They do the scans on Sunday night when they are no patients ( I've been a subject in other experiments).
But apart from that, if you think that there's no medical value to this research, you need to sit back and do something that enhances your imagination. They've also studied how cancer patients swallow. Besides the vocal tract, the heart is another organ that needs real time mri, so it's no gimmick.
Also this research was from USC, not UCSD.
We have a project at USC that we've been working on which is similar but we show a sample of the individual tweets that were classified:
http://politics.twittersentiment.org/streams/
The system in the article doesn't show any of the data that they use to base the scores on, so it is effectively a black box. Also it lacks the entertainment value of seeing the sometimes funny twitter data. Also, ours is real time so it's interesting to watch during a debate.
I just logged into www.google.com/history and saw my browsing history back to 2007. I understand some of the privacy concerns, but I actually found it interesting to see what webpages I went to 5 years ago. For me, the ability to look back into details of the past that may have left my conscious memory recall seems to outweigh the security concerns. Also, on the www.google.com/history page you can delete individual record items so if there's something IN PARTICULAR that you want to delete... hint, hint, nudge, nudge, say no more.
Um, last time I checked they speak Galician (Gallego) in Galicia, which is no where near Madrid. Galicia is near Portugal, so from what I've heard, it's similar to Portuguese. Also, they have a Celtic sound to their local music, so there might be some influence of that, but I'm not so sure.
I got a naked dsl plan from at&t and it really sucks b/c they have to come to your home and change the wiring... it took them 2 months to finally do it... 2 months with out internet at home:@
Then it's impossible to use any of the online forms to change the service or pay bills b/c they all require a phone number, which I don't have (I have a cell, but they supposedly need the phone number associated with the dsl plan, which I don't have).
The opium wars are not a good argument for a number of reasons:
1. Opium != marijuana in an important way. One is physically addictive and the other is not.
2. Opium was marketed into China so that foreign powers could profit.
I think the opium war makes sense as an argument against fossil fuels as much as it does as an argument against the good herb.
I agree... I'm one of the few home-grown grad-students here. It can be tough keeping up with some of the bright international students, but it makes more sense in the long run to keep the smart people here (hopefully, we can outbreed the people who voted for Bush). Having smart people in the country will do way more than any economic stimulus, tax rebates, or what have you. Here's an article about the perils of protectionism during the first great depression http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/id/17606.htm .
But it works by having the phone do speech recognition while being held at arms length. That way you can have multi-modal communication and it not simply speech replacing pointing, but having them work together, using each modality for what it's good for.
Here's a link to an article: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/07/att-developing.html
The idea of using the phones accelerometer is a great idea. In AT&T's demo you need to "click to talk", which makes sense for their design, but the accelerometer idea is pretty nifty if you just have speech responses. Using the display is good for many things though, e.g. for maps, long lists. I'm thinking it could be a pain to have to hold the phone up to your ear over and over: hold it up to your ear, speak, look at the display, (speak again if something was misrecognized), (possibly click something), hold it up to hor ear, speak, look at the display, etc.
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Why procrastinate now when you could procrastinate tomorrow.
I think that o-chem was one of the most useful classes I took as an undergrad. You learn stuff that can be useful for nutrition, removing stains with the appropriate solvents, making bombs and drugs, and if you personify the different molecules, you can learn a lot about interpersonal relations. My prof said that potassium tert-butoxide was like a person with a fat ass trying to date. The have a hard time squeezing into tight locations, so they can't react with hard-to-get bonds. But if they find a bond that they can react with, then they'll react right away without thinking twice.
I used to think that o-chem was the hardest class that I'd have to take, but then for some reason I switched to CS...
In my time in Shanghai, I went to a bunch of clubs. I heard stories that girls might dance with you to pick your pocket. It could just be that she liked his phone. I never saw any of that though and I only met nice girls. One time I accidentally wound up in a brothel, but that was by mistake. If you want to find a girl that's not going to rob you or make you pay for services, it seems like a good rule of thumb is that normal girls go to clubs with another friend, and in general, it seemed like you'd see pairs of girls walking around holding hands, at least on campus. I don't have a lot of empirical data to test my hypothesis for significance, but it seems like if she doesn't have a pair, it's wise to be a bit cautious. Her pair will probably make it harder to score, but if you are with friends too, you can just party all night together and go to dim sum when the sun come up.
surprisingly, the Christian Science Monitor is relatively unbiased. That's my other news source besides slashdot and news.google.com. The name's a little unfortunate b/c it sounds like it would be some type "news" like fox.
Christianity is losing adherents. Other religions are gaining them.
Unfortunately, this is true.
Equally unfortunately, the primary religion gaining adherents is Islam. Which is several orders of magnitude more dangerous to Womens Rights Issues than Christianity ever dreamed of being in the darkest days of the Dark Ages.
Funny you should mention the dark ages, when Islam had a flourishing scientific establishment... there's been one role-reversal, perhaps there will be another.
I've been attending a lecture series on Islam recently and I was kind of surprised about the difference in how Islam and Christianity looks at miracles. For example, Mary's immaculate conception is considered a "miracle" to be taken on faith in Christianity (at least when I was in Catholic school), but in the class they described the immaculate conception as something that we are not currently advanced enough to understand. I'm not sure if this sci-fi interpretation of miracles is prevalent throughout islam, or if it was just this particular teacher or sect (Shiite/Iranian).
It is indeed funny how people talk when they use ASR. I work on speech recognition in grad school and we do usability experiments and people need to be explicitly reminded not to talk like a robot. the performance is best when talking normally, but because people attribute human-like qualities to the recogniser, they talk to it like it was a robot child that didn't understand, which makes the performance a lot worse. But it should be stressed that it isn't the fault of the recognition that people talk like robots, it's just what people do naturally when they think there's a lack of understanding.
--why procrastinate today when you can do it tomorrow?
Reminds me of "voice-printing", which was basically manual speaker recognition using spectrograms. The police who used it were undertrained, and *just slightly* biased against the accused, so the whole technique became discredited, perhaps more than necessary.
I'd like to post a link for the CLAM project, which is an open source (GPL) C++ framework for processing audio. It has nice visualizations that show the chord and key being played. It seems to support all the jack/ladspa connectivity and it has a rapid development tool for connecting networks of audio analysis/synthesis processing nodes (the gui is implemented with qt). It's currently being supported by google summer of code. Here's the link:http://clam.iua.upf.edu/ . I'm affiliated with the clam project so I might be biased, but since I didn't see it mentioned here, I thought I'd add it in case it strikes anyones interest.
--why procrastinate today what you can procrastinate tomorrow?
Slashdot Mirror
They do the scans on Sunday night when they are no patients ( I've been a subject in other experiments). But apart from that, if you think that there's no medical value to this research, you need to sit back and do something that enhances your imagination. They've also studied how cancer patients swallow. Besides the vocal tract, the heart is another organ that needs real time mri, so it's no gimmick. Also this research was from USC, not UCSD.
The graph does not provide any reason why a candidate would be trending on twitter.
We have a project that is a bit more insightful about what is actually being classified as positive and negative:
http://politics.twittersentiment.org/streams/
http://politics.twittersentiment.org/streams/stats.html
but we show a sample of the individual tweets that were classified
Here's the link to actual tweet data that is classified into positive/negative/neutral/unsure
http://politics.twittersentiment.org/streams/stats.html
We have a project at USC that we've been working on which is similar but we show a sample of the individual tweets that were classified:
http://politics.twittersentiment.org/streams/
The system in the article doesn't show any of the data that they use to base the scores on, so it is effectively a black box. Also it lacks the entertainment value of seeing the sometimes funny twitter data. Also, ours is real time so it's interesting to watch during a debate.
I just logged into www.google.com/history and saw my browsing history back to 2007. I understand some of the privacy concerns, but I actually found it interesting to see what webpages I went to 5 years ago. For me, the ability to look back into details of the past that may have left my conscious memory recall seems to outweigh the security concerns. Also, on the www.google.com/history page you can delete individual record items so if there's something IN PARTICULAR that you want to delete... hint, hint, nudge, nudge, say no more.
a consolation for us non-billionaires
is Iceland Scandinavian? It seems like they might be a counter example...
and first post!??
Um, last time I checked they speak Galician (Gallego) in Galicia, which is no where near Madrid. Galicia is near Portugal, so from what I've heard, it's similar to Portuguese. Also, they have a Celtic sound to their local music, so there might be some influence of that, but I'm not so sure.
I got a naked dsl plan from at&t and it really sucks b/c they have to come to your home and change the wiring... it took them 2 months to finally do it... 2 months with out internet at home :@
Then it's impossible to use any of the online forms to change the service or pay bills b/c they all require a phone number, which I don't have (I have a cell, but they supposedly need the phone number associated with the dsl plan, which I don't have).
The opium wars are not a good argument for a number of reasons: 1. Opium != marijuana in an important way. One is physically addictive and the other is not. 2. Opium was marketed into China so that foreign powers could profit. I think the opium war makes sense as an argument against fossil fuels as much as it does as an argument against the good herb.
I agree... I'm one of the few home-grown grad-students here. It can be tough keeping up with some of the bright international students, but it makes more sense in the long run to keep the smart people here (hopefully, we can outbreed the people who voted for Bush). Having smart people in the country will do way more than any economic stimulus, tax rebates, or what have you. Here's an article about the perils of protectionism during the first great depression http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/id/17606.htm .
But it works by having the phone do speech recognition while being held at arms length. That way you can have multi-modal communication and it not simply speech replacing pointing, but having them work together, using each modality for what it's good for. Here's a link to an article: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/07/att-developing.html The idea of using the phones accelerometer is a great idea. In AT&T's demo you need to "click to talk", which makes sense for their design, but the accelerometer idea is pretty nifty if you just have speech responses. Using the display is good for many things though, e.g. for maps, long lists. I'm thinking it could be a pain to have to hold the phone up to your ear over and over: hold it up to your ear, speak, look at the display, (speak again if something was misrecognized), (possibly click something), hold it up to hor ear, speak, look at the display, etc. -- Why procrastinate now when you could procrastinate tomorrow.
I think that o-chem was one of the most useful classes I took as an undergrad. You learn stuff that can be useful for nutrition, removing stains with the appropriate solvents, making bombs and drugs, and if you personify the different molecules, you can learn a lot about interpersonal relations. My prof said that potassium tert-butoxide was like a person with a fat ass trying to date. The have a hard time squeezing into tight locations, so they can't react with hard-to-get bonds. But if they find a bond that they can react with, then they'll react right away without thinking twice.
I used to think that o-chem was the hardest class that I'd have to take, but then for some reason I switched to CS...
In my time in Shanghai, I went to a bunch of clubs. I heard stories that girls might dance with you to pick your pocket. It could just be that she liked his phone. I never saw any of that though and I only met nice girls. One time I accidentally wound up in a brothel, but that was by mistake. If you want to find a girl that's not going to rob you or make you pay for services, it seems like a good rule of thumb is that normal girls go to clubs with another friend, and in general, it seemed like you'd see pairs of girls walking around holding hands, at least on campus. I don't have a lot of empirical data to test my hypothesis for significance, but it seems like if she doesn't have a pair, it's wise to be a bit cautious. Her pair will probably make it harder to score, but if you are with friends too, you can just party all night together and go to dim sum when the sun come up.
surprisingly, the Christian Science Monitor is relatively unbiased. That's my other news source besides slashdot and news.google.com. The name's a little unfortunate b/c it sounds like it would be some type "news" like fox.
Unfortunately, this is true.
Equally unfortunately, the primary religion gaining adherents is Islam. Which is several orders of magnitude more dangerous to Womens Rights Issues than Christianity ever dreamed of being in the darkest days of the Dark Ages.
Funny you should mention the dark ages, when Islam had a flourishing scientific establishment... there's been one role-reversal, perhaps there will be another.
I've been attending a lecture series on Islam recently and I was kind of surprised about the difference in how Islam and Christianity looks at miracles. For example, Mary's immaculate conception is considered a "miracle" to be taken on faith in Christianity (at least when I was in Catholic school), but in the class they described the immaculate conception as something that we are not currently advanced enough to understand. I'm not sure if this sci-fi interpretation of miracles is prevalent throughout islam, or if it was just this particular teacher or sect (Shiite/Iranian).
It is indeed funny how people talk when they use ASR. I work on speech recognition in grad school and we do usability experiments and people need to be explicitly reminded not to talk like a robot. the performance is best when talking normally, but because people attribute human-like qualities to the recogniser, they talk to it like it was a robot child that didn't understand, which makes the performance a lot worse. But it should be stressed that it isn't the fault of the recognition that people talk like robots, it's just what people do naturally when they think there's a lack of understanding. --why procrastinate today when you can do it tomorrow?
Reminds me of "voice-printing", which was basically manual speaker recognition using spectrograms. The police who used it were undertrained, and *just slightly* biased against the accused, so the whole technique became discredited, perhaps more than necessary.
c s/voiceprints/1.html
http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/forensi
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Why procrastinate now when you can procrastinate tomorrow?
I'd like to post a link for the CLAM project, which is an open source (GPL) C++ framework for processing audio. It has nice visualizations that show the chord and key being played. It seems to support all the jack/ladspa connectivity and it has a rapid development tool for connecting networks of audio analysis/synthesis processing nodes (the gui is implemented with qt). It's currently being supported by google summer of code. Here's the link:http://clam.iua.upf.edu/ . I'm affiliated with the clam project so I might be biased, but since I didn't see it mentioned here, I thought I'd add it in case it strikes anyones interest. --why procrastinate today what you can procrastinate tomorrow?