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> I wish I had a really good calendar math utility

Might be a good learning exercise in machine learning: translating natural-language queries from that domain to whatever standard utility.



Maybe, and it wouldn't have to be as slow and unresponsive as Wolfram Vertical Line Alpha or obscure your answers as an attempt to upsell you, but I think it would still tend to have the same kinds of essential usability problems: a gulf of execution in figuring out how to phrase a query so the system would understand it, and a gulf of evaluation in figuring out whether the calculation it had carried out was the calculation you wanted.




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