There was an auction of a lot of his memorabilia a few months ago, it included a lot of Festool stuff. He was an avid woodworker (the sale also included furniture he made). I like how the work table where you can see the miter saw is made of the most utilitarian plywood, it feels like he was working until his last days
In short: there's plenty of evidence Amelia Earhart was reckless. I'm sad that she paid with her life, but that is sometimes what happens when you're reckless while using dangerous machines.
Captain A. G. Lamplugh, a British pilot from the early days of aviation once famously said “Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect.”
> In car transit (like most things in life), you can do everything right and still die.
Same with aviation. The DHL Flight 611 over Überlingen, Iran Air Flight 655,
Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, American Airlines Flight 5342, Pan Am Flight 1736 are just the few easy ones which comes to mind immediately.
> if you do everything right, you'll land safely.
You. And the people who designed your aircraft. The people who maintain your aircraft. And the ATC. And other pilots. And the people on the ground operating anti-aircraft missiles.
Same thing with farmers: it's usually the old, experienced farmers who die in dumb ways. They've been doing the same dangerous thing their whole lives and become complacent until it catches up with them.
Interesting, didn't know about farmers. Skydivers are the same, most accidents happen to experienced ones. But it's understandable, as adrenaline wears out with experience.
Pilots typically are trained against that complacency, plus, as they say, everyone can be stupid for 15 minutes a day, plan for that. I found piloting pretty boring, if done right. Talk about soul-crushing.
Probably . . . from what I have read in the past, a better understanding of radio direction finding probably would have been enough to get them to Howland Island.
There's new information posted on the internet everyday though. Press releases, earnings results, new legislation or supreme court decisions, sports scores/results, new technologies and discoveries. The original "thing that happens" isn't produced by bots.
Hi Jeff, are there any plans to support dual-channel audio recordings (e.g., Twilio phone call audio) for speech-to-text models? Currently, we have to either process each channel separately and lose conversational context, or merge channels and lose speaker identification.
1. Merge both channels into one (this is what Whisper does with dual-channel recordings), then map transcription timestamps back to the original channels. This works only when speakers don't talk over each other, which is often not the case.
2. Transcribe each channel separately, then merge the transcripts. This preserves perfect channel identification but removes valuable conversational context (e.g., Speaker A asks a question, Speaker B answers incomprehensively) that helps model's accuracy.
So yes, there are two technically trivial solutions, but you either get somewhat inaccurate channel identification or degraded transcription quality. A better solution would be a model trained to accept an additional token indicating the channel ID, preserving it in the output while benefiting from the context of both channels.
The MS announcement is limited to scams/phishing. Google mentions both scams and spam, but somehow I still get 15-20 spam emails a day that even the smallest LLM should be able to classify correctly.
You mentioned Django, but I couldn't find much on your website about how it works with your forms. Will I have to manually replicate all form fields on the client side? Will it work with Django form validation and show errors? I'd suggest creating a documentation page for each framework you mentioned to explain how it will work together.
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