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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 sideste…

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 wi…

Yes, but there are now python interfaces to it which make it so you can script in a more conventional language.

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.

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 w…

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 m…

That was my very first thought, seeing that image: Ray Bradbury would be absolutely beaming to see it.

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 tra…

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 dama…

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 …

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. Y…

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 repl…

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, ca…

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, par…

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 …

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 ju…

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 imag…

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 inf…

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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 somethi…

Ahh, I see. Interesting.

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 m…