brothercolor

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by brothercolor 8y ago
Agreed -- as a Deaf person who uses visual languages to communicate, it's allowed me to actually begin to express myself using a set of pseudo-language visual elements. Some of them roughly map over to ASL expressions; I am looking for
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by brothercolor 8y ago
Related: Bitcoin is [x] distributed [x] secure but NOT [] fast. It is a global clock that self-adjusts to tick roughly every 10 minutes, and that tick is used to extend an immutable ledger by adding verified transactions to it. The tick-tim
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by brothercolor 9y ago
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by brothercolor 10y ago
Bartleby the Scrivener is good too. The hikkomori prefer not to, as well.
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by brothercolor 10y ago
Good point, maybe its the sound processing areas. A greater question is whether areas of the brain atrophy at all due to less stimuli coming through a specific organ. All evidence I've seen point to brain plasticity; that areas used fo
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by brothercolor 10y ago
I hear you! I'm in the same boat, I shouldn't point fingers. I'll do what I can.
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by brothercolor 10y ago
The internet is what makes Silicon Valley go round. Everyone, including Sam Altman, needs to be an activist. Asking for someone else to take point on something so fundamental is like asking Natives to take point on water prot-- wait.
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by brothercolor 10y ago
Interesting idea on using ML to help non-signers understand sign language. In this thread's context, the ML is designed to help people hear better. In visual contexts (which sign language lives in) would this hypothetical ML help low v
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by brothercolor 10y ago
The deeply robust elder Deaf community itself is proof that the brain tissue loss described in the article is probably not due to the hearing loss itself. I have never heard of a culturally Deaf individual experiencing this kind of degenera
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by brothercolor 10y ago
Neat! The audience for the tool seems to be someone who can hear, though. Has there been any awareness or discussion of those who cannot hear? Of those that cannot hear, a large majority use captioning or sign language. Video in a PIP mode,
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by brothercolor 10y ago
There have been debates among those in the Deaf community on how best to make their videos accessible. Many in the Deaf community routinely add image descriptions and other kinds of captioning/access to their videos and images, usually