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Quotes of the weekQuotes of the weekPosted Nov 18, 2012 13:36 UTC (Sun) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)Parent article: Quotes of the week
Wouldn't "is user a sheep" be more useful information to determine?
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Quotes of the week Posted Nov 19, 2012 10:23 UTC (Mon) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]
Apparently sheep do not teleport as nicely as goats, for some reason...
Quotes of the week Posted Nov 21, 2012 16:42 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]
Maybe because goats can eat through the space-time continuum and weaken it where sheep just eat grass? Could be that the wool clogs up the tubes easier as well.
Quotes of the week Posted Nov 26, 2012 6:12 UTC (Mon) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link]
Indeed, I'd guess Google especially is interested in whether the user is a sheep, given ads are their primary revenue stream. But "the goog's" evaluation of /that/ (and the algorithm by which they determine it) is almost certainly proprietary and not subject to open sourcing. Additionally, the result is probably more complex than could be properly expressed by a boolean, altho given specific enough border parameters it should be reducible to a boolean.
Which of course is where gathering all that data about a person comes in (for google and other, including government), the better to set the border parameters at which the boolean result is "true". =:^\
Duncan
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