Caligula

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by Caligula 14y ago
Jeff Hawkins who also founded Palm is a cofounder of Numenta. He started the company after writing 'On Intelligence'. He does some great lectures that are on youtube. This seems really cool, I signed up for the beta. I hope I am selected
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Make Leisure Suit Larry come again(kickstarter.com)
1 points by Caligula 14y ago|0 comments
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by Caligula 14y ago
Its not just GMAIL. Google analytics is painfully ugly. The first screen before showed a list of all the sites and traffic. Now it shows just the list of accounts. Its awful. There is no way anymore to use the classic design. Also, onc
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by Caligula 14y ago
Awesome idea to help get dogs adopted. I hope it is a huge success.
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by Caligula 14y ago
I tried google plus for the second time since it came out today after some person who I did not think I know added me to a circle. So I then spent five minutes in frustration figuring out that private messaging people is terribly unintuiti
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by Caligula 15y ago
It's not just consultants. They connect you with industry experts. One of the biggest spammers on linkedin I find are these types of companies looking for domain experts.
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by Caligula 15y ago
This is a really cool idea. I tried to book Matt or Justin saturday for an hour but any would be worth that small price. I bet if you had pg people would pay 1k+ per hour.
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by Caligula 15y ago
Wow it has been years since I saw generation5. It used to have the best ai learning materials and a good forum about eight years ago. The site seems to be down for me however.
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by Caligula 15y ago
I needed to build a audio corpus to train acoustic models on. It actually worked pretty good. I was able to build up about 100 hours worth. It was unbelievably tedious because I had to verify the audio even after I used amazon turk a sec
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by Caligula 15y ago
Wow this is expensive. Over a dollar a word. "what time is it" costs 6$. I actually looked into their other company, voice123 to do some audio corpus building for a speech recognition project but it was way cheaper(though painful) to just
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Apple 'determined' to improve conditions at plants in China(cnn.com)
2 points by Caligula 15y ago|1 comments
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by Caligula 15y ago
Who else reading this suspected Techcrunch fund was an investor in the company who made this app? Its just that when Techcrunch fawns over a todo app, it makes me suspect something is up. I am sure nothing is, and its a great app, but Techc
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by Caligula 15y ago
They thanked him by the millions of dollars in licensing and fees paid. He certainly took the money he rightfully earned :)
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by Caligula 15y ago
Fairly obvious reasons. -price,time,skills They do not do it intentionally. It just is not worth it, or possible.
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by Caligula 15y ago
I am curious why Dropbox isnt in the case studies list. They seem to be the biggest success of note that is entirely built on s3.
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by Caligula 15y ago
Sigh. Another useless fucking article is #1 after 1 hour. It is the same tired discussion repeated ad nausea.
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Google Says SEO Is Not Spam(searchengineland.com)
1 points by Caligula 15y ago|0 comments
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by Caligula 15y ago
This is very sad. John was a brilliant man who always made himself available to not only his students but random people(myself) emailing him for research advice.
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by Caligula 15y ago
SRI is a great organization. They make the best language modeling tool srilm that is available to developers http://www.speech.sri.com/projects/srilm/ I am curious if, and what its role in SIRI was.?
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by Caligula 15y ago
Can you list some of the patterns you encountered?
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Tesla, SpaceX and PayPal Co-Founder Elon Musk Responds to Reddit IAmA Questions.(youtube.com)
14 points by Caligula 15y ago|0 comments
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by Caligula 15y ago
One of the tremendous values of being in a masters program is having access to JSTOR and all the other journal sources. Before I would email the professor and request a copy, usually they would oblige.
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by Caligula 15y ago
Flagging as spam, the full first page says requires silverlight. Most people won't even be able to view the article.
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by Caligula 15y ago
Not a big surprise. There are more opportunities for hi tech startups in the US. Also, health care is not as big an issue for young males.
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by Caligula 15y ago
There was an open source app that used sphinx to filter for the word twitter and mute it called twitterkiller. Shame it disappeared but it was listed at: http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/wiki/sphinxinaction
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by Caligula 15y ago
It mentions that they are sort of forcing bond holders to accept a lesser payment. That seems like a kind of default.
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Face Time with Trevor Blackwell(cualumni.carleton.ca)
2 points by Caligula 15y ago|0 comments
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by Caligula 15y ago
They are getting a huge amount of free press. I have read at least two other stories and seen it on tv. That, combined with customers who approve of the ban will significantly outweigh the losses from kids/young families.
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by Caligula 15y ago
I worked briefly at Nortel. It makes me sad reading these articles. Nortel was a great company that still could have been successful today were it not for terrible corrupt high level management.
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by Caligula 15y ago
Curious which ones and how? I wonder if this is the tenacity of founders that pg speaks of.

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