Comments on: Next stop: Borges http://www.electricalphabet.net/2008/05/10/next-stop-borges/ Writing and publishing in the digital near-future Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:04:58 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Katherine http://www.electricalphabet.net/2008/05/10/next-stop-borges/comment-page-1/#comment-65 Katherine Tue, 13 May 2008 02:11:07 +0000 http://electricalphabet.wordpress.com/?p=52#comment-65 There's a fair bit of gender and regional bias in it as well. So, type in an Australian author like Kate Grenville and Tim Winton pops up as her closest match. He's also up there closest with Peter Carey. And Salman Rushdie doesn't have any link to Carey when I think there's a lot in common there. Still a lot of fun and helped me remember a number of authors I haven't read for a while. There’s a fair bit of gender and regional bias in it as well. So, type in an Australian author like Kate Grenville and Tim Winton pops up as her closest match. He’s also up there closest with Peter Carey. And Salman Rushdie doesn’t have any link to Carey when I think there’s a lot in common there.
Still a lot of fun and helped me remember a number of authors I haven’t read for a while.

]]> By: Gary Kemble http://www.electricalphabet.net/2008/05/10/next-stop-borges/comment-page-1/#comment-64 Gary Kemble Tue, 13 May 2008 00:53:04 +0000 http://electricalphabet.wordpress.com/?p=52#comment-64 Articulated thus... http://blogs.abc.net.au/articulate/2008/05/expand-your-rea.html (Cat: if it's AI, it will eventually learn the difference between OB and JC... shortly before attaining sentience and sparking a nuclear war to wipe out all humanity) Articulated thus…

http://blogs.abc.net.au/articulate/2008/05/expand-your-rea.html

(Cat: if it’s AI, it will eventually learn the difference between OB and JC… shortly before attaining sentience and sparking a nuclear war to wipe out all humanity)

]]> By: electricalphabet http://www.electricalphabet.net/2008/05/10/next-stop-borges/comment-page-1/#comment-63 electricalphabet Sun, 11 May 2008 23:35:53 +0000 http://electricalphabet.wordpress.com/?p=52#comment-63 Yikes! I guess the AI hasn't adapted very well yet. Then again, I'ven ever read a Jackie Collins novel. Perhaps under all the bodice-ripping there are some serious social SF themes and ideas. You never know... Yikes! I guess the AI hasn’t adapted very well yet. Then again, I’ven ever read a Jackie Collins novel. Perhaps under all the bodice-ripping there are some serious social SF themes and ideas. You never know…

]]> By: catriona Sparks http://www.electricalphabet.net/2008/05/10/next-stop-borges/comment-page-1/#comment-62 catriona Sparks Sat, 10 May 2008 22:14:03 +0000 http://electricalphabet.wordpress.com/?p=52#comment-62 Hmmm... looks really neat... except for that when I typed in Octavia Butler, one of the names it threw up was Jackie Collins!!! Hmmm… looks really neat… except for that when I typed in Octavia Butler, one of the names it threw up was Jackie Collins!!!

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