Archive for June, 2008
Javascript, Flash and cross-browser clipboard fun
Friday, June 20th, 2008 Posted in programming | 1 Comment »
Recently I have been wrestling with writing some code that will manipulate text on a user's clipboard in a web browser. I thought I would share my findings here ... Read more..Miles per Gallon vs. Gallons per Mile
Thursday, June 19th, 2008 Posted in behavioral decision theory | 2 Comments »
A new study by Richard Larrick of Duke's Fuqua School of Business, recently published in Science magazine shows that most people have the wrong intuition about how to save gas. ... Read more..Trynt Web Services
Thursday, June 19th, 2008 Posted in web | No Comments »
Looking around for cool services to make use of in ISpeechPlugins I stumbled upon Trynt Heavy Technologies. I'm not sure what their business plan is but they have a ... Read more..Speech Plugins: Weather
Sunday, June 15th, 2008 Posted in programming | No Comments »
In this entry we'll look at building a basic plugin for a speech engine (Microsoft Speech III: Setting up a pluggable infrastructure), that will respond to simple queries about the ... Read more..I hope they take themselves seriously
Friday, June 13th, 2008 Posted in Things that make NNT cry | No Comments »
While watching Game 4 of the NBA Finals this evening I accidentally saw a commercial for thee local news here in Seattle. I generally try and avoid local news ... Read more..Microsoft Speech III: Setting up a pluggable infrastructure
Friday, June 13th, 2008 Posted in programming | No Comments »
This post will build on the work done in Microsoft Speech II: Getting your computer to listen, where we saw how to interact with our computer via voice. In ... Read more..Reasoning The Fast and Frugal Way: Models of Bounded Rationality
Thursday, June 12th, 2008 Posted in behavioral decision theory | No Comments »
Authors: Gerd Gigerenzer and Daniel G. Goldstein Source: Psychological Review 1996, Vol 103. No 4 650-669 Link: PDF The central tenet of this paper is that rationality in human decision making (Homo Economicus), ... Read more..This blog as my notebook
Thursday, June 12th, 2008 Posted in personal | No Comments »
I thought I should give some context to the upcoming posts. As I don't imagine that anyone other than myself, and maybe my wife (if she is incredibly bored) ... Read more..Microsoft Speech II: Getting your computer to listen
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in programming | No Comments »
In this post I'll show you how to take our simple project from the first example, Microsoft Speech I: Getting your computer to talk, and get it to understand input ... Read more..Microsoft Speech I: Getting your computer to talk
Thursday, June 5th, 2008 Posted in programming | No Comments »
This is the first of what will hopefully be a series of posts that detail my explorations with the Microsoft Speech recognition and synthesis libraries built into Vista. I ... Read more..