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by nmstoker 7y ago
I haven't tried it directly myself but there is this project, Dragonfire, which looks quite reasonable using DeepSpeech: https://github.com/DragonComputer/Dragonfire There's a minimal demo app I put together
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by nmstoker 7y ago
Here's an example I did using a custom LM with DeepSpeech - the description links back to the forum with the steps for producing it. https://youtu.be/LWUBK6PAaxM This was on a slightly earlier version, and they've
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by nmstoker 7y ago
I'd echo this. It's the same as the version on Netflix. It's not a technical deep dive (but then again, that's rare in any documentary - even the General Magic documentary didn't go into the technical aspects really
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by nmstoker 7y ago
>> It makes you wonder why certain websites even have an app Good article, but the answer to the point above always seemed obviously about being better able to identify users and pull their data - this is why so many apps offer functi
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by nmstoker 7y ago
Hard to feel concerned here, as these functions shouldn't be built into TVs in the first place - consumers will be best served if we have dumb displays, plug in smart streaming devices (FireSticks / Google Chrome etc) and the comp
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by nmstoker 7y ago
Yes, I suspect that brought it to the fore. Of course I'm sure if you looked over the back catalog of many publishers you'd see a huge number of (successful) books with highly questionable authors and they didn't mind publish
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Spying on Scammers [video](bbc.co.uk)
84 points by nmstoker 7y ago|33 comments
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by nmstoker 7y ago
Yes, screencasts are good, and IMHO people who struggle with instructions seem much better at re-watching the difficult part until they are able to do it than they are keen to re-read a section until they get it right. However it is often e
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by nmstoker 7y ago
Looks good and am glad that editing text works on mobile (so many of these struggle with predictive text, even Google CoLabs's text boxes gets stuck on that) However when you go to add a hyperlink on mobile, it's not adding it whe
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Ofcom set to be given power to police social media in UK(bbc.co.uk)
5 points by nmstoker 7y ago|0 comments
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by nmstoker 7y ago
One major advantage is the impact on phone battery life - partly because various services aren't repeatedly pinging over the mobile network (especially in "notspots"), WiFi tends not to burn through battery. And partly becaus
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by nmstoker 7y ago
They do touch on rights here briefly: "The choices were made with factors such as licensing ease..." Although it sounds like maybe they did the work and then approached the licensing matters (which would be strictly speaking the
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by nmstoker 7y ago
Interesting. Pure speculation but if the shower were very cold could that lead to shorter cleaning times too (not that I ever left "unwashed", but I recall when my boiler failed I was super-speedy showering!)
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by nmstoker 7y ago
Sorry hadn't seen your comment when I posted. I agree the title of the OP's article is misleading.
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by nmstoker 7y ago
Looking at the income breakdown at the Gallop link that throwawaylolx posted, it may well be an influence, although conflate seems a bit stronger than I'd put it.
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by nmstoker 7y ago
Interesting but they are slightly off with Carl: they say it means man, whereas it's really "free man" an important distinction! Looks like they've dumbed things down a bit (as there's a similar discussion on Lopez
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by nmstoker 7y ago
Several aspects of this seem rather outdated from a software perspective (NB: I'm not commenting on potential utility for language work). It's Windows, only emulated for Mac/Linux, has several other hints that it's reall
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by nmstoker 7y ago
I like that the article formalises this, but one concern is that the "whys" seem defined by currently available uses and thus it's limiting. I don't doubt that there are plenty of good practical/psychological reason
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by nmstoker 7y ago
This countermeasure story came up in 2018 but I'd only heard about it recently: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59jm8d/trick-face-scan-ha...
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by nmstoker 7y ago
The mass transit point would get my vote, specifically so you can ignore them more effectively than is currently possible (even with noise cancelling headphones). On various modes of UK public transport, I regularly have to listen to people
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by nmstoker 7y ago
Saying it's "yet another victim" seems slightly too emotive to me. If people can't read the source site's domain after the headline then I agree there wouldn't be much context, but equally, if they can't r
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by nmstoker 7y ago
I've seen this referred to online as "Intelligibility Remediation" (a term I always forget when I'm trying to find the details months later!) Certainly seems like an area with huge potential application.
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by nmstoker 7y ago
Something of a side point, but I'm curious about how expensive this was for her to do. In the 80s / 90s wouldn't a blank 3hr video be something like $5 or so (I'm guessing, as I recollect it was about £5 or so, and am ex
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by nmstoker 7y ago
An interesting talk on this subject was given at PyConUK last year: https://youtu.be/AeScwg-nZk4
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by nmstoker 7y ago
Thanks - I'd only seem the health one at the top of their blog when I went earlier
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by nmstoker 7y ago
Frustratingly there's no sources linked to, but it looks like this story was placed with several sites (eg Verge, Independent, BBC, Yahoo Entertainment) and possibly embargoed until 6pm (given the similarity in publication times for a
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DeepMind’s StarCraft 2 AI is now better than 99.8 percent of all human players(theverge.com)
2 points by nmstoker 7y ago|3 comments
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by nmstoker 7y ago
This makes me wonder about the optimal time to proceed (rather than wait for improved technology). Right now progress seems slow, but if advances sped up, it would be a real concern that you could get on a craft with a 20 year journey time,
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by nmstoker 7y ago
Purely superficial comment: Thought they were being ironic with the 90s / Netscape / glorious VGA comments but maybe these really haven't been updated in an age. They've got screenshots not updated since 2006 (based on t
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by nmstoker 7y ago
There's a load more detail on it here: https://venturebeat.com/2019/10/21/googles-motion-sense-hand...

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