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by lgeek 15y ago
Implementing an operating system isn't that different between the main CPU architectures. I think mcpherrinm was just saying that you have to do a lot less work than for x86, for example, in order to get a minimum of functionality. Unfortun
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You avoid interference in the same way you avoid it for radio wave communication: multiplexing. It could be time-based (time slots for each sender), frequency-based (different colors) or code-based (look up CDMA). Plus, you already have 'sp
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Well, it looks like it's going to be merged. Check this email and the next one: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=131145585729478&w...
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To be more exact, a battery with ID 0xFFFF (hhm, not sure if it was 16 or 32 bit) enables service mode on older PSPs. This ID is stored on a serial EEPROM. Incidentally, you could just disconnect the data pin of the EEPROM. I don't remember
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Note, the latest release is from 2008. Edit: "Do you run the Arduino development tool chain on an obscure (i.e., non-OS X) platform ?" is a gratuitously condescending in my opinion. Since when's OS X the default/most popular/whatever platf
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I'm probably stating the obvious, but to me it looks very awkward to write over the diagonal crease caused by the binding.
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May I suggest Pandaboard[1]? Or if the availability of PandaBoard is an issue, there's the slightly older BeagleBoard xM[2]. [1] http://pandaboard.org/ [2] http://beagleboard.org/hardware-xM
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This. As a kid, before getting into computers I built model ships (from scratch, ie. from plywood), played with Lego, fooled around with electronics and generally tinkered a lot. I find that similar to programming: designing and improving a
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Is there a stream which doesn't require Flash?
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I've built LED displays and the lowest frequency at which I wouldn't notice flickering was 500 Hz. This was at 1/8 duty cycle though, so you might get away with a lower frequency at a higher duty cycle. I find your claim that 50Hz was enoug
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by lgeek 15y ago
I've always thought that gem's a bit silly. It makes sense to think in terms of state machines, but to code them explicitly?
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I think your explanation is misleading. LPCs predict the shape of the speech waveform, nothing higher level than that.
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Computers are commonly used to assist in diagnosis. You might want to look up computer-assisted diagnosis[1]. If I am to believe my machine learning lecturers, their use is actually a bit more widespread than what the wikipedia page describ
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by lgeek 16y ago
I'm in Manchester as well. Studying for a CS degree.
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> GitHub is great about supporting students if they just ask. I've read that they give out private repositories for school projects, but they haven't replied to a request I've opened 2 or 3 days ago. I got a paid account because I neede
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Ask HN: Startups hiring interns for summer 2011?
1 points by lgeek 16y ago|0 comments
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It looks like they have a considerable number of false positives. Another site, jet2.com is the website of a low cost airline; wp-plugins.net is hosting Wordpress plugins.
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by lgeek 16y ago
I guess Bayes refers to running a Bayes-based classifier[1] on a certain site in order to infer the probability that it is a "bad"/spam one. On the other hand, I have no idea what mfa means. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_spam_fi
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I've switched Youtube to HTML5 video and that solved their problems. :) Indeed, Flash is a lot slower on non-Windows platforms but if you have to use it, it's usable.
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Actually my parents are using a Debian box with Chromium. I found it is a lot easier to manage remotely than a Windows box; it's really low maintenance; they won't grab malware and the Gnome desktop can be really dumbed down - I only left t
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by lgeek 16y ago
...and here it is: https://github.com/lgeek/polyglossy (with a slight delay because I've worked on improving the accuracy)
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> For example, I realized that due to the same origin policy, the client and server involved have to run on the same ports (not just same machine) which makes it seem that the same server has to serve them. Mongrel2 ( http://mongrel2.or
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...and these are my results: http://imgur.com/9U6II.png I've only kept English, French and German for WhatLanguage. It looks like the Markov chains approach is indeed more accurate for shorter phrases but the dictionary approach gets slig
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That's pretty cool! One of my friends suggested to use dictionaries and bloom filters but I've wanted to build probabilistic language models. Do you have any accuracy stats? I'm guessing my approach might work better in some cases because t
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by lgeek 16y ago
Yeah, I'll probably push it to github later this week.
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I don't know. I haven't really done NLP before. My guess is that it would be slower, but not by a significant amount. It might be more accurate, so I could give it a shot.
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I've used around 40KB of text per language for training.
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Sorry, only supports English, German and French at the moment
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I've been using giffgaff since December. The signal coverage isn't great (but this seems to be a general issue in UK) and the internet connection sometimes isn't perfectly stable. Personally, I find this tolerable and the prices are great.
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Show HN: My Leeds Hack Day project, a language detection API(polyglossy.com)
9 points by lgeek 16y ago|15 comments

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