This whole page looks very sloppy. In addition to the weird name, the grammar is iffy and sentences don't sound native. The fonts are also off.
It makes me wonder if this is actually a Microsoft project.
Conditional Action Programmer
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Re: Conditional Action Programmer
#62When I sign in with my outlook.com email address it asks for permission for the "Luis-Actions" app to read my email, among other permissions. It's probably Microsoft, but I wish they would have made the signup experience look a little more trustworthy.
They definitely need to make that clearer, but it does sound like the Language Understanding Intelligent Service [1] from Microsoft. [1] https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/language-...
Thanks! I figured it was some engineer named Luis.
Re: Conditional Action Programmer
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
I generally agree, but there are some cases where I've found natural language actually is the right interface. And complex interfaces with lots of touch points but a simple underlying principle seems to be that sweet spot. For example, I exclusively use Siri to set reminders for times and places, because to do so using a typical touch interface is much more painful. Whether or not this CAP idea will meet the bar is a…
I find it telling that your comparison is to touch interfaces. The (unintentional?) inference being that only touch interfaces are painful enough that current generation NLP can compete with them. I use keyboard and mouse for setting reminders. The app I really miss now I don't have a smartphone is google maps.
If you don't have a smartphone it will be difficult for you to do this, but try creating a time- or location-based reminder using a keyboard interface. And I'm generously assuming that you're going to run this test at a computer, and not directly after bumping into someone in the hallway who reminds you about something you need to do.
This is a bit off-topic from the CAP thing, where I think it's reasonable assume that you are at a computer.
Re: Conditional Action Programmer
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
It might sound weird to you, but it's correct. Noun ask (plural asks) 1. An act or instance of asking. 2. Something asked or asked for; a request. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ask
More information here: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/4246/can-or-shoul... Personally I never use it because it can sound far too close to "ass" especially through low-fidelity channels.
According to that link, it's been part of "Microsoft-speak" for over a decade.
It's definitely a noun, but the kind of noun that only annoying business people use.
Re: Conditional Action Programmer
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's also possible that Microsoft might have been less willing to open the language if it had become an integral pillar of the Android ecosystem.
The ECMA standardization committee was founded three months after the commercial release of C#.
I'm referring to Microsoft's moves in the past year to release their compiler and other parts of the .NET toolchain (and Xamarin) as MIT-licensed open-source projects (moves the company wasn't forced to make). Even though the language itself has been an open standard for some time, the C# ecosystem was very different a few years ago than it is in 2016.