Watson drew guffaws from many in the television audience when it responded "What is Toronto?????" The string of question marks indicated that the system had very low confidence in its response, I.B.M. researchers said, but because it was Final Jeopardy, it was forced to give a response.
So then I try adding a string of exclamation marks to it, to see if it gets any funnier.
The latest in this string of arson marks at least the ninth attack on a predominantly black church since Dylann Roof allegedly opened fire at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina in June.
Silverberg, for her part, said that the experience was the latest in a string of disasters marked by heroism at the hospital: "9/11, Irene, and now this".
The gig takes place in the bright, domed foyer, around a splendid grand piano, with a string of fairylights marking out a makeshift stage.
The Irish set the "staycation" trend in mid-July when a string of politicians marked the start of an eight-week summer shutdown of the Dublin Parliament by announcing their intention to vacation in the republic.
Real estate professionals and mortgage lenders, unaccustomed to the quiet after a string of years marked by breakneck buying, said that selling prices, which until recently seemed to brook no limit, may have finally hit the roof, and might surge no higher.
One might well think that the game formalist should treat mathematical utterances, on that view just strings of meaningless marks, as unsinnig, not just sinnlos.
With much ingenuity they try to develop a syntax which "will treat mathematical expressions as concrete objects" (ibid). as actual strings of physical marks—and give concrete surrogates for notions such as 'formula', 'axiom' and 'proof' as platonistically defined.
One-hundred and fifty baseline trials consisting of strings of hash marks varying in length were interspersed among the word stimuli.
