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Prot Asks: Arkadiusz about blindness, Emacspeak, Hyperbole, Chinese and Slavic culture
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In this 2-hour video I talk with Arkadiusz about how he uses the computer as a blind person. We also cover a range of other issues, from cultural values to topics of artificial intelligence. Much of our conversation revolves around the use of Emacs, which empowers Arkadiusz to do much of his computing. Emacs has a package called emacspeak , which provides an audio interface to the computer. Arkadiusz explains how this is a powerful piece of technology because it benefits greatly from the introspectability and extensibility of Emacs. I get an idea of how emacspeak works and how it can augment the experience by giving feedback about the given context. Another Emacs package that has context-aware functionality is hyperbole . Arkadiusz considers it an excellent addition to his workflow. With hyperbole Arkadiusz has developed the intuition to quickly act on so-called “implicit buttons”, which are portions of text that hyperbole can do something useful on. There also are “explicit buttons”, which Arkadiusz has designed himself to perform actions that streamline his workflow. As we gradually move away from discussing Emacs, I ask Arkadiusz about his study of Chinese. He tells me the exper…
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Protesilaos Stavrou
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