@Phonon My masters thesis involves a decent amount of signal processing at both the analog and digital level. I am more on the communication side of things for work.
@TimN I think we can help set the tone by not directly downvoting questions, but leaving comments to guide the OP to a better question. If he doesn't follow up THEN we downvote them
I have just submitted my resignation as a moderator on this website
to Jeff Atwood. I would like to use this thread to explain my reasons.
When I make a significant time commitment to a given organization, I expect
certain standards from that organization. I do not, of course, claim these to
be ...
Initially, I was going to write this as a response to this discussion. It seems, however, a larger issue, which I think merits a separate thread, perhaps a sequel to this one. For people who have not read the threads, the context is that two comments of Pete L. Clark on the thread about sponsored...
My professor in grad school told me I should look into GIS techniques rather than fMRI, does anyone know why? Other than that the GIS guys probably have more experience with their data
@Pearsonartphoto well that does show that questions shouldn't have to be elitist, they just have to be genuine. There's a difference between a beginner asking a question and a beginner question
Like asking "What's a Fourier transformation?" is silly, but just because you've had it explained to you, doesn't mean that you know how to properly apply it or how it really works
I know that a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) is used in speech recognition and understand it to some degree. However, what I don't know is how input (speech) is "transformed" to a vector which in later used in HMM.
How do you get a vector from a sound input? Is this vector readable by a human?
@IvoFlipse Agreed! Though we might want to ask one of the pro-tem mods to close/reopen it to clear the close votes. I think this is a fine beginner question, and we don't want beta users to come in and see that it's waiting to be closed.
@IvoFlipse I wish I understood SQL well enough to use sites like Data.SE. Unfortunately, I'm so lost there that I would have a hard time composing a query to do a search. The FAQ isn't real useful, and the top queries are quite complex.
@IvoFlipse Give me a C-like language, and I can get things done. Throw me into web-dev territory, and I'll flop. I've got about 20 hours of Javascript (for scripting a C++ app...), and I can do HTML well enough to interact on a forum, but that's about the extent of my knowledge.
@KevinVermeer I only know some Python, so I'm reading as much as I can to learn about anything really :P
I need to improve my knowledge about general computing (I never really bothered with understanding electrical circuits for instance), basic computer science stuff like sorting and algorithms, math and statistics (had some of that at grad level though) mixed with learning other programming lanuages/paradigms
@IvoFlipse I don't know much Python, but I hear it's a great language to start out in. It looks like it will be popular on this site, if data mining/analytics statistics have a good correlation with our visitors: kdnuggets.com/2011/08/…
I know that a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) is used in speech recognition and understand it to some degree. However, what I don't know is how input (speech) is "transformed" to a vector which in later used in HMM.
How do you get a vector from a sound input? Is this vector readable by a human?
