The disintegration of the Congress party over the last few decades is well-deserved. Many factors have contributed to this disintegration, including corruption, indiscipline, and the sheer ineptitude and lethargy of its aging leadership. Fortunately for the Congress, the old eventually die. The condition of Congress seems to be improving lately. In particular, its leadership’s paralysis …
I started running seriously on July 16, 2021, during the Covid lockdown. I had graduated, and I could no longer walk or cycle to the lab daily. And I was working full-time and very long sessions on my six-month-old startup, and these long programming sessions were taking a toll on my health. I needed a …
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Last December, I wrote a short piece for the Times of India (ToI) in a column called "Tech I’d Love to See". It took a while before the article was printed. On January 25, 2021, someone I know sent me a message on LinkedIn about it. I couldn’t find it online or with the search …
Tech I’d Like To See: Non-Newtonian Cognition For Machines Read More »
Install SoX. Relevant documentation (search for vad). Let’s say your vice file is a.wav. $ play ~/Downloads/a.wav vad norm /home/dilawars/Downloads/a.wav: File Size: 52.3k Bit Rate: 328k Encoding: Signed PCM Channels: 1 @ 16-bit Samplerate: 20500Hz Replaygain: off Duration: 00:00:01.27 In:100% 00:00:01.27 [00:00:00.00] Out:20.0k [ | ] Hd:0.0 Clip:0 Done. It is decent! You can play …