Was silent reading unusual during Augustine’s time? If so, what implications might a comment by Augustine in his Confessions (6.3.3.) have on the larger question of whether reading was primarily oral rather than silent in the ancient world? In “Toward a … Read more
We trained a model to predict speech from ultrasound recordings of the tongue while the speaker remains silent. On open-vocabulary speech, our system achieves a 15.6% word error rate. For comparison, lip-reading achieves 12.5% word error rate on a 1M … Read more
For researchers, reflecting on their own work is part of good scientific practice. This is common across all scientific disciplines, including software research.a Though critical self-reflection is a staple in research, the software research community seems to take it further, … Read more
03/01/2024 The man who defined the sound of live rock ‘n’ roll music and brought audio engineering principals into mainstream amateur radio use, Dr. Bob Heil, K9EID, has passed away at the age of 83. He was an ARRL Life … Read more
Abstract:Silent Data Corruption (SDC) can have negative impact on large-scale infrastructure services. SDCs are not captured by error reporting mechanisms within a Central Processing Unit (CPU) and hence are not traceable at the hardware level. However, the data corruptions propagate … Read more
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By Johannes K. Fichte, Daniel Le Berre, Markus Hecher, Stefan Szeider Communications of the ACM, June 2023, Vol. 66 No. 6, Pages 64-7210.1145/3560469Comments Credit: Igor Kisselev The propositional satisfiability problem (SAT) was the first to be shown NP-complete by Cook … Read more
Even for high performers, some bosses may question the need to provide accommodations, says Winter: “If [managers] don’t see where the challenges are, why would they do anything to address them?” But, in many cases, she says a worker’s strong … Read more
When I still followed the Usenet group comp.lang.forth, I wasn’t the only person frustrated by the lack of people doing interesting things with the language. Elizabeth Rather, co-founder of Forth, Inc., offered the following explanation: there are people solving real … Read more
Most people you meet in everyday life — at work, in the neighborhood — are decent and normal. Even nice. But hit Twitter or watch the news, and you’d think we were all nuts and nasty. Why it matters: The … Read more