If you provide storage to upload four audio .wav files (each about 400 KiB), I can send you samples generated by me speaking, then cloned with w-okada using a generic voice I believe is freely usable. It’s far from perfect, but it’s good enough for me to clearly tell which is which just by listening.
“Das Kind” is /daskınt/ not /dasʔkınt/.
It absolutely is /dasʔkınt/ in the standard German I’ve grown up with. I’ve never heard anyone any native speaker pronounce it as /daskınt/.
In German, just the same: there is not generally a pause between words written separately: there’s no gap that you can find on a spectrogram of a recording of someone saying, say, “brauner Sack” between the two words.
At the cost of appealing to authority: As a native German speaker, I can absolutely hear the glottal stop between two separate words. It exists. It can also often be found between consecutive vowels within a word, but not necessarily between consecutive consonants like in your example. There’s a reason why it’s in the IPA. It’s also e.g. the basis for the “gender not-really-neutral” dialect of German, which injects an additional glottal stop into a word (like Bürger:innen, which is pronounced like Bürger innen, not like Bürgerinnen).
Mostly true, but in standard German one would normally vocalize “Schlafsack” without any audible pause between the f and the s.
If you were to pronounce “Schlaf sack”, there would generally be an expectation of a glottal stop between the f and the s (dialects excluded).
So while, yes, compound words in German are written without spaces, that’s not just a writing difference.
Be more interesting than a documentary?
“Rechtsbraunversifft ist vorbei!”
(Naja gut, bissel rechts hat man mit SPD und Grünen noch, aber die sind wenigstens moderat)
Stimmt. Doof nur, dass es der Binnenwirtschaft der Eurozone nicht so gut geht und wir relativ stark von Rohstoffimporten abhängig sind, die dadurch teurer werden und damit (mal) wieder tendentiell eine Angebotspreisinflation treiben könnten. Hatten wir ja noch nicht häufig genug in den letzten ~8 Jahren :)
Gut ist das eigentlich nur für große Exportunternehmen, deren Eigentümer so wohlhabend sind, dass ihnen die Inflationsrate im eigenen Land herzlich egal ist.
Eine zu niedrige Erbschaftsteuer ist eben eine Subvention für etablierte Unternehmen und damit eine Wettbewerbsverzerrung. Das weiß auch jeder, der da nur minimal drüber nachdenkt:
Bei einer Neugründung durch nicht Vermögende muss praktisch immer jemand einen Kredit aufnehmen und darauf Zinsen zahlen. Diese müssen natürlich am Ende aus den Einnahmen des neuen Unternehmens kommen. Wenn ein Unternehmen vererbt wird und dabei eine zu geringe Steuer fällig wird, wird ein Erbe weniger belastet als ein Neugründer. Ergo: Subvention.
Was auch genau das ist wofür diejenigen, die sie eingestellt haben, gewählt wurden.
The actual title of the study is Global and regional reference curves for pain across the lifespan in 6.1 million individuals in 118 countries.
Which makes sense, given its contents. The study is fine. The Guardian’s article’s title is unscientific sensationalist trash, imho.
The good Apertus model is too large at 70B, unfortunately. The 8B model is much too small to be useful for what I need.
Yeah, it seems the llama.cpp changes have been merged in the last 24 hours. I’m hoping ollama makes them available this week.
Merzweckeier!
Thank you very much, I hadn’t heard about this model coming out anywhere!
Seems like I’ll need to wait just a bit more for it to be available in Ollama. As soon as it’s there I’ll try it out :)
In the USA (which was the focus of OP) I would argue there is virtually no left in the first place. Outliers excluded even their left-most people are still centrists, at best. Note that nowhere I said people should stop voting, it’s kind of crazy how that’s always a knee-jerk assumption. Obviously you still ought to choose the lesser evil - but that must come with doing the other parts. Otherwise, again, you’re just choosing evil.
That being said: If you live in the USA and you want that to happen, you need to step up. Not say “nobody else is doing it”. You need to do it. If you already are: Congrats! Next you need to accept that you can do everything right and still lose. That’s just life.
I’m really hoping Soofi models are going to be good. Because afaict they’ll be the first (and so far only) open source (not just open weight) models in the ~30B parameters range.
My point is the nay-sayers here say “don’t vote”, but offer no alternatives.
I’m a nay-sayer (to doing no more than perpetually voting for the lesser of two evils), and I’ve offered alternatives. I’m also not alone in this, I’ve seen about as many people, proportionally speaking, advocate for the same things in past posts about this here on Lemmy as there are on Reddit. Might this be a bubble issue on your end?
You say join a union? I say hell yeah, sign me up! Can I join yours?
Feel free to come to Germany and join one of our unions. The one primarily responsible for negotiating the collective agreement currently determining my salary is ver.di.
False dichotomy. There are many things to do between “do nothing but vote for evil” and “revolution”.
I don’t want to write the whole thing again, so I’ll just leave this here.
The entire new testament is fan fiction. Iēsous of Nazareth didn’t write any of it, the first assumed author never even met him.
The “biblical canon” of today seems to be more or less just whatever was later dictated when Christianity became the Roman Empire’s state religion. Who knows how much other, potentially more accurate reports about Iēsous were lost during that dictatorship?
Now, I agree that Paradise Lost does not have any claim to veracity. I would just also say any claim the new testament has is null and void.