarqux in "Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor"

foobarqux — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:45:51 +0000

Thanks, I didn't see vanch007 version at first (only ~30 downloads), I usually look at mlx-community. For the size I was looking at the wrong model (TTS not transcribe-diarize), thanks for the corrections.

New comment by foobarqux in "Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor"

foobarqux — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:19:00 +0000

If you want to use this on the CLI: https://github.com/finnvoor/yap.

Supports SRT/TXT/VTT or JSON-with-optional-word-level-timestamps output and progress meter.

Also it can transcribe live system audio.

New comment by foobarqux in "Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor"

foobarqux — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:12:24 +0000

Just tried test using yap on a single ~1hr mp3: yap/Speechanalyzer is about 50% slower than fluidaudio on M1. yap interface is nicer though.

https://github.com/finnvoor/yap

New comment by foobarqux in "Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor"

foobarqux — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:51:09 +0000

16GB! (edit: this is wrong, I was looking at TTS, the transcribe model is 1.7GB). Compared to Parakeet 2.3GB (but no diarization).

Also doesn't seem to be tailored to Apple hardware (i.e. no MLX or ANE variant/implementation)

New comment by foobarqux in "Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor"

foobarqux — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:49:18 +0000

Fluidaudio implements Parakeet on ANE. I'd like to know how SpeechAnalyzer compares in speed.

https://github.com/FluidInference/FluidAudio

New comment by foobarqux in "Supersonic flight returning to US after half-century ban"

foobarqux — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 23:43:02 +0000

108 dB is the proposed FAA allowable pressure at the surface of the earth. They didn't come up with this number arbitrarily they did it with consultation with the supersonic plane companies and if those companies could achieve much less than 108dB then the proposed limit would be lower.

New comment by foobarqux in "Supersonic flight returning to US after half-century ban"

foobarqux — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:53:50 +0000

Obviously it is assumed we are talking about frequencies in the range of the audio spectrum (which a sonic boom is). Your point has nothing to do with the dB scale.

New comment by foobarqux in "Supersonic flight returning to US after half-century ban"

foobarqux — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 05:46:04 +0000

Where is this claim?

New comment by foobarqux in "Supersonic flight returning to US after half-century ban"

foobarqux — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 05:44:55 +0000

They are in fact the same. 108dB loud.

New comment by foobarqux in "Supersonic flight returning to US after half-century ban"

foobarqux — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 05:10:39 +0000

The initial boom is less than a second but it's like standing right next to the leafblower (not across the street) and is accompanied a lasting thundering-noise which is also extremely loud.

New comment by foobarqux in "Supersonic flight returning to US after half-century ban"

foobarqux — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 05:08:36 +0000

There is a substantial noise beyond the initial boom which is very loud even relative to the main boom. But even just a half second of a car horn going off right next to you every so often is intolerable.

New comment by foobarqux in "Supersonic flight returning to US after half-century ban"

foobarqux — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 05:06:13 +0000

> It’s not accurate to convert .1 psf to dB because it’s an impulsive shape, not a continuous tone. And human loudness perception depends on how smooth (low frequency) the shape is

Sorry can you explain more? It's just the definition of dB (?)

And it's less impulsive than you imagine, go to youtube to listen to the sonic boom + continuous roar.

The FAA has no criteria about the "texture" of the sound and there is no reason to believe the allowed planes will differ substantially in this respect compared to every other supersonic aircraft in the past.

New comment by foobarqux in "Supersonic flight returning to US after half-century ban"

foobarqux — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 04:07:09 +0000

The proposed limit is around the level of standing right next to a leaf blower.