Four short links: 3 September 2019

Crummy Translations, Synthetic Data Sets, Building Communities, and Deleting Accounts

1. Classifying Topics in Speech When All You Have is Crummy Translations -- While the translations are poor, they are still good enough to correctly classify one-minute speech segments over 70% of the time—a 20% improvement over a majority-class baseline. Such a system might be useful for humanitarian applications like crisis response, where incoming speech must be quickly assessed for further action.
2. Synthetic Data Sets: A Non-Technical Primer For The Biobehavioral Sciences -- respecting confidentiality by generating data sets that preserve their statistical properties and relationships between variables while varying the specific data.
3. Get Together -- a book with how-to advice from real community builders, from the team behind The Get Together podcast.
4. Just Delete Me -- A directory of direct links to delete your account from web services.

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