Re: [silk] From 35 years ago, Asimov's predictions for 2019 (and anxperiment for this list)

2019-02-07 Thread Thaths
On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 1:07 PM Bharat Shetty wrote: > > Rather than using Google doc's speech-to-text dictation as a way of > getting > > a transcript of what was said by people in a meeting, a better approach > > might be some sort of accessibility setting in Android that does > real-time > >

Re: [silk] From 35 years ago, Asimov's predictions for 2019 (and anxperiment for this list)

2019-02-07 Thread Bharat Shetty
> > > Rather than using Google doc's speech-to-text dictation as a way of getting > a transcript of what was said by people in a meeting, a better approach > might be some sort of accessibility setting in Android that does real-time > voice to text transcripts (and is also capable of identifying

Re: [silk] War on Science?

2019-02-07 Thread Kiran K Karthikeyan
On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 12:56, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > So is the placebo effect science? It is greater than expected by chance, > isn't it? > AFAIK, most (all?) drug trials have control, experiment *and* placebo[1]. Authorities don't approve drugs that underperform the placebo. I'm not sure