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Uploaded on Mar 14, 2011

http://www.ted.com MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language -- so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son's life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water." Astonishing, data-rich research with deep implications for how we learn.

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  • myassishappy

    Someone should call a doctor... I believe he's having a seizure...

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  • greengrendel

    OH. my god. this is beautiful.

    See the difference here? I wouldn't let the government touch this data, but scientists, that's prefectly cool.

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  • Elvyne963

    I still don't get what the lesson in there, and how it can help us understand better how language is learnt. This is not a c.ritique, but an honest question.

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  • avedic

    The subtitles aren't made by anyone. they analyze raw audio data and convert it to text. pretty fucking powerful if you think about it. yes, it is quite buggy and no where near perfect. But, in 5 years, it will be perfect. And 5 years ago, wasn't even a possibility. So...quit complaining. :P

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  • avedic

    One of the coolest talks I've ever seen. Wow indeed...

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  • avedic

    8:15 jesus christ! how cool is that? they sure went all out in analyzing all this data. that 3d flythrough is so cool...

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  • David Reid

    You don't really have any privacy now. Your every move in public is recorded. Every time you use the Internet it's recorded. Your ATM transactions, phone calls, emails, faxes... all recorded. It's nice to believe that you have privacy but the reality is, you don't.

    Is that OK? No. I hate that I have no privacy but that's the reality.

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  • Bam Boo

    There are serious moral questions involved, did anyone notice them? :-) This entire research is completely useless if only those people can be included who approve of having their lives or conversations recorded. Deducting about 99.999999% of mankind who (quite normally and justly) would not allow "researchers" to spy on their private (or public) lives would (and hence does) make this research an interesting thought experiment, nothing else. As such, it is... hm, interesting. :-)

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  • Agnieszka Gorońska

    I personally stood up and clapped in front of my computer. Chapeau bas, Mr. Roy!

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  • Julien Horvath

    just amazing, take a moment to look at your life now.. i can't put a word on this feeling i have from this talk.. big step in evolution taking place right now!!

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  • Dustin Nunyo

    in 100 years I would hope we have advanced far enough with technology that a 4 petabyte hard drive would come standard with the latest Iphone lol...

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  • Luis Jimenez

    I thought i was having a seizure lol

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