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Comment on Memento, starring Siri by nbergus

nbergus — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:40:09 +0000

I never got into the habit of using the voice-to-text services on my Android phone or iPhone, so it’s hard for me to say which is better. Both were generally reliable. Shouldn’t Siri be better than my experience with Android because its two two years newer? Probably, but besides doing things like transcribing “juice” as “Jews” and a few completely random guesses she’s made, she is more advanced in that she’s better at parsing natural language. (I never could remember what the difference between commanding Android to “call” and to “dial” was.) That’s no small thing, but clearly Siri screws up a lot.

Comment on Memento, starring Siri by Sam Bergus

Sam Bergus — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:16:14 +0000

As someone who has switched from Android to iOS, I would be interested in your take on Boris’ claim, “it’s probably the best voice recognition on any mobile platform.”

The performance I get out of Android’s voice recognition is always impressive. It doesn’t let me tell it to write a text or read my calendar, but when I use it in place of the keyboard, it manages to correctly transcribe what I say most of the time, even fairly complex sentences.

Comment on Obama election front page winners and losers by Nick Bergus » Oh no, they didn’t!

Nick Bergus » Oh no, they didn’t! — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:45:27 +0000

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Comment on Brian Duffy is pissed by Nick Bergus » Where have all the reporters gone?

Nick Bergus » Where have all the reporters gone? — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:43:52 +0000

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Comment on The New Yorker remembers it has a blog on Tumblr by Nick Bergus » Eustace Tilley on Tumblr acts like you would expect

Nick Bergus » Eustace Tilley on Tumblr acts like you would expect — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:35:47 +0000

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Comment on Why Tumblr is the best RSS reader by Nick Bergus

Nick Bergus — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 02:35:59 +0000

Harvey, the answer is: you don’t. I would love to be able to add my Google Reader subscriptions to it, though.

Comment on Why Tumblr is the best RSS reader by Harvey

Harvey — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 02:16:39 +0000

How do you use Tumblr as an RSS reader? I see how to follow other Tumblr blogs, but how do you follow other things?

Comment on Treated like an adult by Michael Kacer

Michael Kacer — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:47:46 +0000

Adam: I’m not an expert by any stretch of the imagination, but I think you should have put the story on the front page. If it is being used legitimately, i.e. a direct quote, then it belongs, no matter how offensive it may be.

Comment on Treated like an adult by Nick Bergus

Nick Bergus — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:44:20 +0000

I think there’s a difference between running “fucking faggot” in a hed and in the copy. And a difference between running it in the lede and in the fourth graf.

How important is the story? How important is the quote to the story? How important is the potentially offensive phrase to the quote?

Writing about a book titled “Go the Fuck to Sleep” without using the word “fuck” seems ridiculous to me. In your case, it’s the sixth graf of a story about the slur. I would have argued for running the full quote if I was going to run any of it.

Whether the front page was appropriate or not, that’s about the story’s importance. I don’t know that I would have made that decision based solely on the word.