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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Last week I taught my CS class the Travelling Chicken and Chicken's Tour algorithms.
I wish I could've been in that class! I was busy building a web site for this guy: Super Chicken - Wikipedia[^] 
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OriginalGriff wrote: The ads are targeted at your browsing history.
True.
Had you been searching for fish & chips shops, you would have been redirected to codproject.com.
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Indeed: I was searching for young ladies in education, and got directed to CoedProject.com
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I was searching expert ways to change my gender and found myself being directed to ExpertsExchange.com. Weird... what does programming have to do with gender reassignment!? 
/ravi
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Could have been worse: TheRapistFinder.com gets busy too...
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AI. Big data. It's all a scam to sell snake oil to marketers (so, it all cancels itself out?).
I don't know about you, but all it means is that I get ads for something I just bought. After the fact. Which means I'm no longer looking for that item.
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I'd noticed that with Flamazon and FleaBay myself.
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Taking a less humorous look at the ad you can possibly earn $50k per year. This seems very little for the outlay for premises, 60 hours weeks and all the risk a franchise involves.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: you can possibly earn $50k per year. This seems very little for the outlay for premises, 60 hours weeks and all the risk a franchise involves.
I agree. They obviously don't understand marketing. They should've said, "Earn Billions$* like Edwin J. of Albuquerque, NM."
*results not typical
I really do think you're right though. 50K for all that work does not sound good.
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I just got "Bored at the office?"
You know I am!
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Sander Rossel wrote: I just got "Bored at the office?"
You know I am!
The CP ad technology can definitely read your mind any time it wants to so it can post an appropriate ad. I make all my major life decisions entirely based upon those ads now.
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raddevus wrote: I make all my major life decisions entirely based upon those ads now
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This genuine news headline from Peta is actually a reasonable CCC:
"Coronavirus Outbreak Is Linked to Eating Animal Flesh" (11)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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of:
Carnivorous!
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Correct. That must mean it's your turn to write the news headlines tomorrow. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I think I'll stick to the classics: Fog in the Channel[^]
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How about the classic from 1930: There is no news[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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As in, the number of mouse clicks that I have to do every day, the same mouse clicks, over and over, because there's no "AI" that says "oh look, Marc just launched us, and he always does this..."
So, in Postman, just one example - Click on Import, Click on Raw Text, Click the edit box, Copy what's in my paste buffer, Click on Import, click on Send.
Seriously. WTF. Where is AI????
Or Outlook, where it doesn't auto-focus to the ONE AND ONLY textbox in some mindless dialog?
Sure, it's great that we have self-driving cars. What I really want is AI for my repetitive work life TO TAKE THE REPETITION OUT OF IT!!!
And you wonder why I roll my own. Code that is.
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I wonder when they start using AI to ?help? us in our everyday chores will they include common sense or will it be like real life? 
Monday starts Diarrhea awareness week, runs until Friday!
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Mike Hankey wrote: will they include common sense or will it be like real life?
Brought the Babbage quote rushing to mind:
Charles Babbage: On two occasions I have been asked, – "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ...
I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question!
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And when you want to do something different I suppose you'd like the AI to second-guess what you're thinking?
Maybe there's two things you do (equally) - the AI will open up two instances for you! That's the ticket.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: And when you want to do something different I suppose you'd like the AI to second-guess what you're thinking?
DING! DING! DING! DING! DING! WE HAVE A WINNER!
That's exactly the problem with "AI". Frankly I'm already put off by software that tries to be too smart for its own good.
Remember when MS decided to have "collapsible" menus in Office, and it was supposed to learn what options you use the most often, and bring those options into the menus and hide the rest? The lesson MS learned in this case was that people immediately went looking for how to turn the "always show full menus" option back on.
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They still have the bloody annoying "put the most-used (whatever) at the top" cr@p enabled by default, so that every time you go for something in a menu, it's in a different position.
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Yeah...not much "I" in that AI. Calling it as such is a bit of a stretch, but somebody still went through the extra steps to write code that does this. Not sure who asked for it.
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Or have a dialog that comes up and says "I can see that you have {done these steps in this order} for {this situation}. Would you like for me to make that the default activity for {this situation}?" Give the user some interaction to take the repetitiveness way. A tool works best when it lets the user choose when to take shortcuts.
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