I have been wondering something similar. Just a simple voice-command thing. Not a general purpose, any voice, assistant, but just to be able to say a word 10 times to train (form some average) and then assign a command to that word. Something like CellWriter does for handwriting but for voice. Does this exists?
I agree. I meta-programmed (enormous) expressions from analytical expressions exported from Mathematica to Julia, because I found Julia to be ~3000 times faster than Mathematica when it comes to calculating eigenvalues. Using BigFloat for higher precision, my matrix function in Julia took ~20 minutes to compile on the first run and ~20 GB of RAM. Smooth once compiled, but I was the only one of my collaborators that had the capacity to run it.
Note, that I still do like using Julia. I'm a physicist and need to do a lot of computations in a hassle-free way, then jupyter+Julia (+ SymPy) is(/are) the best available tool(s).
The above may only be an issue of BigFloat, to be fair, since Float64 compiled in an instant (never measured, and the time never bothered me).
So Julia has solved a lot of problems for me, and I see great potential for it in the future.
I heard that voiced as a worry, and the logic goes something like this: A small organisation that does not have the capability (money or otherwise) to implement their own content filter, have to look elsewhere for it. Where to go? Probably Google, etc, once they start selling those services. So the net effect will not be negative for the big companies (if those now are the actual target for the copyright directive), since they will now instead have a new market to exploit; small organisations burdened by the content filter requirements demanded by the copyright directive.
I'm confused over the size of these extra dimensions... They say that they do not rule out small compact extra dimensions, but only large ones, the number they give is ~100 km. But this must surely be ruled out by ordinary gravitational experiments that establish the 1/r^2 law for gravity, since I would assume that that law would be seriously broken for extra dimensions of those sizes for even everyday physics.
The number that is quoted in some textbooks on String theory (but I do not have the refs.) is that gravity is 1/r^2 down to sizes of ~1 cm for extra dimensions.
Gravitational waves are the best litmus test we have for gravity on a large scale which is why they put to rest most of the modified gravity theories.
Newtonian gravity on large scales wasn’t “proven” explicitly in fact we have had to introduce dark matter to make it work to match observations, there is also the issue of empty space having weight which is attributed to various favtors depending on the theory in question.
I tried to use pandoc a while ago to convert the latex-sources of arxiv.org documents to epub, since those are often much more comfortable to read on small devices than pdfs.
The problem I had was that latex was turned into images, but changing the font-size of the reader did not change the size of the images, making the text readable, but the maths barely readable.
This is something I would love to see happen though.
You can add some CSS to the generated EPUB to change that. But if your EPub reader supports MathML, you can do that with pandoc. See http://pandoc.org/epub.html#math
I tried it this morning (lineageOS). Got the arm binary from github, `chmod +x`-ed it on my computer and scp:ed it over to my phone. Ran the binary and got a quick flash of the screen and a `exit status 1` [in termux].
Have not looked into it more than that. Since `browsh` depends on headless firefox, which is not in the termux default repository (it seems), I guess it won't work because termux does not have access to the firefox system app, if that even shits with the headless-functionality. (but here I'm just guessing, a work around may be available)
I haven't made it clear enough on the homepage or the docs, but Browsh isn't designed to run on your own local device, be it a laptop or smartphone. Browsh is best run remotely and then connected to through either SSH/Mosh or the HTTP in-browser service.
I tried it this morning (lineageOS). Got the arm binary from github, `chmod +x`-ed it on my computer and scp:ed it over to my phone. Ran the binary and got a quick flash of the screen and a `exit status 1`.
Have not looked into it more than that. Since `browsh` depends on headless firefox, which is not in the termux default repository (it seems), I guess it won't work because termux does not have access to the firefox system app, if that even shits with the headless-functionality. (but here I'm just guessing, a work around may be available)
