What are exams good for?
“I can see that your son has native speaker skills, but we still cannot give him a passing grade”, the English examinator told me in an apologetic tone of voice. … Continue reading What are exams good for?
Category: English and Text-Based Data
Bookmarklet
Entering a new domain! Making specifically this bookmarklet (delete bookmarklet) was Simon’s idea. He learned to make bookmarklets today during Daniel Shiffman’s live session on basic bookmarklets and Chrome extensions. The … Continue reading Bookmarklet
Announcing Simon’s First Live Stream!
Simon is planning to do his fist coding live stream (online lesson he is going to teach to his audience on YouTube) on Thursday, 2 November at 5 p.m. CET. … Continue reading Announcing Simon’s First Live Stream!
Simon made his own speech library: Speechjs
Simon has just finished working on his first library, a #speechlibrary Speechjs. You can find Simon’s library on GitHub: https://github.com/simon-tiger/speechjs Simon also added a reference page at: https://github.com/simon-tiger/speechjs/wiki/Reference You can … Continue reading Simon made his own speech library: Speechjs
Computer repeats after Simon
Following the exciting text-to-speech and speech-to-text projects yesterday, this morning Simon made a basic speech-to-text-to-speech demo, which means that the computer can now repeat (parrot) everything Simon says. Simon relied … Continue reading Computer repeats after Simon
Almost talking to the computer!
This is one of those wow projects, so much fun! Simon built his Text-to-Speech and Speech-to-Text demos following Daniel Shiffman’s recent live streams on working with the p5.Speech library and … Continue reading Almost talking to the computer!
Simon’s Spellcheck API
Simon has continued with server side programming and made a spellcheck API! Here is the link, you can play with it yourself by adding new words to the corpus (dictionary): … Continue reading Simon’s Spellcheck API
Wikipedia Crawler
Simon has made his version of Daniel Shiffman’s Wikipedia Crawler, graphing the relatedness between Wikipedia articles. Play with it yourself online at: https://simon-tiger.github.io/wikipedia-crawler/wikipedia/ Code: https://github.com/simon-tiger/wikipedia-crawler/ Simon writes: How it Works … Continue reading Wikipedia Crawler
Text Generating Machine that Posts to Twitter
A milestone in server side programming here, as Simon has built a text generating machine that posts to Simon’s Twitter account! Essentially, it’s website where anyone can enter his own … Continue reading Text Generating Machine that Posts to Twitter
Simon’s Acrostic Machine
Last Friday Daniel Shiffman was finally back with his weekly livestreams! Simon was delirious with joy that he could be part of the team again and weeping and panicking every … Continue reading Simon’s Acrostic Machine
Geeks out of the box 