craigbaker

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by craigbaker 4y ago
Fingerspelling is just a path for borrowing individual words from English. It is not a part of native ASL vocabulary or grammar; that is to say, ASL does not consist of fingerspelled English sentences.
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by craigbaker 4y ago
I looked into this a bit for classic Macs (8MHz 68000), and found that they didn't have the computing power to complete a handshake before the timeout was up. I could be wrong though, and maybe some faster implementation is possible...
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by craigbaker 4y ago
SEEKING WORK | USA, Eastern timezone | remote only | part-time Technologies: Python, NumPy, Torch, C++, Linux I specialize in speech and audio processing, but I'm open to a wide variety of back-end work. I like short-term or intermitte
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by craigbaker 4y ago
It is a common noun-forming suffix in Nahuatl. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-tl
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by craigbaker 5y ago
All the lentils from the supermarket that I've tried (and all legumes for that matter) have successfully sprouted: brown, pardina, black (beluga), and red. They're also good raw when sprouted, but not pardina, which I found ended
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by craigbaker 5y ago
Some of the biomass is also washed away and becomes marine sediments, which can store a significant amount of carbon. https://cbmjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13021...
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by craigbaker 5y ago
Both keyboards do exist. The Cherokee layout is included in OSX and iOS, while Navajo is available for download. You can find pictures of Cherokee keycaps in use, and I think there were also typewriters and certainly printed type in Cheroke
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by craigbaker 7y ago
Try reading a good text multiple times, even to the point of memorizing it. Especially in the past, many cultures viewed memorization as essential to truly engaging with a text. Another way to engage more deeply with a good, classic text is
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by craigbaker 9y ago
Flour often contains eggs from insects like flour weevils, and if you let flour sit in the cupboard too long they'll hatch. But I would be disgusted to find 50 whole adult weevils per 5 lb. bag, on average. Maybe they're counting
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by craigbaker 10y ago
Is this really speech recognition from raw waveforms? It looks like they're extracting MFCC features from the raw audio, and using that as input to the neural network. I thought that the point of WaveNet was that it took the raw wavefo
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by craigbaker 10y ago
I don't think the Confucius quote is real, but there are a few relevant ones: "Not being angry at someone who doesn't know, isn't this a Gentleman?" 人不知而不愠，不亦君子乎？ "Ji Wenzi thought three times before acting. Co
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by craigbaker 12y ago
Even after reading the paper, I'm not convinced of their hypothesis that the "phonological level of structure has not yet emerged", though the language surely sounds unusual and interesting. They concentrate on variation with
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by craigbaker 12y ago
Sandler et al.'s paper http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3250231/ referenced in the article clears things up. The title: "The gradual emergence of phonological form in a new language"