Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
This Method will call any phone number in the US/Canada and read the TextToSay to that phone number using the voice of Diane (voiceid: 0). PhoneNumberToDial must be filled in (They can be in any format as long as there is 10 digits). Just called my cell and heard the bot saying the message along…
"I want a baby. I want a baby which can pass the Turing Test so they believe it's real!" -Jeff Bergman contemplating to get a baby shower for himself
Some interesting conferences are going on, following are the CFP's. IEEE INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS Special Issue on Argumentation Technology Submission deadline: 2 Mar. 2007 A PDF version of this the call is available here: The theory of argumentation is a rich, interdisciplinary area of research lying across philosophy, communication studies, linguistics, and psychology. Over the last…
When started using Antlr this semester, I had to go through a learning curve to use C# as Antlr's generated language. Following is a step by step guide I came up with for anyone interested in using Antlr with C#/Visual Studio.NET. Happy Antlr'ing. Antlr_C_Sharp_code_generation_using_Visual_Studio.NET.pdf (102.82 KB)
It's like an outlook with an MBA.-From Linkedin website about LinkedIn Toolbar So, LinkedIn is like myspace for Dilbert crowd, huh?-Jeremy Myers Yes, the Ping method in this API will be a two way Ping; Ping Request and then Ping Commit.-David Gullett I hit over 500m with my driver today, threw ball on the other…
Beside the slick look and tabbed browsing, two of the best features I like about IE 7 is its RSS feeds handling and website thumbnails.The clean and well organized RSS aggregator is much better from usability prospect than anything I've tried before. Import your OPML's and try it out for yourself. The website thumbnail view…
Thanks to my director, Andrea Kim, I've been able to upgrade from my old rickety Dell Latitude D800 to flashy mobile Latitude D610. With a 2Ghz/1.32 Bus, 2G Ram/80G HDD, it's a decent developer machine. The only down side was abandoning the wide screen so I made up by putting a 17 inch LCD next to…
I did get a chance to read The Da Vinci Code, in early 2004, long before the hype built up. Since I've also read Dan Brown's lesser known books Angels & Demons, Digital Fortress and Deception Point and knowing his writing style in prospect, I don't think movie did much of justice. It might have…
Grid Computing using Microsoft Forbes Magazine in its January 2006 issue ran its cover story titled “A Super Computer for your living room”. This discusses the IBM cell processor powered by eight co-processors with their own memory being used in multimedia. This helps providing realistic imaging by realtime rendering as it states “Cell crunches through…
With Firefox and Google personalized homepage as defaults, this morning I encountered a CAPTCHA challenge response upon opening the web browser. A page with CAPTCHA stated. "A computer virus or spyware application is sending us automated requests, and it appears that your computer or network has been infected.”It was so not Google-like that I had…