1. This demo was likely created by an engineer or sales person with SoundHound. More impressive would be a demo by a third party journalist or reviewer without a vested interest.
2. The impressive speed probably won't scale to the millions of simultaneous users Siri, Google Now, and Cortana support (assuming audio is processed in the cloud, which I admittedly don't know for sure).
3. Obviously the demo uses phrases that work. I guarantee you an ordinary person will often get "Sorry, I didn't understand the question" or whatever SoundHound's equivalent is.
4. While it sounds impressive at first blush, nobody really cares how many days it is between next Tuesday and Christmas of 2025. And that happens to be not only useless, but also pretty easy to special-case in your expert system / AI logic. So how about a demo that answers the question: "How can you make a mushroom omelette without soggy mushrooms?"
Read Trust me, I'm Lying -- it is a book by a self-confessed media manipulator who got depressed and [...]
Especially read the Amazon comments about that book, including the one that claims that right there on the Amazon page are patterns of manipulation of reviews and ratings of the book that suggest he is cynically trying to manipulate people to make a pile of dollars, and hasn't actually:
What you're saying is technically true, and is true of all sting and entrapment operations. What we saw in the videos was technically not ACORN facilitating crime, because the undercover persons were only posing as criminals. And since there was no crime, nobody was prosecuted.
ACORN was still defunded/shamed out of existence., and this was perfectly appropriate. It's the same as with DPR and the Silk Road -- Ross Ullbricht thought he was hiring hit men to commit murders, but because it was all fake, he wasn't prosecuted for those specific actions.
I disagree. The people running ACORN were caught on camera showing willingness to facilitate really bad things, like human trafficking and child prostitution. You can blame the messenger all you like, but the (unedited version of the) video is clear enough that there's no getting around it. That's why the ACORN organization was shamed out of existence.
Your statement that ACORN is defunct is misleading, since the same people who had been running/working for ACORN immediately launched a bunch of similar organizations with different names after its demise, and of course got funding from the same channels. That's the bigger irony in that story.
The ethics of nations maintaining nuclear arsenals is a debate not likely to be resolved soon. However, the nasty things our defense research scientists did to the people living on the Marshall Islands is hopefully something everyone could agree is not OK.
Nobody here is saying the whole field is a crock, and of course many things of substance have been found wrong. How could it be a major field of study and not get things wrong from time to time?
Unfortunately it looks like some people took me literally, and are modding down kenh for expressing an unorthodox opinion. To me that's unfortunate, since climate science is ripe for the same sorts of criticisms as the humanities -- mostly surrounding questionable claims based on statistics and data analysis. Not saying the whole field is a crock, just that criticism and audit are always scientifically desirable, even -- no, ESPECIALLY when major practitioners in the field are so thin-skinned about it.
Nah. Blaming the editors is a long and time honored tradition at Slashdot, as you well know.
Every once in a while I get annoyed about something and write a letter to my local newspaper. They pretty much always publish it, and (annoyingly to me) they pretty much always edit it for style, grammar, length, etc. It annoys me to be edited on a very subtle and debatable point of grammar, but I can't say they aren't doing their job. Contrast that to our Slashdot editors... (sigh).
Pretty obvious, but sometimes the simple things need saying. That's a quote from the Bible, by the way. Evidently they had similar problems 2000 years ago.
People are social animals and they are generally aiming to fit in with some social group or other. Going from a drug/petty crime tolerant lifestyle to a clean start often requires changing your circle of friends. I have a friend who did this and completely turned his life around. Just to clarify, I'm one of his new friends, not his old ones.:p
I like technology options, the more the merrier, so I'm glad to see Intel pushing to compete with ARM. That said, I'm not going to recommend an x86 Android phone to a friend until battery life and app availability are both on par with ARM. Performance is already getting there, it's pretty clear.
My iOS devices are pretty fair space heaters themselves when rendering high frame rate apps. (shrug)
FTA: "It remains to be seen [...] how long the ZenFone 2’s battery will last, but we should have all of that data shortly."
Ahem. Yes. That is one of my biggest questions about this phone, and the other is what you are supposed to do with it, given that the Android app stores' content tends to be geared toward ARM.
Hey, fun exercise: Without googling it, can you say how many years ago you think it was to what is commonly referred to as the "Little Ice Age"?
Far before goal posts were invented to be moved.
(yoda voice) So sure of yourself are you? The "Little Ice Age" was an unusually cold period for Europe and North America, which is designated as happening from about 1300 to 1870 AD. The expression "moving the goal posts" refers to association football (aka soccer), which has been played in Europe since the 400's BC and was standardized in the 1800's AD.
I wouldn't kill a turtle myself, but I do eat beef and other delicious meats regularly. According to the Snopes article, the incident depicted is credibly alleged to be a legal hunting kill in Louisiana wherein the hunter ate the meat. Snopes provides evidence that it wasn't a casual killing with a sawsall like the hysterical Facebook post claimed, but rather a couple of 22 bullets in the turtle's head. What's depicted is the butchering process -- which by the way is just as ugly when it's a cow, we're just not used to seeing it.
I guess there may be people who deny that there ever was an ice age. They are in a very different category from the likes of Richard Lindzen, Judith Curry, and the M&M's, who accept climate change, and even accept that humans affect climate change to an unknown degree, as they question claims of anthropogenic catastrophe.
If you can find evidence that global warming isn't happening, I'm interested in reading it.
What would be unusual is if climate change wasn't happening. When I hear the phrase "climate change denier" (which I know you didn't use, so just putting this out there), I wonder if anybody even exists who fits that description.
Touche. Nevertheless the majority of scientific evidence continues to support my side of the issue.
That may be true. However, I dispute that carbon sensitivity estimations based on computer simulations and projections should be considered scientific evidence, nor taken particularly seriously until and unless they are verified from Mother Nature.
There is no convincing a true [global warming alarmist]. They are ideologically incapable of being convinced of the [measurable failure of Al Gore's crusade].
FTFY. In fact, you can plug any kind of dogma in there and the formula works.
We shouldn't waste our time arguing with people who are unwilling to consider alternative explanations to their specific models of reality.
On the contrary, we can argue with people all we like. Of course, the Slashdot comments section is just an online forum where (for the most part) non-scientists are playing a sort of team sport of advocating the view they think is correct. In a few cases trolling, but probably not that many.
The people who are doing the real scientific advancement aren't arguing with people at all per se, but interacting with ideas and testing them with data and analysis.
Good grief. I think the word you're searching for is "convince". And even that is dubious, at least based on how I see the term "denier" indiscriminately used in the real world. Forcing conformity is not how science gets moved forward.
For example, M&M are frequently labeled as "bad" "deniers" who just need to be quiet and go away. But in fact, they have contributed insightful criticisms to the field, and anyone who says otherwise is selling something. There's a fair amount of noise on climateaudit.org, but there's also a useful signal to be found in there.
I am loving reading all these responses explaining how people avoid distractions, even while succumbing to the distraction of posting on reading and posting on Slashdot.
(Yeah yeah, I know, maybe they're in a different time zone... I would bet money the majority are still in their working hours. Including myself.)
She always said if we didn't give it an extra second to stop zapping before we opened the door, we'd all die of cancer. I'm going to have to tell her about this for Mother's Day.:)
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1. This demo was likely created by an engineer or sales person with SoundHound. More impressive would be a demo by a third party journalist or reviewer without a vested interest.
2. The impressive speed probably won't scale to the millions of simultaneous users Siri, Google Now, and Cortana support (assuming audio is processed in the cloud, which I admittedly don't know for sure).
3. Obviously the demo uses phrases that work. I guarantee you an ordinary person will often get "Sorry, I didn't understand the question" or whatever SoundHound's equivalent is.
4. While it sounds impressive at first blush, nobody really cares how many days it is between next Tuesday and Christmas of 2025. And that happens to be not only useless, but also pretty easy to special-case in your expert system / AI logic. So how about a demo that answers the question: "How can you make a mushroom omelette without soggy mushrooms?"
Read Trust me, I'm Lying -- it is a book by a self-confessed media manipulator who got depressed and [...]
Especially read the Amazon comments about that book, including the one that claims that right there on the Amazon page are patterns of manipulation of reviews and ratings of the book that suggest he is cynically trying to manipulate people to make a pile of dollars, and hasn't actually:
[...] left the industry.
What you're saying is technically true, and is true of all sting and entrapment operations. What we saw in the videos was technically not ACORN facilitating crime, because the undercover persons were only posing as criminals. And since there was no crime, nobody was prosecuted.
ACORN was still defunded/shamed out of existence., and this was perfectly appropriate. It's the same as with DPR and the Silk Road -- Ross Ullbricht thought he was hiring hit men to commit murders, but because it was all fake, he wasn't prosecuted for those specific actions.
I disagree. The people running ACORN were caught on camera showing willingness to facilitate really bad things, like human trafficking and child prostitution. You can blame the messenger all you like, but the (unedited version of the) video is clear enough that there's no getting around it. That's why the ACORN organization was shamed out of existence.
Your statement that ACORN is defunct is misleading, since the same people who had been running/working for ACORN immediately launched a bunch of similar organizations with different names after its demise, and of course got funding from the same channels. That's the bigger irony in that story.
The ethics of nations maintaining nuclear arsenals is a debate not likely to be resolved soon. However, the nasty things our defense research scientists did to the people living on the Marshall Islands is hopefully something everyone could agree is not OK.
Nobody here is saying the whole field is a crock, and of course many things of substance have been found wrong. How could it be a major field of study and not get things wrong from time to time?
Unfortunately it looks like some people took me literally, and are modding down kenh for expressing an unorthodox opinion. To me that's unfortunate, since climate science is ripe for the same sorts of criticisms as the humanities -- mostly surrounding questionable claims based on statistics and data analysis. Not saying the whole field is a crock, just that criticism and audit are always scientifically desirable, even -- no, ESPECIALLY when major practitioners in the field are so thin-skinned about it.
Your post hurts Michael Mann's feelings, and should be modded down for that reason alone. ;)
Nah. Blaming the editors is a long and time honored tradition at Slashdot, as you well know.
Every once in a while I get annoyed about something and write a letter to my local newspaper. They pretty much always publish it, and (annoyingly to me) they pretty much always edit it for style, grammar, length, etc. It annoys me to be edited on a very subtle and debatable point of grammar, but I can't say they aren't doing their job. Contrast that to our Slashdot editors... (sigh).
based on a presentation from Alvin Cox, a Seagate engineer[...]Alan Cox said, "I wouldn't worry"
Can we get these two gentlemen to agree on a statement of risk? Or maybe just a little, you know, editing from the Slashdot editors?
What if you corrupt my character? lol, just kidding. Nobody's perfect, and I guess my post did come off a bit on the goody two shoes side.
Pretty obvious, but sometimes the simple things need saying. That's a quote from the Bible, by the way. Evidently they had similar problems 2000 years ago.
:p
People are social animals and they are generally aiming to fit in with some social group or other. Going from a drug/petty crime tolerant lifestyle to a clean start often requires changing your circle of friends. I have a friend who did this and completely turned his life around. Just to clarify, I'm one of his new friends, not his old ones.
I like technology options, the more the merrier, so I'm glad to see Intel pushing to compete with ARM. That said, I'm not going to recommend an x86 Android phone to a friend until battery life and app availability are both on par with ARM. Performance is already getting there, it's pretty clear.
My iOS devices are pretty fair space heaters themselves when rendering high frame rate apps. (shrug)
FTA: "It remains to be seen [...] how long the ZenFone 2’s battery will last, but we should have all of that data shortly."
Ahem. Yes. That is one of my biggest questions about this phone, and the other is what you are supposed to do with it, given that the Android app stores' content tends to be geared toward ARM.
Wow. You are reaching far back in time there.
Hey, fun exercise: Without googling it, can you say how many years ago you think it was to what is commonly referred to as the "Little Ice Age"?
Far before goal posts were invented to be moved.
(yoda voice) So sure of yourself are you? The "Little Ice Age" was an unusually cold period for Europe and North America, which is designated as happening from about 1300 to 1870 AD. The expression "moving the goal posts" refers to association football (aka soccer), which has been played in Europe since the 400's BC and was standardized in the 1800's AD.
Wow. You are reaching far back in time there.
Hey, fun exercise: Without googling it, can you say how many years ago you think it was to what is commonly referred to as the "Little Ice Age"?
I wouldn't kill a turtle myself, but I do eat beef and other delicious meats regularly. According to the Snopes article, the incident depicted is credibly alleged to be a legal hunting kill in Louisiana wherein the hunter ate the meat. Snopes provides evidence that it wasn't a casual killing with a sawsall like the hysterical Facebook post claimed, but rather a couple of 22 bullets in the turtle's head. What's depicted is the butchering process -- which by the way is just as ugly when it's a cow, we're just not used to seeing it.
So simmer down a bit!
I guess there may be people who deny that there ever was an ice age. They are in a very different category from the likes of Richard Lindzen, Judith Curry, and the M&M's, who accept climate change, and even accept that humans affect climate change to an unknown degree, as they question claims of anthropogenic catastrophe.
If you can find evidence that global warming isn't happening, I'm interested in reading it.
What would be unusual is if climate change wasn't happening. When I hear the phrase "climate change denier" (which I know you didn't use, so just putting this out there), I wonder if anybody even exists who fits that description.
Touche. Nevertheless the majority of scientific evidence continues to support my side of the issue.
That may be true. However, I dispute that carbon sensitivity estimations based on computer simulations and projections should be considered scientific evidence, nor taken particularly seriously until and unless they are verified from Mother Nature.
There is no convincing a true [global warming alarmist]. They are ideologically incapable of being convinced of the [measurable failure of Al Gore's crusade].
FTFY. In fact, you can plug any kind of dogma in there and the formula works.
We shouldn't waste our time arguing with people who are unwilling to consider alternative explanations to their specific models of reality.
On the contrary, we can argue with people all we like. Of course, the Slashdot comments section is just an online forum where (for the most part) non-scientists are playing a sort of team sport of advocating the view they think is correct. In a few cases trolling, but probably not that many.
The people who are doing the real scientific advancement aren't arguing with people at all per se, but interacting with ideas and testing them with data and analysis.
its the deniers you want to eliminate
Good grief. I think the word you're searching for is "convince". And even that is dubious, at least based on how I see the term "denier" indiscriminately used in the real world. Forcing conformity is not how science gets moved forward.
For example, M&M are frequently labeled as "bad" "deniers" who just need to be quiet and go away. But in fact, they have contributed insightful criticisms to the field, and anyone who says otherwise is selling something. There's a fair amount of noise on climateaudit.org, but there's also a useful signal to be found in there.
I am loving reading all these responses explaining how people avoid distractions, even while succumbing to the distraction of posting on reading and posting on Slashdot.
(Yeah yeah, I know, maybe they're in a different time zone... I would bet money the majority are still in their working hours. Including myself.)
She always said if we didn't give it an extra second to stop zapping before we opened the door, we'd all die of cancer. I'm going to have to tell her about this for Mother's Day. :)