Hello all,
Personally I don't mind not having jaws translating from LaTeX formulas
to human readable text; that's mostly a question of habits. I did all my
studies in that way and it never caused problems to me. I don't mind
this probably because I'm used to programming in a pair of languages,
and LaTeX is, after all, just another programming language. I'm still 2
or 3 times slower than sighted people of course.
But if you need the transformation from LaTeX to human readable form,
i.e. translate \sqrt{\frac{x}{2}} into square root of x over 2, I think
that MathPlayer does a pretty good job. It also seems that MathPlayer +
MathType for word is working quite well if you go back and forth between
LaTeX notation and MathType graphical form.
Some time ago, I saw a jaws script to make also this kind of
translation; unfortunately I don't remember the name of the thing.
It's just sad that MathML isn't more widely used on web pages. The math
equation viewer of Jaws 16+ also does a pretty good job in making math
readable. I especially hope that wikipedia and wikibooks will switch to
MatML, because they are not so bad sources to learn math and physics
otherwise.
I'm also interested in learning a bit of machine learning. Though
personally, I would prefer have a course that first present the thing in
a practical fashion, i.e. solving a simple game like tic tac toe with
neuronal network, or write a dummy anti-spam program based on bayesian
learning, just with at least theory as possible, and only then dive into
what's going under the hood with the hard maths; in short, being first
of all ludic and have fun, in the opposite of classical university
courses we all already have or have had.
Similarely, another course on signal processing exclusively focused on
audio could also be very interesting. Usual courses mix both video/photo
and audio processing in parralel, what makes the thing quite difficult
to learn for us.
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