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Old 06-09-2014, 05:50 AM   #1
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Turing Test

We have a winner. I wonder if the the gap between human and artificial is closing from both directions?
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Old 06-09-2014, 07:13 AM   #2
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Interesting idea. I know people who use the pound sign in written communication and call it a hash tag. Damn cyborgs.
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Old 06-09-2014, 08:03 AM   #3
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I wonder if the the gap between human and artificial is closing from both directions?
Come to think of it, methinks you've nailed it.
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Old 06-09-2014, 10:14 AM   #4
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The character the computer was playing was a child who did not speak the language natively, explaining gaps in knowledge and unnatural grammar.
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Old 06-10-2014, 12:40 PM   #5
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Interesting idea. I know people who use the pound sign in written communication and call it a hash tag. Damn cyborgs.
Way back in the dark ages when computers were dinosaur-powered and I was doing my bachelor's in the UK in Math and Computer Science, we called this : # Hash of the Hash Symbol (not Hashtag). I only ever heard it called Pound when I moved to the US. Of course the pound is the currency in the UK so a pound sign is something entirely different.
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Old 06-10-2014, 12:52 PM   #6
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In school, it was called the number symbol, then in life I learned it was called a pound sign. Now somebody has decided it should be called a hashtag.
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Old 06-10-2014, 02:39 PM   #7
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I learned pound sign, then octothorpe. I have never heard anyone else use octothorpe colloquially.
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Old 06-10-2014, 02:57 PM   #8
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Wow, yeah. I'd completely forgotten about Octothorpe. I think as soon as my math teacher said it wouldn't be on the test.
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Old 06-10-2014, 06:15 PM   #9
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Old 06-10-2014, 06:53 PM   #10
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Ok that font of all knowledge Wickedpedia says you guys are the only ones who call it 'pound"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign
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Old 06-10-2014, 06:54 PM   #11
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Well yeah, who else matters?
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Old 06-18-2014, 02:01 AM   #12
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we always said the tic-tac-toe sign
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Old 06-19-2014, 10:40 AM   #13
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It's only a pound sign when you're pressing buttons for phone prompts.
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Old 06-19-2014, 11:33 AM   #14
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It's only a pound sign when you're pressing buttons for phone prompts.
Because when confronted by 10 different single digit numbers, it would be far too confusing to call it a number sign.
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Old 06-19-2014, 10:50 PM   #15
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It's only a pound sign when you're pressing buttons for phone prompts.
Callers to Directory Assistance in 1970s Los Angles learned of another key only available on newer telephones.
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Mitnick diverted directory assistance and answering operator calls by saying, "Yes, that number is eight-seven-five-zero and a half. Do you know how to dial the half, ma'am?"
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