wanderfowl

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by wanderfowl 2y ago
I find this response (and the class of responses like it) really frustrating, because it uses a (likely feigned) misunderstanding of the scope of the question to attempt to sidestep the real question. My question for the CTO would be, rough
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by wanderfowl 4y ago
This is wildly impressive. Thank you for doing and sharing this, and the 1337 on either end is just icing on the cake. It's also a beautiful example of just how broken MD5 is. I wish I'd had this to show my students 3 weeks ago
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by wanderfowl 5y ago
Yes, but there are now python interfaces to it which make it so you can script in a more conventional language.
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by wanderfowl 5y ago
I’m disappointed to hear that, just because it’d be very useful for this to be a thing. But I love the science behind it, and this is the way it should be.
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by wanderfowl 7y ago
Teaching about language in a university setting, we often talk about various forms of evidence for language-like communication among animals. As I tell students, I would bet that within our lifetimes, as research continues and our instrumen
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by wanderfowl 7y ago
So, a different-but-related question: Putting aside the desired addictive nature, are there any gamers out there who actually prefer microtransaction-driven loot box mechanics to more conventional item drops? Or is this just a UX element
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by wanderfowl 7y ago
That was my very first thought, seeing that image: Ray Bradbury would be absolutely beaming to see it.
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by wanderfowl 7y ago
This just underscores one of the main things I desire from social media these days: Ephemerality. I wish that social media services, Snapchat aside, started treating content as transient. Services like TweetDelete help, but I can't t
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by wanderfowl 7y ago
For what it's worth, this only works if the source of hearing loss is conductive (e.g. eardrum or the ossicles). If your cochlea or any sub-element (e.g. inner hair cells) are damaged, bone conduction will be no different. In fact,
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by wanderfowl 7y ago
I'd love to see a norm develop where the 'authoritative link' to an article is expected to be the most open. So, if there's a closed journal and an Arxiv pre-print, Arxiv gets the link, with the journal's publicati
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by wanderfowl 7y ago
The writing and research following this quake series has again underscored for me both a) how little we actually know about predicting earthquakes b) and how frustrating that is. You can read every article out there about the things, and e
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by wanderfowl 7y ago
Yes, my wife and I have gone through three keyboards among our two iPads. The first two I had to pay to replace, the last one, failing less than 6 months after purchase, Apple replaced themselves. Not been a great experience.
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by wanderfowl 7y ago
Overleaf's fine, but lack of offline editing, and more crucially, trusting my main working copy to live only on somebody else's computer, is a bit of a non-starter for me. Plus, call me an idealist, but it feels like a huge step
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by wanderfowl 7y ago
This is great to see, but also really frustrating. I see Apple pushing to make iPadOS feel more 'real computer', but these sorts of basic Unixy workflows still feel very hacky, particularly when it comes time to save things to th
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by wanderfowl 7y ago
We don't know this for sure, certainly, but given that things like social group, race and gender are fundamentally sociocultural phenomena (albeit with some physiological basis in some cases), I would assume that humans will have a con
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by wanderfowl 7y ago
In both cases, there are a lot of hidden variables. With voice, you miss out on non-acoustic things like beards, cheekbones, and other sorts of face-distinguishing features With just a face, you miss things like the fundamental frequency (
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by wanderfowl 7y ago
This feels very unlikely. Hairs are thin, non-absorptive, and spaced far enough apart to avoid much absorption. Unless it were an exceptionally bushy and thick goatee, I don't imagine there's much effect.
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by wanderfowl 7y ago
I'm a speech scientist. This paper is a neat idea, and the results are interesting, but not in the way I'd expected. I had hoped it would the domain of how much person-specific information this can deduce from a voice, e.g. li
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by wanderfowl 7y ago
One thing to remember is that as of a month or so ago, there are serious limitations on the functionality of Linux apps. For instance, accessing your Google Drive files with Linux isn't straightforwardly possible, and another big one
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by wanderfowl 7y ago
Yep, that's fine, but it's not much of a firewall. And unless I'm mis-reading this, this doesn't allow you to combine multiple domains.
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by wanderfowl 7y ago
My understanding is that this isn't a free/pro distinction, but a "Feature on the Roadmap". But I'd be delighted to find out I'm wrong.
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by wanderfowl 7y ago
One major issue with the iOS client is that it cannot handle more than one Inbox. So, if you use two accounts (e.g. home and work), you can only be logged in in one at a time, and have to go through the full sign-in-sign-out process each t
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by wanderfowl 7y ago
This is really amazing work. Nice to see LPC pushed to its limits, and I can't wait to see what's next for speech compression. Here's hoping the mobile companies pick up on something similar soon.
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by wanderfowl 8y ago
Ahh, I see. Interesting.
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by wanderfowl 8y ago
Out of curiosity, how is this better than, for instance, using B-splines or some other smoothing spline to fit a given chunk of data? I'm not being snarky, I'm just trying to get my head around the use cases for this.
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by wanderfowl 8y ago
Maybe I just had a bad experience, but keeping multiple machines synced, particularly in terms of software configuration and options. Getting the various tools of a toolchain together once often sucks, doing it several times each time you
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by wanderfowl 8y ago
The exciting part of this to me is not the ability to run the same software on two devices, but the potential to run two 'kinds' of software on one single device. This unlocks what is for me the most appealing computing fantasy: I
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by wanderfowl 8y ago
I absolutely love this software. Combined with Alfred (where I've generated a set of Keybindings), I'm able to tile effectively, and haven't thought about Window size in months. Love it.
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by wanderfowl 8y ago
Here's hoping this is the asteroid to Elsevier's (and their business model's) dinosaur.
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by wanderfowl 8y ago
This is really neat, but pupil roundness is a dead giveaway here.

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