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Couple Takes Baby Pictures with Their New Dog to Get Their In-Laws to Shaddup About Kids Already
One Tech-Savvy Pet Owner Set Up a Bark-to-Text Twitter Account for His Pooch
Notorious Cat Burglar Terrorizes Neighbors
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Couple Takes Baby Pictures with Their New Dog to Get Their In-Laws to Shaddup About Kids Already

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 01:00 PM PDT

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You know when you're in-laws/parents/everyone won't stop asking when you're going to have a child?

That's just how Matt and Abby felt, so they thought they would respond with this tongue-in-cheek, yet still SUPER ADORBS, photoshoot

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Tagged: dogs , baby , puppy , pooch , photo shoot , newborn , funny

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One Tech-Savvy Pet Owner Set Up a Bark-to-Text Twitter Account for His Pooch

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 12:00 PM PDT

Henry Conklin loves his dog and wants to share the canine's voice with the world. Modern social media and Conklin's technological know-how make that possible.

The mathematics/computer science undergraduate student at the University of Virginia regularly engages in competitive programming and decided to use these skills to make a Twitter account that his dog Oliver could 'control'.

@OliverBarkBark tweets every time Oliver barks. So far he's had some very insightful things to say:

Conklin describes the process by which he achieved this feat on his website:

By connecting a Rasberry Pi, a wifi dongle, and a microphone, I was able to make a system that automatically detected, filtered, and published each and every one of Oliver's deafening vocalizations.

The full process from bark to tweet takes three steps. First is recording. I have the raspberry pi listening continuously and triggering a recording once it hears a sound over a preset volume. Oliver barking is by far the loudest thing within several miles, so the volume threshold should be sufficient. However, the recordings are still triggered occasionally by unwanted junk. To guard against this, I needed to perform a second step to filter the barks from the junk.

I took a machine learning approach to filter out the barks. I built a model using the pyAudioAnalysis library and around a day's worth of barks (about 20). I then set up a bash script to run every ten minutes, classify each recorded sound, and forward the barks on to the next step.

Finally, the barks are forwarded to the twitter api (using python-twitter) and posted under the handle @OliverBarkBark (be sure to follow!). Currently the tweets are random strings composed of "bark," "ruff," and "woof." I plan to replace that with a bark-to-text translator that will likely produce similar results but be more accurate to Oliver's actual voice.

Being the cool guy that he seems, Conklin also made all the code it took to accomplish this publicly available.

He said the next step is puppy podcasting.

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Notorious Cat Burglar Terrorizes Neighbors

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 11:00 AM PDT

This criminal feline has made a habit out of stealing from his neighbors and stashing the goods in plain sight back home. His favorite objective? Shoes.

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This dastardly villain is brazen enough to pose happily amongst his stolen trophies.

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Just look at that fearless expression. This is the face of a ruthless evildoer who thinks he can never be stopped...and perhaps he's right.

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