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Encoder in the T5 sense doesn't produce a fixed vector, it produces one encoded vector for every step of input and all of that is given to the decoder. The only difference between …

You are missing the speech decoding part. I can't speak to why the clients you were working on were doing what they were doing. For a different reference point see the cloud stream…

This is exactly what Google ASR does. Give it a try and watch how the results flow back to you, it certainly is not waiting for VAD segment breaking. I should know. Streaming used …

It is not streaming in the way people normally use this term. It's a fuzzy notion but typically streaming means something encompassing: - Processing and emitting results on somethi…

Streaming for TTS doesn't matter but for speech to text it is more meaningful in interactive cases. In that case the user's speech is arriving in real time and streaming can mean a…

Unfortunately it's not, this is some supplementary video. The full thing is 44 minutes long and covers a lot of different angles. The ongoing story about the Czech Xenon clinic in …

It is in fact psychoactive and a good anesthetic: "How does xenon produce anaesthesia?" https://www.nature.com/articles/24525 It is not typically used in most countries because it …

The Xenon episode of Hamilton's Pharmacopeia is one of the very best episodes of that series, I don't know the best way to find it on streaming currently, it was available I believ…

You asked "why would someone hide prep", you got one example. It is by no means an exhaustive list. For example, a big fear is being perceived as having HIV (since prep drugs are a…

"the men are forced to confront the fact..." No they aren't, they simply never confront it. People go to their graves denying that they have HIV, denying that they ever tested posi…

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Because they can get HIV from their husband, but also cannot discuss HIV, refuse sex, or take prevention steps for themselves without reprisal.

Perhaps I found the article clearer because of familiarity with the subject. On the "retroviruses must be harmless" virology: He's a denier of viral involvement in cancers in gener…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Duesberg#Consequences_of... He was investigated but it was dropped as being protected by his academic freedom: https://www.science.org/content/a…

You can read a lot about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duesberg_hypothesis The mainstream consensus is the he was wildly wrong about HIV specifically, that HIV causes AIDS…

This injection isn't a vaccine, it's an anti-viral drug being used as pre-exposure prophylaxis. The first approval of this approach was in 2012, but using an oral pill with a short…

South Africa (study was in SA and Uganda) has an adult HIV prevalence of 18.3% and 210k new infections per year. It is easy to select a high risk group in which you would expect to…

Not just efficiently, can't solve.

No, not exactly. "the era of sending excess rooftop solar generation to the grid is over" is the OP's statement I disagree with. "They can't take any more solar input", yes they ca…

If you look at that graph for a whole day you will see a huge kick-in of power company owned battery storage in the evening. There is no reason the grid cannot operate batteries at…

Recent example of a proof regarding theoretical limitations of Transformers: https://aclanthology.org/2023.tacl-1.31.pdf (also extended to cover SSMs https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.088…

Literally not being at home to eat home made food is obviously a case where other factors dominate. However, I really don't think that's the general case people are thinking of whe…

> Maybe what we have here with you and with many others in America is just a lack of food knowledge. This is exactly what's happening. This is why I find it so upsetting to hear a …

Menu cost, I downloaded the app to look up the price, I was not offered a coupon. But the exact same thing applies to the grocery prices I quoted. I gave the non-sale prices from m…

When I say "cooking from scratch", I specifically mean the super fast and easy stuff. Starting from raw materials doesn't mean you do anything complicated to it. For the burger exa…