1. Are you the right programmer?
- Posted by CoolStuff-USA <becool at coolstuff-usa.com>
Sep 02, 2004
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Last edited Sep 03, 2004
I need a technology and/or someone who can help me implement my solution
vision:
- Allow someone to identify their preferences
- Based on specific subject content preferences, serve up the best fit
- Assumes an AI or Matching engine
- .ASP web based solution
For example, I want to buy or catch a pet butterfly. My problems are that I do
not know what all the butterfly's are in the world. I do know that I like
certain
colors and may also have certain constraints at my house and in my yard.
I want to be guided through an identification of my preferences, then be
presented
only with a small sub-list of only the top matching butterflies.
Is this something you can help with? If not, can you point me in the right
direction
to others?
Cheers,
2. Re: Are you the right programmer?
- Posted by irv mullins <irvm at ellijay.com>
Sep 02, 2004
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Last edited Sep 03, 2004
CoolStuff-USA wrote:
>
> I need a technology and/or someone who can help me implement my solution
> vision:
>
> - Allow someone to identify their preferences
> - Based on specific subject content preferences, serve up the best fit
> - Assumes an AI or Matching engine
> - .ASP web based solution
>
> For example, I want to buy or catch a pet butterfly. My problems are that I
> do
> not know what all the butterfly's are in the world. I do know that I like
> certain
>
> colors and may also have certain constraints at my house and in my yard.
> I want to be guided through an identification of my preferences, then be
> presented
>
> only with a small sub-list of only the top matching butterflies.
You are making a major assumption here: that a computer can or will
somehow know more about butterflies and their environment than you do.
That might be possible, given enough data from someone who DOES know a lot about
butterflies, and geology, and meterology, etc.
You are highly unlikely to obtain all this information and
have it entered into your computer for free, of course.
In order to help with decisions in even a limited field (selecting a
small pet, for example) you are going to need a huge amount of data,
checked for accuracy. If it isn't accurate, your program will be
worthless (Google would be just as good) Achieving accuracy will be
expensive.
So you see, it's really not a programming problem.
Irv
3. Re: Are you the right programmer?
- Posted by "Kat" <gertie at visionsix.com>
Sep 02, 2004
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Last edited Sep 03, 2004
On 2 Sep 2004, at 15:30, CoolStuff-USA wrote:
>
>
> posted by: CoolStuff-USA <becool at coolstuff-usa.com>
>
> I need a technology and/or someone who can help me implement my solution
> vision:
>
> - Allow someone to identify their preferences
> - Based on specific subject content preferences, serve up the best fit
> - Assumes an AI or Matching engine
> - .ASP web based solution
>
> For example, I want to buy or catch a pet butterfly. My problems are that I
> do
> not know what all the butterfly's are in the world. I do know that I like
> certain colors and may also have certain constraints at my house and in my
> yard.
> I want to be guided through an identification of my preferences, then be
> presented only with a small sub-list of only the top matching butterflies.
>
> Is this something you can help with? If not, can you point me in the right
> direction to others?
Sure, that's do-able.
My first question is: why would you want me to sign a NDA to get that info,
when you would post it here without the NDA?
Kat
4. Re: Are you the right programmer?
- Posted by "Kat" <gertie at visionsix.com>
Sep 02, 2004
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Last edited Sep 03, 2004
On 2 Sep 2004, at 15:49, irv mullins wrote:
>
>
> posted by: irv mullins <irvm at ellijay.com>
>
> CoolStuff-USA wrote:
> >
> > I need a technology and/or someone who can help me implement my solution
> > vision:
> >
> > - Allow someone to identify their preferences
> > - Based on specific subject content preferences, serve up the best fit
> > - Assumes an AI or Matching engine
> > - .ASP web based solution
> >
> > For example, I want to buy or catch a pet butterfly. My problems are that I
> > do not know what all the butterfly's are in the world. I do know that I
> > like
> > certain
> >
> > colors and may also have certain constraints at my house and in my yard. I
> > want to be guided through an identification of my preferences, then be
> > presented
> >
> > only with a small sub-list of only the top matching butterflies.
>
> You are making a major assumption here: that a computer can or will
> somehow know more about butterflies and their environment than you do.
> That might be possible, given enough data from someone who DOES know a lot
> about
> butterflies, and geology, and meterology, etc. You are highly unlikely to
> obtain
> all this information and have it entered into your computer for free, of
> course.
>
> In order to help with decisions in even a limited field (selecting a
> small pet, for example) you are going to need a huge amount of data,
> checked for accuracy. If it isn't accurate, your program will be
> worthless (Google would be just as good) Achieving accuracy will be
> expensive.
>
> So you see, it's really not a programming problem.
This is quite true. A random enquery into Tiggr's *raw* db on another topic,
for info on a specific item (like your butterflies) where she has 50 or more
megabytes from *each* of different sources on the same topic, showed that
one source never heard of the item, two had heard of it but were missing very
important data, two had the data but some of it was wrong, and one source
had the correct complete data. That gave me a 16% chance of correctness if
relying totally on another's data, with no error detection and flagging. That's
not very good odds.
Lucky for me, i suppose, all 24 hours of every day are mine. And a fancy
difference engine. And i am looking for such a sponsor as this, but he just
gave you all the data he wouldn't give me about the project.
Kat
5. Re: Are you the right programmer?
What you might need to do is, decide what your purpouse your engine is
going to be used for. Then you might want to contact your local university
to see if they have a database that they will allow you to use.
eg: butterfly.dat (usualy not in DAT format). Then you can devise a small
engine (a spider) to analyse the data and display/print a list of results based
on user input from the command line, and maybee supplement it with a
Win/Lnx GUI.
6. Re: Are you the right programmer?
Ricardo Forno wrote:
> However, maybe you can get a bit of inspiration in my similarity routine I
> sent to the archives a while ago. This routine computes a similarity
> coefficient between two character strings.
I use that routine extensively in a program I've written for language
learning drills. By using it, I avoid having a simple spelling mistake
marked as 'incorrect'.
Thanks for providing it ...
--
Craig
