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patrickl:
Man wins contest with 1,528-pound pumpkin



WTF does this guy live next to a nuclear plant or something?  :o

patrickl:

--- Quote from: sel on October 15, 2008, 09:01:08 am ---This poor ChILD

http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2008-10-14-baby-politicalname_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

--- End quote ---
Talking about weird names as a political statement, this girl changed her name to an URL. Is that really allowed in the US?

Teen changes her name to CutoutDissection.com

ChadTower:

There are several people here that grow 1400+ lb pumpkins every year.  Takes them 15 years of selective "breeding" to get them that big.

sel:
guess i skimmed the article too fast chad, I kinda have to watch it at work and read stuff fast =.=

patrickl:
I now and then accuse "people" here of being a Turing test (wiki explanation of Turing test). Their replies make me wonder it's not just some script answering.

Turing claimed that computers would be able to fool people into thinking that their responses in a "chat session" were made by a human. Every year they have a contest to see which computer/program scores best at this test. Apparently the "bot" needs to fool 30% of the people trying the 5 minute test to pass.

This year the chatbot named Elbot fooled 25% of the judges. Not enough to pass Turing's test, but still it fooled 3 out of 12 judges. I'd say that's pretty impressive. I wrote an Eliza program as a university assignment once and it probably couldn't fool anyone for more than a few seconds.

Guardian: Chatbots take the ultimate AI test - and fail
German chatbot almost passes the Turing Test

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