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Comment Re:Hmmm. (Score 1) 63

Yeah, but you said:

> Daphne Oram pioneered technology for turning the informational sections of a spectrogram into sound back in 1958

You seem to want to make it sound like some discovery rather than just IFFT or just "add the sine waves back together". For sure what's trivial to do on a modern computer would have been more of a challenge using 1958 tech, but that's because of the tech, not because of the problem requiring some breakthrough "technology".

You also said "A spectrogram is basically a description of the sound", which while true also seems to be trying to make something very basic sound more mysterious than it is. It is just a frequency vs time plot of audio power. Add the frequencies back together and you've got your source audio back.

Comment Re:Hmmm. (Score 1) 63

Dude, a spectrogram is just a rendered version of an FFT, and the "technology" for converting it back to audio is just an inverse FFT.

For that matter trained linguists can often read speech directly from spectrograms - you just need to recognize the formants, and there are other obvious clues such as fricatives (burst of high frequency noise), plosives (sudden onsets of speech energy from closed lips to open), etc.

Comment SpaceX = ISP (Score 1) 120

It's interesting how revenues, and profits, from Starlink far outweigh that from their actual Space/Launch business.

In 2025 Starlink made $12B in revenue, and a profit of $4B

In 2025 Space made $4B in revenue, and LOST $0.6B

As always with Musk, the real potential is described as what they MIGHT do, not what they are actually doing, with his X.ai failure seeming to do most of the heavy lifting (excuse the pun) there.

In fact Musk embraces the pun and refers to their maxed out fanboy $300/mo Grok subscriptions as "SuperGrok Heavy".

Comment Re: Iran is going to lose access to the gulf (Score 1) 475

When are when are we going to see American ships in the Caspian Sea?

Americans forces stationed in Afghanistan couldn't stop things getting across the border in to Afghanistan, so how successful do you think they're going to be when they're not even in the country?

As long as the US blockades the Straits of Hormuz, so will Iran. Iran has more tolerance to pain than American voters do. Today's news: Trump chickened out again and didn't attack Iran.

Comment Re:Rent-seeking (Score 0) 475

I'm all for criticising Israel; what they've done in Gaza is disproportionate and probably amounts to war crimes. This doesn't change the fact that there is widespread left wing antisemitism. See for example the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) report on Labour antisemitism, published in October 2020, that found the Labour Party had committed unlawful acts of discrimination and harassment against Jewish members, highlighting serious failings in its handling of antisemitism complaints and political interference in the process. The former leader of the Labour Party who wanted to be prime minister continues to downplay it and deny there was a problem. AmiMojo has defended the man on this site and posted on multiple occasions that demonstrate his position. Many people in the UK are using Jewish people as a proxy for Israel and there's been a rise of violent antisemitic hate crimes against them. They don't deserve to live in fear, but the leaders of left wing parties in the UK will not speak out, just like AmiMoJo won't either.

Comment Re:Rent-seeking (Score -1, Troll) 475

You and your leftwing antisemitic claptrap. Are you ready to admit yet that Israel is also in an existential struggle against organisations on all sides hellbent on the genocide of Israel, funding by a state whose official policy is the genocide of Israel (that's Iran, if you're wondering)? When are you going to call them out for their actions?

Don't get me wrong, while I support Israel's right to defend itself, the way it's gone about it in Gaza is wrong. But unlike you, that doesn't mean I'm going to ignore the realities of both sides of this complicated and horrific conflict.

It's people like you who are fuelling the rise of antisemitism. That's also wrong.

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