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by woodson 15y ago
I just moved to Sydney (from Vienna, Austria, which incidentally is also ranked high wrt. living conditions [1]) and my first impression after two weeks matches your list very well! Even though it's winter ;). Rather off-topic, but do you o
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by woodson 15y ago
"Rational people" would weight the costs and benefits of finding out which companies have discriminatory policies and might decide that they just don't care enough for spending their time on it.
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by woodson 15y ago
Closed captioning often requires more than that, e.g. for transcribing important non-speech events. Nevertheless, progress in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition might help a lot, with subsequent editing. Actually, I think I'd li
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by woodson 15y ago
> When was the last time Chomsky did any serious investigation that wasn't about how evil governments are? Well, he is still working on generative syntactic theory in linguistics. In his 2005 paper "On phases" he (again...) overhauled h
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by woodson 15y ago
Yeah, but a relevant measure of complexity is not that easy to come by. And by what measure do you judge which is more 'valid'? For example, AIC, BIC etc. may have a strong effect on which model 'wins'. You are right of course, but I'm wary
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by woodson 15y ago
The problem lies with the question 'What is the English language?' Is it what we speak? write? what we find on the web? in what social context? Given some constraints, then perhaps yes, you could write a formal grammar and have a parser acc
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by woodson 15y ago
True. A talk I recently attended quoted results of a Gammatone filterbank implementation for audio processing using CUDA (which was properly parallelized) and compared it with IPP (Intel Integrated Performance Primitives) on the CPU, which
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by woodson 16y ago
The article suggests that it is probably not: "It may also be possible to implement S/PDIF on a sufficiently fast single-core microcontroller. Unfortunately, an 8-bit µC like the AVR used in the popular Arduino board probably wouldn’t be fa
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by woodson 16y ago
That corpus was frequently used some time ago for performing automatic speaker recognition tests/system evaluations. Today, however, there are more challenging corpora, like those provided by NIST for its bi-annual speaker recognition eval
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by woodson 16y ago
Supposedly via http://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments I don't think that upvote count alone determines which are to be picked, but I could be mistaken.
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by woodson 16y ago
Quite a few quote the circumstances under which meat is 'produced' as another primary reason, i.e. not the killing of animals for food per se, but the conditions created by the industrialized process optimized for efficiency in killing.
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by woodson 16y ago
Sorry, but that doesn't make sense. Equally, one could make the case that software engineers have an incentive to make bad/incomplete/burdensome software so that they are still needed to provide fixes/updates. Lawyers also "use" the law, it
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by woodson 16y ago
I found the phrase 'Java bloatware' to be indicative of a certain sentiment towards the language (or JVM environment) in general (as compared to just 'bloatware'). And, given common use cases for machine learning toolkits, the overhead incu
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by woodson 16y ago
Alas, the Java hate. MALLET, Mahout and Lingpipe are written in Java too and don't suffer from it.
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by woodson 16y ago
I find preparing the data is actually easier in R than in something like python, but that certainly depends on type and amount of data. And, of course, each to their own..
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by woodson 16y ago
> Speaking of jumping to conclusions: Germany just started to shut down 7 nuclear power plants because of Fukushima... Not because of Fukushima, but pending elections..
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by woodson 16y ago
Well, that's due to rigorous standardization. Think about the speech codecs etc. used in mobile telephony. It's not like a phone number gives you anything more than an IP address does.
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by woodson 16y ago
> - make window movement and (more importantly) _resizing_ easier. Alt+left (move)/middle (resize) mouse button. I'm not aware of any easier/more comfortable alternative in other distros/OSs.
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by woodson 16y ago
I disagree. If a user buys a Kindle book* he is aware of the fact that it is bought from Amazon. Why would he want another party involved? Just for payment, along with an additional fee? *) I'm aware that it's about the Sony app, but it mig
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by woodson 16y ago
AFAIK Amazon uses kind of a loophole by directing the user to their site in Safari to buy Kindle books (that's how it was explained to me, i don't own an iPad or used the app). I don't see what's not ridiculous about Apple's desire to recei
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by woodson 16y ago
Brau Union?
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by woodson 16y ago
Or, the consequences of privacy violations will defeat the social networking user experience in 2010s, and others are going to provide a platform that enables better communication with family and friends without reverting your privacy setti
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by woodson 16y ago
From my anectotal experience, they might find it interesting, but would only rarely go in-depth and pursue it with the needed diligence to further the state of knowledge (cf. P!=NP).
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by woodson 16y ago
For those interested in scientific frameworks and existing packages: Scientific track of EuroSciPy 2010 [1]. Everything from seismology to visual programming. http://www.euroscipy.org/track/870
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by woodson 16y ago
Often languages are chosen based on already existing tools used in a specific research project. That's why it's good to be able to quickly pick up new languages. For example scripting languages integrated in some frameworks, like Scheme in
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by woodson 16y ago
I suppose your reference to the song [1] got lost on most of the readers. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_(Ultravox_song)
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by woodson 16y ago
There are some research projects (in rather early stages) that develop SMT techniques for translation to languages without big parallel corpora (essentially by bootstrapping such corpora, assisted by active learning). This could be of parti
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by woodson 16y ago
The example files are produced by encoding and then decoding the original. In PCM 16bit raw format they will end up having the same uncompressed size. The encoded bitstream files will be a lot smaller. For example: hts1a original: 48000 byt
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by woodson 16y ago
The samples sound quite good, suspiciously good even. I'll give it a try on speech samples from other languages and speakers (this often makes quite a difference).
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by woodson 16y ago
That's what I found interesting when looking into OneSocialWeb, their focus on already existing protocols (XMPP plus some XEPs http://onesocialweb.org/developers-xmpp.html ), instead of adhering to Not invented here .

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