neural networks and filePro

[Bill Vermillion]

As Fairlight was scratching "For a good prime call 
391581 * 2^216193 -1" on the wall, he suddenly said:

> 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.

Don't complain.  Just go to 'Your Account' and select what you want
in the form of emails from them.  I have them send me the weekly
movie showtimes.  The only others I get are things that I ask them
to try to get and they will try and try - and only after saying
'extned the time' two or three times do you reach the limit.
It comes down to about a year. Not many places are as easy to work
with as Amazon.

And there is a section called "Improve my recommendations" base on
previous purchases so you can sort of fine tune your
recommendations.

> 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.

You can change that too.  And it's not on personality but on
previous purchases - and you can exclude items from the
recommendations.  

> 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.

Why do you think it is judging personalities.  It's based on items
you have purchased.

Bill

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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com