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California's high housing costs drive out poor, middle-income workers(latimes.com)
2 points by mstoehr 12y ago|1 comments
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by mstoehr 12y ago
To say that the sequence is computable means that you must present a Turing machine, call it T, that will produce BB(n) in finitely many steps after taking input n. Our specific Turing machine T will have a fixed number of rules call it N
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by mstoehr 15y ago
Employers are probably unconvinced that younger applicants will be able to make them more profits. This is caused in part by the uselessness (for businesses) of the work students do in high-school and college--this is a group of people who
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by mstoehr 16y ago
Most commenters are focusing on relatively high level features of decoding speech. It is important to also be aware that there is still great debate about what are the acoustic correlates of linguistic events in speech. It seems that our
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by mstoehr 16y ago
I agree that its at the heart of it (and I'm presently writing a paper where I'm using articulatory-phonetic features rather than phonemes). Unfortunately, there is no large-vocabulary speech recognizer that uses articulatory phonetics (ye
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by mstoehr 16y ago
It's not actually clear what we hear at this point, there is evidence that we respond to something like frequencies, pitch, volume, and other things. But the jury is still out on the low-level signal processing that is occurring in the coc
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by mstoehr 16y ago
It is true that humans do use situational context. In the cases where semantics is important and complex for understanding an utterance a computer will fail even more because it won't get the semantics or the speech signal. On the topic of
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by mstoehr 16y ago
Actually most research effort in speech is more on the language side rather than the signal processing of the speech signal. So I think many people have a similar intuition as yourself. Bear in mind though, that humans significantly outper
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by mstoehr 16y ago
He didn't make any advance that has made its way to a full word recognizer, he's merely recognizing phonemes (which are linguistic subunits of words) several researchers in the field have criticized his methods. Additionally, none of the t
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by mstoehr 17y ago
I'm not any sort of expert on the neural network literature but these were some papers in the last three years that caught my eye, Yann LeCun also does work on neural nets, but I haven't been all that impressed by his results. One of the ma
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by mstoehr 17y ago
How do you think that the character traits of the writer are relevant to his case against Google?
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by mstoehr 17y ago
And even the most fancy statistical methods are generally about proving that some mild generalization of linear regression is sufficient to solve a particular problem. Non-linear models often result in a great increases in model complexity
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by mstoehr 18y ago
There really isn't very much available on the practical side. So if you are looking to implement algorithms I suggest that you make use of the machine learning at ocw.mit.edu Alternatively, if you want a good dose of a theoretical explanat
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Ask YC: Entrepreneurship versus Trading
2 points by mstoehr 18y ago|1 comments
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by mstoehr 18y ago
The orthodox school of thought in financial economics was the efficient market hypothesis, which more or less states that the best valuation on current assets is the market price. I suppose there is something to be said for pointing out th
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Can the Internet destroy the University?(whatisresearch.wordpress.com)
1 points by mstoehr 18y ago|0 comments
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Digital Speech Processing Course(ece.ucsb.edu)
1 points by mstoehr 18y ago|0 comments
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by mstoehr 18y ago
If you're looking to enjoy the finer things in life, Chile is probably not the best place. Argentina, Peru, or Brazil would all probably be better picks.
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by mstoehr 18y ago
"This was really Godel's point: mathematics is not identical with formalism. They stand and fall separately. This is not to say that mathematics could never collapse for any reason, only that it would take a lot more than finding a paradox
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by mstoehr 18y ago
Although it does lead to a mathematically uninteresting paradox: if you let A be the axioms of set theory and you add an axiom P which states that A proves x and not x, (i.e. set theory is inconsistent) then A' = A and P is still consistent
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by mstoehr 18y ago
I was originally an economics major, but I've managed to switch out into a major in math and a minor in CS (the study of AI was just too seductive). One area of CS theory that is pretty straightforward to pick up for an economist is algori
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by mstoehr 18y ago
The clearest description of what CS researchers talk about when they talk about "intelligence" (see http://www.vetta.org/definitions-of-intelligence/ ) is probably a production function from economics.
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by mstoehr 18y ago
I've definitely seen evidence that the school one goes to correlates with success, but are you sure that the causality flows in the direction: academic credential --> success? It seems plausible at least that if the parent is wealthy, s
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Y Combinator(ece.uc.edu)
1 points by mstoehr 18y ago|0 comments
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by mstoehr 18y ago
The solution uses something called common knowledge, which is that everyone knows that everyone knows that every one knows, ad infinitum. Before the queen makes the announcement they may all know that the other husbands are cheating but th
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by mstoehr 18y ago
The author might have done well to read pg's essay on disagreement since his attacks were mostly vague (I too agree that the characterization of London and Paris could have been better supported), and the attacks were executed merely by bri
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by mstoehr 18y ago
This article claims that venture capital is lacking in innovation, but the article (a) sites no evidence to back the claim (b) does not provide support that any perceived lack in innovation might be the result of the recent financial crise
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by mstoehr 18y ago
It wouldn't be an internet discussion without at least one ad hominem argument.
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The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete(earningmyturns.blogspot.com)
1 points by mstoehr 18y ago|0 comments
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by mstoehr 18y ago
It may be "dangerous", but basing causation just on correlation (or statistical data in general) is actually a pretty prominent idea: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/causation-probabilistic/ . Chris Anderson obviously glosses over many t

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