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When someone comes in with perhaps a
bit
too much time and churns a group of
ideas
enough to be noticeable, this specific
pathway through ideas might be called
the
'churn signature'.
Because ideas are in effect
tokenised knowledge representations, it
might be possible to analyse
what sort of
thing was on the mind of the churner at
the
time, and what sort of thing generally
motivates them.
If this doesn't work, you
could always turn the result of the
signature
analysis into something like a horoscope
or
personality profile, or a tarot reading, or
even
iching - no, scratch that.
Also, the churn path might be able to be
visually represented in some manner.
Interesting, but I've been in that neighborhood before
Halfbakery_20Metric_20System
[normzone, Jan 30 2007]
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This might be interesting in some cases. Like the user who turned up and systematically churned most of the cigarette and condom ideas. |
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//iching - no, scratch that//
Very clever. Pun intended, or slip-of-the-finger? |
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For the confused pole smoker. |
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I've churned before, based on search results. For example, grepping for lobster returned some interesting ideas. As have various other words. But other times, you might browse via links (chaining connected ideas together) or through an interesting user's output. I must have missed this cigarette/condom thingy. |
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Is iching like aching, but in the eye?
By the way, hit random a few times, churn, and then read the tea-leaves. |
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In a similar vein, you should be able to construct detailed profiles of the educational level, interests, and delusional obsessions of everyone on the Halfbakery via an analysis of their ideas and annotations, possibly with a sub-analysis of our interrelationships, stalkings, bitter rivalries, and romantic engagements based on an analysis of the probability of a given Halfbaker annotating or linking an idea of another, normalised for frequency of posting and similarity of topic area with the Halfbaker in question's own interests, all resulting in, I imagine, Halfbakers and their interrelationships plotted within a sort of clever multi-dimensional graphical web-representation of domains of knowledge. |
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I can't help it, but this idea has caused me to start singing a song from The Byrds in my head, over and over again. |
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Did you watch University Challenge on Monday night? |
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That song from The Byrds perchance? |
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Yes - and other Ecclesiates-related questions |
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Please picture a hazard-warning sign. |
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On the outside, the classic red triangle. On the inside, what is that thing? Some kind of Rorschach test? |
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Not quite. It's a silhouette representation of a knot of otherwise ingenious and loveable half-bakers on the verge of disappearing up their own bottoms. Now erect this sign prominently on all the approaches to this idea. |
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(I hope this anno doesn't make me a troll; I mean it kindly, and I admit to being one of those at risk). |
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