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Abstract: We employ a combination of recent developments in semi-supervised learningfor automatic speech recognition to obtain state-of-the-art results onLibriSpeech utilizing the unlabeled audio of the Libri-Light dataset. Moreprecisely, we carry out noisy student training with SpecAugment using giantConformer models pre-trained using wav2vec 2.0 pre-training. By doing so, weare able to achieve word-error-rates (WERs) 1.4%/2.6% on the LibriSpeechtest/test-other sets against the current state-of-the-art WERs 1.7%/3.3%.

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Pushing the Limits

Pinnacle dazzle. Genesis 2:4b-7, 15-17, 3:1-8

September 13, 2020

1.Excuses

The Irish author Frank McCourt tells of his experience teaching English at a rough-and-tumble public high school in Staten Island. After he had been at the school for a time, he began to collect the notes he received from students excusing their absence or their inability to complete an assignment. Those notes supposedly were from a parent, but they were clearly forged. But that’s not what intrigued McCourt. What interested him and why he saved the excuse notes, is how wonderfully written they were, far superior to any other writing his students would do. He writes, “If [their parents] could read those notes they’d discover their kids capable of the finest American prose: fluent, imaginative, clear, dramatic, fantastic, focused, persuasive, useful.” And here are some of the excuses he collected:

“The stove caught fire and the wallpaper went up and the fire department kept us out of the house all night.”

“Arnold doesn’t have his work today because he was getting off the train yesterday and the door closed on his school bag and the train took it away. He yelled to the conductor who said very vulgar things as the train drove away. Something should be done.”

“Her big brother got mad at her and threw her essay out the window and it flew away all over Staten Island which is not a good thing because people will read it and get the wrong impression unless they read the ending which explains everything.”

McCourt reflects, “Isn’t it remarkable, I thought, how they resist any kind of writing assignment in class or at home. They whine and say they’re busy and it’s hard putting two hundred words together on any subject. Why? I have a drawer full of excuse notes that could be turned into an anthology of Great American Excuses.”

One day McCourt gave his students an assignment. He wrote it on the board: “An Excuse Note from Adam to God” or “An excuse note from Eve to God.” He told his students that they could start their essays in class and finish them at home. He writes, “The heads went down. Pens raced across paper. They could do this with one hand tied behind their backs…. The bell rang, and for the first time in my three and a half years of teaching, I saw high school students so immersed they had to be urged out of the room by friends hungry for lunch.”

That assignment prompted the most imaginative and expressive writing he had seen from his students. They came up with some brilliant excuses for Adam and Eve.

McCourt reflected on his desk drawer full of excuse notes. I wonder how big that drawer was. And if that drawer was big, I wonder how big the drawer God must have to hold all of our excuses. 

Humankind wasted no time before making excuses for our behavior. According to the biblical account, among the very first words spoken by a man or a woman were words of excuse. God asked Adam, “Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” Adam responded, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit of the tree, and I ate.” God then turned to Eve: “What is it you have done?” Eve replied, “The serpent tricked me, and I ate.” From the very beginning, we’ve been practicing our excuses and casting blame.

2. Purpose

So how did all of this get started? Well, God places the man in the garden “to till it and to keep it.” From the beginning, humans are made for a regular rhythm of doing work that has meaning and purpose for the good of creation along with regular periods of sabbath rest and enjoyment (Genesis 2:2-3). While there is great freedom for the human (“you may freely eat from any tree”), the garden also contains one boundary that restricts the human. God decrees the first biblical law (eating fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the consequence of breaking the law (immediate and certain death “in the day…you shall die [the Hebrew is emphatic–you shall surely die!]” (Genesis 2:17). While there is permit, there is also prohibition. The primary human task, a task we share as partners, is to find a way to hold the three facets of life together, purpose, permit, prohibition. The prohibition makes sense only in terms of the other two.

Sometimes we do better when we know what’s expected. There is certainly a train of thought that believes that with little expectation comes greater freedom. I think it might well be the opposite. I think there is greater freedom when we know the expectations; when guidelines are established, when a code of behavior or civility or ethic is communicated.

It has been said that without clarity, commitment wanes.

3. Distraction

Maybe that’s the approach of the serpent, to muddy the waters, and challenge the clarity of the purpose, permission and prohibition.
The serpent is a very clever “that the LORD God had made” (Genesis 3:1). The serpent is one of God’s own creatures who simply poses some questions and alternative explanations concerning God’s motivations in creation for the humans to consider. A new agenda is introduced. The prohibition which seemed a given is now scrutinized as though it were not a given but an option.

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