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Inside ARK-ASR-3B’s Whisper and Qwen Architecture

Inside ARK-ASR-3B’s Whisper and Qwen Architecture

Overview ARK-ASR-3B is a 3-billion-parameter multilingual automatic speech recognition model built by Audio8 that combines a Whisper-style audio encoder with an MLP adapter and a Qwen decoder. The model operates at 16 kHz sampling rate and…

The Meeting That Outlived Its Purpose

Fourteen of my forty weekly hours belonged to one recurring status meeting with eleven people on the invite. Cutting it to four people and fifteen minutes did not slow anything down. Forty hours in a week, and fourteen of them belonged to…

Chow Yun Fat slashes price of luxury Hong Kong mansion after nearly four years on market

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Chow Yun Fat slashes price of luxury Hong Kong mansion after nearly four years on market

The veteran Hong Kong actor has cut the asking price of his luxury Peak mansion after nearly four years on the market, with the property now listed for HK$160 million (US$20.4 million).

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Anthropic says its AI models hacked 3 organisations during testing

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Anthropic says its AI models hacked 3 organisations during testing

Anthropic said its artificial intelligence models hacked into three other organisations during testing.

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Machine-Driven Development: Coding in the Age of AI

Machine-Driven Development: Coding in the Age of AI

A New Era How should we code applications now, in the advent of AI and Large Language Models ? Should we follow the path of the ‘Vibe Coders’ ? Are we to become ‘Prompt Engineers’ ? What of AI ‘Spec Driven’ development ? Or could we adopt…

The Lazy Programmer’s Guide to AI-Assisted Development

The Lazy Programmer’s Guide to AI-Assisted Development

This article contains links to some of my past articles, along with AI-generated historical facts and analysis that support it. Being a Lazy Programmer In “Code Complete (2nd edition)”, chapter 33.7: 33.7. Laziness Laziness manifests…

Understanding Nonisolated Async Code in Swift 6.2

Understanding Nonisolated Async Code in Swift 6.2

Introduction Ever since Swift Concurrency was introduced, its main mission has been clear: keep memory safe without making us write callback hell. But if we’re being honest, context switching-specifically thread hopping-has always been a…

Thea Gagate joins Denso AiryBees in Japan SV.League

Thea Gagate joins Denso AiryBees in Japan SV.League

MANILA, Philippines — Thea Gagate became the latest Filipino import of the Denso AiryBees in the upcoming SV.League season in Japan. The AiryBees officially welcomed the Alas Pilipinas middle blocker on Friday. READ: Thea Gagate hopes to…

AFP tracking reported Chinese warship, unmanned vessel in PH EEZ

AFP tracking reported Chinese warship, unmanned vessel in PH EEZ

MANILA, Philippines — The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said Friday it is tracking reports of a Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) vessel and an unmanned surface vessel allegedly operating within the country’s exclusive…

Boring Tech Has Survived a Thousand Tuesdays

Boring Tech Has Survived a Thousand Tuesdays

Every few months some new tech trends: A brand new database that will finally replace Postgres A language that will finally kill PHP A paradigm that makes everything you shipped last year look naive These days I read the announcement…

A Developer’s Guide to Sunrise and Sunset Calculations in PHP

A Developer’s Guide to Sunrise and Sunset Calculations in PHP

Once upon a time (i.e. way back in October 2024) I wrapped up a blog in this series with: Believe it or not, there’s still more to cover. In the coming weeks whenever I get to it, I’d like to cover ways to leverage the built-in astronomy…

Game Review: Part Two — Lego Batman: Legacy is a must-play for any Bat-fan

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