The Trump Administration Should Have Attorney Whistleblowers

The Trump Administration and the Environment - Heed the Science.

Science-based policies and regulations have resulted in tremendous gains in environmental quality and reduced the population’s exposure to harmful pollutants (Fig. 1). In the United States, the gains have been driven by major laws that were passed and amended by Republican and Democratic administrations alike (Table 1). For example, the 1970 Clean Air Act (CAA), signed by President Richard Nixo...

Whistleblowers.

T he term whistleblower comes from the phrase ‘‘blow the whistle’’, which refers to a whistle being blown by a policeman or a referee to indicate an activity that is illegal or a foul [1]. Recently, whistleblowers have disseminated valuable information to the community through new media outlets, such as WikiLeaks. In medicine, whistleblowers serve to shed light on side-effects of drugs and, occ...

Should recognizers have ears?

Recently, techniques motivated by human auditory perception are being applied in main-stream speech technology and there seems to be renewed interest in implementing more knowledge of human speech communication into a design of a speech recognizer. The paper discusses the author's experience with applying auditory knowledge to automatic recognition of speech. It advances the notion that the rea...

Protecting Whistleblowers By Contract

“ I Have the Best Classifiers ” : Identifying Speech Imitating the Style of Donald Trump

These days, people love to write comments that imitate Donald Trump’s speaking style. But inevitably, a few folks won’t get the joke. It’s tragic how these people end up getting left out of all the fun. This project is an attempt to rectify the situation. If there existed a program where you could give it a comment and it would tell you if the comment is written in Trump’s style, this would sol...