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Re: Allow me to introduce myself...

• Posted by Mark Brown <mabrown at SENET.COM.AU> Aug 15, 2000
• 543 views

Now *that* was a flame.

Unfortunately it will be way too clever for Michael.

Mark





----- Original Message -----
From: "Kat" <gertie at PELL.NET>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 7:36 AM
Subject: Re: Allow me to introduce myself...


> On 14 Aug 2000, at 20:43, Mike The Spike wrote:
>
> > And read what I says, I'm an AI coder, not a linguest.
>
> What language do you work with? Misspelling? How does your Ai know what
you
> mean if you can't spell a word the same way twice (unless it's simple and
wrong each
> time)? I'm serious, if you code Ai programs, really *code* as opposed to
data entry,
> how does your Ai deal with so much misspelling and bad syntax and
atrocious
> semantics? I tried various approximation programs, like Metaphone, which i
rewrote
> from C to Eu, and they threw away too much info, imho. And they didn't
deal well with
> regional pronunciation when that was needed. Show me how you do it?
>
> > I know about my grammer.
>
> Still trying for "grammar"?
>
> > It's just that I'm not going to go through all this trouble of checking
my
> > spelling for anyone.
>
> Just run an auto-check-replace program,, your Ai should be smart enough to
figure out
> what words you meant to use, and it would be a learning experience for it.
>
> > Plus, my posts have bad spelled content, yours are spelled right,  but
don't
> > have content at all.
>
> "badly" is the adverb you were looking for, and possessives are usually
spelled with an
> apostrophe. Two errors like that in one sentence make absolutely 4x the
number of
> possible parses, and to err on the safe side, the Ai would need to assume
there are
> more errors and parse for them too, how does your Ai handle that?
>
> On 14 Aug 2000, at 20:52, Mike The Spike wrote:
>
> > WTF?
> > You little shit, I ain't even gonna read this crap.
> > If you ain't got what it takes to flame a man, then shut that hole you
call
> > a mouth.
>
> Maybe whoever wrote that didn't know you are (were?) a man. Is that even
relavant
> online?
>
> Kat