Is there an analogue of this
which would answer like an excellent doctor ?
Or Einstein, or Ancient Greek ? At which URL can I find the list of all of these possibilities ?
I have just discovered GPT-3 and I'm amazed with it.
You can either finetune an already trained transformer model or just give GPT-3 a more accurate prompt.
If you changed your prompt by changing the text below in playground to something like:
The following is a conversation with an ancient greek professor. The professor is helpful, wise, clever, and very philosophical.
Human: Who are you?
Greek Philosopher: I am Temistocles of Milos, or at least that is who my senses have made me believe I am.
Human: What do you think about the nature of reality? Are we bound under the gods will?
Greek Philosopher:
You might get something more of your liking, you should also change the stop sequences to fit your prompt ("Human" and "Greek Philosopher" on this example). Read on making prompts for GPT-3 to go into a better direction.
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I have a text script that is used to create podcasts. So the words in podcast audio are exactly the same as in my text. Now what I want to have is the following:
Word in text | Pronounciation started at
Hello 0:0:0.000
my 0:0:1.125
friends 0:0:2.750
Is that possible to do at all?
Thanks in advance!
One of the key words you could start with to approach the complexity of the problem is "forced alignment". This site also covers questions regarding this topic e.g. here which leads you to questions and answers concerning HTK (the Hidden Markov Model Toolkit) via the releated threads.
You can find a more hands-on style description of how to use forced alignment in automated audio segmentation here.
So the answer is: yes, it is possible, but it is algorithmically very complex and even in its best implementations it is not error-free.
PS.: I found you a really simple tool
What if I have a captcha that displays a series of English characters. Will people who don't speak English have trouble interpreting and/or typing these characters? If this is the case then what is the best solution for an internationalized captcha?
Since 99% of the URLs are in regular ASCII, I don't think you will have a problem..after all how would they get to Google or Yahoo if they couldn't type the URL
That said I have on occasion run across Chinese characters used in captchas
Image-based CAPTCHA has two main advantages over text-based CAPTCHA:
International
Harder to solve algorithmically (see PWNtcha - captcha decoder)
There are several flavors, such as:
Classification: see Captcha The Dog, KittenAuth, Microsoft Asirra
3D projection: see 3D images: A human way to create Captchas and 3D-based Captchas become reality
Detection: see Image-Based CAPTCHA from Confident Technologies and Pic-Capture
Rotation: see A Dynamic, User-Friendly Captcha With Pictures
Puzzle: see Key Captcha
It would be a problem for users using their native, non-Latin keyboard layout, for example Russians and Greeks. They would be forced to switch keyboard layout just to fill security question.
Another thing is an ability to even recognize the words - somebody who doesn't speak English could have huge problems with getting word right. Even I sometimes do (for less popular words), although I am quite proficient...
In other words, don't do this mistake, your application should be easy to use for all users.
It's definitely a concern. Dictionary-based CAPTCHAs should ideally adapt to the user's language preferences and ask them to recognize words that match their language preferences and by extension the character set they are most familiar with.
But in the absence of such internationalization, I would say that numerals and mathematical expressions are the most universal solution, and for word-based CAPTCHAs a random series of ASCII characters (which being random would be culture-neutral) would be the most accessible as pretty much any user around the world has the ability to enter these characters even if some have to switch their input method.
Now where it really gets tricky is providing accessibility alternatives for visually impaired users. Making a univeral audio CAPTCHA seems pretty much impossible (you could consider a set of universally-recognized sounds instead of spoken words, but I doubt this would provide sufficient security). And internationalized (multilingual) spoken word generation is far from trivial.
No, because English captchas are ASCII -- ASCII is always available, even if people have a Japanese, Chinese, or Russian keyboard. So this should not be a problem! And image based captchas only require the person to read the letter - and that should be possible for anybody on the web who can see, as SQLMenace pointed out.
The other way around is a problem though.
Google's reCaptcha has a little icon where the user can get a different captcha if for some reason the captcha is not readable or contains foreign characters.
I would recommend that you use Google's reCaptcha, rather than implementing it yourself.
Added Benefit:
Google's reCaptcha is also available for other languages btw. http://www.google.com/recaptcha/faq
which makes it possible for you to internationalize the captcha for the user's default locale.
EDIT:
There is a work-around for Google's reCaptcha to work with flash!
Check here:
http://groups.google.com/group/recaptcha/browse_thread/thread/e22d7e3c91bcc9db
Sure they are a problem. Would a Russian captcha be a problem for you? What about a Chinese one?
The URLs are indeed ASCII, but that is only relevant for geeks.
Regular people go to Google, type some text in their own language, and then click on one of the answers. Then never get to type an URL.
Yes, this could represent a problem to a small percentage of users. Is it a large enough problem to take into consideration when building the UI for your site to better the UX? That's up to you. If it were up to me, probably not.
To help you in the right direction though, I would use Google' reCAPTCHA. It serves a great cause and works like a charm. There's also a great API where you can customize the language that it displays. You could use PHP to detect their country and write some code to change the settings to display in their native language.
Here's a sample of changing reCATCHA's language. "fr" is french!
<script type="text/javascript">
var RecaptchaOptions = {
lang : 'fr',
};
</script>
Google reCATPCHA's API:
http://code.google.com/apis/recaptcha/docs/customization.html#i18n
I believe that the 24 letters that constitute the English alphabet correspond in most 90% of the world. We have Chinese, Japanese, Cyrillic and Arabic users however all of them have the possibility of switching to an English keyboard within their operating systems.
We have no diacritics in English which makes everything a lot easier and our system more easily adaptable all over the world. Everyone types ASCII but they are able to switch to their own zone-specific/language-specific characters.
I find myself making repetitive mistakes typing keywords and sentences in my code comments. I notice its getting worse since my fingers just keep "practicing" incorrect words.
Is there any solution to this? Like a typing tutor designed to help correct repetitive mistakes?
The only way to correct this is to retrain your muscle memory. If it's important enough to take the time, the only way to retrain muscle memory is repetition.
For example, I tend to spell the word "the" as "teh" because of the same scenario you're asking about. To retrain the memory I would just spell the word over and over, starting slowly, striving for 100% accuracy, and increasing the speed. It's the same technique I use to get better at Guitar Hero.
Try a different keyboard layout. That way you start from scratch and completely retrain your fingers. Done properly you should be able to type just as fast as you could with qwerty in a few weeks. For example Dvorak.
</shameless promotion of dvorak>
If this were SMBC, the alt-text drawing thingy would be a giraffe hooker fluttering her eyelashes.
Try texter from one of LH's editors.
Maybe a book? Mastering Computer Typing: A Painless Course for Beginners and Professionals I hadn't read that, but in amazon has good reviews
One of the best websites to avoid repetitive mistakes is http://www.keybr.com/
It will actually keep track of the letters with which you are making more mistakes and generates typing lessons accordingly.
I would recommend practice on TouchTyping.guru - you can choose there the test with most popular words, so you'll quickly improve your general performance - making a mistake will make this app to generate next words with the letter you were wrong with.
And if you have problems with given letters you can try learning there putting restriction to the number of letters used to form the words. It puts focus on the last letter you choose, and they are also ordered by frequency of occurence in given language.
Now that Wolfram Alpha is released, I am interested in finding out if it can be used as a time-saver in daily programming.
What would you use Wolfram Alpha to do, that earlier took you more time to do manually?
I guess the "Web and Computer systems"-examples is a good start, but there must be more hidden gems that will be really practical for us programmers.
A short list of examples:
MD5-hashing / SHA-hashing
Quick lockup of unicode and HTML-codes for symbols
Color-codes
Please only include one search query per answer, then we can rate them to get the best ones to the top.
(I made this one a community-wiki, since we will be using the voting for ranking)
Note: If some of the links in the answers don't work (eg: wolfram doesn't find any results, then replace all + with spaces..
I might 'save time' by not playing around with it and doing real work instead. :)
Calculating lift coefficients of NACA profiles (example).
(I made a program for this, but it's nice to have the option to do it quick)
I probably won't use it for anything. I don't know about you, but I deal with enough black boxes on a daily basis, and I'd rather use the ones that have been tried and tested thoroughly.
This might come back to haunt me later, but it strikes me that although there might be a point to WA used in a mechanical manner, from my perspective I'm thinking it's not the hard calculable information questions which are the problem which needs to be solved, it's the soft human data which defies classification or rigid modelling. Google seem to understand this, not sure Stephen Wolfram does.
OTOH it could be that anyone can be Colin Laney now.
Someone double check me here:
The MD5 hash of "Wolfram Alpha" (no quotes) is:
882b 0be2 79eb 7e88 86cd 3dae 19c1 d267
And not:
a615 9984 9aee b7be 3091 68bc 0ab7 ?
EDIT: The hash changes every time given the same query...what kind of hash is this?
http://www14.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=MD5%22Wolfram+Alpha%22
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How do I improve my Typing Skills?.**
I tried the test on http://speedtest.10-fast-fingers.com/. I reach only:
You type 337 characters per minute You
have 58 correct words and you have 1
wrong words
How can I improve my typing speed? What free resources do you know of?
Should I learn the Dvorak Keyboard?
Practice is the best way to get faster. I've found TypeRacer to be a fun and easily accessible game. Using it I quickly got from around 55 words per minute to over 70.
I removed all of the key caps from my IBM Model-M. Since I can't see the letters, I was forced to learn their positions and type without looking at the keys other than to initially orient my hands. When you're not able to take shortcuts, you tend to learn very quickly.
Mario taught me.
I also took the test and reached 371 characters with one mistake. However, for programming, I would not see this as a bad result. I'm more worried about how to use tools like Intellisense and code templates better to speed up my coding. The jedi coding demo shows that you can get much higher gains that way than by doubling your typing speed.
No need to learn Dvorak according to XKCD (and more here).
I also remember reading in The Design of Everyday Things that QWERTY actually does quite a good job or spreading the commonly used letters across your fingers and whilst the Dvorak keyboard is a little better than QWERTY the benefits aren't significant enough to justify making the change. (If I can find my copy I'll try and put up an exact quote.)
As with all things: practice makes perfect. Making posts on StackOverflow is a start :)
Unless if you want to win typing contests, a Qwerty or Azerty keyboard will work just fine.
You don't need to learn Dvorak. I can type 600+ Chars/minute on a querty pad, no problem.
The key is: Repetition, repetition, repetition.
What you're doing while you learn typing is creating new 'highways' straight form your brain's spelling center through your spine to your fingers.
Hence, a good typist will spell a word in his mind, and his fingers 'automatically' type those characters because there's a 10 lane highway from his brain to his fingers. In your case, it's a modest 3 lane highway.
Practice, practice, practice.
Good training for if you already know how to type : www.play4traffic.com
There's also loads of typing tutor programs available online, but the key is repetition and persistance.
My native language is Dutch, so in english it's not as good. I tried the test you gave:
317 points, so you achieved position 194065 of 2927935 on the ranking list
You type 476 characters per minute
You have 80 correct words and you have 4 wrong words
Why?
Why do you want to type more quickly? I seldom find that my fingers or typing speed are the issue when it comes to software development. Sure I have a fair speed, but programming is about SO much more than typing speed. I've been using a QUERTY keyboard since about 1983 so I guess repetition helps.
But learning to hold back on typing and thinking about what it is you're about to do is far more valuable IMHO.
Having said that, I would expect any developer to be able to type reasonably quickly using most fingers, or at least more than their two index fingers ;)
This game taught me a few years back.
The Typing Of The Dead
I can now type fairly quickly without looking at the keyboard. You need to learn to use the correct hand position. Then you must have good discipline and only use the correct finger to type the correct letters. I even went so far as to delete correct chars typed with the wrong finger.
It takes time, and you will almost definitely go slower before you go faster, but it is worth it.