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Calling All Grammar Nazi's

The results of a search, or are search suggestions also subject to fancy algorithms? Is the burgeoning AI that is Google already judging it's users? Is this independent in any way? If so is it already a monster?
 
We should take a leaf out of Iain Banks' book and treat Google nicely, give it rights as a sentient being, and maybe it won't turn on us and will be our friend.

I think the secret is to convince Google that WE are not monsters.
 
How could a sentient Google, with all it's access to the world's knowledge and the huge amount of human interaction it does sumise we are, as a species, anything but monsters, insane or plain evil? The best thing wet can hope for is it concludes we are insane and tries to help us, one intelligent collective to another.
 
Iain M Banks had massive servers where "souls" went to be tortured upon death. A guise of various species' religions' take on hell. Fortunately in his created dystopia they were destroyed and "The Culture" was "most pleased".

Fantastic stuff, but rather nightmarish.
 
The formal name for the # symbol, commonly called the hashtag thanks to its widespread use in social media, is “octothorpe”. #

Octo is latin for 8. Where is the 8? If you count spaces, there are 9, and 4 lines. If you split the lines you do get 8. That's a rather weird split. What's a Thorpe? Is it a who? Is it corrupted Latin?

Look it up and you get Jim or the archaic hamlet or village and no Grinch jokes.
 
zuben el genub said:
The formal name for the # symbol, commonly called the hashtag thanks to its widespread use in social media, is “octothorpe”. #

Octo is latin for 8. Where is the 8? If you count spaces, there are 9, and 4 lines. If you split the lines you do get 8. That's a rather weird split. What's a Thorpe? Is it a who? Is it corrupted Latin?

Look it up and you get Jim or the archaic hamlet or village and no Grinch jokes.
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Well you learn something every day. I always knew it as 'hash', but here's some more info

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/octothorpe
 
It came out prominently on the first touch tone phones.

Otherwise:
John Doe
23 Nowhere Street #19
Anywhere, USA

First common usage anyone sees.

Dividing fields for farming makes sense, only if the person in the middle can get access.
 
When I was younger, I heard it was called the number sign. In the past few decade with telephone IVR's, it has often been referred to as the pound sign.
 
It is called a "pound sign" in America, but not in the UK and other colonies where the Pound sign is the fancy L. On American telephones, we have a "pound key" where Brits have a "hash key" (and the reason why we have "hash tags" in #twitspeak)
Even more entertaining, the symbol is similar to the sharp symbol used in musical notation, so we see it used in programming circles such as C# (pronounced see-sharp). It can also be used to denote a number written in hexadecimal (computer color codes can often be seen in the hexedecimal equivalents: #000000 is black, #FFFFFF is white. #AA0000 is red).

I'd be half-tempted to start a thread about numbering systems, but I'd be the only guy in it. :rolleyes:
 
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Dngrsone said:
Starting in the middle square is the easiest way to defeat...
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That's what Dr. Scholl said ...

Easiest way to da feet ... :p

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Dngrsone said:
It is called a "pound sign" in America, but not in the UK and other colonies where the Pound sign is the fancy L. On American telephones, we have a "pound key" where Brits have a "hash key" (and the reason why we have "hash tags" in #twitspeak)
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So just out of interest, if '#' is called 'pound', what's '£'?
 
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