http://fugato.net/2004/11/06/twenty-questions/ Gunnlaugur Þór Briem Sun, 30 May 2010 18:46:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://fugato.net/2004/11/06/twenty-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-75 GÞB Tue, 16 Nov 2004 23:40:52 +0000 http://fugato.net/2004/11/06/twenty-questions/#comment-75 I played it with the same word, to see if your go had taught it something. It eventually guessed correctly, but after more than 20 questions. But it had arrived at "katana" within 20 questions, and when I said "close", it didn't guess sword, but asked several more questions which didn't seem relevant. It didn't ask me the question you mentioned, but it did ask "Does it have a hard outer shell?" and I said no, but it disagrees. I don't think a sword has an outer shell, hard or soft --- I think it's solid through. But I may be wrong. Maybe they make swords with impact-softening rubber cores for more ergonomic slaying. In any case, the game did seem to do better than when you were there, although that could just be because the random questions it picked were better suited to this word. I played it with the same word, to see if your go had taught it something. It eventually guessed correctly, but after more than 20 questions. But it had arrived at “katana” within 20 questions, and when I said “close”, it didn’t guess sword, but asked several more questions which didn’t seem relevant. It didn’t ask me the question you mentioned, but it did ask “Does it have a hard outer shell?” and I said no, but it disagrees. I don’t think a sword has an outer shell, hard or soft — I think it’s solid through. But I may be wrong. Maybe they make swords with impact-softening rubber cores for more ergonomic slaying. In any case, the game did seem to do better than when you were there, although that could just be because the random questions it picked were better suited to this word.

]]> http://fugato.net/2004/11/06/twenty-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-74 Gummi Tue, 16 Nov 2004 22:02:31 +0000 http://fugato.net/2004/11/06/twenty-questions/#comment-74 Fun site, I tried it with "sword" and the computer gave up (although it did guess "sabre" at one point). One of the strange questions it did not agree with me was "Can you use it to make sounds", I said yes, but the computer said no. If I hit a steel plate with a sword, a loud sound will be made. Cool stuff though. Fun site, I tried it with “sword” and the computer gave up (although it did guess “sabre” at one point). One of the strange questions it did not agree with me was “Can you use it to make sounds”, I said yes, but the computer said no. If I hit a steel plate with a sword, a loud sound will be made. Cool stuff though.

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