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Fingerspelling is just a path for borrowing individual words from English. It is not a part of native ASL vocabulary or grammar; that is to say, ASL does not consist of fingerspell…

I looked into this a bit for classic Macs (8MHz 68000), and found that they didn't have the computing power to complete a handshake before the timeout was up. I could be wrong thou…

SEEKING WORK | USA, Eastern timezone | remote only | part-time Technologies: Python, NumPy, Torch, C++, Linux I specialize in speech and audio processing, but I'm open to a wide va…

It is a common noun-forming suffix in Nahuatl. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-tl

All the lentils from the supermarket that I've tried (and all legumes for that matter) have successfully sprouted: brown, pardina, black (beluga), and red. They're also good raw wh…

Some of the biomass is also washed away and becomes marine sediments, which can store a significant amount of carbon. https://cbmjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13021..…

Both keyboards do exist. The Cherokee layout is included in OSX and iOS, while Navajo is available for download. You can find pictures of Cherokee keycaps in use, and I think there…

Try reading a good text multiple times, even to the point of memorizing it. Especially in the past, many cultures viewed memorization as essential to truly engaging with a text. An…

Flour often contains eggs from insects like flour weevils, and if you let flour sit in the cupboard too long they'll hatch. But I would be disgusted to find 50 whole adult weevils …

Is this really speech recognition from raw waveforms? It looks like they're extracting MFCC features from the raw audio, and using that as input to the neural network. I thought th…

I don't think the Confucius quote is real, but there are a few relevant ones: "Not being angry at someone who doesn't know, isn't this a Gentleman?" 人不知而不愠，不亦君子乎？ "Ji Wenzi thought…

Even after reading the paper, I'm not convinced of their hypothesis that the "phonological level of structure has not yet emerged", though the language surely sounds unusual and in…

Sandler et al.'s paper http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3250231/ referenced in the article clears things up. The title: "The gradual emergence of phonological form in a …