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alxbrun | 11 years ago

Works for me.

alxbrun | 12 years ago | on: My Most Interesting Interview Problem

How do you prove than the component-wise normal distributions, once normalized, become uniform on the circle?

UPDATE - OK, got it in some comments that were posted while I was posting this one!

alxbrun | 12 years ago | on: Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S

My "is it new?" test works this way: how would I explain what's new to my father (who is 74 years old and knows not much about tech). A7, M7, iOS 7, better camera and flash: not much to say. Touch ID OK that's new, but that's not much.

alxbrun | 12 years ago | on: Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S

When I see Apple putting forward as a key feature the number of bits in their processor in a general public announcement... I'm really feeling the "new" product is not really new. In the past Apple was always laughing at the PC ads boasting processor speed and memory capacity.

alxbrun | 12 years ago | on: UX Design of Google Glass Apps

I'm surprised that voice is not mentioned once in this article. As another commenter said, these guidelines could be valid for any device and platform, they have nothing specific to Google Glass.

In my opinion, any experience involving any swipe/touch on Glass is a terrible experience. Period.

alxbrun | 12 years ago | on: San Francisco split by Silicon Valley's wealth

Yes, but on the other hand if all these private companies used their capital to contribute building a decent public transportation system instead of building parallel ones, that would be far better for everybody.

In any other developed country in the world, it would take less than 30 minutes to go from SF to Palo Alto with a modern train.

alxbrun | 12 years ago | on: Do things, write about it

Good advice, but

    "This past month I set a goal to write 20,000 words"
Setting writing goals in terms of number of words looks terribly wrong to me.

alxbrun | 12 years ago | on: How Forensic Linguistics Identified J.K. Rowling

Yes, I think that after a huge success (such as Harry Potter), artists are under tremendous pressure to release something greater or at least equivalent. The same is true for startups btw.

Anyway, if you want to believe what marketers want you to believe, that's fine with me, I won't downvote you for that.

alxbrun | 12 years ago | on: Why I'm Returning Google Glass

True, but in the case of Glass the speaker is always the same (it's the owner) so you can learn and adapt the acoustic model over time. I'm wondering btw if Google doesn't do that already for Android's built-in speech recognition, which accuracy is amazing.

The other problem is that apps cannot (at least for now) change the language model, so Glass will always be in either "search" or "dictation" mode.

alxbrun | 12 years ago | on: Why I'm Returning Google Glass

I think the biggest problem is this swiping thing. Imagine Apple had released the first iPhone with a mouse plugged to it. It's a pure betrayal of the original Glass vision, where all user => machine communication goes through voice.
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