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azdak at 05:35am on 15/01/2010
azdak at 05:35am on 15/01/2010Gacked from reera_the_red
Hoo boy, if anybody needs another time waster, I've got a really good one:
http://en.akinator.com/
It's a kind of Twenty Questions about characters. You think of a character and the program tries to guess who you're thinking of by asking questions with yes/no answers. It's particularly interesting if you think of a character it hasn't got in its database - when I tried Anne Elliot, it got her completely wrong on the first guess, but then came up with Lizzy Bennet, Fanny Price and Emma in subsequent rounds before admitting defeat. Bunter was even more fun - its first guess was Bob the Builder (!), then a Captain Someone-I'd-Never-Heard-Of, who is apparently a friend of Poirot's, and then Jeeves. So in both instances it got awfully close, even though it didn't actually have the character in its database (it asks you to add the new character at the end. LPW is already up there).
reera_the_redHoo boy, if anybody needs another time waster, I've got a really good one:
http://en.akinator.com/
It's a kind of Twenty Questions about characters. You think of a character and the program tries to guess who you're thinking of by asking questions with yes/no answers. It's particularly interesting if you think of a character it hasn't got in its database - when I tried Anne Elliot, it got her completely wrong on the first guess, but then came up with Lizzy Bennet, Fanny Price and Emma in subsequent rounds before admitting defeat. Bunter was even more fun - its first guess was Bob the Builder (!), then a Captain Someone-I'd-Never-Heard-Of, who is apparently a friend of Poirot's, and then Jeeves. So in both instances it got awfully close, even though it didn't actually have the character in its database (it asks you to add the new character at the end. LPW is already up there).