You're gonna smash it. Regardless of what your GCSE results are, stuff like this is what will take you far in life. All the best for your exams, but don't lose any sleep over them either.
Read their submission history. They talk about "radical extremist Islamist regime in Iran" all the time. Seems rather odd to be this cagey when people are getting sick and tired of Israel's constant war crimes.
What hardware are you running? Parakeet runs on nvidia and Mac and it’s way faster than Whisper. And I’ve had issues with training Qwen3 (and even Qwen2.5 but I think I was masking stop tokens wrong). I’ve had success with Gemma 3 though, and they have some really small models (270m and 1b). Maybe 270m for just transcript cleaning? I wonder if the 1b model can handle the transcript analysis…
Unfortunately I have zero experience with the Jetson family, and Parakeet itself is a pain to get running IMO - I took the easy option and used the ONNX version
Cost is a big factor - i really want to make models that can run on average CPU only machines so most of the world can benefit, rather than needing expensive GPUs or an internet connection + subscriptions. Another big factor is privacy (you don't need to trust a 3rd party with your inputs).
As for the hyperparameters, pure bruteforce trial and error. It feels more like a dark art than a science. You roll the dice and then start tweaking things until the loss looks like it's dropping nicely and consistently, and the checkpoints are starting to output things resembling what we want. I sometimes do inference using checkpoints just to get a feel of if the model is learning (regardless of loss)
The UN and the ICJ are somehow less trustworthy than the Netanyahu government, which is being protested against by many Israelis? Perhaps one should stop and consider why a single country has amassed so many resolutions against itself compared to the rest of the world - no, the rest of the world must be wrong. Netanyahu must be right. /s
> The UN and the ICJ are somehow less trustworthy than the Netanyahu government
I'd say they are both biased, the first two against Israel and the third in favour of it. Fortunately there are other sources as well as other means of gathering information besides trusting what comes out of Hamas or Israeli government sources. BTW, the UN was issuing resolutions against Israel way before Netanyahu entered the fray [1].
Imagine saying no one protested Hamas when according to Egyptian intelligence they shared with Israel before October 7, the protests and riots in Gaza could force militants groups Hamas and associates out.
Why do you think Hamas did october 7 this particular year? Randomly? They wanted to spark a conflict because attacks from Israel are the only way for them to stay in power.
And I am not saying that Netanyahou let the attack happen, but moving soldiers from Gaza to the West Bank, not reacting to multiple foreign government warning you an attack was imminent would also be a good way to stay in power. Who, in 2023, would have thought Netanyahou would still be Israeli's PM?
If people widely protest(ed) Hamas the pertinent question to ask is why the western media did not report on this in anything resembling the fervour they reserve for repeating anti-Israel agitprop produced by that same Hamas. If you use a self-hosted news aggregator like I do it becomes shockingly clear just how much the legacy media parrot whatever comes out of the Hamas communications department. The people running the latter deserve credit for hoodwinkling a large fraction of the 'decent' media in the West.
The saying goes fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Tell me, 'decent' media in the West, how does it feel to have so much shame on you that your establishments are collapsing under the sheer weight of it?
Fortunately there are other channels besides the legacy ones, unfortunately many of those are just as unreliable as the legacy ones because they are heavily biased towards either of the combatants in this war.
True, once you start measuring by something it becomes an useless metric so it'd work until people knew if they do it or not, then they will not be able to rely on that data either. Or they improve their bot detection and mitigation and play the cat and mouse game.
What is the Essence? In my head I picture movement or electrical fields propagating from some sort of proto cell like structure, but the more I try to “zoom” in, the more I try to find the finger that caused the ripple on the pond surface, so to speak
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