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HF Demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/facebook/omniasr-transcription... GitHub: https://github.com/facebookresearch/omnilingual-asr

Indeed, I tried several low-resource Romance languages they claim to support and performance is abysmal.

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 no…

This looks like two midshipman’s hitches without the final half hitches: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taut-line_hitch#%231855

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 taro…

Wood gasifier stoves? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas#Stoves,_cooking_and_f...

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 pla…

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 protes…

I'm a Fastmail and Google Suite paying customer. I would SO transition to a "Firefox Suite" email+calendar service if Mozilla provided one.

>> 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…

> 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 …

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 Wiktionar…

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...

> 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 r…

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 o…

True, I remember looking into that and it was all a bit of a mess.

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…

> 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 agr…

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 be…

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 thi…

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 aga…

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…

Starting with 1.0.1b5, uMatrix is compatible with the latest Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/versi...