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Comment Re:Superficial crap (Score 1) 652

by vortigern00 on Wednesday February 27, 2008 @05:10PM (#22578772) Attached to: Gaffes That Keep IT Geeks From the Boardroom

Sheesh, I try to fire up the crowd with tales of geek empowerment, and I end up getting flamed by some anonymous coward in his mom's basement.

Bah, I have better things to do :)

-Vort

Submission + - Computer 'understands' a dog's bark (dailymail.co.uk)

Submitted by nullCRC on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @01:07PM

nullCRC writes: What would a dog say if it could talk? "Stranger", "fight", "walk", "alone", "ball" and "play", according to scientists who have developed a computer programme to translate dog barks. The special programme analysed more than 6,000 barks from 14 Hungarian sheepdogs in six different situations. In a series of tests the team of scientists, from Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary led by Csaba Molnár, discovered that a computer could recognise whether a dog was in a stranger, fight, walk, alone, ball or play scenario. The barks were tape recorded and then digitized on a computer, which used software to study their differences. The computer correctly identified the different situations 43 per cent of the time. Although it was not a high success rate it was far better than human recognition, the researchers said. The computer was most accurate in identifying the "fight" and "stranger" contexts, and was least effective at matching the "play" bark. The results appear in the journal Animal Cognition, and suggest that dogs have acoustically different barks depending on their emotional state. The researchers also performed a second test, in which the computer identified individual dogs by their bark. The software correctly identified the dogs 52 per cent of the time, again much better than the human result, suggesting there are individual differences in barks even though humans are not able to recognize them. The team also plans to compare the barks of different breeds to discover what they have in common.

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Journal Journal: Creation's Tiny Mystery 8

Journal by vortigern00 on Wednesday January 11, 2006 @04:52PM

I have started my reading on ID with Creation's Tiny Mystery by Robert Gentry. I started with this book because I was able to find an online copy and therefore was able to begin reading immediately rather than having to wait for something from Amazon.

So far I have read the intros and the first several pages. Since I will have to leave work to head home soon I will go ahead and post my reaction to what I've read so far.

Journal Journal: ID Challenge

Journal by vortigern00 on Wednesday January 11, 2006 @04:32PM

Yesterday I admitted that I had never read any of the basic works of ID Theory. I asked for users to provide me with a list of works that are seminal to ID, and I offered to read them with an open mind. Here is the list of reading material I ended up with. I will use my journal to write my reviews of those works.

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