The interesting projects are likely to be RoR or node. I make a living doing high value interesting stuff in perl. I pulled a rare 'to 2am on friday night last night' but for the most part I get interesting work that's well paid and they leave me alone to get on with it. Sweet gig.
I spent the second half of my 30s teaching myself lots of coding - Perl, R, Javascript, a bit of PHP, Ruby, Python, Linux admin stuff. I did bits and pieces of contract work during that time, but nothing too serious. Age 39 one of my open source buddies asked me to help him on a contracting project, so I've been ongoing subcontracting for him for the last three years on what's become quite a successful product.
Hello, Australian "Consumer" here. Never had cable tv. Previously a light user of the video rental channel. Use the BBC ABC, SBS and NPR (state broadcaster's internet streaming facilities).
Now I tell you want. Find me something I'm really interested in. Charge me $5 per torrent to get my hands on a convenent, fast, legal download (and give me a choice of file size - say 250mb to 1.5gb per hour of broadcast) and I'm in. While you're there, don't stuff me around with DRM bullshit.
My university recently moved to Windows Live Mail student accounts. This comes up as an exchange server in the iPhone. Does this mean that a malicious attack could cause a mass remote wipe?
As others have said, you can not get accurate speech recognition for multiple speakers. Even for the best of breed closed source software (Dragon) you also need to have good control over microphone quality and placement, and the technique in this instance is to shadow the speakers (put them on headphones and speak into the microphone). transcript.el will remove some of the pain points for transcribing for you if you're happy using emacs.
It works out as cost/time effective - I reckon it takes transcription time from 5-8x the length of the recording to something like 2-3x the length, but at this point in time you're not going to find a satisfactory open source solution to machine transcription, either shadowed, or from live tapes.
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I play accordion in a band that does a Hawkwind cover fwiw.
you can use rsync to get the data sync with appropriate firefox startup scripts or whatever, all the data is just stored in a directory (user configurable but by default in the firefox profile dirs).
There are a couple of products in this niche - one in the Panasonic Toughbook range, and one from a company called Motion Computing (a startup from ex-apple staff). The Motion device is the better product, but they're both pretty similar.
But both of them are keyboardless devices running Windows XP Tablet edition, and frankly that sucks - a multitouch integrated UI specifically designed for keyboardless environments (not just bolted on like windows tablet) is really needed to make these things work proprly. I had wireless reliability issues (suspend resume problem) on the Toughbook I tested.
So yeah, I reckon a mooted Apple tablet with a ruggedised case (with a built in handle - this is important) may well be the way to go with this for now.
Some scientists just don't "get" the value of sharing, just as in other areas of endeavour. I suspect some fossilised relic at the top of this organisation.
Here is my nice chewy data on climate and temperature stuff that I'll add to, with analysis as time allows and people find data for me.
My conclusion so far: it's very unlikely not to be co2 responsible for most of the warming we've observed since the 70s, it's likely to get much worse, and there don't seem to be any viable alternative explanations.
My wife (who is a physics teacher who has taught electronics) says the following:
Dick Smith (if they are in the us, maybe something similar) sells kits with full instructions. they need to be soldered, but year 9s should be able to do this - I had year 8s solder successfully. they will need to be reminded of first aid treatment for burns first. they can build light detectors, movement detectors, radio recievers, sirens, simple electric pianos etc.
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(Disclaimer: IHAPSITF - I have a PhD scholarship in this field).
In most healthcare systems, staff are very busy, and computer illiteracy is rife. To get good with these electronic systems you've got to use them constantly, and when half the staff or more don't understand why they're doing a particular thing in a particular way. There's also a workplace culture of written notes, and often a limited number of computer terminals per staff member. So with queuing for terminals, fairly high friction processes for retrieving data and so on and so forth, there are quite high barriers to entry from a human point of view.
Don't get me wrong, EHRs have potential, and can reap benifits (especially for management - they can also make floor staff's job harder). Some kind of robust iphone-like device which is a secure platform for data entry and retrieval, might make it sufficiently easy and efficient from an end-user's perspective to decrease implementation barriers.
I'm writing a substantial work in pod (perl's doc format) using git for vc at the moment, with 5 authors.Works fine, painless, reviewing changes is easy and everything is pretty low friction. Plain text is so much easier to work with than anything else I've ever come across.
So move over to academic work, I find word's track changes a pain to work with, especially with more than 1 other author compared to good old diff -u.
So I'm going to try to write my next big work with Pandoc using citeproc and Zotero for citation and collection management. I'll get back to you in three years time to tell you how it went.
In the early 90s, there was a recession and linux was created about the same time. Around the turn of the century there was the dot-com bust, and at that time we got bittorrent. These are both pretty revolutionary bits of software. So yes, I'm quite keen to see what free software innovation that this recession fosters:)
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what do you use to make automated restrictions?
you sound like a good parent. My approach is similar (I don't really spy though).
Start here. Wean yourself off the incorrect idea that the only supporting evidence is a bunch of computer models.
The interesting projects are likely to be RoR or node. I make a living doing high value interesting stuff in perl. I pulled a rare 'to 2am on friday night last night' but for the most part I get interesting work that's well paid and they leave me alone to get on with it. Sweet gig.
I spent the second half of my 30s teaching myself lots of coding - Perl, R, Javascript, a bit of PHP, Ruby, Python, Linux admin stuff. I did bits and pieces of contract work during that time, but nothing too serious. Age 39 one of my open source buddies asked me to help him on a contracting project, so I've been ongoing subcontracting for him for the last three years on what's become quite a successful product.
Hello, Australian "Consumer" here. Never had cable tv. Previously a light user of the video rental channel. Use the BBC ABC, SBS and NPR (state broadcaster's internet streaming facilities). Now I tell you want. Find me something I'm really interested in. Charge me $5 per torrent to get my hands on a convenent, fast, legal download (and give me a choice of file size - say 250mb to 1.5gb per hour of broadcast) and I'm in. While you're there, don't stuff me around with DRM bullshit.
Similar situation to you. Nobody used to take me seriously until I wrote a programming book. Then I suddenly had a big badge of instant credibility.
My university recently moved to Windows Live Mail student accounts. This comes up as an exchange server in the iPhone. Does this mean that a malicious attack could cause a mass remote wipe?
... Does it run Linux?
If I had mod points I would mod you up!
As others have said, you can not get accurate speech recognition for multiple speakers. Even for the best of breed closed source software (Dragon) you also need to have good control over microphone quality and placement, and the technique in this instance is to shadow the speakers (put them on headphones and speak into the microphone). transcript.el will remove some of the pain points for transcribing for you if you're happy using emacs. It works out as cost/time effective - I reckon it takes transcription time from 5-8x the length of the recording to something like 2-3x the length, but at this point in time you're not going to find a satisfactory open source solution to machine transcription, either shadowed, or from live tapes.
I play accordion in a band that does a Hawkwind cover fwiw.
you can use rsync to get the data sync with appropriate firefox startup scripts or whatever, all the data is just stored in a directory (user configurable but by default in the firefox profile dirs).
Nah, it's primarily a local service with some "cloud" features.
Zotero may well be what you're looking for. Much better and more open source than EndNote (mentioned above).
But both of them are keyboardless devices running Windows XP Tablet edition, and frankly that sucks - a multitouch integrated UI specifically designed for keyboardless environments (not just bolted on like windows tablet) is really needed to make these things work proprly. I had wireless reliability issues (suspend resume problem) on the Toughbook I tested.
So yeah, I reckon a mooted Apple tablet with a ruggedised case (with a built in handle - this is important) may well be the way to go with this for now.
All of this is true, but the article doesn't refer to commercial research.
Some scientists just don't "get" the value of sharing, just as in other areas of endeavour. I suspect some fossilised relic at the top of this organisation.
My conclusion so far: it's very unlikely not to be co2 responsible for most of the warming we've observed since the 70s, it's likely to get much worse, and there don't seem to be any viable alternative explanations.
Dick Smith (if they are in the us, maybe something similar) sells kits with full instructions. they need to be soldered, but year 9s should be able to do this - I had year 8s solder successfully. they will need to be reminded of first aid treatment for burns first. they can build light detectors, movement detectors, radio recievers, sirens, simple electric pianos etc.
In most healthcare systems, staff are very busy, and computer illiteracy is rife. To get good with these electronic systems you've got to use them constantly, and when half the staff or more don't understand why they're doing a particular thing in a particular way. There's also a workplace culture of written notes, and often a limited number of computer terminals per staff member. So with queuing for terminals, fairly high friction processes for retrieving data and so on and so forth, there are quite high barriers to entry from a human point of view.
Don't get me wrong, EHRs have potential, and can reap benifits (especially for management - they can also make floor staff's job harder). Some kind of robust iphone-like device which is a secure platform for data entry and retrieval, might make it sufficiently easy and efficient from an end-user's perspective to decrease implementation barriers.
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Thirded. I've also built my own phrase index on top of zotero using Perl and OpenCalais.
So they recast their company activities to be in line with their company motto. Hopefully they run down the path to irellevance quick smart!
I'm writing a substantial work in pod (perl's doc format) using git for vc at the moment, with 5 authors.Works fine, painless, reviewing changes is easy and everything is pretty low friction. Plain text is so much easier to work with than anything else I've ever come across.
So move over to academic work, I find word's track changes a pain to work with, especially with more than 1 other author compared to good old diff -u.
So I'm going to try to write my next big work with Pandoc using citeproc and Zotero for citation and collection management. I'll get back to you in three years time to tell you how it went.
In the early 90s, there was a recession and linux was created about the same time. Around the turn of the century there was the dot-com bust, and at that time we got bittorrent. These are both pretty revolutionary bits of software. So yes, I'm quite keen to see what free software innovation that this recession fosters :)