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But then I took an arrow to the knee…

Really, I got tasked with handling all traineeships for work (on top of all my regular teaching duties) and it’s eating all my time while I get training plans together and get everyone organised with what they’re doing and when they need to get it done by. Also the (8,000 word) confirmation of candidature document for my research is due shortly so I’m beavering away on that whenever I have or can make a spare moment. Once these things are out of the way in the next few weeks normal service will be resumed!

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Would love one of these on the wall =D

As demonstrated by the fine folks at Rooster Teeth (of Red Vs. Blue fame):

Smoooooth! =D

Voice recognition is only ever going to get better (check out CMU Sphinx if you want to play with speech rec. for yourself), but at the moment… um, it’s not quite up to scratch:

Okay, so he’s putting in on a bit for the lulz, and if he’d just said “where’s the nearest pub?” he’d probably get a useful answer – but that’s half the battle with speech recognition. At the moment we have to adapt our speech to the software, but in the future I don’t think we’ll have to at all.

At least for the time being, as Penny Arcade put it, it’s all going to be a bit like this:

Best keep your deer-combs handy.

Not even rigged - try it for yourself...

Game is teeth-gnashingly hard against the AI on standard “Pro” difficulty. It’s upsetting.