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Posted on 10/15/2005 7:13:08 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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It's got nothing to do with me, if that's what the reference means.
Still think it was worth more than one day of taunting...
We can retroactively taunt later.
I had not thought of that! Good plan.
All my plans are good ones.
Well, maybe not all of them.
No, I weren't goin' down that aisle...so to speak...
In that case you might be going down the right one. To some extent.
Ok, let's play fill in the blanks.
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Something I've noticed about these quiz gizmos... is that they're remarkably like some tools I used in a class on "Expert Systems" back when I was doing the MBA thing at Seattle U... in the ancient days... like 95.
An "expert system" is basically a programmed interviewer that asks questions and scores answers, and then asks new questions, depending on the answers given. The only big difference is that the E.S. concept is an iterative one, going back for more and more specific information in each pass, or starting over on a new tack if the answers are leading nowhere.
The idea is to replicate the process of an interview with a subject matter expert, and end up with a set of recommendations based on the interview. The most complex sort of system would be about, for example, a medical diagnosis, given an iterative interview about various symptoms. That's sorta the holy grail of expert systems.
In the class, I made an expert system that helped somebody choose the right pair of skis, according to their ability and personality. The "Expert" asked questions relating to skiing experience and ability... but also asked questions about lifestyle things... what sort of music they like... what sort of car they drive... what they do for a living... what ~else~ they do for fun when not skiing... and then it inferred all sorts of attributes of the skier based on these things and picked a ranked order set of ideal skis from a database of skis with various performance attributes.
My group called the system "ExperSwish". It was huge fun to develop. The whole idea was that it could actually be something that could run in a little kiosk computer at an R.E.I. store.
These little interview sites are really doing the same thing, only in a simpler fashion... but it wouldn't take much to ramp up the logic and do some wonderfully complex things with them.
Perhaps as far as some James Taylor music, but not quite Concerning Hobbitses?
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I think that could be a working definition...
Hah! who is going to guess right in that format?
Man, you gotta be up your HobbitHoleHistory to get that reference!
Heh...yep! I had to give Jen a refresher on the first part...
Just 'cause she don't know who James Taylor is...
Dominoes would be the geeky, homeschooled, courtship version of that.
Hey, I do so! I like James Taylor, I have his Christmas album and everything.
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