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An equal number of male and female participants enter a suitably equipped building, resembling a bar or other venue of social assembly.
However, they are initially segregated.
Instead of meeting face to face, every participant is given a keyboard/monitor which can be linked to any other unit operated
by a member of the opposite gender.
However, during the ensuing "conversations", participants will be randomly connected to sophisticated response software rather than a human participant.
This software is designed to rank the quality of their responses against standardised criteria, in effect online personality profiling.
At the end of the session, participants are allowed to select three of their favourite respondants.
If the selections overlap, the system notifies the two "best fit" participants and they get to meet face to face.
Those who consistently select the synthetic respondant are given a new large hard disk drive, a copy of PC World, and a pair of Spock ears. This means they go home happy.
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There is only one flaw in this idea: //and they get to meet face to face.// |
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A *real* geek would write an AI to handle his end of the
convesation. ("His" since we're dealing in stereotypes, here.) |
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A *real* geek would code his/her girlfriend in Python. |
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Those Japanese androids would be appropriate for some of the participants. |
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[Cedar Park] Don't be ridiculous. Python's famously easy to
code in. A real geek would use Perl. Or Brainf*ck. |
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[8th_of_7]'s geek credentials are impeccable: they
capitalized FORTRAN correctly. |
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[mouseposture]: My bad. The more I think about it,
I'm convinced the significant other should be hand-
coded in 68000 assembler. |
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[Cedar_Park] Motorola, not Intel, eh? I sense a certain
intellectual affinity. |
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Come on, [mp], can you honestly say you're a fan of segmented adresss space and non-orthogonal instruction sets ? |
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Hand-coded, yes, but an assembler ? It should be input with a hex editor, or better, toggled in from the front panel switches, shirley ... |
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[8th_of_7] //input with a hex editor// That is exactly how I
did it, when I was programming a Motorola CPU. Just to save
time, this is how the Yorkshiremen argument goes: I see
your ASM & raise you machine language. You reply with TTL,
and I answer with 24-volt relays. You then describe the
hydraulic analog computer you built as a science fair project
and I retire hit wicket. |
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[8th] You get switches? A real geek edits directly on the disk with a magnetized needle. |
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Interesting that you stipulated equal numbers of males and females. Are they allowed pair off into homosexual couples if they wish, [8th of 7]? |
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I take it you are British, from your profile? I seem to recall there is a long tradition of such activity in your public school system. The clink of liveried footmen's bracelets as they change the plates, women's hockey teams and all of that stuff. |
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My question, exactly. Magnets are sheer luxury. In
my day we had clay tablets and dodo quills. |
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// pair off into homosexual couples if they wish // |
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Ask [MaxwellBuchanan], he's the expert. |
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