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. …

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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 …

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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.)

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