Archives week 38 of 2015

I finally got my OpenDeep Dataset implementation for the TEDLIUM dataset feeding into a basic generative RNN... and as expected, it's pointlessly slow. Expect to go, say, 100 epochs... and it's already taken ~ 2 hours on the first epoch. Seems like I really do need to get an Amazon account and use that to ...

We happened to win a Kindle Fire HDX tablet at an event. Since we've been talking about getting the kids a tablet for a while I thought "yay, sorted"... until they actually tried it.

There are no apps for the thing. Or, rather, the apps the kids actually use, YouTube, various games, Google Maps, etc, ...

For some reason I've felt the need to open Skype for the past day. That's weird, as I never use Skype (I generally use Google Hangouts). Apparently I skimmed over an article on their outage and it triggered some neuron that said "remember Skype, you used to use that, maybe you should click on it"... ...