Scratch

that is not a short summary

jji7skyline wrote:

Still seems a little long. Is there a 'really really short summary in 3 sentences' mode? 

Ninja'd by 777w

Yes. Doesn't turn out well in this example:

tldr wrote:

Scratch is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. The first version of Scratch was developed in 2006 by the Lifelong Kindergarten group, led by Resnick, at the MIT Media Lab[3]. ^ Scratch: Programming for All. Resnick, M., Maloney, J., Monroy-Hernandez, A., Rusk, N., Eastmond, E., Brennan, K., Millner, A., Rosenbaum, E., Silver, J., Silverman, B., Kafai, Y..

This is very bad quality. It just takes parts from a page that are sometimes in totally wrong places. Try the MC wikipedia page for example.

Minecraft received 5 awards from the 2011 Game Developers Conference: it was awarded the Innovation Award, Best Downloadable Game Award, and the Best Debut Game Award from the Game Developers Choice Awards; and the Audience Award, as well as the Seumas McNally Grand Prize, from the Independent Games Festival in 2011.




That just tells us that Minecraft won a lot of awards.

Last edited by ImagineIt (2012-11-25 20:42:07)

I wonder what would happen is this was used with the bad translator?

ImagineIt wrote:

geohendan wrote:

Do they do it manually or is it done by a program?

There's no such thing as a chrome extension where the workers do it manually. Do you know how many people use chrome?

Well, then that explains why it's not very good.

Cool.

SeptimusHeap wrote:

tldr is a chrome extension that summarizes webpages for you in four lengths, summary, short, medium, and long. It's really great for studying and reading long rants and/or articles quickly while getting the main points.

About Scratch page summary:

tldr wrote:

Scratch is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab, with financial support from the National Science Foundation, Microsoft, Intel Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Google, Iomega and MIT Media Lab research consortia. The Scratch project is based upon research supported by the National Science Foundation under grant number 0325828.

Betelguese, a really really long Wikipedia article's summary. As you can see, the summary option (a small paragraph) has it's flaws.

tldr wrote:

Less than 10 million years old, Betelgeuse has evolved rapidly because of its high mass. In 1920, Betelgeuse was the first star to have its photosphere measured. The variation in Betelgeuse's brightness was first described in 1836 by Sir John Herschel, when he published his observations in Outlines of Astronomy.

would be useful for school projects.