Entries tagged with speech

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Interesting Links for 13-05-2024

1. Terry Pratchett On Trans Folk: (tags:transgender terrypratchett )
2. What's the difference between the British and Finnish welfare systems?: (tags:welfare UK Finland )
3. Wes Streeting explains why Labour are fine with starving children: (tags:Labour children welfare poverty OhForFucksSake )
4. What happened to the Great Library of Alexandria?: (tags:library history )
5. 30,000 rare oysters being reintroduced to Firth of Forth: (tags:Scotland seafood nature )
6. Small nuclear reactors don't add up as a viable energy source: (tags:nuclearpower economics )
7. Internet use is linked to higher wellbeing: (tags:happiness internet )
8. Economic performance is stronger when Democrats hold the White House: (tags:economics usa republicans democrats politics )
9. The Aurora Borealis from Calton Hill, Edinburgh.: (tags:edinburgh auroraborealis photos )
10. Scientists document remarkable sperm whale 'phonetic alphabet': (tags:whales speech language )
11. Have no doubt: we are at war with Russia: (tags:russia war )

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Interesting Links for 11-03-2023

1. Scientists complete first map of an insect brain: (tags:insects brain )
2. HP have updated their printers to outright ban 'non-HP' ink: (tags:printing OhForFucksSake )
3. Toy preferences between boys and girls is a classic example of societal debates relying on tiny scraps of data: (tags:research statistics gender toys psychology )
4. Jamie Lee Curtis launches campaign urging U2 and Bruce Springsteen to do matinee shows: (tags:music time )
5. Magnificent mosques of India: (tags:religion architecture Islam India viaDanielDWilliam )
6. Elephants have learned highway robbery: (tags:elephants crime video )
7. Long-Term Cannabis Use, Cognitive Decline, and the Hippocampus: (tags:Intelligence marijuana brain )
8. Full list of pundits boycotting BBC football shows over the Gary Lineker censorship: (tags:asylum censorship bbc football )
9. Evidence of a predictive coding hierarchy in the human brain listening to speech: (tags:speech language brain ai )

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Interesting Links for 10-01-2023

1. Speech synthesis is getting a lot better at copying human voices - still mostly sounds artificial though: (tags:speech voice ai microsoft )
2. Fine dining may not be possible in a world where workers are treated fairly (and the world's best restaurant is closing): (tags:restaurant food work business inequality )
3. NI Protocol: UK and EU reach agreement on trade data sharing: (tags:UK Europe GoodNews NorthernIreland )
4. Major donors call on Rishi Sunak to reform political funding system: (tags:money politics UK reform corruption )
5. Federal agency considers ban on gas stoves following report linking them to childhood asthma: (tags:gas asthma USA )
6. Suffix 'ussy' is American Dialect Society's word of the year: (tags:LGBT words language sex vagina )
7. Looking at Edinburgh pedestrian deaths: (tags:edinburgh transport cars buses death safety roads viaDanielDWilliam )
8. What an octopus must think of a human (told in the style of lovecraftian horror): (tags:hplovecraft octopus perception humans )
9. Almost 90% of games sold in UK in 2022 were digital: (tags:games internet business uk )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3964206.html

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Interesting Links for 07-09-2020

Son sells 28 years of birthday whisky to buy first home: (tags:alcohol Scotland housing )
Bank security update leaves people guessing what their name is: (tags:names security banking OhForFucksSake )
Steve Ditko Designed Spider-Man to be Orange and Purple: (tags:comics design history )
Coronavirus: Scotland records highest daily Covid tally since May (mostly in Glasgow, I hope they can get it under control): (tags:pandemic Scotland )
UK planning to renege on the Withdrawal Agreement: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1302701541674160134.html
(tags:UK Europe NorthernIreland OhForFucksSake doom )
Sudan Ends 30 Years of Islamic Law by Separating Religion, State: (tags:Sudan Islam law religion democracy )
The New Neuroscience of Stuttering: (tags:speech genetics brain neuroscience )
The economics of the Tour de France: (tags:France cycling economics money )
Psychedelic Fishes from the World's First Encyclopedia of Marine Creatures: (tags:encyclopedia fish history )
Scientists Discover Exposed Bacteria Can Survive in Space for Years: (tags:bacteria space )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3899543.html

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Interesting Links for 17-07-2020

EU court voids data-sharing pact with the U.S. in Facebook privacy case: (tags:Facebook USA Europe privacy )
A breakdown of British people's attitudes towards transgender rights (a variety of questions and demographics): (tags:transgender polls LGBT demographics )
Over 15 billion credentials are in circulation on hacker forums: (tags:security hacking )
We might be able to detect Covid-19 in the speech of asymptomatic people: (tags:speech sounds virus )
Coronavirus Success Story: How Rwanda Is Curbing COVID-19 (robots and free testing): (tags:rwanda pandemic )
What's going on with Boris Johnson and the Russia report?: (tags:BorisJohnson security politics UK Russia )
Sympathy for victims of grooming stops if the child is brown, confirm racists: (tags:racism citizenship satire news uk )
Federal Law Enforcement Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab Protesters Off Portland Streets: (tags:police USA wtf )
The Chronicles of Charnia - How a schoolgirl discovered Precambrian life: (tags:fossils life history )
"My Close Friend Is Being Radicalized On the Internet and I Don't Know What to Do": (tags:ViaDrCross internet bigotry )
The painstaking, hyper-granular process behind Amazon's artful "Undone": (tags:art TV )

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Interesting Links for 03-07-2020

How Police Secretly Took Over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime: (tags:crime technology phones encryption )
Self-Compassion Can Protect You From Feeling Like A Burden When You Mess Things Up For Your Group: (tags:emotion psychology )
U.S. Customs Seizes 13 Tons Of Hair Weaves From Chinese Prison Camps: (tags:China hair concentration OhForFucksSake )
Coronavirus: Face coverings to become mandatory in Scottish shops.: (tags:Scotland pandemic )
UK gives go-ahead to giant windfarm project off Norfolk coast: (tags:UK windpower )
Florida State University tells employees they can't care for kids while working remotely - Women are deeply unimpressed: (tags:women society work Florida USA pandemic )
New glove translates sign language to speech in real time: (tags:technology speech sign )
Why is every dodgy government contract for £108m?: (tags:UK money government wtf )
Harry Potter fan sites distance themselves from JK Rowling over transgender rights: (tags:LGBT jkrowling fandom transgender harrypotter )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3872349.html

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Interesting Links for 10-03-2020

Microsoft: 99.9% of compromised accounts did not use multi-factor authentication: (tags:security )
Why Britain Uses Separate Hot and Cold Taps: (tags:video water heat uk history )
Russia, the Middle East and the USA are having an oil war: (tags:oil USA middle_east Russia viaDanielDWilliam )
"I never realised everybody felt as happy as I do when I am around autistic people" - a thematic analysis of autistic adults relationships with autistic and neurotypical friends and family: (tags:autism video )
Computer generated JFK gives the 'Darth Plagueis the wise' speech: (tags:speech accents USA video StarWars ai viaJohnBobShaun jfk )
Sometimes Toes Spontaneously Fall Off and Nobody Knows Why: (tags:viajoexnz feet wtf )
Lead Poisoning in Rome - The Skeletal Evidence: (tags:rome lead history archeology )
The situation in Northern Italian hospitals is horrifying: (tags:Italy disease doom )
Putin submits plans for constitutional ban on same-sex marriage: (tags:LGBT Russia OhForFucksSake )
Russian Lawmakers Back Extension of Putin's Presidency: (tags:Russia OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3816117.html

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Interesting Links for 18-08-2019

Google's algorithm for detecting hate speech is racially biased: (tags:Google AI racism speech )
A thread of canon LGBT+ couples in children tv shows: (tags:TV LGBT children )
Secrets of SÃ£o Paulo Uncovered by Outdoor Advertising Ban: (tags:advertising brazil )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3774787.html

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Interesting Links for 19-03-2019

"Safe When Alone, Yet Lost In Their Aloneness" - What It's Like To Live With Avoidant Personality Disorder: (tags:psychology personality )
Foods from agricultural lifestyles may have made it easier to form some sounds: (tags:humans food prehistory language speech )
Council revises its EU list of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions - adding ten countries: (tags:tax europe )
Interesting discussion on children and presents: (tags:children creativity presents )
A "Bar Chart Race" animation showing the changing ranks of the 10 biggest cities in the world since 1500.: (tags:history cities )
An excellent range on the appalling behaviour of MPs: (tags:politics uk )
Vladimir Putin signs sweeping Internet-censorship bills: (tags:Russia censorship internet )
Your brain does not finish "growing up" until you are in your 30s: (tags:adult development brain psychology )
Inflammation links heart disease and depression: (tags:inflammation heart depression )
'Inflamm-aging' causes loss of bone healing ability in the elderly: (tags:age inflammation )
Fertility app 'Dot' found to be as effective as other family planning methods: (tags:contraception apps )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3723143.html

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Interesting Links for 13-09-2018

Comicsgate is the latest front in the ongoing culture wars: (tags: comics fascism OhForFucksSake )
Middle Earth Map Style: (tags: maps lotr )
Labour's Tom Watson 'reversed' type-2 diabetes through diet and exercise: (tags: diabetes diet health )
Microsoft intercepting Firefox and Chrome installation on Windows 10: (tags: microsoft windows browsers OhForFucksSake )
EU Parliament triggers Article 7 against Hungary: (tags: Hungary Europe rights )
Harrassing the children of people you don't like is counterproductive to your cause. And a terrible thing to do.: (tags: children politics OhForFucksSake )
Language fluency in speech and print: (tags: language speech accents writing )
Your reminder that Apple will delete movies you "bought" from your library. And keep your money.: (tags: Apple movies copyright OhForFucksSake )
Oregon novelist who wrote 'How to Murder Your Husband' charged with murdering her husband: (tags: murder writing novel headline )
This is the kind of behaviour from the Tories that pushes people towards independence: (tags: Scotland Conservatives OhForFucksSake )
MEPs vote to ban killer robots on battlefield: (tags: robots war europe )
Did the DC movie universe creators set out to make a mess? Because that's what they've produced: (tags: dc comics movies )
Ipswich town centre haunted by eerie nursery rhyme (creepiest story I've heard in some time): (tags: uk WTF scary )
A Christmas Carol, a vanishing Italian, and a single lunch. A real life mystery.: (tags: writing CharlesDickens italy weird )
"No joke: TV editors cut me out of a panel show – and didn’t even notice": (tags: women tv comedy )
Scientist Publishes A List Of Known Harassers in Academia: (tags: academia abuse )
Men Wish Women Would Stop Expecting These Things From Romcoms In Real Life: (tags: movies men women behaviour relationships )
EU Trials Tracker — Who's not sharing clinical trial results?: (tags: Europe research fail )
Horrible Science Stories #1a.k.a. How To Kill Several Thousand Women: (tags: cancer research women breasts OhForFucksSake fraud )
Juvenile or adult? Leap-year suspect poses conundrum for Australian court: (tags: time age australia law )
UK mass surveillance programme violates human rights, European court rules: (tags: privacy rights uk europe )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3722285.html

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Interesting Links for 10-09-2018

The NYT “Part of the Resistance ” piece is strategic conservative propaganda, not self-promotion.: (tags: republicans politics usa )
"Cuts in income tax, business tax, capital gains tax and stamp duty plus an 'expeditionary force' to the Falkland Islands - a glimpse of Rees-Mogg's post-Brexit vision of Britain: (tags: UK conservatives OhForFucksSake europe )
"I decided then and there: I would build a battery-powered machine to play podcasts at the bear until the peaches ripened": (tags: bears fruit Technology )
UK’s worst-selling map: The empty landscape charted by OS440: (tags: scotland maps )
The remarkably quick death of telephone culture: (tags: phones society technology communication spam viaFJM )
Heinlein’s Fan Mail Solution: (tags: heinlein fandom communication )
A rising far-right is not the big story of Sweden’s election. It’s fragmentation: (tags: sweden politics )
4Chan are trying to get black people arrested or killed: (tags: fraud racism usa OhForFucksSake )
Hard Evidence: Do we become more conservative with age?: (tags: age psychology politics )
Why Can’t Apes Talk?: (tags: ape speech brain )
How WhatsApp causes lynchings in India: (tags: India murder fraud communication )
Amazon has patented a system that would put workers in a cage, on top of a robot: (tags: robots work amazon )
"A family friend shares their experience of explaining nanotechnology to Boris Johnson.": (tags: technology politics fail )
"Things I Never Knew About Las Vegas Until I Ran a High-Roller Suite" (Definitely just the tip of the iceberg): (tags: gambling casino LasVegas )
myeu.uk - see what the EU has done for your area: (tags: Europe maps )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3585449.html

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Interesting Links for 08-06-2017

FactCheck: Corbyn wrong on working-class students: (tags: class labour students fees university )
China and California sign deal to work on climate change without Trump: (tags: globalwarming china california usa GoodNews )
Which party manifestos were the best (or worst) grammatically?: (tags: grammar politics uk )
How one refugee changed the mind of his travel ban-supporting neighbour: (tags: bigotry usa politics refugee immigration viaSwampers )
When it comes to politicians and statistics you need to really look at the definitions: (tags: statistics politics uk )
Electric cars accelerate past 2m mark globally - up by 60% in a year: (tags: electricity cars Technology )
A Vietnamese skin clinic accidentally used the Umbrella Corporation logo...: (tags: games funny fail )
Sony sells one million VR headsets (very happy with mine): (tags: VirtualReality playstation sony )
Parents kissing their children on the lips: Threat? Or Menace?: (tags: children parenting wtf viaSwampers )
Genes influence ability to read a person's mind from their eyes: (tags: eyes genetics psychology empathy )
We need to talk about Diane Abbott.: (tags: Labour politics uk women race history )
10+ Times People Failed To Send Dog Pics To ‘We Rate Dogs’ Twitter: (tags: dogs cute funny )
3-year-olds consuming alternative milks were 1.5 cm shorter on average: (tags: milk children height )
Kansas Republicans raise taxes, ending their GOP governor’s ‘real live experiment’ in conservative policy: (tags: tax usa republicans )
The transgenic petunia carnage of 2017: (tags: genetics flowers )
Portraits of Imaginary people (as drawn by a neural network): (tags: ai faces )
Using VR to help a severe stutter: (tags: speech VirtualReality video )
Elections in the UK are run by an elite club. Chances are, you're not in it.: (tags: voting uk video )
Renewables provide more than half UK energy for first time (70.2% low-carbon): (tags: power electricity uk renewables GoodNews )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3543356.html

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Interesting Links for 12-01-2017

Come back when he shags a dead pig, says jaded Britain: (tags: sex usa UK politics funny )
A climate scientists answeres questions about the large slab of ice breaking off an Antarctic glacier: (tags: antarctic snow globalwarming )
America’s Fastest-Growing Loans Has Echoes of Subprime Crisis: (tags: loans economics OhForFucksSake )
Each year, half a million horseshoe crabs are captured and bled alive to create an unparalleled biomedical technology.: (tags: crabs medicine ocean )
'It's a financial cliff edge': how Britain fell back in love with credit cards: (tags: credit debt uk )
Librarians in Florida went rogue to save 2,361 books from an algorithm: (tags: books library fraud )
Superhero culture magnifies aggressive, not defending behaviors: (tags: superheroes aggression children behaviour psychology )
10 Discworld Quotes You'll Desperately Need for the Next Four Years: (tags: pratchett quotes )
Quick brown fox jumps over lazy dog: (tags: fox dogs )
Tidal lagoon: £1.3bn Swansea Bay project to be backed: (tags: power ocean wales uk )
Are WiFi users a boon or bane of coffee shops?: (tags: work wifi coffee shopping )
Spinning spider silk is now possible: (tags: spiders Technology )
Stop treating life as a series of moral parables: (tags: life statistics predictions advice )
Africa is witnessing birth of a new ocean: (tags: africa ocean )
'Puppy talk' - why do we use it and do dogs respond?: (tags: dogs language speech viaSwampers )
Taiwan's smog-eating twisting tower: (tags: taiwan architecture pollution )
Conservatives prefer nouns, liberals prefer adjectives: (tags: language politics )
Some interesting diet research. Anyone know anything more about this?: (tags: diet health )
Playful people are at an advantage: (tags: psychology )
Our senses can't learn under stress: (tags: stress learning )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3380726.html

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Interesting Links for 17-12-2015

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Interesting Links for 22-10-2015

Plastic bag charge in Scotland sees usage cut by 80%
- (tags: environment Scotland )
Fascinating court case involve a deaf man with almost no language skills who had to give evidence
- (tags: speech sign law Scotland )
Here's where the public are on Jeremy Corbyn's side - and where they aren't
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The TV industry wants you to go 4K, but the professionals won't be joining you
- (tags: HDTV tv )
Graph of Memory (and Storage) Prices Decreasing with Time
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Scotland is consulting on giving more powers to the Islands
- (tags: Scotland government )
NASA Funds Electricity-Harvesting Robotic Space Eel With Explosive Jet Thrusters and Electroluminescent Skin
- (Mostly for the headline, which I got via Warren Ellis)
- (tags: space technology awesome )
"The future is coming" a fascinating talk by Warren Ellis
- (tags: WarrenEllis thefuture video )
Microsoft Leads Movement to Offset Emissions With Internal Carbon Tax
- (tags: globalwarming carbon Microsoft )
A man, a motorcycle, a very angry squirrel, and an epic fight
- (tags: funny squirrel motorcycle )
The Wikipedia Entry for Guam, Retold as a YA Novel
- (tags: WTF wikipedia funny )
How the world forgot the cure for Scurvy
- (tags: science history health medicine nutrition vitaminC epicfail navy fruit )
A one-year delay in the start of school dramatically reduces inattention/hyperactivity at age 7
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Is there a principled distinction between refusing to watch American Sniper and refusing to read Fun Home?
- (tags: race value morality freespeech education )
Californians gain the right to die
- (tags: death California euthenasia rights usa )
North African assimilation into France
- (tags: immigration Africa France )
Preventing child sexual abuse
- (tags: Child_abuse )
Per pupil spending to fall by 8%
- (tags: uk schools )
Low carbon electricity now competitive, says government panel
- (tags: uk carbon electricity windpower solarpower )
I had no idea that fruit sorting technology was so impressive
- (tags: technology farming vegetables fruit automation )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3123450.html

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Interesting Links for 20-07-2014

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