I collect questions the way some people collect stamps. Most of them don't have answers yet. That's the interesting part.
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Jacki Maniel retweeted
Looking at earlier speech models, their training data, and how people use them in products and everyday use cases, one thing stood out: the same recording can need different outputs.
Sometimes you want every word and filler. Sometimes you want clean, formatted text. Sometimes you want to add context, like names or technical terms, to help the model recognize them. Or you want a translation or an answer to a question about the recording.
Users should be able to ask for what they need.
This idea helped shape #Granary-v2.
We expanded from 25 to 48 languages and improved label quality through better ASR labeling, transcript refinement, and quality filtering. We also built labels and instruction pairs for different transcription styles, contextual ASR, code-switching, translation, transcript-based captions, and question answering.
#Granary-v2 is part of the training data behind #Nemotron-3.5-Transcribe, which lets users control transcription style, provide context, translate speech, and ask questions about audio.
We’re sharing model weights, training recipes, a public subset of #Granary-v2 labels, and the curation pipeline built with NeMo Curator.
A lot of work from the NeMo Speech team. Excited to finally share it!
🤗 Model:
huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA…
📊 Granary-v2 dataset:
huggingface.co/datasets/nvid…
📝 Granary-v2 technical report:
research.nvidia.com/labs/nem…
🛠️ Granary-v2 pipeline:
github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Curat…
#NVIDIA #NeMo #SpeechAI #SpeechRecognition #SpeechData #OpenSource
Meet NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe 🎙️
An open-weight, promptable 30B MoE model with ~4B active parameters that brings transcription in 40 languages, speaker attribution, translation, contextual prompting and audio understanding into one checkpoint.
Watch it keep track of who said what when everyone’s talking at once.
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Jacki Maniel retweeted
In China only knowledgeable people are allowed to vote. I hope in future only literates are allowed to voted in Nigeria.
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Well. Mr. Smarty-Pants. Let me give you the run-down of what you just said:
You wish to build a Mega-Constellation of high-bandwidth high-density low-cost satellites with affordable, portablöe ground terminals and subscription plans.
For that you need:
- highly advanced phase-array antenna steering signal and DSP processing ASICS - you do not have them
- the largest PCB factory on the North American Continent, based in EUs population x2 - you don't have it
- a satellite manufacturing facitly that can pump out a 2-digit amount of satellite PER DAY - you do not have it
- space ports that can support launches with single-digit days of turnaround - you do not have them
- an - at least - partially resuable launch vehicle with just days of turnaround time and a corresponding manufacturing cadence for ALL components of such launch vehicle - you do not have it
- about a thousand medium to little things more to make any of this work
Let me pull you back to reality: SpaceX currently launches beyond of 90% of mass to orbit per year. Not in the US. GLOBALLY. China can't compete. No one in the US can compete. India can't. Japan can't.
SpaceX - led by Musk and Shotwell - is a global Unicorn. Europe - and the EU and particular - have no idea, no framework - no plan and NO PATH to make this happen in any reasonable amount of time that one might consider short- to mid-term.
You CANNOT copy it if you tried. You could spend half the EUs budget on it and end up with 10 satellites in orbit.
You are DELUSIONAL. If you truly wish what you say, you'd appear in front of the European Commission and Parliament tomorrow and demand deletion of 80-90% of our red tape and bureaucratic lunacy.
Until you do that, you're a useless moron.
We need a European alternative to #Starlink asap.
ioplus.nl/en/posts/these-are…
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Trump won in 2016 without the Never Trumpers and neocons. His original sin was not taking them on their word. Never means never. He would have sailed to victory in 2020, even with the fraud, had he kept them out. 2024 popular vote win was due to MAHA. Nobody needs Never Trump.
Jacki Maniel retweeted
$32 million dollars and an entire administration mobilized to destroy one congressman.
His crime?
Demanding answers about Epstein class abuse networks, and refusing to let child predators hide behind political cover.
If that level of firepower doesn't tell you who's being protected, nothing will.
Go Massie!
Jacki Maniel retweeted
my best friend and i went to the WHCD, and we ended up leaving early because something felt off
it started the second we got there. every event we’ve ever been to, especially at this level, there are layers of security. bags checked, IDs checked, actual process
this time, nothing. we were just asked if we had tickets, said yes, and got waved through
no bag check. no real screening. no line. just thousands of people packed together, being pushed through the doors as fast as possible
it felt wrong immediately. like, viscerally wrong. my bestfriend literally turns to me and says “i think something is going to happen”
and then it did
this cannot happen. not here, not at something like this
praying for everyone, but there needs to be accountability because this should never happen again
Jacki Maniel retweeted
I would, but relying on Chelsea to win a big game of football at the moment is like relying on Donald Trump for a consistent reason for why he attacked Iran…
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Water: Iran Limits the West’s Old Practices
In 2017, during the first Trump administration, the US attacked a major dam in Syria. Shortly afterward, they denied it, claiming the reports were crazy, but subsequent investigations confirmed that the Tabqa Dam was attacked by American forces.
A secret US Special Operations unit called Task Force 9 struck the dam with some of the largest conventional bombs in the American arsenal, including at least one BLU-109 bunker-buster bomb. The clear objective was to create a catastrophe in that region of the country.
But that’s not all. In the First Gulf War, bombings destroyed most of Iraq’s desalination plants and water purification centers.
In Libya, NATO bombed a water pipe factory in Brega, claiming that the site was being used as a military depot by Gaddafi’s regime. The destruction compromised the drinking water supply for millions of civilians.
This time, after the bombing of the Iranian desalination plant on Qeshm Island, Iran responded by striking one in Bahrain.
No one talks about attacking water anymore. Both the Americans and the Gulf countries know that Iran is crazy enough to respond in kind. This is the difference in this war.
Iran seems to be teaching some American military leaders their old practices back by imposing limits, and this irritates a lot of people, while another part of the American population simply doesn’t follow the news closely.
A large part of the American black book doesn’t work in Iran because they are just as crazy as some American military leaders, and the retaliations can be disproportionate.
After the US attacked a desalinization plant, Iran responded by striking one in Bahrain. Since then there have been no reports of further US attacks.
This is as clear an instance of intrawar deterrence as it gets. And it required delivering on the deterrent threat in a proportionate manner.
Let's hope deterrence holds here, otherwise most of the microstates will have to abandoned.
Iran relies on desalinization for only 2% of its drinking water. aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/12…
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Iran Upgrades to Dual Launchers – Entering a New Strike Phase
Iran has started using dual launchers for medium-range missiles such as the Kheibar Shekan - 1,400km range.
This may indicate that Iran is entering a new stage.
Several models of short-range missiles with ranges of up to 700 km are already operating on dual launchers.
According to my calculations so far, Iran still possesses thousands of these short range missiles, which target American bases and the infrastructure of Gulf countries.
Jacki Maniel retweeted
A few weeks ago, he said he was going to liberate the Iranian people from an evil regime.
Now he has changed his plan to kill them all.
The President of the United States in a nutshell...
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What was called an Iranian regime conspiracy theory has now been confirmed by the President of the united States. Not only were the Iranian “protestors” violent, they were armed with “a lot” of guns given to them by the United States.
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Trump would not have won the primary in 2016 had he run on Mitt Romney’s platform, nor would he have won the 2024 election by running on new wars. It’s silly to claim Trump is MAGA. He rode a cultural wave, only he had the personal will to do so, but the issues matter, too.
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As US weighs putting troops in Iran, realities on ground keep Israeli boots closer to home timesofisrael.com/why-israel…
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"'We’ve come this far, Donald,' Netanyahu told Trump, according to a source present. 'We have to finish what we started.' Iran was playing for time, Netanyahu told Trump, and would race toward a bomb in secret. ___'After they got hit the last time, they thought they had nothing to lose,'___ says another Israeli official, arguing that Tehran would see the development of nuclear weapons as the only way to prevent such an onslaught from happening again."
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That's not even true, but note the Leader of the War Party's position was that the war last June incentivized Iran to then begin to make nuclear weapons which was why they needed to restart the war this time.
It's far more likely to happen this time around.
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Iranian Fattah-1 Activates Second Motor and Defeats 12 Interceptors
In this video, we can clearly see the missile activating its secondary solid-fuel motor.
The Fattah-1 is a classic ballistic missile up to a certain point. It climbs into space on a high parabolic trajectory and re-enters the atmosphere at a steep angle.
Up to that stage, it behaves like a conventional missile. The real difference lies in the activation of the re-entry motor and the movable nozzle, which allow it to make sharp corrections, zig-zag maneuvers in the terminal phase, or simply deliver a sudden burst of speed.
Without this motor, a conventional warhead would lose more than 50% of its velocity when performing aggressive maneuvers due to atmospheric friction.
The Fattah-1’s secondary motor is a small spherical solid-fuel engine, compact enough to fit inside the maneuverable re-entry vehicle (MaRV).
Theoretically, it can burn for more than 30 seconds, counteracting atmospheric deceleration and ensuring the warhead strikes at hypersonic speeds.
However, from what the video shows, it appears it can be reconfigured for a short, powerful boost of just a few seconds, delivering intense speed in the final phase.
The developers claim that in this last stage, the missile reaches speeds above Mach 13.
Of course, there’s no such thing as a perfect system.
This secondary motor reduces the payload of the warhead due to space constraints, but that loss can be partially compensated by the massive increase in kinetic impact energy.
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JUST IN - Pete Hegseth fires two more generals, David Hodne and William Green Jr., alongside Army Chief Of Staff Randy George — Reuters
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Roughly half of Iran's missile launchers are still intact and thousands of one-way attack drones remain in Iran's arsenal despite US and Israeli strikes against military targets, according to recent US intelligence assessments, sources say. cnn.it/417IIWO
Jacki Maniel retweeted
What message does attacking hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and the Pasteur Institute as a medical research center in Iran convey? As a specialist physician, I urge WHO, the Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders and physicians worldwide to respond to this crime against humanity
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The purpose of a system is what it does:
Israel is targeting the negotiators to ensure we can’t end the war & to ensure that the Iranian leaders who come next will be more extreme, thereby ensuring that the war goes on.
The 1st step to end the war must be restraining Israel.
