neural networks and filePro

[Fairlight]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 02:52:43PM -0500, Walter Vaughan, the prominent pundit,
witicized:
> 
> Do customers order in patterns? Does the purchase of one item indicate 
> the purchase of something later?

Amazon thinks they do--in the crudest possible ways.  In the last month,
they've started unsolicited sales mailings to me, recommending things based
on my other purchases.  They've always had the "if you liked this, you may
like these, which other people who bought this also purchased" thing on
their web site.  But I'm cheesed off about the mailings--enough so that one
of my next five emails will be to Amazon to complain.  I can't -block- them
because I want notification of shipping, etc.  They have completely lost it
with regards to ethical treatment of customers though.

The examples I've seen so far are nothing more than raw correlative
matches, not anything based true personality analysis.  Hell, people can't
even accurately judge others' personalities--I surely wouldn't trust such a
subjective job to a computer, which will be easily deceived, and which has
no concept of motivations.

mark->
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