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Comment on Pre-populating Shopify Checkout Forms and Other Undocumented Functionality by Joel

Joel — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 04:09:50 +0000

No, I didn’t. They did an amazing job though!

Comment on Pre-populating Shopify Checkout Forms and Other Undocumented Functionality by Barry

Barry — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 04:07:11 +0000

Very cool. I’ve been trying to deconstruct some of the shopify-wordpress stuff on penny-arcade.com. Did you build that?

Comment on Pre-populating Shopify Checkout Forms and Other Undocumented Functionality by Joel

Joel — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:41:08 +0000

I’m glad we were able to find a solution to make things work for us!

Comment on A Super-Charged Version of ICanHaz.js by Joel

Joel — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:37:39 +0000

You can still use partials if you want to. Either is supported.

Comment on Pre-populating Shopify Checkout Forms and Other Undocumented Functionality by Gavin

Gavin — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:33:55 +0000

Wow, that is some inspired hacking. Nice job!

Comment on A Super-Charged Version of ICanHaz.js by mike

mike — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:23:59 +0000

Oh boy can’t wait to have a look!

Just out of curiosity did you by any chance do away with partials and allow any template to be embedded?

Comment on Using WolframAlpha to Hack Text CAPTCHA by In Search Of The Perfect CAPTCHA - Smashing Magazine

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Comment on Using WolframAlpha to Hack Text CAPTCHA by DaveK

DaveK — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:14:39 +0000

The colour one is just a coincidence, it doesn’t work at all. Try changing the question to ask for the 1st, 3rd, 4th, first, or last colour in that list; it answers “yellow” to everything. It even answers “yellow” if you ask it “The purple colour in purple, yellow, arm, white and blue is?”!

Comment on Using WolframAlpha to Hack Text CAPTCHA by Joel

Joel — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 22:34:51 +0000

@David – Yeah, it does some arbitrary guess work, but could be easily improved. However WolframAlpha have implemented it, it would be interesting to see if they use something like Text CAPTCHA’s database as “practice” in tuning their algorithms….

Comment on Using WolframAlpha to Hack Text CAPTCHA by David Bandel

David Bandel — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:33:06 +0000

For most of these, it wasn’t really parsing anything. For example in the question:

Which of these is a colour: monkey, bank or purple?

Nothing mattered other than that the last word was purple.

Change “a colour” to “an animal” and it will still give the same exact result about the color purple.

So far the computational knowledge engine is a failure. But, it will improve as it gets more knowledge and relationships.