Anybody played neverwinter here?

@Geobits I think you said you did?

Yea, but not in a looooong time.

was it good?

If you like d&d style dungeon crawlers.

oops

Good avocad, my fellow avocads.

:D

*morning not avocad

AVOCAD

*evening not morning

*Never mind I'm going back to bed. Too tried for chatting hrer

@AlexA. relevant

bai for the night!

@ANerd-I yeah, that happens at 21:07

@quartata Wonderful. I want a living in Canada discount for seeing the doctor. :P

Or would they say douctre

holy crap

?

this was in my side bar

wtf

how does this dumb video have so much production value though

like

define sidebar?

youtube I assume?

ye

yeah I wish I could get a living in america discount

@quartata 0/10 on "Oh I've met person X from Canada" true story

@orlp i'm making one of those

@Maltysen lip sticks or videos?

My youtube sidebar has mostly rick astley, because it magically seems to be linked a lot.

lip sticks :P

why? just wondering

Also, I personally really hate when Americans ask me to say something in French, like speaking a 2nd language is a novel thing

Even worse when they expect you to know a language you don't.

@Phrancis I love saying je ne parles pas francais

Nobody goes around asking people from Mexico or South America "Can you say something in Spanish?"

A actual conversation with somebody.

lolwat

I was the askee.

I recant my previous statement, apparently some people do do that

I've never had someone ask me to say something in another language

@Phrancis I was often asked to say something in English while in Japan, so there's that.

@Geobits Huh.

@Phrancis yeah, they do... In CA, btw.

But at least 5 hours from the border.

A certain subset of the population there has a fascination with Americans. I guess it's no different than the other way around here.

I don't think I've ever had someone ask me to say something in sign language, mostly because they don't know I can speak it until they see me "speak" it. :P

rofl

Minibits used to get mobbed for pictures though. They really love white kids over there for some reason.

huh

@El'endiaStarman how common is it for people to totally not realize you are deaf?

@orlp I usually say "quelquechose" :D

@Phrancis lol

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Surprisingly common, I think. I don't know for sure because I don't ask people if they realized that I'm deaf. :P

huh

Huh, I didn't know you were deaf at all.

@quartata found the tab key? ;D

@Geobits I'm sure I've mentioned that multiple times in here. :P

@Geobits He is although I think he has cochlear implants

Plot twist: El'endia is deaf, while everyone else in here is blind.

@El'endiaStarman Probably. I'm not sure you people realize how little I pay attention to you all yet.

;)

But anyway, the vast majority of people encounter me in an environment where I talk only, so they probably never really notice the processors on my head.

chat.stackexchange.com/…

Yeah, it's no secret. :P

@El'endiaStarman Processors?

@Phrancis The external part of cochlear implants.

@El'endiaStarman so your fiance is also deaf?

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ She is!

There's an 8086 on his forehead.

@PhiNotPi Can you speak up? That font is too quiet.

@El'endiaStarman Proof that love doesn't need words? ;P

@El'endiaStarman younger brother's friend is mostly deaf, he has processors attached by magnets. Do you?

@Geobits There's an 8086 on his forehead.

...

Much better.

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ How else would you attach them? :P

duct tape

works in the movies

Ha, no.

gorilla glue

human glue

On a few occasions, I have stuck magnetic darts on the side of my head for the hilarity.

@El'endiaStarman Oh wow, didn't even know those existed

@Geobits is that like minibits glue? /s

@El'endiaStarman lol

o_o

?

@Phrancis Guess you're one of today's lucky 10,000!

@AlexA. ;)

Yes, I guess that's the case

g'night!!

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ You better watch out. Minibits started learning rudimentary magic recently :P

I know a good bit more about sound than most people do, but this actually amazes me

@Geobits ._.

/s

> To get really good, you must explore the strategy spaaaaaace

Not joking. Look:

i love xkcd substituitions. :P

rofl

I thought you meant Magic: The gets lazy ...

Aw, is that Minibits?

yeah

Potter Bits

@Geobits I got mobbed for pictures in Japan last year

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ That too. He's keeping his options open ;)

good for him

oops, should have been Harry Bits, which is weird

lol

oh, somebody ripped open a bunch of magic booster packs in target today

and was very upset that he got nothing good and still had to pay

@Quill Trust me when I say it's much worse when you're between 3 and 5 years old :P

So it picks up vibrations from environment and converts them to electrical impulses and feeds them right into the cochlea

@Phrancis Essentially, yeah.

BAI!

That's very cool

Yeah, seriously

Yep. Basically a daily miracle, if I stop to think about it.

:)

I think I've heard a snippet about that on BBC Science Hour a while back, but didn't really know what they were

Hell, even a modern phone is a minor miracle, tbh. Cochlear implants seem even moreso.

There's probably some quite intricate software with it to help the device separate noise from signal, which is really no easy feat

@Quill The sequel to Three PS3s

I see I've gotten you binge watching lrr sketches

@Phrancis Lots of filtering is done. 16 band pass filters, then rectification(?) on each, then low-pass filtering on that, then transformed into a suitable pulse sequence for each of 16 electrodes.

Anyway, @Phrancis, I'm sleepy and heading to bed now, but please, feel free to ask questions any time. I know a lot about deafness and cochlear implants (a lot more than the average deaf person with cochlear implants). (This goes for any and everyone else too.)

G'night all!

Goodnight

@AlexA. Mini-Potter

Ha, yea... that wand got me a little chunk of rep on woodworking, too.

@El'endiaStarman BAI

@El'endiaStarman 16 band pass filters sounds like a lot, not a drastically huge amount of processing in terms of computing, but the amount of human effort required for that (i.e. deciding which 16 bands to filter and how) sounds gargantuan, considering any one of those filters has at least 2 parameters (more probably 3++ being that it's a medical device and not just music)

Makes me wonder if they're partially tuned at first, then finished on a per-person level with feedback from the user.

Wow, you guys realize that trump has like a pretty decent shot of being the next president of the US.

He pretty much won the republic nomination.

@AshwinGupta It's only 50-50 if you assume the election is a coin flip. It's really not, though.

@Geobits true, but its not like hardcore republicans vote for Hillary (or maybe Bernie) and vice versa.

Ok, let me rephrase: Trump has a pretty damn good shot at being next president.

I'm still rooting for AlexA. as America's next top president

Which is kinda scary to be honest, I mean he is sorta insane.

@Quill =/ I'd vote for Alex any day over Trump (if I could vote that is...)

@AshwinGupta A better shot than me, sure. Not better than Clinton imo. She's got the whole machine working for her, and seems to be a better politician in general.

@Mego haha, You can't be left wing or right wing because you're a penguin, so you hate politics

@Geobits That's possible, actually probably very likely... maybe it can even be adjusted by the user with some software, although once you "figure out" a good algorithm for filtering and such, it probably works pretty good as-is

@Mego Sorry. I didn't get to join the earlier one much :P

@Geobits True, but problem is alot of people don't like her. Plus, hardcore republics are not gonna vote for Clinton... Trump still has a decent amount of votes.

I honestly don't think Clinton would be too bad. She could be pretty good.

@AshwinGupta A lot more dislike Trump though. He's worked very hard to make sure of that I think.

Yeah LOL

@Mego about what exactly?

Alots are very nice creatures.

There's a perception caveat that if you are deaf or mostly deaf, you probably have a notion of "sound" that's very different from otherwise

oh

@Phrancis True. I imagine it's much different for people deaf from birth versus sometime after early childhood.

well I'm only in middle school, you can't expect me to remember a lot is two words all the time D:

@AshwinGupta Two words isn't a lot to remember :P

I have a tiny brain.

Still growing ;)

Oh, I thought it was bigger on the inside.

@Mego yeah I got that now.

@Geobits it is, but it still is growing :D

@Geobits HHG and Doctor Who references... I think I may be in love

Don't forget the Java love

Drunkbits is funnier, IMO

Doesn't the TARDIS grow though, because every time it "updates" it seems bigger.

Broccolibits.

@Quill I know several people who would agree with that.

Broccolivocad

why is my code not working!!!!! =/ CURSE YOU CSS!

@Phrancis It's hard not to go for the easy Who references with his avatar.

@Mego yeah I vaguely remember that episode. Last time I watched that was like 2013 though. Is that the one from season 6 where time breaks down and the astronaut kills the doctor?

The challenge for me (with regards to audio) would be differentiating plain noise from intentional signal

Noise is chaotic, and happens on all frequencies

@AshwinGupta No, it's the one where the TARDIS gets a body.

So in a quiet place, it's easy to tell apart just from how loud it is, but in a noisy place, well, everything is loud

@Geobits Ah yeah okay that one. I remember now.

I've never watched an episode of Doctor Who in my life! \o/

@Mego yeah, that was a REALLY good episode

@Quill D: !!!!! Do you have netflix?

@Phrancis Maybe a sliding noise level based on average input?

yup^

@AshwinGupta Australian netflix doesn't have it

oh darn.

^^

@Mego you are now part of my best friends club. Blink is the best thing ever put on television.

So to me the most effective way would be to make the processor able to recognize chaotic signals from intentional signal, which is probably not impossible, but computers aren't smart

Thing on my todo list: Buy a weeping angel statue I can put in random places to scare the crap out of people.

yup pretty much.

@Geobits thats pretty mean. You should put one in your kid's room at night when he is asleep then when he wakes up it will just be there.

No it's not.

@AshwinGupta Are you kidding? He'd love it.

Now his cousin would probably piss herself and cry, but that's a different story.

@Mego Doesn't that only work when you can factor the characteristic polynomial?

@Geobits ik, but it still would be pretty scary :D, just leaning over your bed.

@Geobits Like a hybrid between a filter and compressor?

@Geobits whats the cousins age?

@Mego That's beautiful.

@AshwinGupta 12, so older than he is.

@Phrancis Maybe something like that would work, but you're right. It wouldn't be "easy" at all.

@Geobits I think like 12 was when I started watching DW

maybe a bit younger, like 11.

@Mego Okay cool

I meant factor over the reals

aww damn codeacademy is teaching me hex :(, I wanna learn the good stuff!!!

@Geobits Those sort of already exist (side-chain compressor) but calibrating 16 of them correctly would certainly take a lot of effort

I want to skip but then I don't get the fancy badge =/, I like that fancy badge.

@AshwinGupta CSS never works on first try, just gotta keep doing it until you destroy your computer you get it just right

@Phrancis well, that's actually very relieving... I thought it was just me here...

^

@Phrancis Hmm. Are there separate inputs for each ear? If so, maybe you could use the difference between them to filter on (among other things, obviously). So "background" noise would be relatively even, but you could point your head in a certain direction to "listen" to a nearby source better.

@Phrancis nah, if I wanted to destroy my computer, I'd play w/ the registery. (Which is coincidentally how I broke my .xcf file extension last week.)

I fixed it though :D

@Geobits Do you ever think of the day he'll find this chatroom's transcript and start to worry about your sanity and such?

I do personally like using Bootstrap, even though it looks a bit generic until you customize it, it makes writing CSS 1000% less painful

@HelkaHomba thats a fair point. Do you Geo?

@HelkaHomba Who? Minibits? Nope, for two reasons: 1) He already knows I'm crazy 2) He reads a lot of it anyway.

@Geobits "reads alot of it", but people say like the F-word and such. cough cough @Downgoat

@Geobits That's a very interesting question that I'm not qualified to answer... I would assume it tries to mimic the ears as closely as possible, so I'd say having separate inputs for each ear is plausible

Oh jeez, @HelkaHomba what the crap is the Brocolli?????

@AshwinGupta Well, it's not like people don't curse in real life or anything... The best way to handle that is to teach him when it's inappropriate to.

@Geobits true. My parents didn't even let me watch movies with cursing untill I was like 12. I kinda wish they had though because I just heard it at school and didn't get it =/

@Mego Hail yes it is.

But it gets complicated, say for example you're in a restaurant, and a plate gets clanged against another on your right, but also the dish washing room further to the right also has plates clanging at the same time, how do you tell that the former is likely signal, but the latter is likely noise?

@Mego eh, I normally just kick the hardware to vent my anger. Thats the best part about it.

@AshwinGupta yeah?

@Mego cat seems like the appropriate choice to kick

@Downgoat nothin :P