Here we are at the penultimate blog post. Things finally look like they're wrapping up! There was a key discrepancy I noticed between the code I was working from and the connectionist temporal classification (CTC) algorithm as described by Graves (2012) and how it was impelemented in Baidu's warp-ctc library …

We're coming into the final stretch of coding for Google Summer of Code 2018 here. The last post I made was not necessarily the most hopeful, but I hope this post will reinvigorate things a bit. I have accomplished quite a bit in these last two weeks, so let's talk …

I'd like to begin this post with a word of advice: never assume that the problem you're working on is too complex to find useful information on using Google. I'm sure you're at least acutely aware of this, but reinforce it for yourself for a moment. It will be relevant …