Author Archive for Mark

After rounding the world four times and getting the piercings, but only having three earrings to show for it because he's too picky about what he'll actually put back in his ear, Mark attempted to settle down back in his hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee. This, of course, did not happen because, quite apparently, he has been biologically implanted with a PsychoMagnetâ„¢ which makes even the most stable of people batshit crazy. Mark is currently "hiding" in wildly public places, and making as much noise as possible, while throngs of anonymous nutjobs accuse him of every salacious deed imaginable, such as the unseasonable rainfall of 2011, the murders of several prominent people who are still very much alive, and the 1915 sinking of the Lusitania. Mark is a carnivorous smoker who is Politically agnostic, unable to reproduce, refuses all manners of Internet dating, and generally believes that Murphy was an optimist.

Where You Don’t Want to Be on Sunday

June 24th, 2012 at 1:27 pm by Mark
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Is it better to be chewed up and spit out, or …

AT&T: Pioneers of Speech Recognition

June 23rd, 2012 at 5:37 pm by Mark
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Most people know AT&T as “the telephone company,” but have little concept that they actually developed a ton of other technology still in use today. Beginning in the 1980’s, AT&T implemented automated speech recognition technology across its networks, and has continued to streamline the system ever since. Rather than simply understanding the words, AT&T’s speech recognition uses artificial intelligent to actually understand the spoken language.

At times, interfacing with other software seems counterproductive, given that it will often take written (or typed) data and read it back as voice before processing commands, but when you’re looking at the most advanced speech recognition in the world, it does make an odd bit of sense.

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Zombie Attack!

June 22nd, 2012 at 5:32 pm by Mark
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OH NOES!

History of Art

June 21st, 2012 at 5:26 pm by Mark
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Graffiti Lolcat gave this four paws up.

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How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse

June 20th, 2012 at 5:02 pm by Mark
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A large cabin cruiser will do nicely…