rjwilmsi

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by rjwilmsi 2y ago
My take wasn't that they are claiming SOTA, just that they are claiming same/better accuracy than whisper "tiny" and "base" models at higher performance versus original whisper. The WER scores on the larger whi
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by rjwilmsi 2y ago
I've played quite a lot with all the whisper models up to "medium" size. Mostly via faster-whisper as original OpenAI whisper only seem to care for/optimize performance for GPU. I would agree that the "tiny" mo
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by rjwilmsi 2y ago
Yes, I'm aware of the Agile Octopus tariff etc. but answered based on what >95% of UK retail consumers are doing. From historical data, Octopus would also pass on a negative spot price to customers on that tariff so consumers could
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by rjwilmsi 2y ago
You are mixing the grid and retail electricity prices. The retail electricity prices are linked to the wholesale gas cost. So consumers pay the same unit rate for electricity regardless of source/time of day etc. (simplification). Aver
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by rjwilmsi 2y ago
I take the opposite view - as more people have electric cars there are more batteries available. With some sort of dynamic pricing, and bearing in mind most commuter mileage needs only 1 full charge a week, you could encourage consumers to
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by rjwilmsi 2y ago
To me it made sense to price electricity at retail based on gas price when gas was the main source and the cost for that source is mostly about the market fuel cost. (There were and are other price guarantee schemes for nuclear where the on
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by rjwilmsi 2y ago
23.4 p/kWh sounds about right. When prices go up next month (October 2024) I will be paying 30.5p / kWh day and 13.2p / kWh overnight (midnight to 7 am). Those are retail/consumer prices subject to government price cap,
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by rjwilmsi 3y ago
Agree. It's about whether a buyer would reasonably expect the price to be correct. UK law for consumer goods and sales, I would say generally doesn't require the buyer to be an expert. Laptops are items that are frequently include
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by rjwilmsi 3y ago
Of course. Small Claims process in the UK has a fee of about 10% of claim value and covers claims up to £10,000. If you win the other party has to repay those fees. No legal fees allowed. So would be the right process here - presumably as H
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by rjwilmsi 3y ago
That's the implication. If the distil models are same format as original openai models then the Distil models can be converted for faster-whisper use as per the conversion instructions on https://github.com/guillaumekln
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by rjwilmsi 3y ago
Yes, it's not that clear to me either what test sets get a 10% error rate. Because in my use (native English dictation or native English podcast transcription) the small or medium original whisper models have what I'll call a &quo
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by rjwilmsi 3y ago
I agree. When using the small or medium en models either for real-time speech recognition of a native English speaker or for transcribing podcasts of native English speakers the error rate is nowhere near 10%. I might say it's somethin
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by rjwilmsi 3y ago
I understand that, though I think significant speedups can be useful at multiple levels. So for me for example I am using either the base or small model on beam size of 1 with faster-whisper for real-time dictation on a laptop CPU (Rzyen 45