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Postby helen » Mon Sep 26, 2005 8:06 pm

much needed topic for posting random sites for those without anything better to do with their time!

http://www.20q.net/index.html

play 20 questions against a computer, its impressively accurate i find

http://www.addictinggames.com/helicopter.html

ridiculously addictive game, my high score is somewhere over 1000.

enjoy!
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Postby DesignatedDriver » Mon Sep 26, 2005 8:18 pm

wow. bet there has been some thought put into the 20 q program.

can remember doing very basic AI at uni. (VERY basic!!!)

not easy.

probability. i hate probability. give me algebra any day of the week!
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Postby helen » Mon Sep 26, 2005 8:27 pm

i hate probability too. im so fed up of drawing tree diagrams lesson after lesson! i also hate after school statistics lessons.

but the 20q thing is pretty impressive. its so far got a clarinet, cucumber, and tissues.
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Postby Jene » Mon Sep 26, 2005 9:04 pm

mmm, that seems random...
but this freaked me out for a while... got 12 in a row right... so i started lukin for spies lol
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Postby Steve O » Mon Sep 26, 2005 9:34 pm

OK that mind reading thing is really starting to worry me, :!:
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Postby *Carol* » Mon Sep 26, 2005 9:36 pm

oh dear...

have you not noticed that all the numbers you get are multiples of 9?
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Postby Simon » Mon Sep 26, 2005 9:38 pm

That spoils all the fun :wink:
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Postby Steve O » Mon Sep 26, 2005 9:42 pm

OK I didn't realise the symbols were changing every time

D'OH!! :oops: :oops:
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Postby helen » Mon Sep 26, 2005 9:47 pm

yeah i was amazed at first til i noticed that the symbols change!
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Postby DesignatedDriver » Mon Sep 26, 2005 9:56 pm

interesting twist on an old trick.
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Postby DesignatedDriver » Mon Sep 26, 2005 9:58 pm

erm. anyone notice the google ad?

has that always been there?

harry - is that where you got the link from?
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Postby Jene » Mon Sep 26, 2005 10:27 pm

uh-uh..the ads change depending on the topic... we had one for a dating agency at one point didnt we?
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Postby badger » Mon Sep 26, 2005 10:45 pm

Haha, it guessed mine right, then argued about some of the answers i had given, stupid cocky computers.
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Postby brooner » Mon Sep 26, 2005 10:58 pm

why not go and repent your sins with the iGod
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Postby bendover » Tue Sep 27, 2005 10:06 am

the trailer park boys game
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