Other articles

1. Speech recognition 2016

   In my twenty years of using speeching recognition I’ve had a number of setups. I began at MIT’s Accessibility Lab with discrete speech …

   read more

   There are comments.

2. Pretty printing markdown source

   In the past year or so I’ve fully transitioned to editing my prose like code. I’ve been using markdown for a while now …

   read more

   There are comments.

3. Repositories for sublimetext and Word

   I think Writemonkey is the best prose editor out there, it works well with NaturallySpeaking, and 3.0 looks to be amazing – seemingly taking some …

   read more

   There are comments.

4. Wikipedia vs. The Small Screen

   Last week I had an interesting conversation with Noam Cohen from the NYT about Wikipedia vs. The Small Screen.

   Some Internet specialists argue that Wikipedia …

   read more

   There are comments.

5. SOPA Protest as a Natural Experiment?

   Sometimes things happen in the world that researchers could never make happen on there own, but when it does happen, much can be learned. For …

   read more

   There are comments.

6. Evolution of the Address Bar?

   Today at the Berkman Center, Eszter Hargittai asked about Web browsers’ address bars. For example, when did people stop having to type http:// and when …

   read more

   There are comments.

7. Making Word Useful

   Because I use speech recognition software (SR) I’m forced to tangle with proprietary software and formats; this provides a continuous reminder of the benefits …

   read more

   There are comments.

8. Encrypted Files Systems

   In moving to Kubuntu 5.04 from a Knoppix install, my loop-aes partitions are no longer readable. Since crypto-loop is being deprecated anyway, I thought …

   read more

   There are comments.

9. Mythbusters and Buttered Toast

   A segment on tonight’s MythBusters addresed the question of “whether buttered toast falls buttered side up or down more often?” This is one of …

   read more

   There are comments.