The Boston Diaries

The ongoing saga of a programmer who doesn't live in Boston, nor does he even like Boston, but yet named his weblog/journal “The Boston Diaries.”

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Tuesday, Debtember 22, 2015

Here's a hilarious one: This wealthy consciousness of depression can be observed in the reflector of your soul, Eliza, as a reflection of a contract.

Mindestens ebenso genial ist eine Idee, die aus technischen Problemen leider nicht die Mindestwortzahl erreichte: „The Psychotherapy Of Racter Or The Descent Into Madness Of Dr. Eliza“ lässt zwei legendäre Pseudo-Intelligenzen der Computergeschichte gegeneinander antreten: Weizenbaums simplen, aber effektiven Psychoanalyse-Algorithmus Eliza und den assoziativ auf Nutzereingaben reagierenden 80er-Jahre Textgenerator Racter, eine Art Eliza auf Drogen, von seinen Schöpfern auch als „Artificial Insanity“ bezeichnet.

e-book-news.de » “Brass. Brass. Brass.”: Beim NaNoGenMo werden Algorithmen zum Roman- Autor

Oh cool! The Psychotherapy Of Racter Or The Descent Into Madness Of Dr. Eliza was mentioned in a German news site! And for those of you who can't read German:

Equally awesome is an idea that unfortunately did not reach the minimum number of words for technical problems: "The Psychotherapy Of Racter Or The Descent Into Madness Of Dr. Eliza" leaves two legendary pseudo- intelligences of computer history against each other: Weizenbaum's simple but effective Psychoanalyse- Eliza algorithm and the associative responsive to user inputs 80s Text Generator Racter, a kind of Eliza on Drugs, by its creators as "Artificial Insanity" means.

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The Google translation is probably more amusing to read than The Psychotherapy Of Racter Or The Descent Into Madness Of Dr. Eliza.

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