Geeky:
Placebo Surgery : Still think acupuncture is a thing?
Expertise, the Death of Fun, and What to Do About It by James Hague
Indeed, it got hard to learn. My two cents: always keep notes on your work. See every mistakes as an opportunity to learn. And always learn new things, never stop.
FizzBuzz programming (2007)
It's sad that it is true.
Technology in general:
Samsung smartwatch product
I still look for the Apple's product more. I guess I was there when iPhone came out, it's rather hard to not say Samsung plagiarize.......
The Economics of Amazon Prime (link)
When I go to Amazon, using Prime has indeed became an option, especially for the thousand ebook which cause less than $2.99. Buying ten of them is very close to the monthly subscription fee of Amazon Prime.
Starbucks and Square don't seem to "mix" well (link)
Other newsworthy:
As Crop Prices Surge, Investment Firms and Farmers Vie for Land
Crop has reversed its course, if you are interested in restaurants business (like me), this has a huge impact of the whole food chain.
The many failures of the personal finance industry
Many geeky friends of mine are not making good sense in personal finance. This is a good link to understand the industry.
Arthur
Showing posts with label programming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label programming. Show all posts
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Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Me and CMU Sphinx
As I update this blog more frequently, I noticed more and more people are directed to here. Naturally, there are many questions about some work in my past. For example, "Are you still answering questions in CMUSphinx forum?" and generally requests to have certain tutorial. So I guess it is time to clarify my current position and what I plan to do in future.
Yes, I am planning to work on Sphinx again but no, I probably don't hope to be a maintainer-at-large any more. Nick proves himself to be the most awesome maintainer in our history. Through his stewardship, Sphinx prospered in the last couple of years. That's what I hope and that's what we all hope.
So for that reason, you probably won't see me much in the forum, answering questions. Rather I will spend most of my time to implement, to experiment and to get some work done.
There are many things ought to be done in Sphinx. Here are my top 5 list:
- Sphinx 4 maintenance and refactoring
- PocketSphinx's maintenance
- An HTKbook-like documentation : i.e. Hieroglyphs.
- Regression tests on all tools in SphinxTrain.
- In general, modernization of Sphinx software, such as using WFST-based approach.
This is not a small undertaking so I am planning to spend a lot of time to relearn the software. Yes, you hear it right. Learning the software. In general, I found myself very ignorant in a lot of software details of Sphinx at 2012. There are many changes. The parts I really catch up are probably sphinxbase, sphinx3 and SphinxTrain. One PocketSphinx and Sphinx4, I need to learn a lot.
That is why in this blog, you will see a lot of posts about my status of learning a certain speech recognition software. Some could be minute details. I share them because people can figure out a lot by going through my status. From time to time, I will also pull these posts together and form a tutorial post.
Before I leave, let me digress and talk about this blog a little bit: other than posts on speech recognition, I will also post a lot of things about programming, languages and other technology-related stuffs. Part of it is that I am interested in many things. The other part is I feel working on speech recognition actually requires one to understand a lot of programming and languages. This might also attract a wider audience in future.
In any case, I hope I can keep on. And hope you enjoy my articles!
Arthur
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