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Respect the little guy “\”

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If you’ve ever built software, you would realize how easy it is to make errors. Building software is like trying to communicate with robots with a foreign language. When we learn a foreign language, we often make grammatical errors, silly pronunciation mistakes, etc. The human ear is amazingly tolerant of these minor errors. Usually we can get our point across OK despite minor speech imperfections.

Creatures like robots or computers are not as forgiving as humans. Read the rest of this entry »

Written by Rachel Chung

February 15, 2009 at 10:57 pm

Posted in Hardware & Software

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