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There is more to this quote than you might think. Grammatically, in English the verb "swim" requires an "animate subject", i.e. a living being, like a human or an animal. So the qu…

FreeType was written when fonts were local, trusted, resources, and it was written in low-level C to be fast. The TrueType/OpenType format is also made for fast access, e.g. with i…

That makes it sound like it’s a choice, which it isn’t really. The way to look at it is from a probabilistic perspective: with the fix, you maximise the probability of the data. Wi…

Isn’t the main problem the cost of heating? In the UK at least a kWh of electricity cost 4 times what a kWh of gas costs. Even if a heat pump is twice as efficient as gas heating, …

I agree except for (6). A language model assigns probabilities to sequences. The model needs normalised distributions, eg using a softmax, so that’s the right way of thinking about…

In English everywhere except the US, it’s “horse riding”; “horseback riding” is US English. Definitely humorous: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5wSw3IWRJa0

Training a speaker-specific recogniser that improves over a generic recogniser requires a lot more data nowadays. First, generic systems are a lot better and trained on a lot more …

The actual paper is available here: http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/Interspeech_2017/abstract...

This is how healthcare is set up in Switzerland and the Netherlands. It is just an implementation issue how payments (through tax or otherwise) are routed. In a system that involve…

The "model" in the title is the model of the world, as a probabilistic model. The good thing about such a model is that it explicitly states your beliefs about the world. Once you'…

To train a speech recogniser on subtitles, you need to be careful to allow for words missing from the transcriptions. But it has been done: goo.gl/Syx27j

I know that Andrew Ng and colleagues say that they don't use HMMs. I haven't spoken with them (I haven't seen them at speech conferences) so I do not know whether they actually bel…

Probabilistic models. Recent research often focuses on Bayesian models. Probabilistic models have never really gone away. This presentation by LeCun actually suggests embedding neu…