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by woodson 12y ago
I don't really see how the "old" methods were really less accessible. There were tools such as HTK, cmu sphinx, etc., or srilm for language modelling, each with documentation and a large user base. Granted, a lot of fiddling
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by woodson 12y ago
IMHO, people (and hence language) will always adapt in certain ways to get the message across. People already learned how to "google" and expect the same style of search queries to be effective elsewhere. When speaking on the tele
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by woodson 12y ago
This paper (from ICASSP2013) may be of interest to you: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
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by woodson 12y ago
As someone working in that area, I have to disagree. Sure, speaker recognition can work very well under certain circumstances, but there is no unique signature. (that would imply that you could successfully discriminate between any two sp
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by woodson 12y ago
Raspbian Wheezy comes with kernel 3.12 (see http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/ )
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by woodson 12y ago
It's not (entirely) arbitrary. Speech is variable, our vocal tract shape changes all the time, but not arbitrarily fast. From a source-filter theory perspective it does make sense to consider speech production over short time frames as
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by woodson 12y ago
but it's about language. we can all speak, so we're all experts, right? right? I see this phenomenon a lot, also with topics like education.
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by woodson 13y ago
To be fair, all releases after the one cited by papaf don't have a corresponding portable release (and that's what this thread is about).
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by woodson 13y ago
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libssl/src/
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by woodson 13y ago
Their SSL cert isn't invalid, it's from CAcert ( http://www.cacert.org/ ).
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by woodson 13y ago
Indeed, and sometimes strange things happen: ssh tunnel from Australia to server located in California. Geo IP tool [1] reports it's in Fremont, CA. But Google assigns Taiwanese locale.. Outdated/erroneous geolocation database? or
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by woodson 13y ago
Knoppix has been around since 2000 :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoppix
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by woodson 13y ago
Same, but since I care mostly about double precision performance I won't be having much fun with the GTX 780.
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by woodson 13y ago
Please understand that there are much more relevant factors to the use of fingerprint to fingermark comparison evidence in court than their ability to discriminate under ideal laboratory conditions. For some information see: National Instit
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by woodson 14y ago
There are mirrors that have audio-only recordings as well (and are located in the U.S.): http://edge.lynxcdn.com/ccc/29c3/index.php?dir=audio%2Fmp3-a... (full list of mirrors, mostly located in Germany: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2012
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by woodson 15y ago
To me this seems like a problem of the adversarial system, where the two sides hire and pay their own experts. I know of course that in a inquisitorial system there is also phony expertise presented, but (as I understand it) there is less i
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by woodson 15y ago
Well, considering the dangers presented by earthquakes (cf. Fukushima), maybe there are reasons for New Zealanders to be anti-nuclear: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquakes_in_New_Zealand I know, a lot of different factors contributed
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by woodson 15y ago
HN does not invalidate your views, it presents you with the views of a certain group of (mostly U.S. based) people. You can observe strong tendencies in viewpoints for both web/startup/tech related things as well as political issues, and es
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by woodson 15y ago
They may be well established, but remember ComodoGate [1,2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comodo_Group#Breach_of_securit... [2] http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/6177/A_Web_of_Mis_Trust_Co...
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by woodson 15y ago
I apologize, you are right. I misinterpreted the information given on the membership benefits page (about the IEEE Member Digital Library). Apparently membership to individual societies (add $9-$53/year, depending on the society) may give y
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by woodson 15y ago
Just to clarify, individual IEEE membership is much less expensive. Full membership in the U.S. is $181/year and includes online access to all IEEE articles, dues for other parts of the world are even lower (for whatever reasons) [1]. For s
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by woodson 15y ago
While I agree that sharing and opening up data etc. is important (not only to profit from it as start ups, but primarily for science itself), I don't think this 'one library' idea is practically possible. Different fields use different cate
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by woodson 15y ago
ln should be base e. Cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_logarithm
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by woodson 15y ago
No, it's rather like you are free to emigrate from a democracy if you aren't happy with the decisions reached by majority vote.
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by woodson 15y ago
EE classes of the signal processing variety?
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by woodson 15y ago
There has been done a lot of work on this issue specifically to the mental lexicon, of lexemes/entities of language, and its storage. A lot of it was based on psychological testing, for example reaction times when words are presented that a
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by woodson 15y ago
One problem I see with this is that these statistics involve a lot of human bias. If you train your classifier on crime statistics, it's not based on a 'ground truth' (which is never attainable in a criminal case), but an expert's, i.e. jud
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by woodson 15y ago
Sell it to another party, maybe?
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by woodson 15y ago
One cure for feeling lonely while staying somewhere else: CouchSurfing You don't necessarily need to stay with someone on his couch to take part in the community and participate in the activities held or organized by its members (or organiz
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by woodson 15y ago
I think it's not exactly the same as the book version, but the author's original is available at http://www-biba.inrialpes.fr/Jaynes/prob.html

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