southern europeans have had to deal with the northern cultural view that we're lazy, and modern work culture imported from those countries has virtually ended siesta. well, now it's hot over there too. we can be nice…
as a researcher in NLP slash computational linguistics, this is what I tend to think :) (maybe a less strong version, though, there are other kinds of thinking and learning). so I'm always surprised when some linguists…
Interestingly, one advantage SignWriting may have over IPA is that while you cannot easily represent sounds in a visual medium (thus letters are mostly arbitrary) movement and hand depictions in SW are highly iconic.…
It's a way to write sign languages. Think of like the alphabet, but for hands, movements etc instead of sounds. Now, it may not be obvious that there is a necessity for a writing system for a minority language embedded…
Sign language researcher here! I would recommend you look a bit at the scientific literature on the topic. I know it can be a bit overwhelming and hard to know to separate the actual info from the garbage, so I can try…
You can dump the metadata and then restore it, maybe that'll work for you?
I'm reading my thesis next tuesday, and the advances in AI the last couple of years have already made most of it obsolete :/ Anyway I'm excited and looking forward to the code and models to be released, hopefully I can…
Well that's what we humans do, isn't it? :) In any case, text seems to stil form a part: > During training, we use monolingual speech-text datasets So there's still a way till machines learn language as humans do, i.e.…
I still don't get the MITM argument. To me, it feels like there is a lot of heavy lifting beneath the could in "a EU government could MITM any other EU country citizen". Can somebody walk me through an example of how…
Just adding a perspective (not necessarily mine, I'm still on the fence) supporting this legislation from a tech-literate person in the EU. The digital administration in my country has made my life so much easier. We…
This has no OS (at least that you can access). I have one, have written a number of drafts with it, and regret both purchasing it and it not being a better machine. The software is really bad and there is no way to…
If I understood correctly, Pilate lived during the empire, a few centuries after the system described in the blog post (middle republic).
The press release contains a few errors and imprecisions. The abstract from the scientific article is more informative: In this paper, we present BodyTrak, an intelligent sensing technology that can estimate full body…
Mutations also happen in one individual. This gene then enters the pool of the population, and it can spread. The genes from a hybrid individual diffuse into the population when it reproduces. Speciation happens when a…
In Spain (and according to a sister comment, in Austria too, so maybe it's EU-wide) the price of every MWh is set by the last MWh that enters the market (apparently it works like an auction). The last to be sold is the…
Given that the spying on catalan independentists started under the previous government (right wing, strongly centralist), I wouldn't discard it extended subsequently to the current one (coalition of left wing and…
I think this is a very widespread idea, I used to believe in it too, perhaps due to our background. However, if you work on translating science to computers, you soon find it's not so true. There are some many ideas in…
> (nothing specific about English here, most of us speak like that in our native languages) I think it actually is something specific about English. English is stress-timed, which means that sounds are given variable…
The article makes the point that in a particular funding call, men got more money than women because there are more men of some ages due to imbalances of the past, rather than because of discrimination against women.…
> There is a high correlation and probably causal relationship between increasing global pollution and improved living standards. That would be if pollution was a global phenomenon. Climate is global and chaotic, and we…
What happened at the K-Pg limit with dinosaurs and crocodiles is similar, both went from being very wide to a handful of species remaining. The difference is what happened afterwards, when the few (single?) species of…
In academia, you're often evaluated on "impact". So you have an incentive to be impactful, not truthful, and while many (most?) try to be honest in the content, hyping the title is an easy way to increase your metric…
I think it is fine to pursue this ever increasingly detailed classification of things (not only in art or pop culture, this applies to other knowledge too, including science). The problem might come if one takes one of…
I think that what some outside of academia might miss is that publishing in a journal is not about distribution and access anymore. The renown of the journal where you publish is often used as a proxy for the quality of…
southern europeans have had to deal with the northern cultural view that we're lazy, and modern work culture imported from those countries has virtually ended siesta. well, now it's hot over there too. we can be nice…
as a researcher in NLP slash computational linguistics, this is what I tend to think :) (maybe a less strong version, though, there are other kinds of thinking and learning). so I'm always surprised when some linguists…
Interestingly, one advantage SignWriting may have over IPA is that while you cannot easily represent sounds in a visual medium (thus letters are mostly arbitrary) movement and hand depictions in SW are highly iconic.…
It's a way to write sign languages. Think of like the alphabet, but for hands, movements etc instead of sounds. Now, it may not be obvious that there is a necessity for a writing system for a minority language embedded…
Sign language researcher here! I would recommend you look a bit at the scientific literature on the topic. I know it can be a bit overwhelming and hard to know to separate the actual info from the garbage, so I can try…
You can dump the metadata and then restore it, maybe that'll work for you?
I'm reading my thesis next tuesday, and the advances in AI the last couple of years have already made most of it obsolete :/ Anyway I'm excited and looking forward to the code and models to be released, hopefully I can…
Well that's what we humans do, isn't it? :) In any case, text seems to stil form a part: > During training, we use monolingual speech-text datasets So there's still a way till machines learn language as humans do, i.e.…
I still don't get the MITM argument. To me, it feels like there is a lot of heavy lifting beneath the could in "a EU government could MITM any other EU country citizen". Can somebody walk me through an example of how…
Just adding a perspective (not necessarily mine, I'm still on the fence) supporting this legislation from a tech-literate person in the EU. The digital administration in my country has made my life so much easier. We…
This has no OS (at least that you can access). I have one, have written a number of drafts with it, and regret both purchasing it and it not being a better machine. The software is really bad and there is no way to…
If I understood correctly, Pilate lived during the empire, a few centuries after the system described in the blog post (middle republic).
The press release contains a few errors and imprecisions. The abstract from the scientific article is more informative: In this paper, we present BodyTrak, an intelligent sensing technology that can estimate full body…
Mutations also happen in one individual. This gene then enters the pool of the population, and it can spread. The genes from a hybrid individual diffuse into the population when it reproduces. Speciation happens when a…
In Spain (and according to a sister comment, in Austria too, so maybe it's EU-wide) the price of every MWh is set by the last MWh that enters the market (apparently it works like an auction). The last to be sold is the…
Given that the spying on catalan independentists started under the previous government (right wing, strongly centralist), I wouldn't discard it extended subsequently to the current one (coalition of left wing and…
I think this is a very widespread idea, I used to believe in it too, perhaps due to our background. However, if you work on translating science to computers, you soon find it's not so true. There are some many ideas in…
> (nothing specific about English here, most of us speak like that in our native languages) I think it actually is something specific about English. English is stress-timed, which means that sounds are given variable…
The article makes the point that in a particular funding call, men got more money than women because there are more men of some ages due to imbalances of the past, rather than because of discrimination against women.…
> There is a high correlation and probably causal relationship between increasing global pollution and improved living standards. That would be if pollution was a global phenomenon. Climate is global and chaotic, and we…
What happened at the K-Pg limit with dinosaurs and crocodiles is similar, both went from being very wide to a handful of species remaining. The difference is what happened afterwards, when the few (single?) species of…
In academia, you're often evaluated on "impact". So you have an incentive to be impactful, not truthful, and while many (most?) try to be honest in the content, hyping the title is an easy way to increase your metric…
I think it is fine to pursue this ever increasingly detailed classification of things (not only in art or pop culture, this applies to other knowledge too, including science). The problem might come if one takes one of…
I think that what some outside of academia might miss is that publishing in a journal is not about distribution and access anymore. The renown of the journal where you publish is often used as a proxy for the quality of…