Tue, 19 Jan 2010: Illiterate spammers
Those irritating intrusions into one’s mailbox—or one’s blog. Came across a few recently that actually amused me. …
Thu, 28 Aug 2008: You be the judge
they’re both pretty bad, but which do you think is the better translator from French to English, a computer program, or an American who can’t speak French but owns a dictionary? You be the judge …
Sat, 28 Apr 2007: Semantic technologies
On Usenet, Mark Conrad recently wrote that there is no practical way to avoid a certain type of mistake in speech recognition software. I think I disagree. (Drop the word “practical? and I’m sure.)