min (was Re: [Heartlogic-dev] Re: reactions)

[Joshua N Pritikin]

On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 11:47 +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 19:05 -0500, William L. Jarrold wrote:
> > Also, for 4, why not start simple and follow occam's razor.  If so, we 
> > should first identify stories that win as the most believable for the
> > unary status of goal.  Or the unary status of no-goal.  Or the unary 
> > status of anti-goal.  It would seem to me that we have to do that before 
> > we do goal pairs.
> 
> Your proposal is ironic because that is essentially what the current web
> site is doing -- goal-pairs are created by combining two unary goals
> using the min function.  Min usually works OK, but sometimes gives false
> positives.  Eventually, I probably want to collect data on proper
> goal-pairs instead of only synthesizing them from unary goals.

Hey, maybe that's an idea for a study:  Can the believability of a
goal-pair be estimated by combining the believability of two unary goals
with the min() function?

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