emursebrian

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by emursebrian 2y ago
Using an AI for A/B testing. Hmmmm. At the end of the day, the AI model would produce a prediction of what your modeled users would prefer. The quality of the results would depend a lot on how accurately your users were modeled. I coul
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by emursebrian 2y ago
Kaoss Pad! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaoss_Pad
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by emursebrian 2y ago
It still is.
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by emursebrian 2y ago
Do other browser vendors add special cases in their codebase for specific sites? It seems like a really bad idea. Since around 2020, I've been working on an app that makes heavy use of audio playback and recording. I feel like I am f
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by emursebrian 2y ago
Thanks for checking.
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Tell HN: iOS 17.4 Breaks Web Inspectors in BrowserStack
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by emursebrian 2y ago
It looks nice. If WebGPU is adopted by more browsers, it will probably be pretty useful for doing real-time visualizations of audio. In Emurse, we render waveform, and also pitch plots of audio recordings using canvas. It's pretty fas
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by emursebrian 2y ago
WebGPU only works in Chromium based browsers.
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by emursebrian 3y ago
I've never had trouble finding work except right after graduating in the early 2000's. My employment has been with software consulting practices, though I have worked for some manufacturing companies as well. Hiring managers gene
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by emursebrian 3y ago
Yes, it was done with Grindr in 2019. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/27/us-pushes-chinese-owner-of-g...
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by emursebrian 3y ago
Probably high altitude clouds. An eclipse isn't going to make clouds vanish that are the result of a larger weather pattern. The air cools down so the warm moist air settles as it cools. As a result, clouds stop developing.
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by emursebrian 3y ago
They're native here. I've been trying to get some trees going for a few years. So far, my trees have been slow to grow and I've lost most of what I planted. I've planted a half dozen clones from a few different trees ba
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by emursebrian 3y ago
I am working on my second startup. The first startup was bootstrapped hardware company. We released a few electronic devices. I worked on the first product part-time. Just before it was released, I decided to leave my job and work on the
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by emursebrian 3y ago
Last year, I traveled to Colombia and spent a couple of weeks there. To brush up on my Spanish before the trip, I hired a tutor that lived near where I was staying. Besides being tutored, I was able to get suggestions on getting around, pl
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by emursebrian 3y ago
As the founder of a startup focused on language learning, I am really interested in how AI could improve the experience. At this stage, I think it is pretty far off from being useful as a conversation-partner/tutor replacement. I agre
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by emursebrian 3y ago
NHK Web News Easy is pretty good. I built a simple browser extension that would hide the furigana and then show it when you clicked on it. If you're interested, I could dig that up. Ultimately, I got sick of splicing together differe
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by emursebrian 3y ago
I think this is a great idea! I am also working on an app and we've just added a similar feature. It's illustration heavy picture book with multiple difficulty levels and recordings by native speakers for each line of text. The g
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by emursebrian 3y ago
I am also working on an app for learning langues and I must say, you've built quite a lot in 6-7 months! Gaining and retaining users is always a problem that startups face. With language learning apps, it's hard because the marke
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by emursebrian 4y ago
I used this in my Anki deck for John Heisig's Remembering the Kanji. The stroke ordering was helpful and it was animated with CSS. It's been a while, so I can't remember who to give credit to for the RTK deck or the CSS anim
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by emursebrian 4y ago
I am late to the party, but I played around with ChatGPT this weekend and found it to be very useful. One of the most useful applications is in the area of language learning, particularly to see how grammar is used. Unlike textbooks, you&#
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by emursebrian 4y ago
There are a lot of alternatives, but I found myself bouncing back and forth between different resources and spent a lot of time curating content. I started working on some of my own tooling to help with this. For example, one tool took a l
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by emursebrian 4y ago
I think that's partly true, but the other aspect of it is that there are a lot more people who want to start learning a language than those have made it past a beginner level. Apps like Duolingo and others also completely neglect givin
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by emursebrian 4y ago
Duolingo and other apps are good to learn a little bit about the language, but what you really need to do to become fluent is to have conversations with native speakers, read newspapers and immerse yourself in the culture as much as possibl
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by emursebrian 4y ago
For me Duolingo's gamification is better than nothing but it's really not that fun. It wasn't a motivating factor to keep learning. Spaced repletion algorithms can be really helpful, but they can also be a hindrance. Duoling
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by emursebrian 5y ago
Our app is called Emurse. Our focus is on teaching languages with the most efficient path to fluency. With language study, once you get to an advanced beginner or intermediate level of study there's just not a lot of material out ther
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by emursebrian 5y ago
This post comes at a perfect time because I am working on an app that utilizes spaced repitition and flash cards and happen to be tweaking the spaced repition algorithm today. I've used Anki a quite a bit, and it mostly works but there