“Julia loves raspberries” and “Lynne loves ketchup” were the first in our series of celebrations of solicitation bots. We receive many varieties of an all-too-frequent kind of “hey editor” solicitation. Here’s another from the growing collection: Hi There, I hope everything is going well on your end :) I am Kate, and I’m on the […]
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Lynn loves ketchup
“Julia loves raspberries” was by the first in our series of celebrations of solicitation bots. We receive many varieties of an all-too-frequent kind of “hey editor” solicitation. Here’s another from the growing collection: hey Marc, Hope you’re having a good day, sorry to interrupt you :) I’m emailing because I found a page on your […]
Possibly misleading study title: “Occurrence of Bots in a Wild Ass”
Non-specialists sometimes misconstrue the meaning of a title. Such might occur with this study: “Occurrence of Bots in a Wild Ass,” P.B. Rao, D. Rao, N Kumar, and D.R. Madhekar, Indian Veterinary Journal, vol. 67 no. 12, 1990, pp. 1171.
Clever bots (or concoctions) converse (or whatever)
Is this a pair of computer programs reacting to, and seemingly conversing with, each other? Or is it merely something concocted to appear to be that? And does it matter which is the case? [HT Jan Chiles] BONUS: More of same: BONUS: Alexis Madrigal’s “The Only Thing Weirder Than a Telemarketing Robot“