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
The Fox News entertainer’s worthless opinion differs from the person who studies genocide? You don’t say. You going to tell us Netanyahu disagrees next too?
If we assume GHM's data is accurate, Gaza's overall population slightly declined during the first several months of war, but increased since. Casualties have been around ~20k/yr (fighters included), compared to something like ~50k/yr births.
How can it be a "slow, sneaky genocide" if the population is increasing? Has any other group faced serious genocide accusations in relation to an increasing population?
That birth rate is not accurate since the war started. Also, death rate is not accurate either if 60k have died in less than two years.
And the lack of trust in Israel's government is due to how little effort they seem to put into distinguishing between civilian and enemy combatant while in control of all surrounding borders.
If things continue as they have, then the number of starvations is about to increase dramatically.
So those who point at the numbers to say it's not genocide have a point, but if deniable genocide is Israel's intent, then all they have to do is continue to withhold food and a lot of Gazans starve to death.
I wasn't assuming pre-war birth rates. [1] suggests 45~50k/yr; [2] suggests ~34k/yr. They're rough figures, ignoring seasonality etc, but it's clear that there are significantly more births than GHM-reported casualties.
There's certainly food insecurity but it would need to get way worse to make a dent in these numbers; so far it's about 100 reported deaths linked to malnutrition during the conflict.
I actually agree with this, which is why I don’t think Israel will let starvation happen in Gaza. They’ll do what they have to do, because the can’t afford to have their few remaining allies turn on them.
Time will tell. But they’re not that stupid. I don’t think they’re that evil too, but I don’t have to be right about that.
Are you telling me with a straight face that it’s a genocide because it doesn’t look like a genocide to trick people into believing it’s not a genocide?
I read the entire article and was unconvinced. For a genocide expert, he really didn’t lay out the argument well. And I think that’s because, at the end of the day, you can’t. The numbers don’t support it.
It would be very easy to change my entire opinion and convert me to your side - but I only respond to logical arguments made with factual data.
You claim my opinion doesn’t matter, but you want others to care about your opinion. You see the problem with that right?
You can repeat it as much as you want. It’s not a genocide. Obviously not all wars are fought in the trenches. This one has the enemy hiding under hospitals and schools using the populace as human shields. They desire more civilian casualties, because that helps them win the PR war. Convincing people like you who aren’t so good at logical reasoning.
Some of the people at the top of YC (e.g Garry Tan) are staunch Zionists. Surprisingly, and refreshingly, it seems PG himself sees through all of the bullshit and consistently asks questions to understand why people have become ok with the murders of innocent children. Although I have spoke about this a couple of times in the past, that too is weighing on myself - have I actually done enough? What use are a few social media comments in the grand scheme of things?
It's actually not too hard to understand. For many Israelis, the October 7 massacre was the final straw after decades of rocket attacks and other forms of terrorism.
As TFA says, Israel blames Hamas. They consider removing Hamas an existential matter, and Hamas is holding the Gazans hostage.
I'm not trying to excuse, merely explain. It is not mere bloodthirst. It is a sincere (if possibly incorrect) belief that Gaza as a whole poses a sufficiently significant threat that civilian deaths -- even babies -- are an acceptable part of waging war.
CAVEAT: the current Israeli government, and a significant fraction of the public, may in fact be that bloodthirsty. Despite everything I just said, many people also hold some kind of religious belief that this land is their destiny, and that they are justified in claiming it by means I can only describe as "Old Testament".
That is not all Israelis; it is likely not a majority. (Elections are next year.) But even Israelis who bitterly oppose this government are sufficiently fearful of Hamas as to justify brutal suppression of all of Gaza.
I specifically didn’t mention Israelis or Jews. I’m sure there are plenty of good people in those camps that oppose Netanyahu. I speak about Zionists.
And let’s not pretend history started on October 7th, that region has been in turmoil for almost a century now, so trying to excuse the sniping of children in the head, mass starvation, subjugation of a whole population, straight up ethnic cleansing in this day and age is indefensible no matter what happened. You say you’re not excusing but only explaining but I don’t want to hear any explanation that equates babies as threats that are okay to kill in war. Hamas could’ve dropped a nuke on Tel Aviv and it still wouldn’t excuse sniping innocent children in the head. Did it become okay to liquidate the ghettoised Jews because they struggled for their freedom? They tried to rise up too? They weren’t prepared to lay down without a fight. And where is the outrage against the Israeli government for firing on their own citizens at the festival?
I don't know what you mean by "Zionists". The term is routinely applied to anyone who isn't actively seeking the destruction of Israel.
To me, the term only applies to the people who sought to establish the state of Israel. That happened in 1947, and all of the people are dead. By that understanding there are no Zionists.
If you're defining Zionists as people with no morals who seek to destroy babies because they like killing babies, I'm sure they exist. Probably dozens of them. But that does not contribute to an understanding of the situation in Israel and Palestine, because not even Netanyahou falls into that category. (And he is undoubtedly a monster and war criminal.)
Slowly taking land, because if they can't have security through a negotiated peace they'll have it by taking more land. It's cynical and harms the negotiated peace process, but the hope for a peace deal is low and falling after the multiple failed deals and good offers.
> Surprisingly, and refreshingly, it seems PG himself sees through all of the bullshit and consistently asks questions to understand why people have become ok with the murders of innocent children.
He does, and that was decent.
Still, PG was all aboard with the DOGE machete hacking up government databases to free up tax cuts for the wealthy (and god knows what else). His Twitter has had some truly awful takes lately.
A self sustaining orphanage that gives its children a high quality LLM assisted education with work opportunities; kids grow and gain experience doing various things within a care and school system (e.g help dish out food at lunch time or help tutor younger children or helping to keep the bathrooms clean). This way the next generation of orphans always have people to look up to and emulate. Alumni would have the skills needed to assimilate into society in a way that should give them the opportunity to succeed and in turn, give back to the organisation that helped them, whether it’s by working or volunteering there.
