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praxeologist on Dec 15, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ray Kurzweil joins Google

>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.

GuiA on Dec 15, 2012 [–]

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

praxeologist on Dec 15, 2012 | [–]

Of course, fluffster was directed at you and I know what Kurzweil did.

pretoriusB on Dec 15, 2012 | | [–]

No, of course you've been pwned, and you should be more graceful about it.

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