
Raymond Chandler
Lost his oil job in the Depression, turned to crime fiction at 44 and created the detective Philip Marlowe.
Books


Pick-up on Noon Street1952Four stories, including the one whose sentence Betty Shannon guessed letter by letter.

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How AI guesses the next word
How does a program that only guesses the next word write sentences people believe? The story starts with Betty Shannon guessing a sentence one letter at a time, and reaches a lawyer who handed a court six cases that never existed.