Category: Musings
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Recursive questions with IBM Watson Conversations
UPDATE: The approach detailed in the post is now out of date for many use cases, please see the update post Using Slots to collect data in IBM Watson Conversations. IBM Watson released a new API earlier this year called Conversations which enables developers to build cognitive conversational solutions like chatbots and virtual assistants. A common…
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Accessing synonyms with IBM Watson Conversations
A couple of my clients have asked me how to access the synonym mentioned by a user when working with the IBM Watson Conversation service. Accessing the matching entity is well documented but it wasn’t apparent how to get the actual word or words mentioned by the user that the entity was matched on. Having…
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Writing what I think, the way I think it
I’ve been meaning to get started blogging for some time now and have finally decided that I simply need to get going. I’ve read the “How to start a Blog” guides several times, feeling inspired and confident after each iteration but something keeps holding me back. Having thought about what’s been stopping me, I decided…
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Gmail aliases using the + character
I like Gmail for a lot of reasons, but one reason in particular is the ability to use the + character to create new unique email address aliases. I cannot remember how many years ago I found this feature or indeed how I found it, but several conversations over the…
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Writing what I think, the way I think it
I’ve been meaning to get started blogging for some time now and have finally decided that I simply need to get going. I’ve read the “How to start a Blog” guides several times, feeling inspired and confident after each iteration but something keeps holding me back. Having thought about what’s…
Olly Cox 
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