Descrease article font size Increase article font size Vancouver-Yaletown is a provincial riding located in the region. This riding is currently represented by MLA who first took office in . collected votes, winning per cent of the vote in the 2024 B.C. provincial election. Just two years after the previous election, B.C. residents have cast…
Sri Lankan opener Pathum Nissanka runs after playing a shot during a match against Pakistan at Dubai International Stadium in the UAE. — Reuters/File Sri Lanka’s opener Pathum Nissanka will miss upcoming ODI tri-series against hosts Pakistan and England after failing to obtain medical clearance to resume playing, the board confirmed on Thursday. Nissanka sustained…
In this tutorial, we use Whistle, Cactus Compute’s speech-to-text model, a 16.9 MB file that runs on a CPU, transcribes seven languages, and returns word timestamps and probabilities. The model card claims it beats Whisper base on LibriSpeech; we test it on seeded test-clean and test-other samples, comparing Whistle with Whisper tiny and base on…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Vernon-Lumby is a provincial riding located in the region. This riding is currently represented by MLA who first took office in . collected votes, winning per cent of the vote in the 2024 B.C. provincial election. Just two years after the previous election, B.C. residents have cast…
Dunith Wellalage removes both openers Tom Banton (50) and Ben Duckett (29) after they give a solid start to England Sri Lanka captain Kusal Mendis won the toss and elected to bowl first against England in their ODI tri-series match at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Thursday. Sri Lanka brought in left-arm spinner Dunith Wellalage for…
Perplexity, along with NVIDIA team, has introduced JOLT, a new post-training method for language models. JOLT stands for Joint On-policy Learning and Teaching. It trains a single model in 2 roles. The teacher sees privileged information; the student does not. The key change is that the teacher is trained too, so its feedback stays usable….
A complaint filed Oct. 14 with the Law Society of Ontario requests that disciplinary action be taken against a Toronto lawyer who has built a notable career as an Anishinaabe woman specializing in Indigenous law, alleging she has no evidence that she is Indigenous at all. The complaint is against Promise Holmes Skinner, who identifies as…
Australia’s Megan Schutt in action against England during women’s Ashes second one-day match. — Reuters/File Star Australian fast bowler Megan Schutt was suspended for two matches on Thursday for breaching prescription medication rules. The 33-year-old, who was a standout in Australia’s recent one-day series against Bangladesh, apologised for “failing to meet the standards” expected of…
IBM’s Granite Speech 5.0 2B supports multilingual transcription and translation. Explore its six speech-recognition languages, open model license and deployment options.
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Victoria-Beacon Hill is a provincial riding located in the region. This riding is currently represented by MLA who first took office in . collected votes, winning per cent of the vote in the 2024 B.C. provincial election. Just two years after the previous election, B.C. residents have…
