Emanuel Berg (12024-07-10): > Indeed, one can have a bunch of such rules and apply them and > award points and stuff. > > But maybe one could also have a more general, basic > mechanical/math/stats inspired algorithm?
You cannot have a more general basic mechanical algorithm unless you know what you want it to do. > One can also see the data as a bunch of entries, say one for > each line. To what extent is the new entry unlike all others? You still need to define unlike. > See? How can we define what is original in a way that 1. > makes sense and 2. is useful for this application? Only you know what “this application” is. Regards, -- Nicolas George
