On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 7:28 PM Bharat Shetty
wrote:
> Now wondering if I should get a proper google pixel phone. The only thing
> that is making me think is "Is it worth to spend 60,000 INR for a phone
> that lasts around 3-4 years max?"
>
The recently released Pixel 3a is excellent value for
On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 10:37 PM Thaths wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 4:57 PM Bharat Shetty
> wrote:
>
> > One of the things that came in discussions with the group involved in
> > building the tool was that, the mics on our smart phones are usually good
> > and as such the audio input
On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 4:57 PM Bharat Shetty
wrote:
> One of the things that came in discussions with the group involved in
> building the tool was that, the mics on our smart phones are usually good
> and as such the audio input delivered to the CloudASR (Where speech to text
> happens) is
> I am waiting for when it becomes available for desktop, for those few of us
> who don't use smart phones and apps. I know it would be a huge timesaver
> for me as a journalist who does a lot of interviews and spends a lot of
> time procrastinating about transcribing and then getting down to the
> > > 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
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
> >
>
>
> 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
On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 12:28:16PM -0800, Heather Madrone wrote:
[...]
> The problem with chains of logic is that the running code (in this
> case, reality) can take another branch anywhere along the line and
> end up in a completely different place.
It would not have been so bad, however:
-
Tomasz Rola wrote on 1/25/19 4:04 AM January 25, 2019:
On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 09:37:30PM -0500, Bruce A. Metcalf wrote:
[...]
The longer we put it off, the worse it will be when it does come.
Perhaps central Africa and the middle east have it right, get it
done now and avoid the rush.
"Civil
On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 01:04:38PM +0100, Tomasz Rola wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 09:37:30PM -0500, Bruce A. Metcalf wrote:
> [...]
> > The longer we put it off, the worse it will be when it does come.
> > Perhaps central Africa and the middle east have it right, get it
> > done now and avoid
On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 09:37:30PM -0500, Bruce A. Metcalf wrote:
[...]
> The longer we put it off, the worse it will be when it does come.
> Perhaps central Africa and the middle east have it right, get it
> done now and avoid the rush.
>
> "Civil World War", I like that term, unfortunately.
I
On 01/21/2019 07:10 PM, Thaths wrote:
On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 3:49 AM Bruce A. Metcalf wrote:
1. Malthusian forces will bring famine to much of the third world,
unless some new disease gets there first. Growing resistance to
acceptance of vaccination will aid the latter.
I am in the middle
On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 3:49 AM Bruce A. Metcalf
wrote:
>
> 1. Malthusian forces will bring famine to much of the third world,
> unless some new disease gets there first. Growing resistance to
> acceptance of vaccination will aid the latter.
>
I am in the middle of reading Hans Rosling's
On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 2:53 AM Bharat Shetty
wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 11:15 AM Thaths wrote:
> > 5. Though a bigger percentage of the world will be literate than today,
> it
> > will be possible to use the internet without being literate (voice
> > recognition, tts)
> >
>
> A question
On 01/01/2019 04:21 PM, Peter Griffin wrote:
What are your predictions for 2048?
A most interesting challenge, thank you. I'm afraid I'm more pessimistic
for 2048 than I am for later dates. I think many issues will get worse
before they get better.
1. Malthusian forces will bring famine
- Bharat
On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 11:15 AM Thaths wrote:
> 5. Though a bigger percentage of the world will be literate than today, it
> will be possible to use the internet without being literate (voice
> recognition, tts)
>
A question about current state of the voice recognition (voice typing
Funny how most modern science fiction isn't so optimistic. After the dismal
failure of flying cars to materialise by 2000, I think those in the
prediction game have turned all doom and gloom of late.
There are better odds for a perfect storm of global climate catastrophes to
reset civilization to
On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 8:22 AM Peter Griffin
wrote:
> Experiment for this list.
> Take a bash at this yourself. Let's give you a shorter horizon than The
> Star gave Asimov: 28 years, which will be 99 years after Orwell wrote 1984,
> and when India will have turned 101, and more importantly,
Given I've spent since the late 90s around large email services I
heartily endorse your prediction zero. Mainframes will be even longer lived.
Though, other than work, newsletters / bills and the occasional personal mail,
lists like lucretius are all that I use email for
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2018/12/27/35-years-ago-isaac-asimov-was-asked-by-the-star-to-predict-the-world-of-2019-here-is-what-he-wrote.html
lf we look into the world as it may be at the end of another generation,
let’s say 2019 — that’s 35 years from now, the same number of years since
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