From: Sandro Paganotti Date: 2009-06-08T00:12:20+09:00 Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Twitter Personalities (#208) --001636c598d6ad5f8b046bc37aab Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Wow !! Absolutely great quiz ! :D On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Joshua Collins wrote: > 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 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 > > wrote: > > > Bill Kelly wrote: > > >> > > >> From: "Daniel Moore" > > >>> > > >>> 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 > > > > > --001636c598d6ad5f8b046bc37aab--