Backfeifengesicht
Someone remind me how to pronounce that again? What an excellent word.
I'm very sorry if she tipped off anyone about your cunningly concealed herd of cows.
Simon ,'Safe'
Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
brenda m - Jan 04, 2006 10:41:21 am PST #7369 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
sarameg - Jan 04, 2006 10:43:15 am PST #7370 of 10002
bak-fyfen-ge-sikt
Kate P. - Jan 04, 2006 10:44:00 am PST #7371 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Kate! When's your date?
Skipper! It was last night: Kate P. "Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!" Jan 3, 2006 7:25:10 pm PST
Jesse - Jan 04, 2006 10:44:22 am PST #7372 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Speaking of automated customer service.... [link]
§ ita § - Jan 04, 2006 10:44:36 am PST #7373 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
OCR! There's a totally commonplace usage of AI that I should have remembered sooner. It's only, like, a chunk of my job.
DavidS - Jan 04, 2006 10:46:12 am PST #7374 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Skipper! It was last night: Kate P. "Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!" Jan 3, 2006 7:25:10 pm PST
Sweet! Go you. And go him for his excellent taste.
Kathy A - Jan 04, 2006 10:47:43 am PST #7375 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
A college friend and fellow band member told me that his high school couldn't get enough quality male singers capable of performing the barbershop quartet, so they decided to do a trombone quartet instead, so he was one of the school board members and also arranged the songs for trombone. (I don't know how they got instruments into the school board's hands before the Wells Fargo Wagon showed up, though.)
Kate P. - Jan 04, 2006 10:48:01 am PST #7376 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Thanks! More news as it develops.
sarameg - Jan 04, 2006 10:51:37 am PST #7377 of 10002
What am I supposed to do with a talking points memo on why a project it currently over budget to the tune of, excuse me has grown by a billion dollars? Laugh?
Betsy HP - Jan 04, 2006 10:54:40 am PST #7378 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I think that's a weak stance. There's no reason one branch of research can't have offshoots or uses in other branches.
Yes, but mathematics doesn't stop being mathematics when it's used by physicists. Logic doesn't stop being philosophy when it's used by mathematicians.
And the whole wide use is or is not AI is a straw man of your own invention.
It's a straw man if I accused you of using it. I didn't. I said, as a matter of personal experience, that the things that were once considered highly difficult AI were taken for granted when they went into production.
When I went to college in the 1980s, voice recognition for an arbitrary speaker was considered incredibly difficult, and was indeed an AI topic. It's in wide use now, so you think of it as pattern matching. Sure it is; but it's much more sophisticated pattern matching than was possible before targeted AI research. Same with visual recognition.