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Old 01-23-2010, 07:06 PM   #1
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Default One of the most amazing websites I have ever seen.

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I has guessed everyone I have tried from Iggy to Anthony Cumia from Opie & Anthony on XM Radio. Give it a shot.

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Old 01-23-2010, 07:12 PM   #2
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Defeated him with Laura Calder.
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Old 01-23-2010, 07:13 PM   #3
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Love this stuff. You think there's no way to get it from just the questions you've answered and then BAM. Stumped it until question 30 on Josey Wales...and then it nailed The Knights Who Say Ni right off.

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Old 01-23-2010, 07:17 PM   #4
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This is pretty easy to create actually, if it gets one wrong then it asks you to tell it and provide a question and answer for it, then it adjusts its database (or at least that's how most of these I've seen work). Mechanical turk kind of idea.

So it's actually susceptible to an attack, if you force it into being wrong intentionally you can feed it disinformation and make the database worse, though a good one will see what you are trying to do sometimes, and discount unique answers and wait for multiple right answers to base its answers on.
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Old 01-23-2010, 07:23 PM   #5
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i defeated him twice.
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Old 01-23-2010, 07:28 PM   #6
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hes 1 for 4
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Old 01-23-2010, 07:29 PM   #7
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Defeated him as well
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Old 01-23-2010, 07:29 PM   #8
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Defeated him with Nessus from Ringworld
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Old 01-23-2010, 07:38 PM   #9
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http://www.20q.net was the first site I'd ever seen like this.
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http://www.20q.net was the first site I'd ever seen like this.
There's an electronic handheld game called 20Q that is obviously made by the same folks. Really fun.
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Old 01-23-2010, 07:53 PM   #11
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3 for 3. The Terminator, Steven Hawking, and Steve Harris.

That was creepy even though I understand how it works.
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Old 01-23-2010, 07:54 PM   #12
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got Paul McCartney instead of david gilmour. I thought that would have been an easy one.
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Old 01-23-2010, 07:56 PM   #13
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The problem is that the more people that defeat him, the more he gets in his database. It's not so hard after awhile when his database is full.
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Old 01-23-2010, 07:56 PM   #14
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took him 3 guesses to get keiffer sutherland
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I got him with Mario
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Took him until like 30 to get Willem Dafoe. I didn't like how some of the questions seem to require a decent amount of knowledge about the person. I don't know if Dafoe has been married and I'm not going to look it up, but at least there's a Don't Know button.
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Old 01-23-2010, 08:15 PM   #17
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He got
Iggy
Hans Solo
Edward Duke of York
Miley cyrus (duh)

He got on the second try
Julian from Trailor Park Boys

Did not get Terry from Fubar
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Old 01-23-2010, 08:17 PM   #18
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I defeated him with Rene Bourque.
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Took two tries but it finally got Shazam.
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He's not great with hockey players unless it's a star player.

He didn't get Brent Sutter and I'm guessing he wouldn't get most players on a 2nd line and below.

RACK UP YOUR WINS UNTIL HE LEARNS OF HOCKEY!
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