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Fortunately yes, recently i've been playing with this https://github.com/rpdrewes/whisper-websocket-server which uses K6nele as frontend on android if you really care about performance.

Tho if you're looking for a standalone app then you can give this a go : https://github.com/alex-vt/WhisperInput and run it right on your phone :]

For now they both run regular openai whisper thus tiny.en but as you can see there's tons of impromvement potential with faster-whisper and now distill-whisper :D


well you're in for suprise!

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02901-1

now while this isn't nearly at the level of human cloning, it never ceases to amaze me how far we've come.


Artificial wombs don't reduce the period of bring a child to be be a functioning social being (currently 18 - 28 years). Nor the costs or other incentives or disincentives.

To me, the most likely consequence is to reduce the total fertility rate to one child per woman.


This is far from even hinting at an artificial womb. It is at best a replacement for an infant ventilator and incubator. In the best case, it will improve survival rates for fetuses that even today sometimes survive.

But the first 20 or so weeks, from conception up to viability, are an entirely different prospect and we have no idea how we could replicate them yet.


i understand where you're coming from but like any other ecosystem, we'll need a bunch of puzzle pieces and this just happens to be one of them :)


I believe this particular piece is like claiming that the ancient Egyptians being happy that they are closer to building space rockets, now that they understand how to build an aerodynamic tip for an arrow. It is a piece of the puzzle, but it is very far from the part that is extremely hard to do.


You can already do that with praktika.ai , they're in ed-tech and got ai avatars of sorts that you can "video-call" to :D


Truly, I'm starting to think they think of it as opportunity cost then an actually fine.


You'd be correct. Anyone that actually has to deal with regulators quickly understands how easy it is to game the regulations if you're someone of Meta's stature.


so you're implying speed atleast 10x the speed of light? i think you'll have better luck increasing the human lifespan instead.


""" Time dilation is the difference in elapsed time as measured by two clocks, either due to a relative velocity between them (special relativity) or due to a difference in gravitational potential between their locations (general relativity). When unspecified, "time dilation" usually refers to the effect due to velocity. """

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation


wow thanks! this was super fun, do you happen to have some souce about the calculations that go into determining the time dilation based on different velocity? i'm aware about black holes being capable of well, doing time dilation thingy due to their massive gravitational force but nothing else.

edit: souce as in something a regular average joe can make sense of haha


Well, depending on your preferred format there's a great book called A Brief History of Time - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Brief_History_of_Time , or lots of videos about it at https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=time+dilation

More broadly, the series Cosmos with Carl Sagan was excellent, and is worth a view. The bit about time dilation is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWgEzxi_A0w . The more recent one with Neil Degrasse Tyson is also good (but while I enjoy both, I think I prefer the older one)


The time dilation equation from special relativity only needs basic maths: https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/time-dilation


Not that's not what he is implying. He is talking about time dilation.


How does one travel 1000 light years in a span of human lifetime (~80 yrs) if you’re not going faster than the speed of light?


Time dilation! Time is relative. For an outside observer, over 1000 years pass, but aboard the ship, much less time passes. There are calculators for this, e.g. at [0]. If you constantly accelerate at 1g, flip around at the halfway point and accelerate in the opposite direction for the rest of the journey, roughly 13 years would pass from the traveler's perspective.

This site also has a "Newton's universe" mode, which pretends that relativity doesn't exist. Interestingly, in that case you would take over 44 years!

[0]: https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/space-travel?c=EUR&v=...


I am pretty rusty in special relativity, but IIRC, in the ship it basically seems like the distance is contracting as you accelerate. And from earth, it seems like time is going slower inside the moving spaceship.


With relativistic time dilation. 1000 years will pass on Earth, but on tge ship, it will be only a couple of decades, assuming they're close enough to the speed of light.


hey that sounds nice and cosy, what do you do if you don't mind me asking.


I run a diagram generator using OpenAI API, the pricing model is credit-based, kind of the same with most of the LLM-based SaaS out there :D


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