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October 17, 2005

Mad Prophet story dimensions

So here's what I have looked into in terms of information sources to add complexity/depth/etc. to our story:

Weather: It can be done, but it may need to pull real-time data from an additional source, I'm not sure.

Speech Recognition: It can be done, and I am quite happy to mess around and learn how to use Sphynx. My only question is whether this doll will really be used in a situation where it will overhear any language at all. Perhaps we could design it so that the user could comment to the doll about its prophecies, and it could use mediocre speech recognition to retort with more prophecies.

Flight patterns: I didn't immediately see any master list, but we could compile one using flight tracker sites.

Earthquake info: There is pretty close to real time data out there, but if we don't want to deal with that we could use data from a previous day, month, or year. What about data from a century ago?

Transportation schedules: Found the list - we could extrapolate the timed locations of trains/buses. Also perhaps there's a way to incorporate traffic alerts, etc.

Tides: Charts easily available.

Near Earth Objects: Impending doom from the heavens. Data is not real time, but these things don't move too much relative to us from day to day, so it probably isn't a problem.

And on an unrelated note, when I searched Google for "comet tracker" this was the top hit. Can anyone say "Big Brother"?

Posted by rosenblj at October 17, 2005 09:14 AM

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Haha! Comet Tracket - "Make sure that workers were where they said they were when they said they were." Wow! Maybe we should make this project the "Mad Boss and the Path of the Indolent Employee"

Posted by: Justin Hall [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 17, 2005 11:08 AM

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