February 2012
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Amazon.com's many bots feud over book-prices |... →
brocatus:
‘Before I talk about my own troubles, let me tell you about another book, “Computer Game Bot Turing Test”. It’s one of over 100,000 “books” “written” by a Markov chain running over random Wikipedia articles, bundled up and sold online for a ridiculous price. The publisher, Betascript, is notorious for this kind of thing.
It gets better. There are whole species of other bots that...
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“If he is a good designer the form he invents will penetrate the problem so...”
– Notes on the synthesis of form - Christopher Alexander - Google Books (via slantback)
Ha, i just finished reading the book…