A Conversation with the Algorithm
A curious human and a talkative algorithm walk into the internet to see if feelings can be translated into code.
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Bring it in! - Part One (opens the original)
When Being Right Stops Mattering (opens the original)
Apparently We Can Just Ask (opens the original)
The Silence I Filled In - Part 2 (opens the original)
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Some parts of the original conversation have been trimmed for clarity and length. The Algorithm did not protestMe:When I was in 10th grade, my social studies teacher gave me the opportunity to run the homework review from the front of the class. Of course I accepted. Everything was going normally until he spoke up from the back of the room to add something to one of my answers.This is when I saw my opening, and I took it. “Hey, you in the back. Raise your hand and wait to be called on like every
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