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   by ar7hur 12y ago

   A good reminder that an "acquisition proposal" without any indication of price is not an acquisition proposal. Asking so much information without any such indication is just crazy. I strongly recommend this excellent post from Jus
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   by ar7hur 12y ago

   FYI in Clojure (with a live demo): http://duckling-lib.org
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   by ar7hur 12y ago

   I appreciate you sharing your experience, this is something we founders are not enough prepared to go through. Two comments IMHO: - Would you have said yes and looked into the details of their offer, you would have realized that the $12M ar
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   When AI Experts Have “It's Alive” Moments(technologyreview.com)

   2 points by ar7hur 12y ago|1 comments
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   by ar7hur 12y ago

   I love this kind of service, but extensibility is probably the most important feature and unless I'm wrong, your platform is not open (yet). We developers all use different services. Hubot is extremely simple (based on regular expressi
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   by ar7hur 12y ago

   OK, now I'm curious. Please Show HN your photo-sharing app!
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   by ar7hur 12y ago

   Fascinating. And 45 years later, here we are building photo-sharing apps.
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   Wit.ai (YC W14) is hiring software engineers in the Bay Area(wit.ai)

   1 points by ar7hur 12y ago
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   by ar7hur 12y ago

   Thanks for these excellent remarks. We differentiate ourselves from the Android Speech API in several ways: 1) As a developer, with Google you have no way to customize the speech engine by providing your language model. Wit.ai builds a spec
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    by ar7hur 12y ago

    My personal definition of a seed round is a round where you don't give up any board seat or special power to investors. After a seed round you should basically work as usual (product, users, product, users, ... nothing else). By this d
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    by ar7hur 12y ago

    Yes open instances are free and unlimited. This is the cornerstone of our approach: we want developers to work together and share their training data. Natural Language is very hard and we need to join forces to crack it. Thanks for the fe
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    Wit.ai (YC W14) raises $3M seed round from Andreessen Horowitz(wit.ai)

    149 points by ar7hur 12y ago|28 comments
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    by ar7hur 12y ago

    Time is diffmatic.
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    by ar7hur 12y ago

    Most commenters here find these demos very underwhelming and I must agree with them. Well known open source NLP packages like Stanford NLP or NLTK do much better on these (very academic) tasks. I think the problem is that Watson's demo
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    by ar7hur 12y ago

    OK, maybe unique was a strong word. But banks are starting to use speaker ID to log in to mobile apps, so the signature is, let's say, unique enough for practical applications.
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    by ar7hur 12y ago

    Voices do have a unique signature. The technology do identify it is called Speaker Identification. See for instance http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/whisperid > Each person's voice is different
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    by ar7hur 12y ago

    The PIA Chrome extension enables you to open and manage some sites with speech. It was done at a hackathon using wit.ai http://getpia.com
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    by ar7hur 12y ago

    Thanks for sharing, nice work! Quick question the Julius website says there is no English acoustic model available [1], how did you solve this? Do you provide a default acoustic model? [1] http://julius.sourceforge.jp/en_ind
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    by ar7hur 12y ago

    All my Palo Alto neighbors who over water their lawns everyday surely don't look very desperate... (which makes me desperate)
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    by ar7hur 12y ago

    No, PG built that not by giving advice to founders, but by selecting them.
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    by ar7hur 12y ago

    Haha, nice example! If you want to do this you'd better use our full platform Wit.ai [1], that will arbitrate competition between the datetime entity (`tomorrow at three`) and the number_of_person entity! [1] https://wit.ai
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    by ar7hur 12y ago

    Hey sorry little downtime on the demo site :) it's back now
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    by ar7hur 12y ago

    This is our first experiment with Rust on Raspberry Pi: https://wit.ai/blog/2014/09/12/office-automation-with-raspbe... We'll share more as we progress.
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    by ar7hur 12y ago

    Demo site updated, now shows partial parses.
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    by ar7hur 12y ago

    We just updated the demo. Now you can try "see you tomorrow evening at 6" and see the partial parse.
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    by ar7hur 12y ago

    SUTime is very good, like all the StanfordNLP stuff. We chose to do Duckling because: - To my knowledge SUTime only supports English - We wanted something that's easy to extend. SUTime is somewhat hard to extend, especially if you are
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    by ar7hur 12y ago

    Absolutely. We are working on something called "assumptions" where Duckling informs you about what assumptions it made to produce the result (like: time was ambiguous, I chose PM), and then you can change these and get a new resul
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    by ar7hur 12y ago

    I'm very excited about supporting Scottish colloquial expressions! Working on it now, thanks :)
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    by ar7hur 12y ago

    You're right, fixing it now.
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    by ar7hur 12y ago

    Ha! I was waiting for somebody to ask :) The original name was Picsou (Uncle Scrooge's name in French) because the parsing strategy is super greedy. We liked the name, but when we decided to open source it we thought it may be hard to