eddigo

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by eddigo 9y ago
I've been working with speech systems on and off since 1998. They're all pretty bad in my opinion. They're not even almost there yet. I remember studies from years back that speech is far lower throughput than typing for
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by eddigo 9y ago
If you're a competent programmer who uses these terms and phrases, then indignation is not an unreasonable reaction. However, I think it's a completely valid article if you've ever experienced the interactions between an unpr
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by eddigo 9y ago
When I ditched cable TV about 7 years ago I lost track of these outlets. I can't say I've missed them. I occasionally open cnn.com if I'm bored, mostly because it's quick to type. I have a (physical) subscription to th
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by eddigo 9y ago
Don't get up. I'd gladly show myself out.
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by eddigo 9y ago
Having been a "salaried contractor" for my second job, I learned to avoid those positions like the plague. When customers stop buying the company's software, guess who's the first to get the ax? Also, you get to sit by
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by eddigo 9y ago
I interviewed there in 2012. The engineer called me, did his little talk and we jumped into the questions. His first question was the subset sum problem. The literal problem. It wasn't even couched in a practical application. So I
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by eddigo 9y ago
And I would bet in a large subset of those cases it's because the person implementing those tests and the person interpreting the results aren't the same. And that neither understands basic statistical hypothesis testing.