lorempixel - placeholder images for every case Want to Change the World? Be Resilient. - John McKinley by John McKinley | 1:00 PM February 26, 2013 What’s the difference between someone with a good idea and a person who can transform their ideas into real impact? To tackle the world’s biggest problems, we need to be able to identify and support the people who are capable of creating lasting change. At Acumen Fund, we spend a lot of time trying to find and train aspiring and established leaders from around the world who have the right mix of talent, ideas, and passion. And what we’ve found time and again is: Resilience matters most. Resilient leaders have three key characteristics: Grit: Short-term focus on tasks at hand, a willingness to slog through broken systems with limited resources, and pragmatic problem-solving skills.Courage: Action in the face of fear and embracing the unknown.Commitment: Long-term optimism and focus on big-picture goals. Grit: Natalie Grillon, a former Peace Corps volunteer and recent MBA graduate, embodies grit. And resilience can be trained.
LoremFlickr: free placeholder images Treehouse Blog | Learn skills to change the world today! Accepting Speech Input in HTML5 Forms The way that we interact with computers has changed dramatically over the past decade. Touch-screen devices and laptop trackpads have enabled a much more intuitive form of interaction than is achievable using a traditional mouse. These changes haven’t been limited to just hardware. Gestures, predictive text, and speech recognition are all examples of software innovations that have improved the way in which we interact with our devices. Speech recognition has somewhat eluded innovators for decades. In this post you’ll be learning how to take advantage of Google’s speech recognition technologies to enhance your web forms. Lets get started. Enabling Speech Input Enabling support for speech input is as simple as adding an attribute to your <input> elements. When speech input is enabled the element will have a small microphone icon displayed on the right of the input. Speech Input in Chrome See the Demo View on CodePen A Caveat About Input Types Detecting Browser Support Summary
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Fighting the Fears that Block Creativity - Tom Kelley and David Kelley by Tom Kelley and David Kelley | 1:00 PM November 20, 2012 What does it take to spark your creativity? For Doug Dietz, the executive behind GE Healthcare’s magnetic resonance-imaging (MRI) equipment, it was seeing a little girl cry. He remembers the day vividly. He’d come to a hospital to see one of his machines in action and was initially pleased. He first shared his concerns with his boss at GE, who suggested he attend a customer-focused innovation class at Stanford’s Hasso Plassner Institute of Design, or d.school, which is where we met him. These simple changes made a big difference, significantly reducing the use of sedation for pediatric patients needing MRIs and greatly increasing family satisfaction rates. But the real proof of success for Dietz was hearing another young girl who had just been through a new Adventure Series machine ask: “Mommy, can we come back tomorrow?” Dietz was able to reinvent the pediatric imaging experience because he reclaimed his creative confidence.
JSON Generator – Tool for generating random data Echo JS - JavaScript News Introducing the Web Speech API After receiving my bachelor’s degree, I began working in a group called NLP. As the name implies, we focused on Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies. At the time, two of the most popular technologies to work with were the VoiceXML standard and Java applets. Speech recognition has several real-world applications. What is the Web Speech API? The Web Speech API, introduced at the end of 2012, allows web developers to provide speech input and text-to-speech output features in a web browser. The Web Speech API defines a complex interface, called SpeechRecognition, whose structure can be seen here. The specification asserts that the API itself is agnostic of the underlying speech recognition and synthesis implementation and can support both server-based and client-based/embedded recognition and synthesis. Another interesting feature of the Web Speech API is that it allows you to specify a grammar object. Methods and Properties var recognizer = new speechRecognition(); Demo Conclusion
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