Aspirational Marketing
I’m always amazed at the loyalty of sports fans – the guys that will brave the cold with letters painted…
P.862 Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality does not always percept degraded speech well – what to do?
PESQ stands for Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality, an ITU standard specifying how one should test speech/voice signals to obtain…
How to build your (web) app quickly (and cheaply?) using the Cloud
Fowa Miami 09 Cloud Computing WorkshopView more presentations from Mark Masterson. (tags: cloud+computing fowa) Here are the slides (all 275…
Stop Using Search Engines
Can you? I don’t need to tell you that the web is progressively beating the library in every battle for…
Jeremy Blogged in Class Today!
OK, for those of you who don’t recognize the Pearl Jam allusion, here are the lyrics and video. But most…
Miscellany: Trust, Loyalty, and Book Notes
1) Trust in social networksSeveral recent developments point to the big questions regarding trust in social networks. First, both Facebook…
Quasi-Property Rights: Associated Press and the “Hot News” Doctrine
Like many bloggers, I learn which topics are “hot” from aggregators like Techmeme–which in turn automatically aggregate news sources from…
Relevance is Not a Game Changer in Search
The top story on Techmeme as I write is Randall Stross ’s New York Times article, “Everyone Loves Google, Until…
Reflecting on Times Open
Like everyone else who managed to get into the standing room only event (or at least everyone I had a…
Finally factor of speech clearence (C50) and still more to go.
C50 (factor of clearness) determines sound clearness and clarity. It is computed as near echo/far echo ratio. The method is…