My daughter needed info on a picture we'd taken at the British Museum of a statue in the Center Court.
I searched for +"British Museum" "statue" +"Center Court". Nada.
Searched +"British Museum" +"Center Court" "Guide". Nope.
Tried +"British Museum"+statue "Guide". Uh Uh.
She searched for "British Museum lion", and it was the first one.
Argh.
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I used to live across from the museum, at the edge of Russell Square. :-) Wonderful place to live - lots of good restaurants & bars, easy access to the Tube and I could walk to most places in central London (Piccadilly, Covent Garden, etc) as well as Camden.
Lots of tourists and pretty nurses, too! :-D
Wasn't the lion outside for a long time? I think he was, but for some reason, I can't bring the memory to mind.
Then you lived in a VERY cool place. I remember our astonishment at strolling down a corridor and seeing the actual Rosetta Stone -- and people were just walking past it, not staring in awe.
Don't know about the lion, though.
THE actual Rosetta stone?
Now I need to go google "rosetta stone" so I can not sound like a total idiot that I DON'T know what it is. I have certainly heard it mentioned like a million times though.
I really AM blonde, aren't I?
I saw a lion statue in Arizona.
Now I feel as smart as everyone else.
LOLOLOL
Well, yes, that's the conventional wisdom of my generation. And certainly there's something to it, something to the feeling that they don't fear failure. But the desire for abilities like that are why areas such as natural language processing are so damned tough to do -- and so desirable.
This is, I have to admit, also the kid who can look for something really simple via Google and others and not find it, but when I look, its right there. I've heard that Google is really good for medical diagnoses on rare conditions, because there aren't a lot of writeups about them, while for the common ones, there's tons. Same idea, I think. And I'm sure there's a germ of an idea why some searches work and some don't buried in there, somewhere.
I have a couple if you really want them....
What, Rosetta Stones? Don't tell the Museum....
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