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> I wish I had a really good calendar math utility Might be a good learning exercise in machine learning: translating natural-language queries from that domain
by abecedarius 5y ago
> I wish I had a really good calendar math utility
Might be a good learning exercise in machine learning: translating natural-language queries from that domain to whatever standard utility.
- kragen 5y agoMaybe, and it wouldn't have to be as slow and unresponsive as Wolfram Vertical Line Alpha or obscure your answers as an attempt to upsell you, but I think it would still tend to have the same kinds of essential usability problems: a gulf of execution in figuring out how to phrase a query so the system would understand it, and a gulf of evaluation in figuring out whether the calculation it had carried out was the calculation you wanted.