gavinh

Recent versions of Ubuntu, Fedora and Mint have worked completely out-of-the-box on my Lenovo Carbon X1 and an old HP DV7. The only trouble I have had is with a Samsung QX410 because it has both discrete NVIDIA and integrated graphics with Optimus for switching.

I didn't realize that you had started so recently. I appreciate that patents and papers take time to produce.

I am trying to be helpful when I say that for a company that produces language processing technology, your customer-facing content shows a strange disregard for language. If your writing does not demonstrate that you have mastered English grammar, why should I believe that your software has?

I don't judge your technology based on your marketing; as I mentioned, I looked for specific information about your technology but was not able to find any. The .pdf you linked is what I quoted above; I'm interested more in your papers or patents.

SRI is a respected brand with a great reputation and history. I wouldn't be so dismissive of marketing since, as you mention, you have recently exited stealth mode.

I've been looking at stremor.com to find some justification for your bold claims. I'm still looking; these are some ancillary points:

-The copy throughout the site does not inspire confidence. Your point that many texts are written poorly is valid. That does not require you to also write poorly. I've seen far too many sentence fragments on your site. You site also includes some embarrassing misuses of words, like "Some may believe using heuristic science in language analysis infers it is a learning system." These incidents discredit your claims about your technology.

-I am having difficulty finding specific information about how your technology works.

-The people responsible for your graphics, visual design, and the video about the summarization app should not have those responsibilities. Summly had nice a aesthetic; your aesthetic is jeopardizing your credibility.

I apologize if my comments sound hostile. When you make claims as bold as yours you should prepare for scrutiny. The problems you are addressing are interesting; I wish you good luck.

Neat. I'm working on a system and API for question type (factoid, polar, description, etc.) prediction and polar question answering (polar questions are 'yes-or-no' questions; Wolfram Alpha doesn't attempt these). Let me know if you are interested.

A clearly written, thoughtful comment might demonstrate an eighth grade reading level.

A comment with esoteric vocabulary might be inane.

I question the premise of this project.

Who thought it was a good idea to color-code Asians with yellow?

Nice, but lose the font. The footer's contrast is a bit low. I also find the fixed background image on the landing page to be confusing, since the rest of the page does not use any parallax effects.

His advice really is 'good user experience is good; bad user experience is bad.' Human intervention is not essential to good user experience in most of his examples; he compares the human versions to poor implementations of automation. A form with some validation and normalization is probably a better user experience than having a human review the fields.

'Other than practical folks like Gruber...'

The rest of the article is easily predicted.

LINUX

...why?

The Apple sycophants are out in force in these comments.