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Re:IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (2016) by akvadrako on Monday April 30, 2018 @04:26PM (#16961941)
This comment is way too long to justify whatever point you are making. First of all, how long ago do you mean? Are you 100 years old and people in the 1940's thought computers would be operated by pens?

But also, when my college had a demo microsoft tablet in their store in 2003, I could sign my name as I usually do (typical poor male handwriting) and it recognized every letter. That seems pretty good to me.

I also had a Palm Pilot then and Grafitti sucked, but that's just one implementation.

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Re:IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (2016) by akvadrako on Monday April 30, 2018 @06:39PM (#16963120)
This is my most down-voted comment ever and I have no idea why.
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Re:IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (2016) by rspeer on Monday April 30, 2018 @08:47PM (#16963809)
In addition to what novia said about your first sentence, your comment is so weirdly off-base. You have very strong opinions about pen computing, but where in reality are they coming from?

No, we are not talking about the 1940s, why would anyone be talking about the 1940s? How does that make any sense at all?

We aren't talking about a Microsoft demo that worked well for you once, either. We are talking about the fact that, since the 2000s when it was tried repeatedly, people do not like to hand-write on computers. It is a strange thing not to be aware of when you're speaking so emphatically on the topic.

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Re:IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (2016) by akvadrako on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @03:18AM (#16965139)
I don't have strong opinions about pen computing, but the comment I replied to was just giving a bad impression of the tech in the early 2000s. It worked quite well actually.

Since he didn't specify the timeframe, I gave him the benefit of the doubt and thought it he was talking about before my time.

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Re:IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (2016) by ItsMe000001 on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @04:37AM (#16965423)
> It worked quite well actually.

Apart from the problems mentioned in the comment you replied to. You don't seem to have a point other than being contrarian (as a state).

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Re:IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (2016) by akvadrako on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @07:16AM (#16966079)
The commenter said that handwriting recognition didn't work well. But, having tried it myself, I know that's not true. My point is to share that data.
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Re:IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (2016) by kazagistar on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @11:02AM (#16967546)
Not sure why you would ask for advice on a downvoted comment, but then just argue against the response.
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Re:IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (2016) by novia on Monday April 30, 2018 @07:28PM (#16963420)
The first sentence is being seen as combative.
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