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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2013-05-12 22:39, spike wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Nothing profound here, move along, just a
little techno-fun and games:<o:p></o:p></p>
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href="http://dotsub.com/view/6c5d7514-5656-476a-9504-07dd4e2f6509">http://dotsub.com/view/6c5d7514-5656-476a-9504-07dd4e2f6509</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">{8^D<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I can imagine the Brits among us will have
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Indeed, dear chap!<br>
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My brother and me spent a hilarious journey trying to use his fancy
new voice-controlled handsfree phone system in his car to call home.
The noisy road environment and Swedish accents did not work well
with it.<br>
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I do wonder about how to get "natural language" interfaces to work
properly. I find Wolfram Alpha tremendously frustrating since it
wants me to phrase queries as questions rather than straightforward
commands ("Plot the Gini coefficient of different countries against
their GDP per capita") - it has the data and plotting ability, it
just gets confused about interpreting my question. Here a command
language would make much more sense. <br>
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