Brad Buran

@AlexDeZenzo @CenturyLink Same situation here. Everyone on my block has been without service for a week now. Several of us have switched to Comcast. The lack of clear information and updates on the situation is frustrating. Look at @CenturyLinkSEA for a good example of how to keep customers in the loop.

@Oly_Binewski Thanks for highlighting psiexperiment! The source code is on Github (github.com/bburan/psiexpe…) and documentation at read the docs (psiexperiment.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).

Also psiexperiment: open-source data acquisition software for auditory experiments! Runs on the same National Instruments hardware as EPL Cochlear Function Test Suite, thus readily available to many research groups. 👂🧠

@elizabethsibert That said, it's very exciting technology and will hopefully be ready for prime-time use in a few years. Please just make sure it is used appropriately and is not viewed as a substitute for those who may need real-time captioning, transliterators, or interpreters.

@elizabethsibert Those with residual hearing (or typical hearing) have some auditory input to help compensate when the automatic captioning messes up. Please be careful when assuming that because it seems great to you, it may not be so great to someone who has no auditory input.

@elizabethsibert When automatic captioning messes up, it splits a single word into multiple words, lumps multiple words into a single word or uses the wrong word. It requires a high cognitive load to compensate for these mistakes as I have to figure out the mistake was and then correct it.

@ORpoisoncenter What's the best way for a deaf person to get in touch with you quickly? Does the phone number support text messaging?

@PembertonFarms still open?

re.DEBUG : wish I had known about this flag several years ago. #python

@nparmalee: Oh, another talk can be using Numpy for data compression to speed up streaming between data acquisition hardware and the PC.

@nparmalee: Ok I can do a lightning talk on spike sorting in Python. That'll give me incentive to start learning the neural toolbox!

@nparmalee Several! Are these meant to be lightning talks?

@nparmalee Is this group focused on data processing, or does it include acquisition (a huge topic in the neuroscience community) as well?