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Comment on Pepsitavity by Brand Rememberence « Slacker Online

Brand Rememberence « Slacker Online — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:54:35 +0000

[...] nestled among the attempts at reproducing the Coca-Cola script lay… the Pepsi orb, the old one, of course, another indication of the unwisdom of that infamous [...]

Comment on Two Films by slacker

slacker — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:07:09 +0000

Update: the Exhaustive review of Casino Royale has been finished.

Comment on Film Review: Gladiator by Film Review: Casino Royale « Slacker Online

Film Review: Casino Royale « Slacker Online — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:55:11 +0000

[...] Note: This approach is a sharp contrast to another film reviewed here which glossed over the ethical problems of its lead in order to cast him as a saint [...]

Comment on Film Review: Gladiator by slacker

slacker — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:26:42 +0000

Please note: This film review was written before the introduction of the new film rating system (http://slacker.vistua.com/about/filmrating/) was introduced, therefore it seems to have a much lower star rating than it actually does.

Comment on How the new Film Rating System Works by Film Review: 2001 A Space Odyssey « Slacker Online

Film Review: 2001 A Space Odyssey « Slacker Online — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:03:46 +0000

[...] Detailed Explanation of Calculation [...]

Comment on Film Review: 2001 A Space Odyssey by slacker

slacker — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:28:20 +0000

You’re right, I accidentally transposed two numbers. It does not effect the overall rating but it has been corrected

Comment on Film Review: 2001 A Space Odyssey by martha

martha — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:14:25 +0000

yeah the special effects were nice but I would not have been so generous with the plot rating!

Comment on Eliza, the Simulated Rogerian Psychotherapist. by slacker

slacker — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 06:08:38 +0000

I chose Eliza because she/it is available in Javascript, which is supported by every modern browser.

Eliza fooled the people she was tested on because they were not told to think that Eliza was a computer program. You expected Eliza to be a computer program and so your objectivity is tainted.

Of course, to us, it is obvious that Eliza is a computer program because we are subjectively familiar with chatter-bots. The people who Eliza was tested on were subjectively unfamiliar with chatter-bots. This is another weakness in the Turing Test, the difficulty in defining the phrase “fooled a person”.

Comment on Eliza, the Simulated Rogerian Psychotherapist. by focal

focal — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:34:46 +0000

I find the program to be quite lousy. I could think myself some obvious simple rules to improve the speech. Consider this dialog:
Eliza: (some question)
Man: No
Eliza: Are you saying no just to be negative?
Man: No
Eliza: Why you keep repeating yourself?
At this point it becaomes obvious that this is a bot, and not a very bright one.

Comment on Writer’s Block by Melonie McLaurin

Melonie McLaurin — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:31:39 +0000

What a great post! I was just out having my coffee and surfing Technorati when I found this. Thanks for the wake up laughs, and I do hope your writing returns to some happily productive level immediately.