Random Thoughts

I want to honestly record my emotions and thoughts at this moment, without caring whether the logic is correct. This is more like a diary entry, but because these are some very fundamental views, I want to record them more formally in the form of a blog. At the end of last year my Canadian PR came through smoothly, and I started the phase of looking for a job in Canada. I’ve already decided my current job at NVIDIA has no future; I’m basically in a “lying flat” state, just waiting to resign after I return from the US. In the process of looking for a job in Canada, I also indirectly came into contact with the current job markets in China and the US; the waves are bigger than I imagined. I’m also trying to plan my future career path. ...

This morning at work I wanted to listen to an audiobook, so I searched online and found this 【“Madness and Civilization” Michel Foucault【Audiobook | Synchronized Text】】 I think what he’s done is very appropriate. For sociology- and philosophy-related books, just reading often feels dull and leads to giving up; just listening often means forgetting the context, zoning out, and not knowing what’s being said. These kinds of books are best suited for audiobooks with synchronized text. So I started thinking: how did he make an audiobook like this? What AI tools did he use? How did he align the text and audio precisely? I dug through r/localllama for quite a while. Open-source solutions are usually very complicated: first convert the ebook into audio and timestamped subtitles, then synchronize the subtitles with the audio to produce a video. ...