[LG]Re: User Interfaces and AI - A Practical Challenge

[Anthony D. <as...@su...>]

On Tuesday, January 22, 2002, at 05:33 PM, Adrian Sutton wrote:

> I would strongly suggest XML for this as it's precisely what it 
> was designed
> for.

XML sounds good. And the minor overheads of XML will be nothing 
compared to the major CPU eaten by all the AI work.

> It should be an option to require approval for categorisation 
> or not and it
> should always be easy to override and change a categorisation.

This suggests something like storing our results to a database 
like PostgreSQL instead of flat files --- easier to change 
things like that.

>
>> I strongly suggest that Adrian Sutton write the "Topics of Discussion"
>> log writer ;-)
>
> Hmm, I think I just got given half the work here

... only half?

>> The "Members" one should probably just look for unique
>> names and/or email addresses, and offer the poster an opportunity to
>> describe himself. It could also link to all the messages in 
>> the log from
>> that member. [Yes, that unfortunately means our plugins aren't
>> completely independent. Oh well.]
>
> The plugins can actually be independent and still achieve this.

No --- I meant it very pedantically. If plugin A reads output 
from plugin B, then plugins A and B aren't (strictly) 
independent anymore.


> Computers are useless.  They can only give you answers.
>   --Pablo Picasso

"fortune" might help ;-)