You could establish a speech-recognition@home type of application, in the style of SETI@Home et al. If you create an application that can do some useful, but well defined set of tasks using speech recognition, you could build up a very useful open (as in useable by all) and free (as in beer) data base of everything you just mentioned to aid a linguistic study.
Set the application to do something useful for the user that downloads and installs the application as an incentive and well-define the task such that it addresses a small enough to be finite and study-able set of language. As users use the application they get the system to learn the language (multiple users together would be useful too to be analogue to a child's multiple sources of learning) and as the system learns you build data, which is shared and accrued from all the distributed installations of the application.
How about a Firefox plug-in/extension to do this. Is Firefox a simple enough application to start this with? It could be both fun for most users and practical for those using accessibility functions with their computer.
You mean the maths of the graph may be wrong, righr? Flame me if I've got this really wrong, but in the example from numberwatch, if we talking about records always going up based on the number of readings increasing and skewing the statistics, that implies that the number of days in a year has changed over time because that's the variable number of readings. I thought that this study was based on the mean annual temperature, which is the temperature every day over 365 days averaged to provide an annual mean temperature. There were the same number of days in the 1800s in one year as there are now (or there abouts) and so this provides us with a single value for one year, which can surely be compared to another single value to see which is higher without a skew. If we compare all the annual means we'll see which year is the hottest. 2005's mean annual temperature was the highest since records began. The graph in the article, may suffer from the skew you discussed, but the set of figures of annual means won't. There should always be a genuine contest between annual means no matter how many years of results are compared to each other.
In the UK (I don't know about the whole of Europe) you can opt out of the working time directive, in fact one contract (which I signed before I realised the hours I'd work, blame the blind optimism of youth) automatcially opts you out. You can opt back in to the Working Time directive and your employer must abide by that decision given enough notice, but then you will be actively seen to buck management's need to work longer hours. And, if you enforce your right you'll be at odds with your entire development team, which could impact morale et al in the team. All of this must impact your chances of promotion and a certain amount of your respect received by colleagues.
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You could establish a speech-recognition@home type of application, in the style of SETI@Home et al. If you create an application that can do some useful, but well defined set of tasks using speech recognition, you could build up a very useful open (as in useable by all) and free (as in beer) data base of everything you just mentioned to aid a linguistic study.
Set the application to do something useful for the user that downloads and installs the application as an incentive and well-define the task such that it addresses a small enough to be finite and study-able set of language. As users use the application they get the system to learn the language (multiple users together would be useful too to be analogue to a child's multiple sources of learning) and as the system learns you build data, which is shared and accrued from all the distributed installations of the application.
How about a Firefox plug-in/extension to do this. Is Firefox a simple enough application to start this with? It could be both fun for most users and practical for those using accessibility functions with their computer.
You mean the maths of the graph may be wrong, righr? Flame me if I've got this really wrong, but in the example from numberwatch, if we talking about records always going up based on the number of readings increasing and skewing the statistics, that implies that the number of days in a year has changed over time because that's the variable number of readings. I thought that this study was based on the mean annual temperature, which is the temperature every day over 365 days averaged to provide an annual mean temperature. There were the same number of days in the 1800s in one year as there are now (or there abouts) and so this provides us with a single value for one year, which can surely be compared to another single value to see which is higher without a skew. If we compare all the annual means we'll see which year is the hottest. 2005's mean annual temperature was the highest since records began. The graph in the article, may suffer from the skew you discussed, but the set of figures of annual means won't. There should always be a genuine contest between annual means no matter how many years of results are compared to each other.
In the UK (I don't know about the whole of Europe) you can opt out of the working time directive, in fact one contract (which I signed before I realised the hours I'd work, blame the blind optimism of youth) automatcially opts you out.
You can opt back in to the Working Time directive and your employer must abide by that decision given enough notice, but then you will be actively seen to buck management's need to work longer hours. And, if you enforce your right you'll be at odds with your entire development team, which could impact morale et al in the team.
All of this must impact your chances of promotion and a certain amount of your respect received by colleagues.