WinterLight Labs (http://www.winterlightlabs.com) | Machine Learning Engineer | Toronto, Canada | Full Time | Onsite & At home
WinterLight Labs is a Toronto-based company which has developed cutting-edge software for objectively measuring cognitive impairment by automatically quantifying hundreds of aspects of speech and language using natural language processing algorithms and machine learning.
We are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to specialize in the development of automatic speech recognition (ASR) and machine learning (ML) models. This role may involve:
● In-house implementation of state-of-the-art ASR models, using deep neural networks and open-source tools, such as Kaldi.
● Research and development of methods for online re-training and adaptation of ASR models, especially for individuals with speech disorders (e.g., aphasia) and elderly voices
● Analysis of the robustness of lexico-syntactic features derived from errorful ASR transcripts.
● Implementation of additional lexico-syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic features derived from textual transcripts
● Implementation of additional acoustic features derived from the speech signal
● Optimization of feature selection and dimensionality reduction techniques
● Optimization of model hyperparameters, and experimentation with a variety of model types.
● Optimization of multi-view approaches to data fusion
● Leveraging unsupervised and supervised approaches to data fusion
Those are several possible negative outcomes of positive discrimination. It's also possible that more women speakers at conferences encourages other women to speak, to work on side projects and generally to do things that get them promoted.
I think her point is that since there is so much negative discrimination, the positive discrimination is cancelled out.
This was a long time coming! I'm very happy to see socket.io 1.0 finally released. Pre-1.0 had some deal-breaking technical issues, such as starting with websockets and falling back to polling. I think the new approach is starting with polling and then seeing if a) websockets are supported by the current browser and b) messages sent via websocket are received by the server (a firewall might prevent this).
ChikkaChiChi, that may be the single best explanation for what Vagrant is. Most people answer: "It provisions VMs" which isn't as enlightening as your answer!
While I used Redis and Socket.IO to add real-time to a Rails app, I'd be curious to hear what other people are using? Are people using commercial options for real-time?
I suppose I wrote this blog entry as much for myself as for other nascent entrepreneurs. If you've been in the business for awhile, and your successful, the content shouldn't be new to you.
I've started doing something similar, except I also use vagrant to ensure that my development OS is the same as production. I also find it easier keeping everything for dev within a VM.