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Review: Founders at Work
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
Oops, I got sidetracked. I'd been talking about startups, and then I got distracted by the "ooh shiny" of speech recognition and ACM problems. I'm not actually done with speech recognition quite yet, but this book was in my queue first. Yeah, no more procrastinating for me! It doesn't have anything ( Read more... ) -
ACM Programming Contest solution walkthrough
In preparation for the ACM World Finals coming up in April, we've been running through previous years' problem sets to get a feel for what we'll be up against. It's been interesting, for the most part. The problems definitely require more up-front thought before a solution presents itself, compared to the "regular" contest problems. Since a cursory ( Read more... ) -
Speech Recognition Poetry
One more bit of speech recognition poetry:
At the one who in the heart and make it home ( Read more... ) -
cat | say | transcribe
So, apparently I was quite remiss with my last post. I was, apparently, supposed to take my last exploration with speech recognition to its logical conclusion, and see what happens when the computer tries transcribing its own "voice."
So, we'll take a text file containing a snippet of text, run that through Say.exe to produce a WAV file, run the ( Read more... ) -
Transcribe-n-Say
Doing the transcriptions for Glenn Kelman's presentation earlier this week ended up taking more time than I expected it to. I can type reasonably quickly, 50 words per minute, perhaps 90 if I concentrate hard and stay away from the Backspace key. But a normal rate of speech is about 130 words per minute, so I can only transcribe about a sentence at ( Read more... ) -
Glenn Kelman: How to Get the Most Out of a Startup
I've been reading more about two things lately: startups and investing. Well, that's not entirely accurate. I've been coming to the slow realization that programming, while fun, makes up less than half of what it takes to be a successful software engineer. The thing is that professional "programmers," from what I've read, end up spending less than ( Read more... ) -
Vista
So, I've had Vista (64 bit) installed for about a week now. I actually like it, from a user interface perspective, more than XP. It has a lot of nice touches:- When you go to restart your computer, and there are programs still running, it gives you a nice list of the programs preventing a restart.
- Searchable start menu
- Windows Explorer Breadcrumb Bar
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New Computer!
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Wordpress Reinstalled
WordPress got horked and wasn’t displaying the posts page properly, so I reinstalled it, which actually turned out to be much less painful than trying to track down what was causing the issue in the first place.
Oh well.
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I could have sworn I already posted this…
Apologies to everyone who’s been eager to see the results of my Summer of Code project. School has left me busier than I expected to be.
That said, here are instructions for building render-jp2. Replace $OBJDIR and $SRCDIR with the appropriate values, depending on your .mozconfig.
- Download and build Mozilla’s source through CVS.
- (from the root ( Read more... )
