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FINALLY. solved verse tracking and having a really strong shot at doing verse correction AT THE SAME TIME sll this is made possible because of the amazing work on ZipFormer by the folks at Quran Lab, especially Mustafa Mehdi and Tarek Mansour. i took that same model and fine-tuned... it on a larger dataset, and I was able to improve on the results of the vanilla model they'd made available. (i did hear they're in the process of developing an even better model; look forward to seeing what that's about!) so, what does solved verse tracking mean? It means that you can do tracking from voice for any Quranic verse, and it is extremely accurate. it worked 100% of the times that I've actually tried it.. there's a public demo on that you can try out yourself what's more, the model is only ~65MB, which is absolutely insane! how do I know it's working well? we have a corpus of information on the open source repo, and the thing KILLED. The only samples it failed on were those that were ambiguous, where you wouldn't even be able to tell which verse it is until you read the entirety of the verse... So that's how good it is! the remaining weaknesses are around correction. It's not always accurate, and sometimes it forgets to correct certain errors. that's something I'm taking a crack at, and will keep the SDK up to date. Check out the demo on and if you're working on a Quran app or web app, we have SDKs that make it a piece of cake to integrate this directly into your apps!show more

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Hootch Virtual26 days ago

Please remove music from the clip since you are starting with quran recitations

yazin26 days ago

thnx for the suggestion, will keep that in mind for next time

yazin26 days ago

links: Demo: Github repo: Quran Lab:

Quran Lab26 days ago

💙

Chouaib Sid26 days ago

Lovely, im curious if the video is made with AI ?if yes, which setup have been used ?

yazin26 days ago

yes, good eye. opus 5.5 via claude code (no libraries like remotion/hyperframes/etc)

makwired26 days ago

Wonderful! I have been following you for a while and it's great stuff you always come up with open source models. I am going to try this.

yazin26 days ago

look forward to hearing your feedback 🙏

Moeenuddin Hashim26 days ago

yours is one of the best accounts i follow here

yazin26 days ago

appreciate you brother, thank you

c2853f75194eee001e228c7e05d5219026 days ago

cool, 👍

Omar Abdelalim26 days ago

I wonder how I can integrate this in Sahab Hifz

yazin26 days ago

check out the sdk, it makes integration a piece of 🍰

Rainy Arizona 🌵🌧️26 days ago

Can this be integrated into another app via an api?

yazin26 days ago

Even better, no API/internet required! Just a one time 65MB download that you can embed in the app or download on demand

Dejenny26 days ago

This is incredible, I’m going to see how I can use it in my project as well. Launching my own app soon.

yazin26 days ago

amazing, link me when it's out inshallah

Dejenny26 days ago

Will do brother, In Sha’Allah

Ahmed Eid26 days ago

Wow, this looks amazing, going to try to use it in a project today

yazin26 days ago

thnx Ahmed, plz lmk how it goes

Izuddin Helmi26 days ago

Thanks! Gonna try it now!

yazin26 days ago

great lmk what you think!

Amiro26 days ago

JazakAllah khayr, based on the verse tracker, I built this. Thank you very much for your work.

Nasser26 days ago

Wow Ma shaa Allah! Amazing work brother 🔥 I will try it soon in shaa Allah❤️

yazin26 days ago

would love to hear what you think 🙏🙏

Amr26 days ago

music right after the Quran? That's really disrespectful please show some respect for the Quran

youssef.26 days ago

Dude thank you so much for the project, inshallah will be trying it, very beneficial 👏🏽

Tahir26 days ago

This is 🔥 allahuma bareek. Can I integrate it into a flutter app?

dᜰc26 days ago

u cooked ngl

yazin26 days ago

👨‍🍳

Imran Qureshi26 days ago

Yes! I used this model too for offline which has been very performant:

Zan26 days ago

Dm me!

Mrtb26 days ago

Don't you find it a shame to put music on a Quran video

TwinJet26 days ago

try this brother

yazin26 days ago

nice, do you know what model it uses for the phoneme detection?

Ali S26 days ago

Salams I've been using your repo and it's great mashallah but looks like your move to Qur'an Lab's Zipformer model makes the licencing more restrictive for serving applications.

yazin26 days ago

Salam, yes you're right. I didn't think that'd be an issue since all the apps I'd come across that wanted this functionality were free anyway but I see your point. I've kept the prev fast conformer model on the repo partly for this reason

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Really push the boundaries. And people will resonate with it if they're supposed to resonate with it." He describes creativity as catching waves: "We're really talking about magic. The universe conspiring on our behalf if we let it. Being in this flow of catching these waves that anyone can catch. If you're trying to catch it, you're open to it, you see it coming, you take off on every chance you get. And sometimes the ride happens. It's remarkable how it happens. It doesn't come from preconception. It's not an idea. It's through the doing." Rubin explains how ideas exist in the universe: "Have you ever had that experience where you have an idea for something, you don't do it, and then six months later you see someone else has done it? It's not because they took your idea. It's that it's time for that, and you can act on it or not. The best artists are the ones who have the best antenna for this material that's available. It's coming through. The best comedians see the best jokes. They see them coming. We all live in the same world; the way you see it, you have the best joke because you see it best." He closes with how to stay open: "If we listen to what's going on around us, you can overhear a conversation in a coffee shop, and it is the setup for an idea you're working on. You hear a phrase you don't commonly use. My experience is: when you are open and looking for these clues in the world, they're happening all the time. And they're happening often right when you need them."

Rick Rubin: "Make what you love, not what you think people will like" "If you want to live in a creative way, which will benefit everything in your life, be a better person in your family, do a better job starting a new business, it's all the same. I don't really know anything about music. It's more a way of looking at the world and wanting it to be the best it could possibly be. And doing whatever it takes to be the best it could possibly be." Rubin shares how his career happened: "From the beginning, I never thought any of the things I'm doing were possible or realistic. I just did things out of the love of them, thinking I would have real jobs. That my passion would be my hobby, and I'd have a job to support my hobby. And it just magically turned out different than that without me knowing it was possible." On why some things connect and others don't: "The stars line up at certain times for certain things to happen. Sometimes you can make something great, and it doesn't connect for whatever reason. Sometimes you make two things you think are the two best things you've ever made. One of them connects with the world. One of them doesn't. And it might not have anything to do with what's in the art. It might be that it came out the same day as something else. Or there was a bigger story at the time. There's so much to it that we don't understand." He continues: "All we can do is make something good and put it out and hope for the best. That's all there is. We never know why things work. Even if you make a piece of art and it works, you may not know why." On talent versus work ethic: "There are a lot of talented people who never make it because they don't have the work ethic. It's not just talent, talent's a piece. And you could argue for some people, the work ethic trumps the talent." Rubin explains what real collaboration is: "Having worked with a lot of bands, I see there's often this friction where people are trying to get their idea in. That's not a collaboration. A real collaboration is when everyone who's there is working together towards whatever is the best thing for the whole. Whether it's your idea or someone else's idea, it doesn't matter. If you're invested in the collaboration, you want the best idea to win. You don't want your idea to win." On what makes art great: "What makes it great is the personal. With all of its imperfections. With all of its quirkiness. That's what makes it great. How you see the world that's different from how everyone else sees the world. That's why you're an artist. That's your purpose in sharing your work with the world." He warns against being derivative: "There are these derivative voices where they're finding what they think other people want to hear, and they start saying it because they've heard other people say similar things that are now successful. Even if they have some short-term success doing that, it's not revolutionary. It doesn't change the world. It doesn't last. The people who you first see and you might not like that you come to like because you don't understand them at first, those are the ones that change the world. Those are the ones you dedicate your fandom to for life." Rubin shares his philosophy on taste: "You can't second-guess your own taste for what someone else is going to like. We're not smart enough to know what someone else is going to like. To make something thinking, 'Well, I don't really like it, but I think this group of people will like it,' it's a bad way to play the game of music or art. You have to do what's personal to you. Take it as far as you can go. Really push the boundaries. And people will resonate with it if they're supposed to resonate with it." He describes creativity as catching waves: "We're really talking about magic. The universe conspiring on our behalf if we let it. Being in this flow of catching these waves that anyone can catch. If you're trying to catch it, you're open to it, you see it coming, you take off on every chance you get. And sometimes the ride happens. It's remarkable how it happens. It doesn't come from preconception. It's not an idea. It's through the doing." Rubin explains how ideas exist in the universe: "Have you ever had that experience where you have an idea for something, you don't do it, and then six months later you see someone else has done it? It's not because they took your idea. It's that it's time for that, and you can act on it or not. The best artists are the ones who have the best antenna for this material that's available. It's coming through. The best comedians see the best jokes. They see them coming. We all live in the same world; the way you see it, you have the best joke because you see it best." He closes with how to stay open: "If we listen to what's going on around us, you can overhear a conversation in a coffee shop, and it is the setup for an idea you're working on. You hear a phrase you don't commonly use. My experience is: when you are open and looking for these clues in the world, they're happening all the time. And they're happening often right when you need them."

Jaynit

109,609 views • 6 months ago

We can now automate the commerce process." Eddy Lazzarin ☀️ on what's actually solved, and what isn't: "You tell it a thing, it kind of knows what you wanna do and it can map that to some tools, to some networks and to some services. And that part being solved is incredibly exciting." "The rest is kind of complicated. If you're gonna have a so-called agent engage in commerce for you, you need some story around authority and delegation. How do I prove to someone that this agent actually represents me?"

We can now automate the commerce process." Eddy Lazzarin ☀️ on what's actually solved, and what isn't: "You tell it a thing, it kind of knows what you wanna do and it can map that to some tools, to some networks and to some services. And that part being solved is incredibly exciting." "The rest is kind of complicated. If you're gonna have a so-called agent engage in commerce for you, you need some story around authority and delegation. How do I prove to someone that this agent actually represents me?"

a16z crypto

14,763 views • 6 months ago

John Ternus, Apple's incoming CEO, on the Steve Jobs story that shapes every product decision at Apple: Ternus recalls the moment in his own words: "I think you know one of my favorite stories... It was about Steve when he was moving a piece of furniture, a chest of drawers and pulled it away from the wall and looked at the back and was just reflecting on, you know, the carpenter had made it beautiful. It finished the back as beautifully as the rest of it, even though nobody was going to see it." For Ternus, the story is a working philosophy: "I think about that all the time because I think that perfectly exemplifies what we do here." He points to Apple's most affordable Mac as proof that this standard applies across the entire product line, not just the premium tier: "We've been talking about the MacBook Neo. I mean, here is our most affordable Mac we've ever made, and it's absolutely beautiful. And if you open it up and look inside, it's just as beautiful, right?" Ternus continues: "That's true on an iPhone Pro Max or a MacBook Pro or an iPad Pro, but it's also true on a MacBook Neo. That's what we do." The takeaway is a clear signal about the direction Apple is heading under his leadership: "It's just been really good to kind of think about that and reflect on that because that is probably the best kind of clue as to where we're going in the future is we're going to keep pushing in that same way." The lesson? Excellence isn't about what people see, it's about what you refuse to compromise on, even when no one's looking. That principle shaped Apple under Jobs and Cook, and it's the standard Ternus is committing to carry forward.

John Ternus, Apple's incoming CEO, on the Steve Jobs story that shapes every product decision at Apple: Ternus recalls the moment in his own words: "I think you know one of my favorite stories... It was about Steve when he was moving a piece of furniture, a chest of drawers and pulled it away from the wall and looked at the back and was just reflecting on, you know, the carpenter had made it beautiful. It finished the back as beautifully as the rest of it, even though nobody was going to see it." For Ternus, the story is a working philosophy: "I think about that all the time because I think that perfectly exemplifies what we do here." He points to Apple's most affordable Mac as proof that this standard applies across the entire product line, not just the premium tier: "We've been talking about the MacBook Neo. I mean, here is our most affordable Mac we've ever made, and it's absolutely beautiful. And if you open it up and look inside, it's just as beautiful, right?" Ternus continues: "That's true on an iPhone Pro Max or a MacBook Pro or an iPad Pro, but it's also true on a MacBook Neo. That's what we do." The takeaway is a clear signal about the direction Apple is heading under his leadership: "It's just been really good to kind of think about that and reflect on that because that is probably the best kind of clue as to where we're going in the future is we're going to keep pushing in that same way." The lesson? Excellence isn't about what people see, it's about what you refuse to compromise on, even when no one's looking. That principle shaped Apple under Jobs and Cook, and it's the standard Ternus is committing to carry forward.

Big Brain Business

164,871 views • 6 months ago

Steve Jobs on how he learned to run a company: Question: "You're 21. You're a big success. You know, you've just sort of done it by the seat of your pants. You don't have any particular training in this. How do you learn to run a company?" Steve Jobs: "You know, throughout the years in business, I found something, which was that I always ask why you do things. And the answers you invariably get are, oh, that's just the way it's done. Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks about things very deeply in business. That's what I found. I'll give you an example. When we were building our Apple I's in the garage, we knew exactly what they cost. When we got into a factory in the Apple II days, the accounting had this notion of a standard cost, where you'd kind of set a standard cost and at the end of a quarter you'd adjust it with a variance. And I kept asking, well, why do we do this? And the answer was, well, that's just the way it's done. And after about six months of digging into this, what I realized was the reason you do it is because you don't really have good enough controls to know how much it costs. So you guess, and then you fix your guess at the end of the quarter. And the reason you don't know how much it costs is because your information systems aren't good enough. But nobody said it that way. And so later on, when we designed this automated factory for Macintosh, we were able to get rid of a lot of these antiquated concepts and know exactly what something cost to the second. So in business, a lot of things are, I call it folklore. They're done because they were done yesterday and the day before. And so what that means is if you're willing to sort of ask a lot of questions and think about things and work really hard, you can learn business pretty fast. It's not the hardest thing in the world. It's not rocket science. It's not rocket science."

Steve Jobs on how he learned to run a company: Question: "You're 21. You're a big success. You know, you've just sort of done it by the seat of your pants. You don't have any particular training in this. How do you learn to run a company?" Steve Jobs: "You know, throughout the years in business, I found something, which was that I always ask why you do things. And the answers you invariably get are, oh, that's just the way it's done. Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks about things very deeply in business. That's what I found. I'll give you an example. When we were building our Apple I's in the garage, we knew exactly what they cost. When we got into a factory in the Apple II days, the accounting had this notion of a standard cost, where you'd kind of set a standard cost and at the end of a quarter you'd adjust it with a variance. And I kept asking, well, why do we do this? And the answer was, well, that's just the way it's done. And after about six months of digging into this, what I realized was the reason you do it is because you don't really have good enough controls to know how much it costs. So you guess, and then you fix your guess at the end of the quarter. And the reason you don't know how much it costs is because your information systems aren't good enough. But nobody said it that way. And so later on, when we designed this automated factory for Macintosh, we were able to get rid of a lot of these antiquated concepts and know exactly what something cost to the second. So in business, a lot of things are, I call it folklore. They're done because they were done yesterday and the day before. And so what that means is if you're willing to sort of ask a lot of questions and think about things and work really hard, you can learn business pretty fast. It's not the hardest thing in the world. It's not rocket science. It's not rocket science."

Founder Mode

32,346 views • 8 months ago

Jack Dorsey on becoming a better storyteller: "I found myself very early on thinking about something like thinking about this early idea for Twitter and saying to myself, I could build this awesome. You have those shower-like moments, or you're walking at midnight in some town in New York City, and you've got these amazing brand ideas. And then you start thinking, well, I could really start doing this if only X and if I had this person or if this technology existed or if this happened or this happened. And what I realized was that I was constantly making excuses for not working on it. And then the window had passed, and then I couldn't do anything. So I think it's really, really important to write it out or to draw it out or to code it. But you need to get it out of your head. And the reason you have to get it out of your head is that you need to be able to see it on a surface that is not in your mind. And once you can see it, and once you can step back from it, then you can also decide this passes my filter, my constraints, so maybe I can show it and share it with some other people. And then they will be like that's the stupidest idea ever and or that's somewhat interesting, but maybe this and this and this. So the sooner you can do that, then you have a lot of momentum around it, and you can really decide if you want to commit to it and work on it more or put it on the shelf for a later date. And the realization that I think everyone needs to have about that latter option, putting it on the shelf, is that you can come back to it and it will surface back up in another piece of work or another idea at some point in your life. So having that ability to close off a chapter and move on is really, really important. You can't have all these open threads, and that's what I realized I was doing. And that also encouraged me to really write more and to really think about what's the story? How are people coming to this? And like when I show my friends this, how are they going to react and I would write it down. I would actually treat it like a play. And when I realized that I was writing plays, I read a lot more plays for style and for substance and for technique and I think it's really good. I think there is another company that I have always looked towards for inspiration and I know a number of people in this room probably have a similar company in mind, which is Apple. Apple, I think, is run like a theater company. It has a great sense of pacing, has a great sense of story and has a great sense of execution and it's all about event-driven, it's all stage-driven, the stage being a billboard or the stage being a keynote or the stage being a product launch. All of it has a very, very cohesive end-to-end story. I mean you think about what happened when Steve Jobs came back to the company. The first thing he did was kill every product line the company was working on. And for two years,rs they had no product on the market whatsoever. All they had were a bunch of posters all around the world with Steve Jobs' heroes, and it said, think different. And it was just focused on bringing up the brand and making people aware of the brand again and how the brand is aligning to this particular feeling and story. And then they came out with the iMac and then built iTunes and then the iPod, and they realized that, wait a minute, people are carrying music on their phones now, so we better build a phone, an iPhone. And so this unfolding of the plot and the epic story has been very, very interesting to watch, especially if you look back to that time when he came back to the company. So I've learned a lot from that company and other companies that operate in a similar fashion."

Founder Mode

107,213 views • 10 months ago

What is a software factory? It is your workflow, your skills, and your domain knowledge, saved in files that the agent reads so the whole process is productized Think about the last app you built. You typed what you wanted, and the agent built it. You did not like it, so you made changes. You shipped it to Vercel, or you kept going. A factory puts structure on each of those steps. At each step you ask how to get the most from the model, and how to move faster. That is the conveyor belt. You ship quickly, and the quality stays the same. Mine is 5 md files. It works in Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor, because it does not depend on the model or the tool. Build your own.

What is a software factory? It is your workflow, your skills, and your domain knowledge, saved in files that the agent reads so the whole process is productized Think about the last app you built. You typed what you wanted, and the agent built it. You did not like it, so you made changes. You shipped it to Vercel, or you kept going. A factory puts structure on each of those steps. At each step you ask how to get the most from the model, and how to move faster. That is the conveyor belt. You ship quickly, and the quality stays the same. Mine is 5 md files. It works in Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor, because it does not depend on the model or the tool. Build your own.

The Startup Ideas Podcast (SIP) 🧃

17,326 views • 1 month ago

Mikel Arteta on Ezri Konsa and Gabriel Magalhães's defensive partnership: "They have a lot of quality. They have so much physicality. I mean, to constantly deal with that kind of balls that we predicted, 50 balls in the air, and I don't know how many we had, but it will be really close to that. "It's not only that, it's what happens after that ball as well, and the consequences to that and to be on it constantly because every action is at the limit is very, very tough. "And when you think that's done, then Chris Wood comes in, Hudson-Odoi comes in, and then you start to have a different problem. Now you are man-to-man with the 2 centre-backs, which is a different element of risk. But that's the Premier League, that's the quality of it, and that's the best league in the world."

Mikel Arteta on Ezri Konsa and Gabriel Magalhães's defensive partnership: "They have a lot of quality. They have so much physicality. I mean, to constantly deal with that kind of balls that we predicted, 50 balls in the air, and I don't know how many we had, but it will be really close to that. "It's not only that, it's what happens after that ball as well, and the consequences to that and to be on it constantly because every action is at the limit is very, very tough. "And when you think that's done, then Chris Wood comes in, Hudson-Odoi comes in, and then you start to have a different problem. Now you are man-to-man with the 2 centre-backs, which is a different element of risk. But that's the Premier League, that's the quality of it, and that's the best league in the world."

Connor Humm

34,713 views • 6 days ago

Now that I am home and have access to my files I decided to do a quick test with one of my Vtubing avatars. It works way better with my larger iPad Pro (less crashing/more memory and more screen space) compared to the mini so I did want to bring that up. Importing the file over as GLB was more stable than just OBJ plus it kept the color info from the previous texture. I texture all my avatars on substance painter but have been looking at an alternative when I am out and about that is not on the computer and this actually hits all the right "wants". Adding a quick video of the way the app works for me. I like that it has layers, I can alter my brushes and even add stabilization when I am drawing (which I use that extensively on procreate so that was a huge plus). The stamp tools will come in handy as well but did not show it on this video. The file itself is imported as "one mesh" but each part is treated as their own separate piece which I show in the video. I do the same thing on substance painter making it really easy for me to texture. The app then exports the texture out for each object which is the same way I do so on substance. Overall I am extremely impressed with the work Sparseal has done on this application and see how useful this will be for my current work flow of texturing. I for one love the ability to be "portable" which is a big reason I sculpt so much with Nomad Sculpt on the iPad. Having the freedom to do your work away from a desk and if you feel like doing it outside is probable why I yearn for iPad apps so much like so. Give this app a look, it is free to try on the App Store (It is $19 to be able to export, but a one time buy). It is called "Wafer" for the iPad. I already use CozyBlanket from the same creator to do re topology so I expected this level of fantastic with this current app.

Now that I am home and have access to my files I decided to do a quick test with one of my Vtubing avatars. It works way better with my larger iPad Pro (less crashing/more memory and more screen space) compared to the mini so I did want to bring that up. Importing the file over as GLB was more stable than just OBJ plus it kept the color info from the previous texture. I texture all my avatars on substance painter but have been looking at an alternative when I am out and about that is not on the computer and this actually hits all the right "wants". Adding a quick video of the way the app works for me. I like that it has layers, I can alter my brushes and even add stabilization when I am drawing (which I use that extensively on procreate so that was a huge plus). The stamp tools will come in handy as well but did not show it on this video. The file itself is imported as "one mesh" but each part is treated as their own separate piece which I show in the video. I do the same thing on substance painter making it really easy for me to texture. The app then exports the texture out for each object which is the same way I do so on substance. Overall I am extremely impressed with the work Sparseal has done on this application and see how useful this will be for my current work flow of texturing. I for one love the ability to be "portable" which is a big reason I sculpt so much with Nomad Sculpt on the iPad. Having the freedom to do your work away from a desk and if you feel like doing it outside is probable why I yearn for iPad apps so much like so. Give this app a look, it is free to try on the App Store (It is $19 to be able to export, but a one time buy). It is called "Wafer" for the iPad. I already use CozyBlanket from the same creator to do re topology so I expected this level of fantastic with this current app.

Val / LatinVixen ➡️ Megaplex

17,469 views • 7 months ago