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Whisper hallucinations flagged by study on medical transcription errors(apnews.com)
3 points by instagraham 2y ago|3 comments
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by instagraham 2y ago
This is the source article for the claims about Whisper, but it's not very clear about how exactly Whisper was hallucinating in medical transcripts, barring a couple of examples. Without a description of the actual audio sample, you ca
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by instagraham 2y ago
i agree that's not an unreasonable ask. but if code is to serve geopolitics, then we'll get a lot more (and tougher) situations like this to grapple with. perhaps it's just that I wish code was left neutral.
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by instagraham 2y ago
It matters because software projects are border-agnostic. There are people who benefit from code, and people who benefit from having people contribute to code. You drew the line on who gets to be a part of this, Geopoliticising something os
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by instagraham 2y ago
> Whoever decides to murder their neighbhours. To what extent can most people actually move the needle of their government's actions? As a thought experiment, consider a world where all Americans are banned from contributing to soft
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by instagraham 2y ago
> What if the Chinese government decides to generate so much information at so much scale that people start believing it? What if people respond to such a scenario by choosing not to believe Chinese misinformation? When leaning into damn
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by instagraham 2y ago
As an Indian, you cannot understand the despair this makes me feel. ANI is a bit like privatised Pravda operating in service to the government, yet, still pretending to be independent journalism. Wherever there is a critic of the government
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by instagraham 2y ago
What did you mean by pelicans? Googled but didn't understand, is it a term for having a type of data expertise?
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by instagraham 2y ago
>privacy concerns >while researching, i saw some data being sent over to the server, like this query everytime you visit a site: > firebase .collection("boosts") .where("creatorID", "==", "UvM
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by instagraham 2y ago
A red flag needs to go up when Future PLC buys anything. We need a case to be made for enthusiast-owned media. Anything left to the corporates will eventually degrade and die. This is something I will work on, once I reach the stage of my l
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by instagraham 2y ago
> see project > excited to try it > code (coming soon) > bookmark project > forget about project Barring the obvious deepfake implications though, I'd be excited to see a new era of SFM-style content made with this
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by instagraham 2y ago
Oh apologies, I thought submissions here were akin to Reddit where it flags you if the same link has been submitted before. I'd Googled Drakon too without finding much discussion on it, but it didn't occur to me to search HN.
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by instagraham 2y ago
South America doing pretty well for all, Israel doing poorly in most
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by instagraham 2y ago
How different is something like this to say, a Jira workflow? I know there must be many like this but I think it might be particularly robust since it helped power the Buran launch and landing - which by all accounts was a bit of a miracle
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DRAKON(en.wikipedia.org)
213 points by instagraham 2y ago|59 comments
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by instagraham 2y ago
Documentation here: https://drakonhub.com/en/drakon
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by instagraham 2y ago
Slightly related to topic but I like how the comments are on a column to the right of the post. The tendency of many news outlets to shut down their comment sections has taken out the discourse.
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by instagraham 2y ago
This is the problem with moral equivalence in judging media bias. One side can slide slightly left and still be almost completely factual (if slightly illogical), while the right can be neither factual nor logical - but we are made to prete
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by instagraham 2y ago
I don't think this is the case - because then we'd see them pull card services for porn websites altogether. This clearly didn't happen, nor was it the intention. They never did anything that would reduce revenue. Instead, it
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by instagraham 2y ago
Imagine the family gatherings. "How's our little distinguished Taco Bell professor?" Jokes aside, one does not get to pick their academic sponsors or reject funding, and no offence intended to the guy's obvious expertise
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by instagraham 2y ago
That they do, but perhaps the relevant context is that while porn is globally unregulatable, but the one entity that has proven its ability to regulate it (or at least exercise some control over it) have been payment processors like Visa an
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by instagraham 2y ago
> Like obviously since you feel the gun walking up, you'll try pulling down. It seems more common behaviour today, but remember CS came out in the era of zero-recoil arena shooters. I once made my friends play UT after several roun
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by instagraham 2y ago
This is an interesting experiment in truth-seeking. People often ask "which media outlet/truth source should I trust", as if there was a single point of contact for facts. In reality, it is more of a moving investigation. It
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by instagraham 2y ago
This secret knowledge is common to older competitive games like Counter Strike. The game does not explicitly tell you about recoil control, or economy, or any of the other aspects that are crucial to surviving even entry-level ranked play.
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by instagraham 2y ago
For people living cheque to cheque, pre-IPO ESOPS are not really a great incentive either. If ESOPS come at the cost of actual salary increases, it feels more like a corporate smokescreen than an actual value-add (not everyone can afford to
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Disco Elysium Proves Why It's Sometimes Good to Play to Fail(pastemagazine.com)
2 points by instagraham 2y ago|0 comments
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by instagraham 2y ago
I really really feel that every temptation to do a "cool idea + AI" play should have a good amount of consideration for whether it'll cut jobs. This can play out in two ways: - Teachers free up time/make time to give mor
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India's Raspberry Pi Rival (Thats Better) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by instagraham 2y ago|1 comments
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by instagraham 2y ago
Sharing because I found this interesting and worth a shoutout. Use captions for translation
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by instagraham 2y ago
Interesting read, but I found this a missed opportunity to link AW Jones' journalistic background to some of the journalistic elements behind running a hedge fund. Disclaimer - it's a thought I got from watching The Big Short, whi

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