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I have tried everything (that will run on a 12GB RTX 4070) and I have yet to find anything with better accuracy than Whisper V2 Large for my dataset (discord audio from TTRPG sessions, isolated per-speaker, mostly non-American accents)

Slightly off-topic but: does it concern you that you're letting atrophy a very important skill for human communication (organising your thoughts and ideas, and then clearly communicating them to others)?

That's what I meant by other thought leadership things - that's all covering different niches. For what it's worth, I think you do useful work and are a respectible influencer.

I'd also say don't be down about your use of blogging - I'd say it makes you more valuable, there aren't that many decision-makers who are going to sit through a bunch of breathless YouTube videos...

P.S. I hope you don't object to me using the term influencer, assumed you were on-board with it since in your post announcing your sponsorship you referenced Freeman & Forrest, "influencers on tap" / "building turnkey influencer marketing programs as a service".

>enough front-page posts that there's less value to him

On the countrary I'd say it's probably even more important - without (amongst doing other "thought leader" things) getting on the HN front-page regularly an influencer's value to the industry disappears (not criticising him here)

Yeah, they do very much need an editor (I suppose it was tagged as a #rant!)

The thing I found interesting (and I've not really observed much) is they're complaining about people who aren't making a distinction between the use of generative AI to assist with boilerplate utilitarian code, vs image diffusion models to replace artists.

GPU encoding is fast, but usually it produces poorer quality results because it avoids trying paths that are hard to do quickly on the GPU.

If you want to optimise, try different encoders (sounds like you've already done some of this) and lots of different settings - it'll involve a lot of tuning if you want to figure out the right balance for your particular media between quality/speed/size, while also making sure that your machine hurts as much as possible.

Driveby 2c as a video industry person: don't retranscode your media unless you've got them in a really space inefficient codec and you're seriously hurting for space. You'll burn a lot of power retranscoding, are you actually saving useful $$$ of storage in exchange for that spend? Storage is cheap, and there's always a better codec coming along you could retranscode into and save some more space. It's a vicious cycle: each generation has to encode the artifacts from the previous generations.

Sounds like the pitch writes itself, "you'd better spend a lot of token money with us before the bad guys do it to you..."

I couldn't parse the intended meaning from "lack of commitment to no longer commiting crimes"), so here's a response that just answers the question raised.

Do you regard the justice system as a method of rehabilitating offenders and returning them to try to be productive members of society, or do you consider it to be a system for punishment? If the latter, is it Just for society to punish somebody for the rest of their life for a crime, even if the criminal justice considers them safe to release into society?

Is there anything but a negative consequence for allowing a spent conviction to limit people's ability to work, or to own/rent a home? We have carve-outs for sensitive positions (e.g. working with children/vulnerable adults)

Consider what you would do in that position if you had genuinely turned a corner but were denied access to jobs you're qualified for?

I assume this is a jailbreak / exfiltration detection condition triggering, I wonder if it would do the same if you started speaking to it in base64