"You are feeling sleepy, your eyelids are getting heavier and heavier" (Talking Moose ca. 1994)

27 Oct 2011 19:06:33

Euan Williams

OK, it's autumn and our members seem to be in hibernation. So to cheer everyone up, here is a meeting of the generations:

Siri meets Eliza

If anyone would like to meet Eliza on their OSX Mac (she was also a Unix -- Terminal -- therapist) here are some instructions:

"In the terminal type emacs and hit enter. When the editor has loaded, hold shift and hit the escape key. Then type xdoctor and hit return. Answer the first question and proceed from there. When you're done, control-X control-C will quit the editor."
(Thanks, gboy here.

For a learned bit of history, start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA