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Re:Ray Kurzweil joins Google by praxeologist on Friday December 14, 2012 @07:09PM (#4924022)
>It's a shame, he's brought many great contributions to our field

What field? The fluffsters? Saying stuff like, "Ideas are presented in a way to fit nicely together, but ultimately lack any depth or critical insights.", is saying nothing.

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Re:Ray Kurzweil joins Google by GuiA on Friday December 14, 2012 @07:18PM (#4924042)
He did a lot of work in text to speech, speech recognition, OCR, etc. back in the day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil#Mid-life

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Re:Ray Kurzweil joins Google by praxeologist on Friday December 14, 2012 @07:28PM (#4924067)
Of course, fluffster was directed at you and I know what Kurzweil did.
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Re:Ray Kurzweil joins Google by pretoriusB on Saturday December 15, 2012 @02:57AM (#4924887)
No, of course you've been pwned, and you should be more graceful about it.
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