One question: Why? Could someone please explain what it is with this speech-recognition thing everybody is so worked up about...
Lets see: The good thing about speech is that it carries emotion, subtle hints as to irony, all the kinds of fuzzy communication that humans love and machines will never get. The bad thing about speech is that it is inprecise, full of ambiguity,
and noisy (compare an office full of people typing compared to, say, a barn full of chicken^W^W^W^W board meeting with everyone talking to their palms).
I can see uses for this for people with disabilities, but for people with healthy hands???
What I would like to see was work on how to increase the amount of 'precise' information that we can communicate to the machines. I would guess that the information rate is much greater for a skilled piano player than for a touch typist. Is the qwerty (or dvorak for that matter) really the best we can do?
So, in your opinion, gcc is buggy because it makes int main() { main(); } dump core? Hmmm...
Coupland says in "Microserfs":
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In the wonderful book "Microserfs", author Douglas Coupland touches on this subject severel times. I won't try to recreate his words -- you should go read it yourselves -- but one thing I remember is the idea of 'Geek' as beeing a term which implies 'hireability'.
On a side note, the Danish translator of 'Microserfs' had a rough time because the translation of 'Geek' and 'Nerd' to danish is not injective -- we have only one word (that I know of) for this, namely 'nørd'. Wonder if other languages have more/few alternatives than the two english ones.
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I can see uses for this for people with disabilities, but for people with healthy hands???
What I would like to see was work on how to increase the amount of 'precise' information that we can communicate to the machines. I would guess that the information rate is much greater for a skilled piano player than for a touch typist. Is the qwerty (or dvorak for that matter) really the best we can do?
So, in your opinion, gcc is buggy because it makes
int main() { main(); }
dump core? Hmmm...
In the wonderful book "Microserfs", author Douglas Coupland touches on this subject severel times. I won't try to recreate his words -- you should go read it yourselves -- but one thing I remember is the idea of 'Geek' as beeing a term which implies 'hireability'.
On a side note, the Danish translator of 'Microserfs' had a rough time because the translation of 'Geek' and 'Nerd' to danish is not injective -- we have only one word (that I know of) for this, namely 'nørd'. Wonder if other languages have more/few alternatives than the two english ones.