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Re: Re: Re: Economist magazine points to decline of tech writing
Subject:Re: Re: Re: Economist magazine points to decline of tech writing From:Nancy Allison <maker -at- verizon -dot- net> To:robert -at- lauriston -dot- com, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Sun, 04 Jan 2015 16:20:20 -0600 (CST)
Yes, I think that's still in human territory, although the bean
counters wish it weren't so. When, oh when will they be able to replace
us with algorithms!!
On 01/04/15, Robert Lauriston<robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> wrote:
Abstracting information from digital content (which algorithms aren't
very good at yet anyway) is nothing like interviewing SMEs, which is
what William Sherman is talking about.
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