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Thus I keep sticking with Elvenlabs Scribe v2 at least it has half way decent support of European languages on this list.
I run periodic tests on OpenRouter on other STT models and basically all models are fantastic at English but seriously suck in many European languages.
Seriously I should give a bachelor thesis to some of my students to take some base model and supplemental train it for their language. Surely by know most technical kinks would be ironed out.
I get fantastic mileage of regular ChatGPT Plus chat connected to all of my public and private Github - I have about 900 repos - probably about 100 relevant ones. I can work from any computer/phone.
This workflow sort of happened over the last few months. Until now I was very hesitant to grant commit rights.
However, I am still afraid to give OpenAi full read/write access to my gmail.
Is there a way to give read and say draft only access to OpenAi? I do not want OpenAi sending emails on my behalf.
In the end I was basically forced to go with Scribe (v2) it was only one that had consistently high quality across multilingual speech with multiple speakers .
Crucially it correctly identified multiple speakers across hour of audio.
I would love to go with something like Transcribe if it gets close to this type of performance.
Eventually I gave up and run a few hundred million tokens (edit a few billion) through openrouter.ai using Gemini Flash 1.5 to Flash 2.5
Every since price increases on Flash 3.0 I've stopped using Gemini, too expensive for basic classification, sentiment detection, ocr etc.
As other posters said Google assumes you are some bigcorp trying to use their products. The Vertex versus AI studio confusion did not help.
I just tried with following: ceuta morocco spain immigration before:2022/11/01
Top 5:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Morocco%E2%80%93Spain_bor...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57150051
https://www.europeanpapers.eu/europeanforum/unsettling-dejav...
https://www.amnesty.org/zh-hant/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/e...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7U9XmpRPQU
4 out of 5 are about 2021 event and the Amnesty report is about 2006 incident but it was updated in 2021 so my primitive search fits.
I hate modern Google search experience as much as everyone else, but in this particular case you can still get some results.
In eastern European stores they use RFID for every product, so you just throw stuff in a bin without scanning and can self check faster than usual self scan.
Well I have not tried throwing in a bike in a bin or a dumbbell, but I presume it works for 99% of stuff.
Curious what they pay for RFID, last I checked it is about 5-6 cents per item for small quantities.
Same strategies apply for guessing the unknown especially with a modicum(it was on the test!) of Latin knowledge..
Strange that pretty every one here is getting 70k estimates (93/100 for me).
Feels a bit high at least for me as a non-native speaker.
I got 2 words I knew wrong, and guessed about 5 unknown words correctly. Those were bizarre repetitive words I've never seen before.
I remember doing a similar test from a reputable university about 10-15 years ago also in an app format and only got about 30k estimate.
I keep meaning to try Claude Code, but I can't seem to run out of limits on Codex on regular pro plan.
Meanwhile all my friends on Claude Code are fighting the token limits every few hours.
I even switched to using extra high for easy medium level script tasks as a test and besides taking longer there was not much reduction in the token allowance.
I generally write a detailed spec before plan then possibly iterate a bit before implementation. Not sure what I am doing "wrong".
I wonder if I could get similar or even better performance from similar Dell T7610 workstation with dual Xeons and also 128GB DDR3?
The CPUs are better core wise, but that probably does not make much difference?
It has CPUs 2 × Xeon E5-2697 v2
Cores / threads 24 cores / 48 threads total
Per-CPU cores 12 cores / 24 threads
Base clock 2.70 GHz
Max turbo 3.50 GHz
It is sitting gather dust but reading spead Gemma sounds promising.
"Work at the job that you do not hate"
In other words, not all vocations that you are great at and talented and want to pursue are valued by current world.
I love playing chess way more and actually am reasonably good at it, but programming and teaching are valued more and I like those too.
As Jimmy O. Yang's father reportedly said: "Pursuing your dreams is how you become homeless"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO6ntvIwT2k&t=22s
At the same time you have to be out there in the world, increase your luck surface - if you sit in your cubicle/room/private chatroom all day you are less likely to make a mark on the world despite your brilliance.
Again I forgot which artist said it but that in New York art scene the most successful artists spent most of their working days socializing not painting/sculpting etc.
Still this seemingly detached "matter of a business" look by the winners was intriguing.
They are all high level athletes not Rosie Ruiz, but hopefully this record is clean.
One of the early adopters was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._C._Forbes the founder of Forbes.
He expensed lavish Gatsby style parties and everything.
I remember reading a biography of his that one way in 1920s he accomplished was by having bought some big mostly useless plot of land and technically his lavish parties were sales presentations to sell this land. Occasionally some of his acquintances would actually buy a parcel of mostly useless land in middle of nowhere thus the business use was actually maintained. Again, highly unlikely to fly today with IRS and even then there were tax lawsuits.
The issue is that it is impossibly hard to pull off without going into tax fraud territory.
Another interesting case of "Expense everything" were ABBAs stage dresses and suits. They were purposely flashily impractical to avoid falling afoul of Swedish tax laws.
That said tax authorities in most countries do allow some leeway for the small fish. Basically pragmatic tax authorities give you certain limits for certain expenses that you can expense.
So in my European country you can expense a certain amount of gas, travel, clothing, eating out, etc as a self-employed. Yes you should have receipts, but if you stay within limits, it is up to you how honest you want to be about that "business" lunch.
I remember it being it common in US too, someone takes you to lunch and you are supposed to mention their business and talk a few minutes about their business, then in their eyes it was a business expense.
However, the moment you start going over these limits you will face increased scrutiny and you are in for a bad time for claiming as business expense lunch with your friends at Dorsia.
Now I actually often like the related topics hooks, just not the clickbaity version from last few weeks.
If not for Codex performing so well for me from VS Code I'd happily migrate to Claude or Gemini.
It is the ages old story of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quod_licet_Iovi%2C_non_licet_b...
Also brings back the irony now apparent in original Google paper: http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf "To make matters worse, some advertisers attempt to gain people’s attention by taking measures meant to mislead automated search engines."
So just like Armanac's are like Cognac's for lower price, good Cremant will be cheaper and more enjoyable that cheaper Champagne (I've not had any really expensive Champagne).
Then you have Cava from Spain which is similar process to Cremants and Champagne. The difference would be in type of grapes used. A friend of mine swears by Cavas just like I swear by Cremants from Loire region. However my wife hates Cava.
Then Proseccos from Italy again are similar, but quality varies more.
After that we get into more questionable cheaper sparkling wines which usually means some sort of out of bottle insertion of CO2 and even worse version include some other modifications such as sugar.
In general to avoid literal headaches you want BRUTs. Anything semi-sweet or sweet is suspicous.
Again I am not a full wine expert but this is mostly years of ahem experience.
