More SPAM Winnings

It seems to be my week of winnings again!
According to the SPAM making its way into my email, over the past two
days, I have apparently won over 1,500,000,000 British pounds.

hmmm...

Paranoia?

This post has been redacted for privacy.

Email me for the text if you are interested.

Pans and Heat

No point in blaming the kitchen range for not heating a pan, when I forgot to turn it on in the first place eh?

SPAM winnings ?

If I believe the spam I've received this week, this has been the most lucky week of my life. Twice in the same week, I've won enormous sums of money from online lottery sweepstakes.

On Monday, I was congratulated on winning 500,000 UK Pounds and today, I was congratulated on winning 1,000,000 UK Pounds. All I need to do to get the money is to send them my contact information. :P

If only things were that simple ;) :P

Words, Parsing and Ads

I sent an email using GMail to someone today. After I sent the email, the next ad that was displayed by Google, was exactly on the topic that I had written the email about.
While I knew that the system does parse emails to display the appropriate ads - it was a tad surreal to see the ad so accurately reflect the content. (This wasn't a simple word matching, it was more complex than that.)

Risks

Thank you to a certain someone.

[If you don't know what I'm talking about - Don't ask me. I will not tell you.]

Another bike in the pool

We found another bike in the pool. Looks like this is becoming a Friday night ritual for someone or some group of people.

Speech Recognition update

Update:
The speech recognition thing works quite well. More training has helped it improve accuracy.

However, there is one issue that needs to be fixed before I can have it replace typing for large text entry. The fact that it is slow.
I can type (and hence input data) faster than it takes to listen to my voice (which has to be at a controlled pitch and speed) and then transcribe it totext.

Also, I find that I'm not used to dictating stuff to my computer and hence end up with lots of junk input in addition to the main text. Typing is more focused and controlled input of data in my case.

Speech Recognition!

So last night, I was talking to a friend and I began to wonder why my computer could not convert speech to text. So today after school, I came home and looked up online to see if the Linux operating system had any utilities that would allow me to do this. While looking around online, I saw (to my surprise) multiple entries pointing to the fact that Windows XP and Office 2003 seem to have some sort of dictation software.

Since I had Office 2003 professional on my machine, I went to take a look to see if the I had the software utility installed. After about 10 minutes of poking around the innards of my computer, I realized that I could indeed get this thing to work.

Once I got the software installed, I spent a couple of minutes (about 20 minutes in all) training the package to understand my voice. Because of the fact that I am not a native English speaker the package takes longer than usual to understand my pronunciation of some of the words. For some reason it seems to think of the word 'package' as packet, and packet as 'kicked'. I obviously need to train this package some more so that it can understand me better.

Oh, and a thank you to Amy, for introducing me to a project ;) that convinced me to go look up speech recognition from my computer to prevent me from having to type out pages and pages and pages of text.

It may be that further posts on this web site will be powered by speech recognition. Let’s see what happens.

The above post was composed using the dictation feature, then formatted and edited before I posted it here. To demonstrate how accurate (or not) the software package was with about 20 minutes of training, I have enclosed the raw text generated by the software below. Take a look, I'm rather impressed with the quality.

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Since I had office 2003 perfection of on my machine I went to take a look at if I had the senior treaty install . after about ten minutes of poking around that he notes off my computer and realized that I could indeed get this thing to work


Once I got the package installed I have spent a couple of minutes training the packets to understand my voice
because of the fact that I am not a native English speaker the packets take longer than usual to understand my pronunciation of some of the words. . For some reason it seems to think of the word package has been kicked

I obviously need to train this packet some more so that it can understand what is better or for the first 30 minutes I think this is doing pretty well
The law PCI and each time a friend using major project which required me to go look up speech recognition from my computer to prevent me from having to type out pages and pages and pages of text will obviously using me introducing me, it may be free to post on this web site will be powered by speech recognition. Let’s see what happens.

Bikes, chairs and swimming pools

We found a bike and two chairs in the pool of our apartment complex over the weekend.
While we didn't hear/see the folks responsible for this, one of our neighbors reported hearing people making a lot of noise the night before. Perhaps the drunken revelry lead to an idea about a new place to store your bike.