Archive for the ‘Silly’ Category
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The Looming Threat of Chemtrails
Crazy conspiracy theorists will try to sell you anything to “protect yourself against the looming threat of chemtrails.” Especially rocks with pipes sticking out of them.
4:29:41 PM: Timothy Maguire: Discussed the looming threat of chemtrails.
4:29:44 PM: Timothy Maguire: going in my timesheet
4:29:50 PM: Timothy Maguire: under 4.0 development
4:31:14 PM: Kyle Bedell: Brief discussion of the looming threat of chemtrails
4:31:23 PM: Kyle Bedell: And my amazingly accurate guess about them selling rocks.
4:31:34 PM: Timothy Maguire: it had a copper pipe
4:31:42 PM: Kyle Bedell: But it was mostly rock.
4:31:53 PM: Kyle Bedell: A rock with a pipe coming out of it
4:32:02 PM: Timothy Maguire: pretty much
PackingGenie
The prototyping for our “intelligent suitcase” (it optimizes your packing for trips) is progressing nicely. One of our members whipped up a cat-oriented error message.
The basic idea is that said suitcase would take a few inputs:
Then the system takes all of this information, processes it (the fun part of this assignment), and gives you back:
(this poses some interesting problems)
To do this, we need to equip the system with a knowledge base of sorts. It should (at the very least) know the following:
We’re also considering a speech engine, as it was brought up that a system that could verbalize packing instructions would be quite useful. The biggest problem is adapting what one should wear based on changing weather conditions. The system needs to work with the clean clothes you have left, etc.
It also needs to be able to prevent cats from being packed into the suitcase…