How do you "read" the Internet?
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For example: If you want to peruse the news in the morning, do you just go to news.google.com (or whatever your favorite website(s) is)? Do you just go to the Code Project home page and see what's new? Do you just scroll through social media and forum posts until you find something amusing or interesting to actually read? In other words, do you use any special software (not that any actually exists, methinks) to do any preprocessing so you don't have to spend all that time bouncing between websites to see if anything is of interest? Yes, there's feed readers, but how many people actually use them or set up triggers for keywords or, say, a post by your favorite authors? What I'm getting at is, it seems like we're still in the stone ages when it comes to using computers to filter out the crap and alert us to when something that we have said we're actually interested in occurs. Is that not the case? So I ask you, how time consuming is your "process" of perusing information on the Internet, that you do every day as part of your routine, and how do you think that could be improved? Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote:
What I'm getting at is, it seems like we're still in the stone ages when it comes to using computers to filter out the crap and alert us to when something that we have said we're actually interested in occurs
When AI reaches the level that it can correctly assess my mood to guess what I might want to read then I am going to be much more excited about the real robots running around (since they won't require that level of AI.) Until then I will just have to continue to randomly and impulsively bumble throughout the day finding interesting stuff to read.
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Marc Clifton wrote:
What I'm getting at is, it seems like we're still in the stone ages when it comes to using computers to filter out the crap and alert us to when something that we have said we're actually interested in occurs
When AI reaches the level that it can correctly assess my mood to guess what I might want to read then I am going to be much more excited about the real robots running around (since they won't require that level of AI.) Until then I will just have to continue to randomly and impulsively bumble throughout the day finding interesting stuff to read.
jschell wrote:
When AI reaches the level that it can correctly assess my mood to guess what I might want to read then I am going to be much more excited about the real robots running around (since they won't require that level of AI.)
Agreed, but that's not the goal.
jschell wrote:
Until then I will just have to continue to randomly and impulsively bumble throughout the day finding interesting stuff to read.
The goal would be to provide you with more information than say, just the title of a post, to make your bumbling more efficient. :) Marc
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For example: If you want to peruse the news in the morning, do you just go to news.google.com (or whatever your favorite website(s) is)? Do you just go to the Code Project home page and see what's new? Do you just scroll through social media and forum posts until you find something amusing or interesting to actually read? In other words, do you use any special software (not that any actually exists, methinks) to do any preprocessing so you don't have to spend all that time bouncing between websites to see if anything is of interest? Yes, there's feed readers, but how many people actually use them or set up triggers for keywords or, say, a post by your favorite authors? What I'm getting at is, it seems like we're still in the stone ages when it comes to using computers to filter out the crap and alert us to when something that we have said we're actually interested in occurs. Is that not the case? So I ask you, how time consuming is your "process" of perusing information on the Internet, that you do every day as part of your routine, and how do you think that could be improved? Marc
Latest Articles - APOD Scraper and Hunt the Wumpus Short video on Membrane Computing Hunt the Wumpus (A HOPE video)
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