|
Please consider swimming ... In cases of back pain or other unwanted side effects of too much exercise, I usually go for 1 hour of indoor swimming in a nice swimming pool not far from my place ...
|
|
|
|
|
Hot shower or hot bath can help a lot.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
|
|
|
|
|
k5054 wrote: You don't know how out-of-shape you are until you spend an afternoon helping a neighbor doing pre-winter yard clean up.
You'll know whether you're out of shape 3 minutes into it.
If you needed an entire afternoon to make that determination...then you came to the wrong conclusion.
|
|
|
|
|
You really don't know you are out of shape when your 19 yo son and his friend start moving furniture and say, "we got this dad..." And then you see stuff zoom up and down the stairs.
I guess I was young once.
Charlie Gilley
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
|
|
|
|
|
#Worldle #667 2/6 (100%)
π©π©π©π©π¨βοΈ
π©π©π©π©π©π
https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
|
|
|
|
|
Wordle 884 4/6*
π¨β¬β¬π¨β¬
β¬β¬π¨β¬π¨
β¬π¨π¨β¬β¬
π©π©π©π©π©
|
|
|
|
|
Wordle 884 2/6
π©β¬π¨π¨β¬
π©π©π©π©π©
|
|
|
|
|
Wordle 884 4/6
π¨π¨β¬β¬β¬
β¬β¬π¨π¨π¨
β¬β¬π©π¨π¨
π©π©π©π©π©
|
|
|
|
|
Wordle 884 6/6
π¨β¬π¨β¬β¬
π¨β¬β¬π¨β¬
β¬π©β¬π©π©
β¬π©π©π©π©
β¬π©π©π©π©
π©π©π©π©π©
|
|
|
|
|
Wordle 884 3/6
β¬β¬π¨β¬β¬
β¬β¬β¬β¬π¨
π©π©π©π©π©
|
|
|
|
|
Wordle 884 4/6
β¬β¬β¬π¨β¬
π©β¬β¬β¬β¬
π©β¬π¨π¨β¬
π©π©π©π©π©
My guesses in four now surpassed my guesses in five
|
|
|
|
|
Wordle 884 2/6
β¬π©π¨β¬β¬
π©π©π©π©π©
This day started on a promising note!
Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
|
|
|
|
|
Sweeeeeeeet
Jeremy Falcon
|
|
|
|
|
Wordle 884 6/6*
β¬β¬π¨β¬β¬
π¨β¬β¬β¬β¬
β¬π©π©β¬π©
β¬π©π©β¬π©
π©π©π©β¬π©
π©π©π©π©π©
Just made it!
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
|
|
|
|
|
Wordle 884 4/6
β¬β¬π¨β¬β¬
β¬π©π¨β¬π©
π©π©π©β¬π©
π©π©π©π©π©
Jeremy Falcon
|
|
|
|
|
Wordle 884 5/6
β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬
β¬π©β¬β¬β¬
π©π©β¬β¬π©
π©π©β¬β¬π©
π©π©π©π©π©
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
|
|
|
|
|
Do you know of and can recommend a Speech to Text program that would work for coding. Or, is just impossible to do that sort of thing?
VB6 conversions to C#, VB.net
|
|
|
|
|
Speech to text programs are pretty good these days, but code is not English. You would need a special language module for each computer language.
For example, how would you enter a variable 'SumOfSquares'? Should it be one word or three? Is 'x equals 5' 'x = 5', or 'x == 5'? Other examples are easy to find.
While I can see the utility of such a program for people who have lost the use of their arms/fingers, I have my doubts whether there are enough programmers in that state to make development commercially viable.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
|
|
|
|
|
I saw the first doctor speech-to-text program many years ago. The system recognized medical terms only, not general chitchat. So it was quite reliable, within its domain.
Code also has a limited vocabulary, and a strict grammar. Assuming that the program knows the syntax, and maintains a parse tree and a current position within the parse tree. If a spoken word may have 2+ interpretations, chances are that some of the alternates will give a parse error, so they are not likely to be correct. In most cases, there will be one parseable interpretation.
Your examples:
If there is a declared variable or method named 'SumOfSquares', and it is syntactially legal at the current position, then it is in word. If you are in the middle of a literal string constant, it is more likely to be in three words (with no camel casing).
If your have just opened an 'if' or 'while' condition, then it goes as x==5. If you have just completed the previous statement, and an assignment to x is a legal next statement, then it goes as x = 5.
I am sure you could find examples where two entirely different interpretations of the speech would both be syntactically legal. But for the very most code, that is not the case.
Side remark:
I have a hobby of giving hell to speech synthesis - from text to speech. Even though it turns the problem upside down, there is a lot of common handling. I collect all sorts of words of differing meanings and pronunciations, but written identically. (First time I read "Lead guitar: ..." on a vinyl cover, I thought it was a joke on the bass guitar. Heavy!) I have gathered a handful of sentences which have two very different meanings, both grammatically correct. For 99% of the words, if you analyze the sentence, syntactically and semantically, only one interpretation and pronunciation gives a meaning. (But most speech generators do not sufficiently deep analysis to do it correctly.)
Unfortunately, for this forum: My 'homograph' collection is in Norwegian, so the examples I could present would make no sense to the very most of you.
|
|
|
|
|
trΓΈnderen wrote: Code also has a limited vocabulary, and a strict grammar. Assuming that the program knows the syntax, and maintains a parse tree and a current position within the parse tree. If a spoken word may have 2+ interpretations, chances are that some of the alternates will give a parse error, so they are not likely to be correct. In most cases, there will be one parsable interpretation.
Which is what I said - one would need to build an appropriate parser for the language. I never said it was impossible.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
|
|
|
|
|
Heh, I wire wrapped a board for my computer (s100 bus) back in the 80s to interface with the Votrax speech synthesis chip. Designing and wire wrapping the board was the easy part! Writing a simple program to make the computer 'talk' wasn't too hard, it was words like 'read' and 'lead' that caused problems. I didn't really have the chops to programmatically determine the sentence context so I ended up have a list of words that had special code that attempted to determine the correct pronunciation. Eventually, the program got to big for the amount of memory I had at that time (16K). It was definitely a fun home project.
|
|
|
|
|
You are the first person I have talked to that has used (and even built a board for) an actual S100 machine! I guess that 3 out of 4 CP members do not know what it is!
BYTE magazine had a number of articles in those days, DYI speech synthesis and, what the original post was about, speech recognition. There were several articles about a speech recognition board that could be trained to understand 64 words. As far as I remember of what the authors told, it would be reasonable reliable only with the voice of the person who had trained it, and the 64 words should be be as acoustically different as possible. Alexa is somewhat more sophisticated
When I read about people who worked with S100 machines, I'm itching go to down in my basement to pick up those BYTE magazines from the late 1970s and early 1980s to let my mind wander back to the days when you could understand every single bit in a computer. About 15 years ago, I went into embedded programming on 8051 chips; that was sort a return to the old days. When we picked up the ARM M0 (with our own monitor), I still had the feeling of being in control, but when we progressed to M4 and an external OS (Zephyr), and further on to M33, again something was slipping out of my hands...
|
|
|
|
|
I built a fair number of boards for my S100 bus system. Besides the Votrax board I built a 4K RAM board, a dual port serial board, a cassette tape storage interface board and a Selectric mechanizm control board (no dot matrix for me!!). My whole career was embedded programming (retired in 2019). I just loved it. I really loved the control.
|
|
|
|
|
I'd generate pseudo-code: set x to 5.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
|
|
|
|
|
I didn't say it's impossible. I said that code cannot be treated as a dialect of English.
I think that the bigger obstacle for the development of coding text to speech is economic. I doubt that there are enough coders who need or would want such a system.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
|
|
|
|