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Is this just sort of expected for these models? Should users of this expect only truncation or can hallucinated bits happen too?
I also find Javert in particular seems to put in huge gaps and spaces... side effect of the voice?
Eep.
So, on my M1 mac, did `uvx pocket-tts serve`. Plugged in
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only
(Beginning of Tale of Two Cities)
but the problem is Javert skips over parts of sentences! Eg, it starts:
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, ..."
Notice how it skips over "it was the age of foolishness,", "it was the winter of despair,"
Which... Doesn't exactly inspire faith in a TTS system.
(Marius seems better; posted https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts/issues/38)
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It's too bad the title prefix "75x Faster" got dropped.
I stumbled a bit using jj on a big repo [1], but I too am very interested in seeing it grow and evolve.
I plan to return to my experiment sometime, would love tips on large repos and making it more manageable.
[1] https://www.mgaudet.ca/technical/2023/11/23/exploring-jujits...
https://www.mgaudet.ca/ for general interest stuff, https://www.mgaudet.ca/technical for tech stuff.
Some good ones IMO:
- Implementing Private Fields for JavaScript https://www.mgaudet.ca/technical/2021/5/4/implementing-priva...
- Histories, by Herodotus: https://www.mgaudet.ca/blog/2020/11/26/histories-by-herodotu...
Big thumbs up to the Landmark Histories project (http://thelandmarkancienthistories.com/). Excellent production value making reading these histories much more managable -- you're 100% right on the frequent maps and good appendixes.
Don't have Anabasis, but Herodotus was excellent.
Would also be interesting to see if this is a Java issue, or a JVM implementation issue: ie, does an OpenJ9 based JVM (Available under the weird IBM Semeru name here [1]) have similar behaviour?
[1] https://developer.ibm.com/languages/java/semeru-runtimes/
Interesting. OpenJ9 has something similar in preview: https://blog.openj9.org/tag/jitserver/
I too would love this icon, and would take a PR from teams who can speak to that.
Hard to judge often!
Yeah, I posted a blog post [1] that explains my motivation in curating this list. Seeing the broad range of companies that do this kind of work was really helpful early in my career.
[1] https://www.mgaudet.ca/technical/2019/12/10/compiler-jobs
I think it's possible to join the compilers field with no previous experience if you can find the right team willing to mentor. Best would be for you to have adjacent skills that are valuable to the team; things like domain expertise, low level programming skill, or hardware knowledge.
Everyone starts somewhere. It's not the easiest thing, but I think can be done.
Pull requests very welcome! Even if to just update your team location and/or add internships and remote friendliness.
I have been curating this list [1] for the last little while, and made it public about a month ago.
While not a list or positions as the URL suggests, ands to help remind people that compilers are in way more companies than you think!