Compare:

"Hey man, could I borrow your phone for a sec to call home? Mine ran out of battery."

"Hey man, could I see your credit card for a sec? (Mine ran out of money...)"

It's easier to agree to the first one.

Creaky voice/Vocal fry is very common. In English it occurs normally as people dip into notes lower than their normal range, and the article is reporting findings that people do it as a speaking style. In other languages, it happens at the bottom of the 3rd tone in Mandarin Chinese, and in Hausa it is a distinguishing feature: [ ja: ] (without creaky voice) means "he" and [ ~ja: ] (with creaky voice... the tilde should be under the j) means "daughter".

ref: Ladefoged, Peter. A Course In Phonetics, Fifth Edition. 2006.

I feel like you may have missed the point. Adapting your analogy, consider that the sequencing step speeds up too, and is now an airplane. How will the trains and steamships keep up?

It's tremendously useful to through out data sometimes. It's called feature pruning. Get rid of the noise and the patterns become more lucid.

The problem here, it appears, is that sequencing is becoming cheaper and faster than processing the data, so unless the storage/transfer/processing methods and resources improve at a similar rate, they're guaranteed to be overwhelmed with data.

In other words, "Sure I can process this data in an hour. Put in the queue and I'll get to it in about a year.". Processing the data then takes a year, and this wait time will only increase.

Yes, but in Red China, the ### ######### calibrates ### !

Since when is 9 hours/week considered infrequent? That's over an hour a day. I spend less time eating.

My gut tells me yes.

... which means that at least one of them said no.

Ah, so THIS is why Texas has such a high execution rate.

Chili (née "Chile con carne", or "chili peppers with meat") originally had no beans. "Texas-style chili contains no beans and may even be made with no other vegetables whatsoever besides chili peppers." This is from the fount of all knowledge, Wikipedia.

Maybe the submitter is French and has an accent, you insensitive clod!

The "150 Most Reputable Companies" from a sample size of 150? Seems more like "the largest 150 companies sorted by reputation".

I do research in computational linguistics, and I've done work at a major machine translation (MT) provider, and I can state with some certainty that we will NOT have perfected translation software in 10 years, if ever. MT is about as old as artificial intelligence itself, and it's still struggling. Researchers can get their work published if they improve BLEU scores (an MT evaluation metric) even by less than a point (on a 100-point scale). Statistical MT is reaching the limits of what it can do by simply adding more training data, and hand-built grammars never really took off as they've not yet proven to be feasible in terms of time and memory complexity. The dream of having instantaneous, accurate, speech-to-speech (or even text-to-text) translation is as far fetched as time travel and deep-space colonization.

It will, and does, help people understand documents written in other languages, but it will be a long time until computers can translate (or understand or generate language) as well as humans.

Joking aside, you're exactly right. Cupertinos could be more damaging than actual typos, since a proof-reader should know "axcept", as a typo, is closer to "accept" than "except" ("x" is right next to "c" on a QWERTY keyboard, but "a" is an extra key-length from "e" (or two more in manhattan distance), but a spell checker might suggest "except" first.

Is it just me, or does the piracy thing sound like a cover? It seems the gov are trying to prevent access to the Wikileaks release. Or perhaps it's time I got me a tinfoil hat.

Using only your mouse? Consider the folk who, after 20 years of using a computer, still hunt-and-peck the keys and use the mouse for nearly everything.