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Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes

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Re: Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes

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Also: > We prefer subtitles over machine-learning-based detection because the presence of a cough in subtitles means it was prominent enough for a person to write it down. Also our postdoctoral fellow was the only one who completed the Tensorflow tutorial. lol

In my experience Closed Captions almost always describe sounds, specially if they happen offscreen or things like the type of background music; Subtitles don't, I assume they expect you can hear the sounds.

> Subtitles don't, I assume they expect you can hear the sounds.

Many—though not as many as it should be—(English-language) movies explicitly include two English-language subtitles, "English" and "English SDH", standing for "English (subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing)". The latter includes subtitling for sounds.

Re: Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes

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post #100

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In my experience Closed Captions almost always describe sounds, specially if they happen offscreen or things like the type of background music; Subtitles don't, I assume they expect you can hear the sounds.

Subtitles frequently describe entire background conversations I can't hear when I'm watching at home. Maybe I should turn up the sound to a ridiculous level.

This was taken to a ridiculous extreme in the marvellous The Spanish Prisoner, where the whole point at the end is that you can't hear a certain conversation—but it's still subtitled!

Re: Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes

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Why it should win best picture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxFQbjQbPq0 Do I need another reason?

… because of a fifteen second ad for chocolate?

The video is the "Sardaukar Chant", not an ad for chocolate.

Re: Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes

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post #45

The best bit about this is that the authors registered that entire domain purely so the article could have a vaguely official-looking URL.

Going to a wrong URL shows the Github Pages 404. Searching Github:

https://github.com/journal-doi/cough

https://github.com/the-pudding/cough

https://github.com/arp242/goatcounter (bonus material)

Re: Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes

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… because of a fifteen second ad for chocolate?

The video is the "Sardaukar Chant", not an ad for chocolate.

Ah, right you are, thanks.

This sounds like an hour of throat singing, which whilst technically interesting, I don’t quite see (or rather, hear) how it guarantees an Oscar. No-one coughs at all

Re: Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes

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When I took my AI class, my professor would assign one paper a week and we had to turn in a "critique" of that paper. These papers were, of course, the seminal classics in the field, because what else would you want your intro class to be reading? I complained a bit to the professor that it was a bit silly to critique the seminal papers in the field and if you want to be sure we read it, we could just turn in a summary (which our critiques typically started with anyhow), but we were supposed to learn how to critique papers.

In hindsight, I suppose I should have appealed to the fact that critiquing the seminal papers in the field is a serious data set bias and that trying to "learn to critique" on the best papers ever written in a field was less likely to produce a useful "critiquing" skill and more likely to produce some overfitted garbage skill, but, hey, I hadn't taken AI yet! I didn't know how to express that.

(It did produce a garbage skill, too. I tried writing "real" critiques using my brain, but after getting Cs and Ds for the first couple, I learned my lesson, and mechanically spit out "Needs more data", "should have studied more", and as appropriate, "sample sizes were too small". Except for that last one, regardless of the study. Bam. A series of easy As. Sigh. I liked college over all, but there were some places I could certainly quibble.)

Anyhow, this is the paper that needs to be assigned towards the end of the semester, and students asked to "critique" it. It's a much better member of the training data set for this sort of skill.

Re: Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes

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Please give this a watch with an open mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93A1ryc-WW0 I promise it's worth your time. Being honest, I fell in love with the score before I even knew it was Zimmer's, and once I found out, my first thought was "of course." To each their own, but if you want an idea of what went into the score, that video above is insightful.

I have seen it. Appreciate you sharing it though. Point is I don't buy his angle. To me it wasn't a fresh take on sounds of the future. It meshed bad with the movie and was a bunch of trite tropes like detached arabic-like wails and dry buzzers. Soundcloud is full of amateur electronic artists doing it better. But in the end its all taste, and I wouldn't call the movie (and soundtrack) bad. Just not anything near goo…

Would you mind a giving a few links of SoundCloud artists doing it better? I love weird atmospheric spacey music but it too often sounds derivative.

Re: Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes

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post #65

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Wouldn't want to leave the joke unexplained now, would we

waffl is likely a German speaker. So of course not. German speakers also can't resist replying to rhetorical questions.

> German speakers also can't resist replying to rhetorical questions.

This should have been, "German speakers also can't resist replying to rhetorical questions, can they?", should it?

Re: Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes

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post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also: > We prefer subtitles over machine-learning-based detection because the presence of a cough in subtitles means it was prominent enough for a person to write it down. Also our postdoctoral fellow was the only one who completed the Tensorflow tutorial. lol

In my experience Closed Captions almost always describe sounds, specially if they happen offscreen or things like the type of background music; Subtitles don't, I assume they expect you can hear the sounds.

During the apocalypse, I leaned on video for "company" while doing chores. I stumbled onto the Descriptive Video Service, which I guess is super duper Closed Captions.

I love it. I can half watch the show while fussing without missing anything. Even when the show has my complete attention, the added detail is kinda great. Not all the time, but enough to keep things interesting.

https://help.pbs.org/support/solutions/articles/5000673860-a...

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