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@whereisyvette I made a hand assembled one on core board

MAGA are the modern day Nazis

Charlamagne: I feel like I heard more on this network about “is Kamala Harris Black” than I do about Trump being a fascist Cooper: That’s bullshit Charlamagne: That’s bullshit to say you don’t have those conversations

@Kling_ai videos taking a really long time to process, is the system down?

SALMONN: Towards Generic Hearing Abilities for Large Language Models paper page: huggingface.co/papers/2310.13… Hearing is arguably an essential ability of artificial intelligence (AI) agents in the physical world, which refers to the perception and understanding of general auditory information consisting of at least three types of sounds: speech, audio events, and music. In this paper, we propose SALMONN, a speech audio language music open neural network, built by integrating a pre-trained text-based large language model (LLM) with speech and audio encoders into a single multimodal model. SALMONN enables the LLM to directly process and understand general audio inputs and achieve competitive performances on a number of speech and audio tasks used in training, such as automatic speech recognition and translation, auditory-information-based question answering, emotion recognition, speaker verification, and music and audio captioning etc. SALMONN also has a diverse set of emergent abilities unseen in the training, which includes but is not limited to speech translation to untrained languages, speech-based slot filling, spoken-query-based question answering, audio-based storytelling, and speech audio co-reasoning etc. The presence of the cross-modal emergent abilities is studied, and a novel few-shot activation tuning approach is proposed to activate such abilities of SALMONN. To our knowledge, SALMONN is the first model of its type and can be regarded as a step towards AI with generic hearing abilities.

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@Cererean @ArmandDoma Also you should be introspective at why you’re so defensive about being told Europeans have been more violent than any other culture throughout history— i haven’t read guns, germs, and steel but does it seek to understand what confluence of factors made them this way?

@Cererean @ArmandDoma You’re completely ignoring what I’m saying. Eurocentrism is still well ingrained in how we view history and science and even the questions we ask presuppose Europeans must be superior— we need to be objective in even figuring out what to ask

It’s been a long time since I read it, but why is “Guns, Germs, and Steel” considered racist? I recall the thrust of the book being “Europeans did not colonize the world because of superior genetics or culture, as racists claim, but because of unique advantages of geography”

@Cererean @ArmandDoma But the bigger issue is that the violent tendencies of Europeans are implicitly framed as being a “superiority” trait and the expansion over the world must have been a good goal for a culture to have And I’ll repeat I don’t think Europeans are genetically prone to violence

@Cererean @ArmandDoma I don’t recall those groups sailing across the ocean to slaughter entire islands of people, or fire bombing entire cities, or dropping not one, but 2 nuclear bombs when their enemy was on the verge of surrender…

@ArmandDoma It could also be inferior genetics too I would agree the evidence would indicate it’s probably environmental, but there’s never been any study why Europeans seem to be so intrinsically violent and genocidal, with a pervasive desire to expand their geographic domain

I don’t know how accurate the specifics of “Guns, Gold, and Steel” are, but at a basic level if you don’t agree that Europeans were able to colonize the world because of environmental factors you have to believe it’s because of genetics factors and that is tautologically racist

@paulg Good point, society should forever be defined by terminology you learned in your own grade school 🙄 So brave

Continue to use words that the kind of people who like to ban words would like to ban. It keeps the right of way open.

@Andercot This doesn’t look like flux pinning though based on the bounce The other suspicious thing is the 2 magnets— pyrolitic graphene requires multiple magnets to so it can get trapped between the perturbations If this is pinning they should be able to do it with 1 magnet

First video of LK-99 Full Levitation, aka flux-pinning This video was just posted to the Chinese video-sharing site BiliBili and claims to be a highly pure synthesized sample of LK-99. What is the physical phenomenon behind this and what does it mean? Levitation of superconducting materials is a phenomenon unique to what is called Type-II superconductors, and is an effect whereby magnetic field lines becomes 'trapped' as it passes through the material, providing the force needed to levitate. These are the popular images and videos of cryogenically-cooled discs floating above a magnet frequently seen online and in the pinned post on my profile. You can think of this like strands of hair being caught in gum - the gum is suspended in mid-air by adhering strongly to the hair as the hair passes through it. The hair in this case is magnetic field lines and the gum is the Type-II superconductor. Just like hair comes in individual strands, or in other words hair is 'quantized' or 'discrete', so is the flux trapped at the 'pinning centers' quantized in what are called 'magnetic vortices' - the quantization of pinned flux lines is a key property and distinguishing characteristic of Type-II superconductors (although technically can occur in Type-I superconductors if the material thickness is smaller than the London penetration depth, which is indeed very small - specifics for the physics nerds out there). Flux-pinning is entirely unique to superconductors and is also wholly distinct from the Meissner effect. It is not a property of diamagnets or diamagnetism. At @TRIUMFLab I contributed to flux-pinning studies in Niobium crystal superconducting radio-frequency cavities used for particle acceleration. In that application, trapped flux poses an issue by increasing the remnant surface resistivity of the cavity, which has the effect of decreasing its effective quality factor or Q-factor, which is a measurement of a resonators efficiency. SRF cavities typically have Q-factors of 10E10 and trapped flux at pinning centers reduces the maximum effective accelerating electric field used to drive charged particle bunches close to the speed of light. Flux pinning is thought to arise in some Type-II superconductors by small imperfections in the crystal, also called volume defects, that enable flux to penetrate the material. In SRF cavities an issue that arises is any magnetic field that is passing through the material, e.g. by the Earth's background field, can become pinned or trapped inside the cavity as it transitions into a superconducting state. See some attached plots in the comments from a study showing how the surface resistivity of SRF cavities increases the more there is a background field as the cavity transitions into superconducting state. This is the first video I am aware of that claims to show the flux-pinned levitation of a LK-99 sample. If this is in fact what is happening, then it is a very unique and promising finding of this new materials properties and potential for future study. If this is real then it is truly ground-breaking

@paulg Tragic that he killed himself, but Jackson was basically right in everything she said— maybe a little harsh at worst Some people struggle to deal with the truth, we can all be more considerate of this

There's a full recording of what he said in the article. You can listen to it yourself and see how completely harmless it was. thefp.com/p/a-racist-sme…

@instsondaw Show a video flipping it over, and with different magnets

@ValorCraft @floates0x @altryne @instsondaw Pyrolitic carbon floats like that, it doesn’t get any higher, it’s a weaker diamagnetism

@floates0x @altryne @instsondaw Bottom magnet an electromagnet?

@andrewmccalip If it’s (super)diamagnetic you should be able to put it near a paramagnetic substance like steel when it’s near the magnet and it attracts to the steel, then remove the permanent magnet and it falls away

Meissner effect or bust: Day 8.5 We made the rocks

@simonw @bradneuberg @Chrisprucha @huggingface always made me nervous they required a login/token to run open source models, now I feel justified in that

@bradneuberg @Chrisprucha @huggingface They had a bit of a licensing mess - relicensed code that included contributions made under the previous open source license

In just one week, @huggingface managed to obliterate its standing within the open-source community. A notion doc might just do their job better. 🤔

@andrewmccalip strangely, not as uniform as I had assumed

Smashed the rock #LK99 #MeissnerEffectOrBust

Meissner effect or bust: Day 8 TLDR: I’m cracking open the first LK99 sample about 11pm PDT. I’ll be posting pictures and videos as we go. Probably not live, but nearly live.

@glen @gimjiun79102152 They have the biggest sample by far. Other labs would be lucky to figure out how to make them that big in 6 months But definitely the race is on to see who can learn the most the fastest now

@gimjiun79102152 Yeah overseas labs are going to overtake this greedy guy in weeks. Literally what could make it take 6 months? He must be working alone at this point 😅

Latest news. Vice president of KENTECH(Korea Institute of Energy Technology; famous institution in korea) said, "He has been analyzing the #LK99 since a month ago, and it will take another around 6 months." google.com/amp/s/m.yna.co…

@floates0x @altryne Common con man tactic… reminds me of the former us President on basically any topic

targum.video/v/2023/8/3/1c0… Long video on Korean news just dropped? I'm in bed and translated in the last second but haven't verified personally, posting for folks to summarize and share insights 🫡 gn