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searching the spoken word
Submitted by andy on Mon, 27/10/2008 - 10:12pmOne of the latest impressive innovations to come out of Google is that they have speech recognition software good enough to automatically index audio and video streams and make the spoken word searchable. Due to the impending presidential election, the project is currently focussed on political speeches, and makes it easy for you to compare what different politicians have said about any particular issue. You can find it here: http://labs.google.com/gaudi
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it must be hereditary
Submitted by andy on Thu, 24/01/2008 - 10:59pmAfter threatening it for a number of years, my Dad has finally set up his own web site. Find out more at Ron Jackson - Now & Then 1939-2006.
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merchandise
Submitted by andy on Fri, 20/07/2007 - 3:03pmAn experiment in merchandise. Thanks to spreadshirt.net.
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visualising prime numbers in binary
Submitted by andy on Thu, 19/07/2007 - 12:38pmFor a while now, I've wondered what the prime numbers look like in binary, that is, if you paint the ones as white dots, and the zeros as black dots, what does the whole set look like? I finally got around to writing a program to generate the prime numbers and output them as a PNG, and you can see the results below...
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Bookstore
Submitted by andy on Fri, 13/07/2007 - 5:38pmI'm testing out the Lulu publishing service, as I've never had my own printed copy of my thesis, and I wanted to make a softback version.
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What OS and compiler is this?
Submitted by andy on Fri, 11/08/2006 - 5:28pmI was trying to find out how to tell, from within a C program under GCC, what OS the code was being compiled under. I was porting RPCemu to MacOSX, and wanted to switch between big and little endian code without doing something clunky in autoconf.
