[QUOTE=davar55;415923]It wasn't a wish, it was a regret. For the past.[/QUOTE]

As per the theme of this thread, may I have another wish?

Namely: if I've left anything I started unfinished, would you point it out to me again?
I don't have the facility to check more than a few threads each time, so if anyone has
anything to call me on, perhaps here would be a good place to start.

[QUOTE=davar55;417244]As per the theme of this thread, may I have another wish?

Namely: if I've left anything I started unfinished, would you point it out to me again?
I don't have the facility to check more than a few threads each time, so if anyone has
anything to call me on, perhaps here would be a good place to start.[/QUOTE]
Granted.
As a mutual convenience, anyone with unfinished conversations with davar55 may politely remind him in this thread.

[QUOTE=only_human;417262]Granted.
As a mutual convenience, anyone with unfinished conversations with davar55 may politely remind him in this thread.[/QUOTE]

Thanks.

Anyone wish me to resolve anything I left unresolved on this forum?
Cosmology? God? Infinity?

OK.

Getting back to the OP:

I wish you to make a quoted wish of m which, as long as I think I can do, I will try to satisfy here.

[QUOTE=davar55;417646]OK.

Getting back to the OP:

I wish you to make a quoted wish of m which, as long as I think I can do, I will try to satisfy here.[/QUOTE]
I wish to be told what the acronym CAPTCHA means.

[QUOTE=only_human;417657]I wish to be told what the acronym CAPTCHA means.[/QUOTE]

I can only make one up:

Can A Person Totally Completely Have Access ?

i.e. please let me in...

[QUOTE=davar55;417679]I can only make one up:

Can A Person Totally Completely Have Access ?

i.e. please let me in...[/QUOTE]
That is actually helping you pass a Turing Test. A computer might have checked the [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA"]wiki[/URL] to learn that:
[QUOTE]A CAPTCHA (an acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart") is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human.
The term was coined in 2003 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas J. Hopper, and John Langford.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=only_human;417681]That is actually helping you pass a Turing Test. A computer might have checked the [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA"]wiki[/URL] to learn that:[/QUOTE]

Oh, I passed the Turing Test when I coined the phrase "Reverse Turing Test" as the complement to the Turing Test in which
a human being tries to prove (or convince someone) he is an AI program running on a computer. I was in grad school
at the time, approximately 1977.

[QUOTE=davar55;417684]Oh, I passed the Turing Test when I coined the phrase "Reverse Turing Test" as the complement to the Turing Test in which
a human being tries to prove (or convince someone) he is an AI program running on a computer. I was in grad school
at the time, approximately 1977.[/QUOTE]
Life in the 21[SUP]st[/SUP] century is actually a continuous Turing Test. THERE IS NO ESCAPE!
Any hints on how I can continue to pass the test? THERE WERE NO ANSWERS IN THE BACK OF THE BOOK!!!

[QUOTE=only_human;417685]Life in the 21[SUP]st[/SUP] century is actually a continuous Turing Test. THERE IS NO ESCAPE!
Any hints on how I can continue to pass the test? THERE WERE NO ANSWERS IN THE BACK OF THE BOOK!!![/QUOTE]

I haven't re-read the book in years, but I think you're doing just fine. Just hold on!