let radius = d * random(random(random()))

instead of

let radius = d * (1 - random(random(random())))

But, if so, probably so much less confusing that folks wouldn't be talking about it here, to be honest.

I am not so worried about smallish spikes in gamma radiation but I think we should all be concerned about longer term impacts of small particles of DU scattered across large area, making it's way into food supply etc. It's sort of inevitable once you have a lot of it in-theater.

* get rights to the training data * keep artists and illustrators in the loop

Could've saved a lot of pain.

Features that used to work just fine (tagging people, editing comments) are becoming worse.

Grays law:

"Any online discussion that mentions the word 'octopi' - regardless how tangentially - will eventually turn into a discussion on linguistics"

I clicked on "are you eligible?" in attempt to determine exactly this question - but instead endured literally fifteen screens of Jedi mind trick sales process bullshit before finally hitting the old "What state are you in?" drop down that doesn't even give an option outside the US.

Why?

I hope you do one day make this service available overseas.. But in the meantime you've managed to really piss me off

IMHO its more than just lack of designers (though that's important) it's actually a balance of power thing.

Delivering really good UX requires taking a design-led approach to the whole project. Unfortunately this conflicts with one of the main reasons coders enjoy working on open source. No management, no customers and you get to work on what you want. Design it for yourself, not others.

But of course, the interface that the average coder wants is nothing like the interface that the average user needs - especially if the average coder is intimately familiar with all the features. Most coders appreciate this and try to design a 'friendly' interface but at the end of the day it's a power imbalance. In a conflict between clean design or adding more features, a team led by programmers is going to prioritize features.

They (not the Sheik some other random people from the internet) had looked up my address in the Upper East side from DNS records and sent me an email along the lines of 'I know where you live and I'm going to come over and kill you'.. I dunno something like that. I had a small kid at the time. Freaked me the f out.

Anyway, I did nothing. Nothing happened. I also got threatened by the fancy lawyer of a rich Sheik. Did nothing to take the content down. Again nothing.

Lesson I take from this is to not let threats get to you too much, that the internet's bark can be worse than it's bite. Except, of course, for the poor souls for whom this is not true. YMMV I guess.

I sincerely hope we can help make this project continue and that Mozilla can help us do that.

Ensuring indigenous languages have digital representation is essential to their survival. Speech recognition and synthesis are a vital part of that. Indigenous communities are often ignored by Big Tech because they bring little financial value to their bottom lines, but financial bottom lines are not everything. Culture is more important. Open source tools like DeepSpeech allow communities to build the tools they need for themselves.

Māori have been working to help build tools for te reo Māori, and our project is at the forefront of using open source tools like DeepSpeech to revitalize the Māori language. The core of a good speech recognition system helps us in many practical ways, such as improved transcription, support for pronunciation, correct announcements in public transport, correct information on maps and in many other ways. We may well continue to support and use DeepSpeech if the project can continue.

But there are also many other projects in other countries in the world who may follow on - such as the Kabyle people of Algeria who are using DeepSpeech, or the Mohawk nation in North America who have been looking into it.

By the way we are working on our web presence but for now this quick one pager gives some idea of the work we are doing - https://papareo.nz.