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"20 questions" on-line algorithm

Posted: June 29th, 2003, 4:18 pm
by Guest
Not quite on-line mentalism...just a damn good computer program that'll play "20 Questions" and do a whole lot better, with fewer clues from you, than you might expect.

Freaks ME out, anyway.

--Ralph

Re: "20 questions" on-line algorithm

Posted: June 29th, 2003, 4:34 pm
by Jeff Eline
I have to say that's pretty cooool!! :)

Re: "20 questions" on-line algorithm

Posted: June 29th, 2003, 5:54 pm
by Guest
wow

Re: "20 questions" on-line algorithm

Posted: June 30th, 2003, 5:50 am
by Guest
This wonderful sight has been online for several years now...I actually published a short interview with the creator in an issue of Channel One...

It started out as a project for a class...and has been going ever since...

Rosie

Re: "20 questions" on-line algorithm

Posted: June 30th, 2003, 10:09 am
by Guest
Channel One as in Whittle Communications?

The program's certainly grown smart over the years. Here's an idea on how to bundle it with a separate internet mentalism site for some at-the-office fun:

1. E-mail the 20 Questions link to a co-worker
2. Pull up the Internet Lie Detector on your computer (after learning how to use/perform it), and have it ready to run.
3. When your co-worker ambles over to your office/workstation/cube and you chat about the 20 Questions site, mention that you've found this OTHER cool site--designed by the same people--(that's a lie), which is even smarter.
4. Have the Internet Lie Detector do its magic. The effect is that the web site figures out a card your friend has merely thought of by asking a series of questions about the card, which your friend need not answer truthfully. In fact, the web site correctly tells the friend whether s/he is lying as it proceeds inexorably toward naming the card.

Re: "20 questions" on-line algorithm

Posted: June 30th, 2003, 7:33 pm
by Guest
Nope Ralph...

Channel One is also a magic magazine..
and a porn site...
and an underground radio station...
and lots of other things...

but for us..mainly a magic magazine...

Rosie

Re: "20 questions" on-line algorithm

Posted: July 1st, 2003, 2:32 am
by Guest
Oh good, since the Channel One I was thinking of is the Embodiment of Evil.

(Isn't it also a fragrance? ;) )