- String Comparison Tutorial Great blog post on various edit distances with implementations in lingpipe.
- RVM Great way for multiple ruby installs and getting a newer version of ruby onto a server when you don't have root privaledges.
Use pygments to render ...
- Deep Learning Tutorial By Yann Lecun and Mark Ranzata
- Why Bayesian Nonparametrics Tutorial and video by Zoubin Ghahramani.
- Speech Translation: Theory and Practise ICASSP 2013 Tutorial slides
- Multilingual Mark-Up of Text-Audio Synchronization at a Word-by-Word Level How HTML5 May Assist In-Browser Solutions
- Drawing Neural Networks with ...
- Spectral Learning Algorithms for Natural Language Processing. Shay Cohen, Michael Collins, Dean Foster, Karl Stratos, Lyle Ungar [PDF] Spectral learning is an alternative method for learning model parameters, the advantage seems to be that it provides theoretical guarantees that EM does not.
- Upcoming Interspeech paper about discriminatively training individual ...
Here is a short Makefile that will set th compiler options to allow programs to compiled and linked against your Kaldi installation. This is portable on the filesystem and new programs do not need to placed in a subdir of Kaldi's src dir. Once the KALDI_ROOT variable is set ...
read moreAdd the following code to ~/.tmux.conf to enable vim navigation shortcuts to move around the splits.
unbind-key j
bind-key j select-pane -D
unbind-key k
bind-key k select-pane -U
unbind-key h
bind-key h select-pane -L
unbind-key l
bind-key l select-pane -R
Reload the config files by CTRL+B then ':' and ...
read moreThis blog is written in rst, coming from LaTex I often want to add math equations and this is straightforward to achieve using MathJax. Latex offers excellent packages for typesetting algorithms. Unfortunately, no rst equivalent seems to exist. The solution I'm trying at the moment is create small fragments ...
read moreThis article explains how to install RPMs with yumdownloader on machine where you don't have root access but do have RPM privileges. Without full root access it isn't possible to install applications with the yum command under CentOS. Fortunately, it is possible to use yumdownloader to first fetch ...
read moreRecently, there was a question on the OpenFst forum asking how to detect epsilon cycles in finite state transducer (Fst). One solution is to start a depth first search (DFS) from every state and only traverse the epsilon transitions. Fortunately, OpenFst already has this implemented using a combination of the ...
read moreOne new addition in OpenFst 1.3.3 is memory mapping of const and compact Fsts. Part of the reading code has changed and there is now a new enumeration that switches the reading mode between MAP and READ modes.
enum FileReadMode { READ, MAP };
By default the value is set ...
read moreEmscripten is an amazing tool for compiling C/C++ code to Javascript. File IO is a little tricky, firstly for C++ there isn't any support for C++ iostreams. The next problem is the file can't be ready when running the Javascript in node.
Emscripten has a very nice ...
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