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"Mike Duffy" <respond@invalid.invalid> wrote ...
> Terrys <merryterrys@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:5a2a1057-f939-4b94-9520-4db513ea88b7@26g2000yqv.googlegroups.com
>
>> Thereby trying to change the rules as per his usual MO.


dev.null offered to add the MD5 before testing began.



>
> I got a chance to try a few more questions Herc. And I have a few
> observations to make on the new format:
>
> 1) You should post the MD5 of (current date & time appended to your
> guess) before the user chooses the most fitting quote. Otherwise,
> some people might think that you are just agreeing with the user's
> choice 50% of the time regardless of what the user chooses.
>
> 2) It occurs to me that perhaps after seeing a few quotes, it might
> be possible that even if I have never memorized the particular
> version of the Bible you are using, it might be that I have at one
> point in my life thumbed through one. This would be enough for me to
> unconsciously choose the book & chapter & verse pertaining to my
> question.
>
> I would like to know a few more details about how the web-site works.
> Surely you are not sitting in front of a computer waiting for someone
> to enter his choices on your website! Did you "divine" a response
> list ahead of time? Or did you "divine" an algorithm to create your
> responses on-the-fly?
>
> BTW, some of the quotes were dead on,
>
> 1) Will I get email from an old friend tomorrow? I got a quote about
> King Darius receiving a letter.
>
> 2) Will Prop 19 pass tomorrow? I got a quote about eating, drinking,
> and pipe smoking. (And you all know that tobacco came from America so
> guess what they were smoking in the OT.)


This is actually Bad, apt answers with the random options are what I am trying to avoid.

Let's hope it was a special case for an important question, the channeled answer was
CRY OUT AND SHOUT!



>
> but most of the time, I need to click "I'm Stumped", because none of
> the choices match the question I have in mind. Perhaps you should let
> us send you the question (in order to improve your alogorithm),
> without affecting the total score one way or the other. Perhaps I am
> using the wrong type of question. The two that never worked were:
>
> 1) Will it snow here on Thursday?
>
> 2) Will the garbage truck pick up my garbage tomorrow while I am away
> from the house walking my dog?
>

It would be fruitless for me to see the questions that don't get an obvious response,
I tend to code websites to be functional without adding bells and whistles, atleast until
an upgrade is warranted.

The algorithm just looks up your quote from the Book #, Chapter # and Verse # you
provide.  You could flick to a random page of the bible if you prefer, as long as you
tell me the question and answer afterwards.


The other 2 options are randomly selected from the same Book.  There are 66 books in the bible.

Herc