Comments on: Billboards

By: Moorsy

Moorsy — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:28:36 +0000

I’m not sure if translating normal english into a computer language is possible O.o (But, of course, there’re a dozen ways to do that in Python. Just-type-it-in-and-it-laughs-while-pretending-not-to-understand… that’s my favourite variety, just means that Python’s gathering data about us measly humans before it takes over)

By: the algorithommmmmmm....i think i'm lost here

the algorithommmmmmm....i think i'm lost here — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:47:52 +0000

has anyone considered possibly translating this into whatever computer language the ask.com algorithm is written in?? or just translating it into python, perl, and the other computer languages?? can you even do that?? idk what i’m talking about, i don’t know any computer languages, i’m proud that i know what an ethernet cable is and how to distinguish it from a usb port and that you do not try to shove the ethernet into the usb. it seems logical to me though that if you translate the phrase into the computer language that wrote the ask.com algorithm and translate it to a language you understand and then translate it to english, you can understand it?? i have absolutely no idea what it is i’m saying. i dont mean to offend people who have a clue what any of this is about. i really dont. it sounded good and made sense in my head i swear it did…. does anyone understand??

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Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:51:41 +0000

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By: Marty Fried

Marty Fried — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:48:37 +0000

Since I haven’t seem any more on this, I’m wondering if everyone lost interest. If not, and if you haven’t seen this, there’s an article about the campaign at http://blog.ask.com/2007/05/the_algorithm_i.html. It is indeed from ask.com. Maybe it’s working.

PS I Love xkcd.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:29:22 +0000

Somehow I only just noticed this.

The relation to Google does make sense, but perhaps it means Yahoo! as I hear MSN is partnering with them, using their search algorithm to power Bing. Though Microsoft’s marketing tends to be a bit more upfront and in-your-face.

By: Grimm

Grimm — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:25:32 +0000

“Jersey” might have something to do with this. A type of computer project, if Strat’s google connection is correct, it could work.

“Jersey, a reference implementation of JAX-RS (JSR 311), intended for building RESTful Web services”

By: tutness

tutness — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:29:43 +0000

You’re a marketing genius :)

By: orw

orw — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:59:01 +0000

“Jersey” might not be a reference to the city. A person’s name, say. You-know-what has a few curious entries.

By: medyum

medyum — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:10:45 +0000

I find this really funny, because I was just looking around XKCD, reading the latest update when I noticed the tiny print on the bottom so I opened the source code to find out what it was. What I saw was, of course,

“We did not invent the algorithm. The algorithm consistently finds Jesus. The algorithm killed Jeeves. The algorithm is banned in China. The algorithm is from Jersey. The algorithm constantly finds Jesus.This is not the algorithm. This is close.”

By: We did not invent the algorithm – nochmal xkcd « waszusagen

We did not invent the algorithm – nochmal xkcd « waszusagen — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:49:50 +0000

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