The New Yorker has a good article on automatic speech recognition and its use in tools far beyond interactive voice response systems; aggression-detection systems, for example.
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Commodore Nostalgia
I ran across scanned copies of the Commodore 64 User’s Guide and Programmer’s Reference Guide, in handy PDF format. Not surprising, really, that someone took the time to scan them in.
I sometimes wish I still had my 64.
Oh, and be sure to download Firefox 3. Very nice.
Infocom
I was cleaning up an old hard drive yesterday and ran across a pile of Infocom data files from their popular text adventures. They probably came from an old compilation I picked up years ago called The Lost Treasures of Infocom. I absolutely loved playing these games on my Commodore 64.
Infocom’s games ran on a [...]
