But Ashton Kutcher's entrance to talk about his new sitcom The Ranch (described by the Guardian as "a plains version of Chekhov spliced with a Mel Brooks movie") was slightly unusual.
Now MarketBrief, a Y Combinator-backed company that's relaunching today, has a solution: it looks through these SEC filings for you, then culls the key data to automatically generate a plain-English (well, almost plain) version that sounds more like a newspaper article than a legal document.
Trace is accompanied by a new work, a monumental wallpaper installation titled The Plain Version of the Animal that Looks Like a Llama but is Really an Alpaca.
There's a plain black version too.
There's a plain green version available, too.
On Thursday, one E.U. official said there was a preference for avoiding highly complex programs that used some of the financial engineering blamed for causing the crisis in 2008, in favor of a "plain vanilla" version.
If you'd prefer a plain sweet version, which won't benefit from the water in the fruit, add a little cold water or milk too, as Singh suggests in his sweet lassi recipe.
(You can read the company's Privacy Policy here. They've also written a plain English version. And published a privacy impact assessment).
Ideally, a plain text version should be available as well (e.g., TXT), to facilitate computational reuse and integration (e.g., computational text mining for knowledge extraction).
Specify a format that is easy to parse by both human and machine (e.g., HTML); and, ideally, also provide a plain text version (e.g., TXT) to facilitate computational reuse and integration.
