"Thank you, Mr. Nuff."

[alexr_rwx]

- I'm in Tallahassee, yay :)

- In the afternoon, I hung around with the family, and in the evening, I went climbing at the rock gym with Garrett lomonthang (and my forearms and hands are now sore in a pleasant way -- man, climbing is hard) and then we had pizza (I've finally been to Decent Pizza! And it's quite good!) ... and watched Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon -- possibly the very best kung-fu film ever produced by Motown. Busta Rhymes looks exactly like the "Shogun of Harlem" character, and this was not lost on him; he parodies (well, maybe just "reproduces chunks verbatim because it was so silly to begin with") this film in his excellent video for "Dangerous". Right-o: many thanks to the G-UNIT for a lovely evening :)

- KOMPRESSOR NOW HAS OKCUPID PROFILE AND RECENTLY ANNOUNCED THE COMING SINGULARITY/ESCHATON: kompressorpower.

- What if, instead of going out and spidering the web independently, search engines were run on data collected from consenting anonymized users? What better spider could there be than the set of users out there? The major issue I'm thinking about is that a page might match your search criteria really well by having the right words in it -- but does it answer the question you were thinking about? What if you could mod up (or down) the usefulness of a given page? Say you're looking for technical information about some computery thing, and all the hits you pull up are archived mailing list posts -- this happens to me all the time -- most of them are pretty useless, and you've got to do a lot of sifting. When you find that one post where that one alert mailinglist member says that exact thing you needed, you should be able to mark it in some way so other people are more likely to find it.

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[rusty42.livejournal.com]

given your LISPy AI background, it's understandable that you'd ask

What if you could mod up (or down) the usefulness of a given page?

and my infosec background sadly answers:

because unscrupulous people will rent a botnet and monkey with the ratings.

of course, if you're interested in applying your AI kung to the infosec domain, let me know and i'll make the appropriate introductions.

[brainfaucet.livejournal.com]

Overall, I think Rusty's right. Though sites like Slashdot seem to be okay at minimizing the damage with karma, mod points, unobtrusive tasks, etc. Your user bot-net flagging would probably work well too.

Gimmie a ring next time you hit up the rock gym or something equally fun. 321.277.3899

[(Anonymous)]

What better spider could there be than the set of users out there?

Namely, google. Simple reason. Speed. People can't bounce through that many pages that fast. Also, how will these anonymized users find pages if someone doesn't spider them first?

What you're really looking for is a question of having users mod sites based on usefulness and interestingness, etc. Only issue there is that you might mod a site really low because it doesn't answer your question, but it will answer mine perfectly well. I vote for language/semantics understanding and search engines that allow meta-searching.

- Tim

[sydelleofcourse.livejournal.com]

Might I have the honor of "friending" you?

[lindseykuper]

When you find that one post where that one alert mailinglist member says that exact thing you needed, you should be able to mark it in some way so other people are more likely to find it.

I'm probably taking you way too literally, but there's always StumbleUpon.