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Submission + - Opus 1.5 is Out: The Opus Codec Gets a Serious Machine Learning Upgrade

jmv writes: After more than two years of work, Opus 1.5 is out. It brings many new features that can improve quality and the general audio experience through machine learning, while maintaining fully-compatibility with previous releases. See this release page demonstrating all the new features including:
  • Significant improvement to packet loss robustness using Deep Redundancy (DRED)
  • Improved packet loss concealment through Deep PLC
  • Low-bitrate speech quality enhancement down to 6 kb/s wideband
  • Improved x86 (AVX2) and Arm (Neon) optimizations
  • Support for 4th and 5th order ambisonics

Comment Re:Deadlocks in Rust are solved how? (Score 1) 44

Rust does not make deadlocks safe (they cannot be). Rather, it disallows some ways of structuring your code and will then refuse to compile your code until you've written it in a way that the compiler can prove that a deadlock (or memory error, or other types of error) cannot occur. That can sometimes make Rust code much harder to write, but the benefit is that you can be much more aggressive at using threads because you don't have to "play it safe because of the risk of errors".

Comment Re:Not Surprised. (Score 1) 297

Bolts were sold out in dealerships for the 4 months before the announcement. I *want* a subcompact. I've had 2 bolts now, and while the battery bit was annoying, the car has very high crash ratings (only mark is that child seat hookups suck, but I don't have small children), and is very easy to park despite how roomy it is. It is just a basic car, yes, but...there are a LOT of people who just want a basic car that does the things. I want to park easily, be reasonably safe, be electric...and don't really car what the car looks like. In fact, when I pick out a color it's usually based on how hot it will get sitting in the sun or how easy it will be to find it in a parking lot.

Comment Addressing the bias language in this article (Score 4, Insightful) 314

Europe is not "forcing" Apple to do anything. Apple is not the victim of an Orwellian government shoving committee-formed standards and practices on a forign corporation. Soldiers aren't arriving at Apple manufacturing facilities with boxes of USB-C ports and shouting at workers in German to install these or else.

Europe is "requiring" every cell phone manufacturer to comply with a universal charging standard in order to sell phones in Europe. This is no different from Europe requiring Apple to comply with European radio transmission laws or to manufacture phones for ROHS compliance to prevent mercury from entering landfills.

Apple is not "forced" to do anything, they could shrug and withdraw from the European market. You're likely reading this and thinking, "why would they give up such a valuable market?" and you've come to the core of the issue. Apple profits from selling proprietary chargers and cables, and they continue to profit by changing those every couple years. Apple, almost single-handedly, created the need for this regulation.

This kind of ongoing inflammatory language is why Bloomberg isn't a respectable news agency.

Comment Re:Very Simple Theoretical Basis for Failure (Score 1) 64

From my (limited) understanding, I think dark matter would have to interact with *something* other than gravity, or else it would be massless and hence go flying at the speed of light and be unable to clump together in galaxies. That something could be (hopefully) the Higgs but I guess it could also be some kind of "fifth force" that doesn't interact with normal matter, in which case we're still going to have a hard time detecting it.

Comment Re:Sorry, Mozilla. (Score 3, Insightful) 225

Who claimed he didn't have a right to be a homophobe? And people have a right to not like that, too. Ain't no one stopping him or putting him in jail for being a homophobe, unlike what his donation recipients would like to do to people just minding their own business as LGBTQ.

Comment we had this already. It was called PREDICT. (Score 1) 118

Someone in TFG's admin zero'd in on PREDICT as an example of "the swamp" axing the funding in September 2019, and killing the program completely in March 2020. It was created to "predict" when a zoonotic disease would transfer to humans, and then stop it from becoming a pandemic - and was successful several times. The fabled Wuhan lab was involved with it. What we DON'T need is the severely undertaxed ultra-billionaire class being in charge of this sort of thing - they need to have their billions taxed, and the general population owning the program.

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