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I’m tempted to just ignore this troll but this is highly uninformed. There’s nothing “dominant” about this implementation or the DeepSpeech architecture in gene

by gok 9y ago

I’m tempted to just ignore this troll but this is highly uninformed. There’s nothing “dominant” about this implementation or the DeepSpeech architecture in general. And just to address the Sinophobia at the end of your post: the Deep Speech papers were published by Baidu’s Silicon Valley lab, not “China.”

typon 9y ago
I don't understand this "China == Evil" attitude on this website.
- irq11 9y ago
  on the weekend, HN is overrun with nationalist/conservative trolls.
  - sctb 9y ago
    This doesn't help. Please follow the guidelines and flag comments you think break them, and don't comment that you did. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
    - irq11 9y ago
      Was I supposed to flag the parent comment? Perhaps instead of attacking well-meaning people for observing problems, you should focus on solving the problem.
      - sctb 9y ago
        If you go to a comment's page by clicking on the timestamp (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15837946 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15837946) you should see a “flag” link.
  - jacksmith21006 9y ago
    They are more and more all over. Look at Reddit.
- sorenjan 9y ago
  It might have to do with their one party political system, heavy censorship, thousands of executions each year, and persecution of reporters and political opposition.
  - typon 9y ago
    This happens on a smaller scale in the US as well, not to mention the flagrant wars waged on other countries as well as brutalizing their own black and Hispanic population through the justice system and underpaid labor, yet people here dont generally paint a broad brush to claim the US is evil. They understand its a complex place with nuance. The same naunce should be afforded to China.
    - sorenjan 9y ago
      I don't live in the US and I don't pretend that it's a perfect place either, but there's still a big difference between the two countries.
      - posterboy 9y ago
        > there's still a big difference between the two countries yes indeed, like a few thousand kilometers.
contingencies 9y ago
Haha, what the hell? How did you interpret the comment like that? It was a jovial reference to how times change. For the record, I like China, I live here, I've spent most of my adult life here! Chill out :) PS. With respect to "There’s nothing “dominant” about this implementation or the DeepSpeech architecture in general." the use of dominant was really poetic license in support of the line of amusement, but in fact I'm not aware of a more popular open source transcription system by Github stars ... are you? As for China != Baidu SV, I actually find it even more bizarre that they would develop such algorithms in such a foreign environment.

by gok 9y ago

typon 9y ago

I don't understand this "China == Evil" attitude on this website.

irq11 9y ago
on the weekend, HN is overrun with nationalist/conservative trolls.
- sctb 9y ago
  This doesn't help. Please follow the guidelines and flag comments you think break them, and don't comment that you did. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - irq11 9y ago
    Was I supposed to flag the parent comment? Perhaps instead of attacking well-meaning people for observing problems, you should focus on solving the problem.
    - sctb 9y ago
      If you go to a comment's page by clicking on the timestamp (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15837946 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15837946) you should see a “flag” link.
- jacksmith21006 9y ago
  They are more and more all over. Look at Reddit.
sorenjan 9y ago
It might have to do with their one party political system, heavy censorship, thousands of executions each year, and persecution of reporters and political opposition.
- typon 9y ago
  This happens on a smaller scale in the US as well, not to mention the flagrant wars waged on other countries as well as brutalizing their own black and Hispanic population through the justice system and underpaid labor, yet people here dont generally paint a broad brush to claim the US is evil. They understand its a complex place with nuance. The same naunce should be afforded to China.
  - sorenjan 9y ago
    I don't live in the US and I don't pretend that it's a perfect place either, but there's still a big difference between the two countries.
    - posterboy 9y ago
      > there's still a big difference between the two countries yes indeed, like a few thousand kilometers.

contingencies 9y ago

Haha, what the hell? How did you interpret the comment like that? It was a jovial reference to how times change. For the record, I like China, I live here, I've spent most of my adult life here! Chill out :) PS. With respect to "There’s nothing “dominant” about this implementation or the DeepSpeech architecture in general." the use of dominant was really poetic license in support of the line of amusement, but in fact I'm not aware of a more popular open source transcription system by Github stars ... are you? As for China != Baidu SV, I actually find it even more bizarre that they would develop such algorithms in such a foreign environment.