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Congrats on the launch! Worked on something similar, so rooting for ya. Using Hollywood accent coaches is a great approach, but I'd also look into identifying speech therapists that specialize with helping adults in target regions to 1) get more information for your models and 2) point out which problems can't be corrected in older adults, so you focus on those that can.

I don't know how you can seriously mention Freelancer without mentioning that it was completely taken out of the over-promising grip of Chris Roberts. Great game, but I despise the fact that people attribute the work of those programmers who worked to actually put the thing out (when he got his golden parachute and all they got was more crunch) to that huckster.

I'm even talking vs custom trained models with Kaldi (was working on a startup that was trying to create lessons for public speaking so we could grab enough data to tackle accent remediation/help those with aphasic speech disorders) and again just reiterating, the out of the box performance of Nuance's products are just better than anything else.

Obviously Nuance is more than just speech recognition, but still not sure why people are downplaying how good they were at it.

EDIT: or maybe it's just too prohibitively expensive for people outside of medical/legal fields to know about? And don't get me wrong, I love that things like Talon Voice are widely available for hands free coding, I just hope this means NaturallySpeaking will supplant Windows Dictation.

And what do you suggest is better? I've worked with nearly every tool (open source and closed) under the sun in medical, industrial, and personal settings and Dragon NaturallySpeaking/Professional was by far the best in terms of accuracy regardless of prosody, accent, background noise, technical terms used, etc.

Personally I think they should've been acquired a decade ago.

I mean the substack author is far from someone who ejects nuance into any topic, they have a very clear right-wing bias (some of which I'd clearly note as actually extremist) by looking at their other articles. Some if I named or posted here I'd clearly be banned.

Not sure why you think this flimsy evidence holds when the author's actual intent is "nationalism is good actually." Vaccine distribution/contracting is significantly more complicated that this binary analysis.

Because the manufacturer of the medicine explicitly said it can't treat the off-label use? And won't sell it to anyone claiming it can.

I never said zero stakes? There are clear instances where a a 1 or 0 shot transformer can have benefits beyond entertainment--topic modeling and named entity recognition for instance (I'm on the team that believes that human-in-the-loop systems will always outperform solo systems on their own and that GPT-3 alone does not confer any competitive advantage). If you think that chatbots are the only user facing use-case for a transformer, then frankly that's on you falling for the hype surrounding its language generation performance.

OpenAI knows GPT-3 is not sophisticated enough to perform medical diagnosis or analysis (anyone can look at how Watson failed), so it'd never approve such a risky application.

I mean the OpenAI team would never approve this application for production. It's very clearly stated (in both the article and use case guidelines) that medical diagnosis would be a "high stakes domain" and is unsupported. Frankly, I'm not sure why this result is even notable.

Abstracts are important (and clearly key in generating these TLDRs), but when it comes to ranking and recommending other papers (not to mention noting whether a new paper has content that can actually push a field forward) an abstract just isn't enough.

The Koch's political funding goes far beyond just this one PAC fyi. Their funneling of millions into the Federalist Society and its individual causes serving as just one example that has had an outsized negative influence on the health of American democracy.

Not only that, but the assumptions are poor to begin with. Most skincare products containing sodium hyaluronate are either micronized or in a crosspolymer so that it can penetrate the skin, not HA on its own (something I'd expect a chemist/dermatologist to know). Cursory googling it seems the writer/owner was attaching her name to reddit submissions of scientific articles unrelated to her to game SEO and give her credibility that it it's painfully obvious she doesn't have.

If you're in America, covid19 is not winding down. After working for Roche I think statements and projects like this are here solely for lip-service/to quickly attract VC bucks, but the threat is still very real and every major pharma company is dedicating resources and or M&A teams to the vaccine effort.

No, iOS devices can also soft-brick, it's just a general term. Most often people encounter the term in relation to hacking/rooting hardware, like a Nintendo DS/Switch for instance. Hitting up Wikipedia or Trends can help you dig through its usage considering how Google's search algo heavily biases current events wrt relevance.

Yeah the writing and formatting were really poor, they've since changed it to theHustle's article on it, which is at least a marginal improvement.