eghad

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by eghad 5y ago
Congrats on the launch! Worked on something similar, so rooting for ya. Using Hollywood accent coaches is a great approach, but I'd also look into identifying speech therapists that specialize with helping adults in target regions to 1
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by eghad 5y ago
The problem with adapting this to other forms of atypical speech is that their recommendation system likely relies on a catalog the phonemes L2 speakers have issues with (the example most people know is the Japanese "L" "R&qu
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by eghad 5y ago
I don't know how you can seriously mention Freelancer without mentioning that it was completely taken out of the over-promising grip of Chris Roberts. Great game, but I despise the fact that people attribute the work of those programme
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by eghad 5y ago
I'm even talking vs custom trained models with Kaldi (was working on a startup that was trying to create lessons for public speaking so we could grab enough data to tackle accent remediation/help those with aphasic speech disorder
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by eghad 5y ago
And what do you suggest is better? I've worked with nearly every tool (open source and closed) under the sun in medical, industrial, and personal settings and Dragon NaturallySpeaking/Professional was by far the best in terms of a
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by eghad 5y ago
I mean the substack author is far from someone who ejects nuance into any topic, they have a very clear right-wing bias (some of which I'd clearly note as actually extremist) by looking at their other articles. Some if I named or pos
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by eghad 6y ago
Because the manufacturer of the medicine explicitly said it can't treat the off-label use? And won't sell it to anyone claiming it can.
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by eghad 6y ago
I never said zero stakes? There are clear instances where a a 1 or 0 shot transformer can have benefits beyond entertainment--topic modeling and named entity recognition for instance (I'm on the team that believes that human-in-the-loo
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by eghad 6y ago
I mean the OpenAI team would never approve this application for production. It's very clearly stated (in both the article and use case guidelines) that medical diagnosis would be a "high stakes domain" and is unsupported. Fra
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by eghad 6y ago
Abstracts are important (and clearly key in generating these TLDRs), but when it comes to ranking and recommending other papers (not to mention noting whether a new paper has content that can actually push a field forward) an abstract just
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by eghad 6y ago
The Koch's political funding goes far beyond just this one PAC fyi. Their funneling of millions into the Federalist Society and its individual causes serving as just one example that has had an outsized negative influence on the health
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by eghad 6y ago
Not only that, but the assumptions are poor to begin with. Most skincare products containing sodium hyaluronate are either micronized or in a crosspolymer so that it can penetrate the skin, not HA on its own (something I'd expect a che
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by eghad 6y ago
If you're in America, covid19 is not winding down. After working for Roche I think statements and projects like this are here solely for lip-service/to quickly attract VC bucks, but the threat is still very real and every major
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by eghad 6y ago
No, iOS devices can also soft-brick, it's just a general term. Most often people encounter the term in relation to hacking/rooting hardware, like a Nintendo DS/Switch for instance. Hitting up Wikipedia or Trends can help you
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by eghad 7y ago
Yeah the writing and formatting were really poor, they've since changed it to theHustle's article on it, which is at least a marginal improvement.
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by eghad 8y ago
And he's wrong. Retraining has been effective in several European nations like Germany, Sweden, and Switzerland, especially for older adults (there's a reason even DeVos and Trump name drop them). The fundamental difference (from
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by eghad 8y ago
You're going to need to provide a source for your claims that 0% graduate. A handful of my classmates from Carnegie Mellon were veterans (some with trauma) and all graduated within the typical timeline. The NVEST report from 2017 on st
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by eghad 8y ago
If anyone wants to try out a free GPU using Google Colab/Jupyter (K80, you might run into ram allocation issues if you're not one of the lucky users who get to use the full amount) here's a quick guide to get a Julia kernel u
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by eghad 8y ago
Glad they've finally gotten to 1.0, been using it on and off since .3 with the same optimism I had when Rails jumped onto the scene. I really hope the community can start to mature beyond the bikeshedding that is typical of early langu
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by eghad 8y ago
No it doesn't. The requirements are Android 5.0, and can support something as weak as the Motorola E4 Plus[0]. And as someone who maintains a decently popular app on that platform, you'd be surprised how many former flagships (the
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by eghad 8y ago
Most modern phones are not on 8. The Oreo install base is only 12.1%, most phones are still running Nougat (7.0 dominates with 21.2%, then 7.1) or Marshmellow (23.5%). Seeing as PUBG Mobile's lowest supported version is 5.0, it wouldn&
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by eghad 8y ago
The President of the United States actively chooses to use @realDonaldTrump as in the same manner as a government official would in any other public forum, as such he must comply with the rules governing them as enshrined in the Constitutio
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by eghad 10y ago
Sorry to dump on your aside, but the media arm isn't affected. The Finance/Risk news (for financial clients) division is the one being downsized, and they were profitable. The parent mentions it, but here's the brief from the
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Oculus Touch Controllers $200, 3rd Sensor for Room Scale VR $80(arstechnica.com)
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by eghad 10y ago
It is indeed, correct. The annealing example I linked is from his team (here's another one with full citation with Martinis at the end there [0]). And if you want further proof that Martinis and the Google Quantum team are pursing quan
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by eghad 10y ago
The UCSB professor you're referring to is John Martinis [0] and though the physical structure differs (they're using small arrays of "Xmons" instead of typical transmons qubits to minimize decoherence and thus error) the
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by eghad 10y ago
Whenever D-Wave comes up on HN I'm always impressed to see how many posters who casually read one Scott Aaronson blog (not even the most recent ones mind you) think they're more qualified than legions of classically trained engine
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by eghad 10y ago
A selling point which isn't enough in the current climate when it comes to living room hardware. As of June this year the Wii U has only sold (to retail, which doesn't actually mean total sales to consumers) 13.02 million units wo
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by eghad 10y ago
I wouldn't go as far to say they're stuck in the 80s, but when it comes to technology and current trends Nintendo is consistently considered the lagging player (the fact that they're still grappling with online gaming and inf
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by eghad 10y ago
The generic version is still $200, still not an "easy fix" for most.

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