hftf

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   by hftf 1y ago

   I don't think definitions "are" highly accurate precise things. Sometimes yes. The same scholarship, skill, and need to not mislead also applies for so many other things: encyclopedic articles, taxonomies, news, maps, operati
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   by hftf 1y ago

   I get the impulse to assume they'd be alike, but I've found that Wiktionary really isn't much like Wikipedia.
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   by hftf 1y ago

   I really enjoyed the article, reading it more from the perspective of what 21st-century lexicography could be, less as a customer of a word game however thoughtfully designed. As a Wiktionary editor (and Android user who's also grown o
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   by hftf 6y ago

   Some relevant prior discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21622322 (Nov 2019) "Tell HN: Google should drop Quora from search results" 1000+ upvotes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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   by hftf 7y ago

   I entirely agree. Quora and Pinterest are particularly routine spam sites in my search results. They rank just below word reference site spam, like dictionaries, thesauruses, or translation dictionaries (sites which I do benefit occasionall
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   by hftf 9y ago

   The execution of this visualization was rather disappointing. I didn’t like the overly cute text (the description of the Simpleton algorithm was almost incomprehensible), the low-contrast captions and colorblind-unfriendly color scheme, and
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   by hftf 10y ago

   I looked into gentle a few weeks ago and did notice that it seems to use an online algorithm. It doesn’t have built-in support for live audio input unfortunately, but it may be tweakable as you say (such as reimplementing it to use audio st
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   by hftf 10y ago

   Do you know of any existing forced alignment tools that work well with live audio (microphone) input? I would like to create a live stream in which the words of a known text are displayed as they are being spoken into a microphone.
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   by hftf 10y ago

   I wonder if it’s possible to turn this into a video filter.
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    Google terminates access to its undocumented autocomplete API(programmableweb.com)

    3 points by hftf 11y ago|0 comments
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    by hftf 11y ago

    > screenshots What help. /s
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    by hftf 11y ago

    I’ve seen Tufte CSS before when I tried to search for HTML/CSS sidenote implementations. I’m happy to see a responsive one, even though it uses JS.
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    by hftf 11y ago

    What exactly are these "unique twists"?
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    by hftf 11y ago

    This seems to be a laggier, CPU-exhausting shameless copy of Curve Fever: http://curvefever.com/play2.php
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    by hftf 12y ago

    I had seen this effect about two years ago on the website of Roman Komarov and was impressed by it at the time: http://kizu.ru/en/fun/
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    by hftf 12y ago

    Has the author made any insights into reverse-engineering Google Docs’ spell checking?
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    by hftf 12y ago

    Thanks! — but I hardly think it’s impressive scraping your website using kimono (besides, 40% of the hyphenation data is missing anyway…)
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    by hftf 12y ago

    Here is a version of the list grouped by whether the TLD is the same as the last hyphenation point (e.g., crow.bar and not frig.ht ). http://pastie.org/pastes/9147186/text