From: Joshua Collins <kidguko@...>
Date: 2009-06-07T09:01:46+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Twitter Personalities (#208)

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I will give the Quiz a shot. After all, I will surely learn from it :-)

Thanks for the encouragement guys!

On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Daniel Moore <yahivin@gmail.com> wrote:

> Bill,
>
> The personality component can see other messages as input and use
> those to determine the next message to provide. Of course, in order
> for the component to see the replies and other messages they would
> need to be gathered and passed in as arguments in some form.
>
> If you like you can share the techniques for gathering these messages
> with the mailing list. The goal is to make it as easy as possible to
> focus on the "personality" part without worrying about the
> nitty-gritty of interfacing with Twitter. Additionally sharing
> information on available libraries or general techniques will help all
> the solutions to be better.
>
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Justin Collins<justincollins@ucla.edu>
> wrote:
> > Bill Kelly wrote:
> >>
> >> From: "Daniel Moore" <yahivin@gmail.com>
> >>>
> >>> The "personality" component can take any inputs and will produce a 140
> >>> character message when called. The "personality" may remember state.
> >>> The no-spoiler period applies for the "personality" component; please
> >>> save them until everyone has had a chance to consider their own
> >>> implementations.
> >>
> >> So... to clarify, the personality component is not replying
> >> to--or seeing--other messages as input, but is merely
> >> producing a sequence of 140 character messages determined
> >> solely according to its internal black box state?
> >>
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Bill
> >
> > I don't think that is a necessary restriction, as it "can take any
> inputs."
> > I will interpret that to mean you can feed in whatever you would like - a
> > dictionary or Shakespeare, for example.
> >
> > -Justin
> >
>
>
> --
> -Daniel
> http://strd6.com
>
>

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