Thursday, August 17, 2017

The Mental Temperature Calculator Returns - with the Google Voice Assistant!

Visual mnemonic of increasing accuracy (in 3 or 4 steps).

Celsius? Fahrenheit? Do you want to learn and practice a shortcut* to convert temperature in your head? Using ideas from earlier work (here and here), I made a voice user interface app for the Google Assistant! You can also find an in-browser version on API.AI:



Built using Actions on Google, API.AI, and Glitch

Related demo: https://codepen.io/hchiam/full/NjmOdW

Earlier post: https://hchiam.blogspot.ca/2016/09/how-to-convert-temperature-quickly-in.html

*Accuracy is at worst only 1 degree off, plus 1% of the original number. This means you're covered for small numbers, and when you go into the hundreds, you'll be off by a couple degrees. For example: 300 F is actually 93.3 C, but 92 C is pretty close for a shortcut. You can progressively increase accuracy, but with a diminishing ROI or "return on effort": https://hchiam.blogspot.ca/2015/12/how-to-convert-temperature-f-c-quickly.html
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