Hell with Rules

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37 pointsshalinmangar4 comments

Sounds cool; any example of such a system for play purposes? (no big company backing me but I'd love to learn more about the creation and deployment of one of these NORA systems...

I suppose you could try your hands on thesixtyone's job application problem: http://www.thesixtyone.com/#/info/settings/jobs/ (voting rings for rating online music).

If you think about it, this smells a lot like a recommendation engine in other domains, doesn't it?

Here is the post I attempted to write in his comments:

"Your analysis is deeply flawed. "Don’t throw things at other people’s stuff." As simple as that? So that rules out baseball, basketball, throwing away trash, tossing a frisbee, etc etc etc."

Posting this, a popup appeared "Sorry we can not accept this data." with no explanation.

My conclusion: this Jeff Jonas person is an incompetent designer, programmer and security analyst.

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