blahedo

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YouTube introduces automatic captions for deaf viewers(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by blahedo 17y ago|0 comments
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by blahedo 17y ago
I do wish it were a little shorter, or at least that the "why lawyers need this" section came sooner---I think (fear) much of the target audience will glaze over well before the end.
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by blahedo 17y ago
Yes, yes, a million times yes. I'm an avowed chalkboard lecturer, for all the reasons the poster mentions in her essay, and also because it lets me engage the students to a much greater degree. I can elicit responses or even whole examp
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by blahedo 17y ago
imdb?
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by blahedo 17y ago
Related, although Milgram was showing that people can explain away their own complicity by being within a chain of authority, while this experiment teases apart the perceptions of the complicit (or non-complicit) agent.
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by blahedo 17y ago
Except that net neutrality is how it is now . Nobody's talking about imposing new rules or bureaucracy.
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by blahedo 17y ago
Because these students may be learning qualitatively differently, meaning that leaving them in middle-road classes will not teach them as effectively. And more importantly, because leaving gifted kids in unchallenging classes often causes t
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by blahedo 17y ago
Arguing about "RAND(1,100)..." is beside the point. First of all, adding two-digit numbers is _not_ something that's trivially easy for a lot of humans. But more importantly, it's not leveraging any level of textual natural language under
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by blahedo 17y ago
Heh. The main style for the site was set up for my blog, which may be the one actual legitimate use of Comic sans. Then I got lazy and didn't bother separately styling the rest. :)
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by blahedo 17y ago
Yeah, the problem with most captchas is that they're visual and they're working in an area where computers are starting to get really good. The main thing that computers are still pretty bad at is understanding completely arbitrary text, s
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by blahedo 17y ago
Keep in mind that to someone totally untrained in science, "a scientist says" is not that different from "a priest says" in terms of asking them to take something on faith. As level of scientific training increases, this changes somewhat,
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by blahedo 17y ago
The best part is the claim that most people _still_ won't call, which I'm quite prepared to believe, although there are other hypotheses that would explain his experience. I wonder if one could devise a way to break out the number of peopl
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by blahedo 17y ago
Nothing revolutionary here, in that this is what we've been expecting to come for a while. My main critique is that in the article and more explicitly in the video, they make the claim that in order to build a network of the fast-charging
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China's long-range electric car(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by blahedo 17y ago|1 comments
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by blahedo 17y ago
And another important point: There's a lot of momentum (possibly misguided, but it's there) toward "paperless" everything right now, but the problem is that you can't just draw all over a PDF. Rather, you can draw all over things, but it
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by blahedo 17y ago
Note that anyone can download libraries for XCode that let you compile and simulate iPhone apps---but you must have their dev kit to actually transfer this over the wire to your iPhone. And the dev kit is $99. There is, supposedly, another
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by blahedo 17y ago
This is really reassuring. Without being particularly anti-vaccine overall, I have some reservations about what is essentially a 1.0 product—and with the mechanism of the shot being essentially a weak version of a disease that we admit is
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by blahedo 17y ago
Speaking as someone who's been meaning to read up on Scala for a while, I found it worthwhile (though I could have read a transcript faster...) Here's the breakdown for those who might want to skip around: 0m-15m Introduction and Twitter's