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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 Tu…

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 d…

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 cor…

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-vocabu…

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 t…

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 wo…

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 your…

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 fie…

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 h…

How do you think that the character traits of the writer are relevant to his case against Google?

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 m…

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 Alter…

I'm right now a student who, for a future career, is considering pursuing either a job in trading securities on Wall Street or starting a technology company. This would be in a few…

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. …

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.

"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…

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 t…

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 p…