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by maoeurk 8y ago
Hmm, that's a very good question. I'm not exactly sure, I don't have access to either right now, so I'll have to guess. I think it's probably in how sophisticated it is. The bird example seems analogous to somethi
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by maoeurk 8y ago
I bought a physical copy of this book through Lulu about a year ago; it presents some really neat algorithms and ideas. Unfortunately I haven't had the opportunity to apply any of them to any real problems. That said, they seem like t
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by maoeurk 8y ago
> animal languages When I took a Linguistics course at university, both the professor and text book were very emphatic that animals do not have (read: have never been observed using) language, they have communication. They went as far a
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by maoeurk 8y ago
About 2-3 years ago. Thank you! I had not seen either of these; I'll look into them and start a deep dive trying them out this weekend!
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by maoeurk 8y ago
Those are fair points! I got too excited and didn't explain what I was talking about clearly -- so it isn't great general advice. To clarify for those who may need it: I think my case was a bit exceptional in how bad it got. I
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by maoeurk 8y ago
That's a great point! There are quite a few specialized products for voice recognition and in fact domain specific voice recognition should surely be easier than trying to recognize general natural language. This is especially true,
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by maoeurk 8y ago
As a developer with carpal and cubital tunnel syndrome, I'm extremely excited about the possibility of voice programming. However my experience was that it's somewhere between non-existent and impractical when I last tried it. It
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by maoeurk 9y ago
I use ibus on Linux, it has an option in the advanced settings to "Use system keyboard layout". This applies the default layout to all other input methods. Notably Ubuntu comes with Dvorak for Japanese as a default, an option I&#
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by maoeurk 9y ago
It's worth pointing out that in China, QWERTY with pinyin (Latin characters representing pronunciation with an IME mapping it to Chinese) is the most popular input method. Japanese similarly is primarily done with QWERTY and an IME. O