Well, 3 days ago on March 14, we celebrated Pi Day at CMU. (Get it? 3/14? ha!) I organized an event wherein we wrote thousands of digits of pi's decimal expansion across the campus sidewalks in chalk. More details and pictures are here.
8192 digits this year, doubling last year's total. But everyone knows exponential growth is not sustainable....
I've often complained about how little text-to-speech technology has seemed to improve since twenty years ago. This demo of new technology from IBM Watson is especially impressive in that light. It's still fun to feed it really confusing made-up words to see how it pronounces them, though!
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