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I have used aeneas myself to do it, with mixed results. You will probably need to increase the DTW margin. Also note that you will need a lot of RAM --- say 16 GB if you plan to work on a single audio file with duration 10-15 hours, which is typical for an audiobook.

In theory one can perform the DTW out-of-core, saving the accumulated cost matrix and path to disk, but I have had not time to implement this yet (i.e., the accumulated, reduced DTW cost matrix should fit into RAM). I tested it can be done with PyTables, but it will probably come with the next major version of aeneas (v2).

BTW, if your goal is to split, say, chapters of an audiobook, probably there are more efficient ways of doing this. For example, finding the long silence intervals between chapters might be enough. Or, instead of aligning all the text against all the audio, just perform a "partial matching" of the first sentences of each chapter against the audio.
> a task that most adult Americans can perform, that no non-human animals have ever been taught to perform

Woah wait what? Non-human animals successfully navigate >7 miles of mountain terrain all the time.

Machine intelligence doesn't seem like "real" intelligence because it just doesn't seem as generalizable. Taking the engines and hydraulics used to great effect in water pumps and applying them to construction cranes required engineering work, sure, but no new physics. But you can't just take the convolutional neural nets that are breaking new ground in computer vision and apply them to natural language processing, you need new computer science research to develop long short-term memory networks.

The cool thing about AlphaGo, from my understanding, was that it was able to train the deep learning-based heuristics for board evaluation by playing a ton of games against itself. This is especially awesome because those heuristics are (were?) our main edge over machines [1]. But in CV and NLP, playing against yourself isn't really a thing, so again, this work doesn't automatically generalize the way engines and hydraulics did.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-computer_tactics
How is leaving the door open a big deal? I just leave it open and pretty much only close it if it's been open for more than 24 hours or I need to use the shower (it's a small bathroom). No mildew or strange smells. I think the problem is that people these days don't want to deal with even a minimal amount of maintenance.
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Thank you for the STPP/TSP tip... I'm really sensitive to purfumes/dyes, and although I can get the purfume/dye free detergent, fabric softener without it is harder to come by. Sometimes use "baby" fabric softener or detergent.
So why did you accept help from others?
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>They have an average IQ almost a standard deviation higher than the US.

Wow. Is this because people get forced out that don't perform well? Or what is the reason for this?
> It doesn't matter if the drivers are available if those GPUs aren't on the motherboard.

My point is, this situation will be shorter than on the desktop. Because as I said, the turnaround of mobile hardware is faster.

> ly in US, not everyone around the world, specially in countries where pre-pay is the way to go, changes their mobile every two years.

In US too, not everyone is going to buy every new model. I'm talking however about manufacturers making them. That happens pretty fast. So Vulkan support on new hardware is probably already a given and this whole thing is a non issue. Any new technology has adoption period.
More than just lack of competition, cost-cutting measures or planned obsolescence - I think this also has to do with what marketing.

Consumers will buy devices that feel attractive. Shiny touch screens sell. Shiny plastic sells. Over-the-top features sell. Boring mechanical machines don't sell. Thick and sturdy looking metal doesn't sell.

Customers want the advanced features which make these once-simple devices complicated and more error-prone and they also want their devices to be more lightweight (hence more plastic and thinner metal) and be curvy, not boxlike (which is why we stopped having smooth surfaces).
As a counter point, I've been taking 4x 3g doses almost every day for over a year, and there hasn't been any development of tolerance.
Thanks, those are good examples. I do want to point out however: these aren't exactly earth shattering inventions of the kind that justify the sentiment that patents are helping advance art and science.

Because the super soaker guy wants his patent, small software companies have to eat shit from patent trolls and millions (billions?) has to be spent by companies in litigation?

The positives don't outweigh the negatives.
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I live outside the US. I'm a vocal critique of Uber - the company but I love Uber - the service. Evaluating their competitors where I live, it's pretty obvious Uber is a much more seamless and better customer oriented taxi experience than anything else in the market.
I'm deeply skeptical of that given the huge profits posted by insurance companies.
I forgot the name of my first crush. I have since remembered it, but names still elude me.

Of course, I knew the capital of Australia.
Are you sure about that? I did some research on this on the internet, and the house air in the exchanger is at a higher pressure than the exhaust gas, and so house air goes into the exhaust if there's a crack, not the other way around.
What if a new born baby has condition which needs an expensive surgery, how will parents pay for it, how does that fit in your everyone dies model?
But I doubt he actually read it. It's more likely that he listened to the audio version.
I'm not the same person, but I never studied in college either. I would go to lecture and get 90%+ on the exam. I would get Bs and Cs because I would never do any homework. I could use concepts from math classes without having used them before, as long as they were explained in lecture.
I'm not a buzzword historian but I'm fairly sure "democratize" has been around for a while: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratization_of_technology
Really? Which agency is that?
Well, there's buckling spring model-m style keyboards, or even other keyswitch keyboards vs typical gel membrane keyboards... but even then, the casing material and backplate on a newer unicomp doesn't match the older IBM keyboards... it's definitely cheaper plastic everywhere except the keys themselves. Unicomp are about the only kb mfg today whose keys don't show obvious wear within a year of purchase.

Even Lego is looking to cut mfg costs (or has, was an older article) by switching to cheaper plastic, and removing some of the supports.

What kind of world are we living in where we need cheaper plastic?
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Gambling is an adversarial relationship. Insurance is co-operative.

When I insure my house against fire neither I nor the insurance agent want my house to burn down.

When I gamble on Man Utd to win 2-0 with Pogba to score the bookie doesn't want that to happen and I do.

Anything that is co-operative is insurance, anything that is adversarial is gambling.
voting down because this sounds like a bad faith reply: it assumes the poster is wrong and demands proof, rather than admitting a lack of understanding and asking for guidance.
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Well if the predilection towards pedophilia could be managed or "cured" and if prisons did more than just house inmates I.e if they worked on rehab instead of punishment then perhaps the lifetime listings wouldn't be necessary. I won't begin to insinuate that I have the right balance between parents wanting to be cautious with who their kids interact with and the belief that people can change for the better. And then there's the case of adolescents who get caught up in the system before their minds are fully formed...
My opinion is that insurance is vastly misunderstood, just as gambling is vastly misunderstood. In insurance, it's the low premiums on high valued assets that obscure peoples thinking and in gambling it's often small wagers offered in return for potentially large payoffs. I know of people who could afford to replace a phone if it was stolen, but still take insurance on it because the small premium on the insurance seems like a good deal. There is just no way that these type of insurance contracts have a positive expected value to the individual. However, if you're a single Mom making ends meet, who needs to drop her kids at school every morning, please insure your car. The utility of losing the car and not being able to get to work etc. is just too negative.
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To avoid having to explain themselves, some IT execs simply outsource their imaginations and adopt ITIL.

It's not hard to find a variety of diagrams purporting to illustrate how the myriad management functions in ITIL fit together. You'll see lots of silos with names beginning with "Service..." this and that (because, in a massive injection of double-speak, IT likes to describe itself as a service rather than what it really is: a racket).

Here's a typical example: http://www.itsm.hr/brosure/ITSM_CHART_V2.0.pdf

I dare you to find an appropriate place in this diagram to place your dev team. Pity the poor CIO: not only does he/she have to decide whether to buy or build but the build option comes with strings such as also having to invent a management process to go with it!

So, again, most "Service Design" managers don't bother: they just hire the nearest TOGAF-certified architect team and hand over all development to them.

It's hardly surprising that corporate dev team managers often find themselves in the role of "supplier", on the outside looking in. No-one with ambitions in the organisation wants the job and anyone who ends up in there has probably done something wrong or emerged as a natural also-ran in previous political games.

What this means to devs (particularly) and some testers (depending on which box they live in) is this: They Are (so) Fscked.

I saw my role become disenfranchised over the course of 6 years as a result of a regime change which imposed ITIL upon us. I avoided suicide by jumping into the contractor market and, through nothing more than sheer luck, have found myself working for a small autonomous team looking after an important business function (worldwide royalty payments). My boss has a rebellious streak which I strongly identify with and she also has sufficient career capital to keep her team identity intact.

I'd like to leave IT and do something which delivers more personal self-worth (pimp or drug dealer at a minimum; international arms dealer if I just can't do without the Bond lifestyle) but I need to clear some capital debts first so it's contracting for the next 5 years or so. Beyond that? I'm just hoping there's still a world left to walk out into.
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Well, I haven't had to clean my filter in over 5 years, but I still pre-rinse (yes, I know you're not supposed to need to anymore, but I don't want to risk it), so I check the filter regularly, but it's clean.
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And if you had asked your non-tech/internet obsessed friends what they thought of Uber a few years ago you would have gotten equally blank 'wtf is Uber?' stares. You may think that having the tech industry filled with antipathy towards Uber does not matter much, but those same techies are the ones who make decisions like 'what companies should we support via an API call in our app' or 'who should we partner with on our new service', and more importantly the 'whose recruiting offer should I consider' question. With Uber bleeding money from its unlicensed taxi business it needs to find any other opportunity it can, and having those doors just a little bit harder to open for the Uber bizdev & recruiting people will matter a lot more in the long-run than whether or not a non-techie decides to take an Uber home in middle America.
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I meant not in individual patent level, but higher level. Copyright for books might need a separate tax schedule from patents in medicine, which again might have different requirements than software patents.

Or, one schedule might fit everything, I have not done that detailed anaylis of this idea.
Im talking about the insurance companies. They dont take any risks, since they know in advance how many accidents that will happen. To them it is just a forseeable cost.

The risk of each client is not transferred, but eliminated.
And yet the insurance companies are for-profit corporations. Does not compute.
Great post! Thanks Alex
Perhaps I didn't make my point very clearly. Relying on a phone for in-car updates, such as traffic, is already an issue due to data roaming. Relying entirely on the phone will exacerbate this.

I appreciate there are offline mapping solutions, which I noted. However, there are probably also other edge cases I haven't specifically considered.
Do you know of any existing forced alignment tools that work well with live audio (microphone) input? I would like to create a live stream in which the words of a known text are displayed as they are being spoken into a microphone.
"Most Europeans I know speak 3+ languages, have studied and lived abroad, and have traveled extensively."

This is likely selection bias, at least in part. If you were to live in Europe, the proportion of Europeans you know who speak 3+ languages would go down, the proportion of Americans you know who speak 2+ languages would go up.

BTW - 25% of the Americans I know speak Chinese. Also selection bias: I live in China and have never lived in the US.
However, Miele has a reputation that they don't care about warranty; if it breaks, even after warranty, they may fix it for free unless it's clear you've done something wrong (like it breaks because you didn't do regular maintenance and clean the filters as you should).

Worked for me at least: when I had a problem, and I will buy the same brand again.

There were other similar brands but they've all gone bankrupt or been acquired (I had a UPO Pesukarhu washing machine which was maybe 15 years old when I bought it second-hand as a poor student, and it worked another 10 or so for me, and I only got rid of it because the 1970's color of the device didn't fit the interior in our new house, and later I regretted this. Now I've had the Miele for around 10 years.)
What would the job market look like if the current tech bubble suddenly popped?
Let's assume we're currently in a tech bubble and it burst rather than deflated.

Which types of jobs, companies, demographics of the workforce, locations, etc would be hardest hit?
And liability. Gambling is your risk. Driving is a risk we take together.
Blaming consumers for choosing price over longevity is like blaming water for flowing downhill. Both phenomena are perfectly predictable, so there's really no one with agency to blame there - just like a bunch of water molecules can't reverse the flow of a river, a bunch of consumers won't change this dynamic. Instead, one should focus on those who willingly profit off such phenomenas.

Now, you could argue that with sufficiently intense competition, companies will keep outdoing one another in selling cheapest crap. That indeed is a predictable and well-known failure mode of the market economy. The question is, whether appliance market suffers from too intense competition, or if there is a place for a lifetime-appliance supplier there.

If there isn't, then IMO a good solution would be extended mandatory warranty periods (25+ years) and/or requirement to use user-servicable components and release full schematics when company goes out of business or cancels a product line.
I sounded curt, but I think tsickle is awesome.

I can't justify bringing it in in our current setup though :(
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I was born in London, I've lived and worked in London, I've returned many times since to visit family and friends. I recognise the life choices and cultural norms presented here as only a small fraction of my experience of modern day Londoners.

I don't know SFO but I suspect the author has a similarly narrow perspective there.
Shoes are a hard one for me... 13-6E (US) so my options are very limited, form meh, to okay.
At least the EU recognizes the increased importance of data roaming and are working to abolish the extra charges hopefully this year.
We moved away from browserify and the need to concatenate everything about two years ago, and we're definitely never going back :)

So maybe concatenating everything works with Closure Compiler. I don't know. We couldn't make it work with their advertised support for node_modules.
They're also so much more energy efficient now:

> New fridges aren't just a little more efficient, they're incredibly more efficient. A 1986-era 18 c.f. fridge uses 1400 kWh a year, while a modern energy-efficient model uses only 350 kWh — a whopping 75% reduction. At 15¢ kWh, trading in a pre-1986 fridge for a new efficient one would save about $158 a year in electricity costs. And some older fridges are even worse than the average. One reader estimates her savings to be $238 per year for trading in her 1979 fridge for a 2004 model.

There's not some great conspiracy of appliance manufacturers. All those difficult-to-repair parts have been added to make the appliances cheaper, or more energy efficient, or quieter, or speedier and more effective (compare how dishwashers and washing machines and dryers from a few decades ago work to how they do now).

http://michaelbluejay.com/electricity/refrigerators.html
If consumers are price-sensitive, then companies locked in a race to the bottom will end up producing utter crap, that honestly shouldn't even exist in the civilized society. I don't think we can keep blaming consumers; the goal here is to ensure a minimum quality standard.
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Tabs vs spaces should be a per-project setting, not per-user setting. For that: http://editorconfig.org/ (there's a vim plugin: https://github.com/editorconfig/editorconfig-vim)
How do you propose you get in-traffic updates without some sort of data feed? You can't turn it off in any apps? Also, does your in-built navigation have this feature?
If they knew that these agents were investigating possible mis-behavior or law-breaking on the part of Uber then Uber (and the people who coded up this cute little internal service) are now involved in a conspiracy. The neat thing about conspiracy is that it is much easier to prove/convict than the actual criminal activity.
Well written. Thanks
Have a look at NECs 24/7 display series [1] (think pro devices for hotel lobbies etc). They even offer cool stuff like raspberry pi integration [2].

[1] https://www.nec-display-solutions.com/p/uhd/en/portfolio.xht...

[2] https://www.nec-display-solutions.com/p/uk/en/press/pressrel...
I am not sure I want that.

When you go to a casino to gamble, your gains expectancy is negative because of the house's cut. You pay to have more risk.
When you go to your insurance company, your gains expectancy is negative as well, because the insurance company is profitable. You pay to have less risk.

So people pay to have more risk, and other people pay to have less. I'd like to know if those two groups can meet.
If you would like a challenge, get yourself a 1996 or newer Land Rover Discovery or Range Rover and try fixing the guaranteed to fail central locking or window regulators. A window regulator at a dealer is a 5 hour job. Owners who do things themselves avoid this job for as long as possible because it hurts to do it. Both of these systems can affect the alarm/immobilizer too, so enjoy being locked out of your car at a service station 100 miles from home.
I believe that there was a sort of "learning freeze" for AlphaGo during the Lee Sedol games and there was no manual modification of its strategy either.

If I recall correctly this was part of the commentary during the matches so I can't find a good source for it right now.
The clip you mention is at 21:50 in this episode, indeed the kitchen mixer episode:

https://youtu.be/XnYPOkzy-oI

"Therefore medieval England must have been full of cathedrals. It must have been amazing!"
To be fair, our civilization is built on accumulating such "small" inventions. Even such (literally) Earth-shattering invention as the atomic bomb required thousands of smaller inventions across many different areas of science and engineering.

I agree that software patents situation is shit, though it would be great if we could handle patent systems of different industries in isolation.
The name and colors actually feel even more blatantly copied from car2go. (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.car2go&hl=...)
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I just read his wiki page, obviously a brilliant man, its a shame that he went down this path.
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Great question. Coming from Mr. "I have no experience with Europeans, London, or San Francisco, but here's my opinion anyway".

To contribute: I've spent a considerable time in London and the original post has left me unconvinced that the author has spent any time in London except as a tourist and living vicariously through other peoples' blog posts.
He said a washer dryer. I can buy a brand new Hotpoint washer for about $250, but you won't find a washer dryer for that price.

Also, a sidenote - that Hotpoint washer comes with a free 10 year parts warranty - you have to pay for the engineer to come and install it, but Hotpoint will replace any part of the washer for free, or give you a new one if they can't fix it.
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> you have more built-in security than ever before, including a full antivirus package that kicks in if you don’t install your own (Windows Defender)

They did mention it.
Could is the most important word in your entire store, it could take that much time. But the story at hand really underlines that 20 years is longer than necessary.

Furthermore, the alternative (AAC) is open source. So there obviously exist incentives that are not patents. So 0 years of protectionism was enough for some people to innovate.

It is very common for people to act like patents are somehow necessary for innovation, but this is a story where patents were harmful.
They don't make [foo] like they used to. Lamentations like these have been going around in western culture since at least the time of iron age Greece, which people felt was a regression from the bronze age.

The observations from the article can be explained by simple attrition. Old fridges that were crap have been thrown away. Old buildings that were crap have been demolished. Old cars that were crap have been scrapped. What you're left with is the tiny percentage of buildings, appliances and cars that were designed and built a little better and cared for a little bette than the rest, making it look like old things are of a higher quality than new things.

Half a century from now, there will be people who, looking at the few surviving buildings, cars and appliances from today, will lament that they don't build things like they used to in the early 21st century.
In the assumption that any news is better then no news. Has the bad publicity contributed in a decline or increase of installations / usage for Uber?
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Disclaimer: I work for Miele, but in the IT department. It is not really a rumor per se, I'd say - the internal idea at Miele is that the stuff should last 15 to 20 years with normal use. So of course it can break after 8 years, everything can, but it shouldn't - that's why Miele sells service certificates (extended manufacturer warranty) for 10 years etc.