User talk:Tesler

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If you have issues with the article, be bold and make changes. Just make sure the changes are factual, and remember to cite sources. GreenJoe 20:28, 6 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

AI Effect

Thanks for your info about AI effect. The article is only half written, as you can tell. It's just the major topics and then a bunch of quotes. One day someone will come along and finish it. If you are interested feel free to write a few paragraphs. Would you mind if I moved your comments over to Talk:AI effect?

I know that Hofstadter misquoted you (the article mentions this is in a footnote). Did the accurate quote get published anywhere? What we really need is a citation. Just about everything in Wikipedia requires a citation, although sometimes it takes years for someone to take the time to dig it up and add it to the article.

Feel free to answer me here. I'll be watching this page. ---- CharlesGillingham (talk) 00:20, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, you can move it to Talk. But I don't know of any place I was quoted correctly. If I posted a short treatise in my blog, could that be cited? Larry Tesler (talk) 23:00, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The fact that your CV says it should be enough. We can quote that saying something along the lines of:-

Tesler claims this as a misquote saying that his original statement was "... "^[1] - and give your CV as the ref at ^[1]

I will search for other references to the original but so far no luck

Chaosdruid (talk) 22:09, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Correct formats for links

Hi

Just to let you know I edited your links on the page Talk:Larry_Tesler#Autobio

The correct format for an external link is [http://www.nomodes.com/Larry_Tesler_Consulting/Home.html Larry at nomodes site] would give Larry at nomodes site
note there is simply a space between the link and the text that will appear

and for an internal link it is [[Artificial intelligence|AI Wiki page]] would give AI Wiki page
note here that the pipe is used only in these internal links to separate the link from the text that will appear and that there is no need for the rest of the link, the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ bit is not needed

Thanks for all your work by the way - I have an Apple IIe upstairs and one of those first Mac books in my cupboard - I remember well the days when I had to work on it !

Chaosdruid (talk) 22:36, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for fixing it and for teaching me the syntax. I was mystified before. And thanks for the kind words.

Larry Tesler (talk) 00:36, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

AI effect - definition

Hi Larry

I have waited a few months to see if anyone comes forwards to add comment in to the discussion at Talk:AI effect but so far none have.

That means that so far the only editors would be User:CharlesGillingham and myself.

Could you perhaps spend a couple of minutes to give your thoughts on the section "Article and getting better quality into the problem". The issue really is how to define the term AI effect.

I understand that the goal posts have been moved as CHarles says but it is important to define "what it is" and not "what it was" - what it was can be easily expanded in the article and the lead can include something after the definition along the lines of "The AI effect was first.." and then "coined as..." or "a phrase which meant..."

Thanks Chaosdruid (talk) 18:42, 25 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Guru consultation

Hi Mr. Larry,

I've just read that you incubated the idea of cut-and-paste for a few years before giving it form into code.

I'm in that very situation: in my leasure time I'm researching a technique akin to cut-and-paste but for creating web pipes in two simple steps, improved with an automated multi-select of raw data based on MIT's Lapis simultaneous editing. I finally have some concrete specifications on how to make it user-friendly, though no working code (yet).

Would you give some quick advice on how to get the ball rolling once the basic implementation is in place? How to test it and, assuming that it works and has value, how to popularize it? Diego (talk) 14:15, 28 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]