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Re: Show HN: Help Me Decide Please

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Post by sixdimensional »

I would add one more step at the very end.. a feedback/rating question - either simply “Did this help you decide?” Yes or no, and “was it a good/right decision?” Yes or no. “Which one did you ultimately decide”? Or you could add likert scale rating... but I like that you kept the tool simple.

I could see this being mined/modeled later using machine learning, natural language, market basket analysis, a whole bunch of things, to try to help people make decisions. You must have thought about those possibilities.

It’s a cool tool/idea!

Re: Show HN: Help Me Decide Please

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Post by [deleted] »

raister wrote: post #39

I'm sorry to say this, but, this is not so very good. Having worked with other decision methods such as TOPSIS, AHP, and ANP, and note that those are the simplest and most commented on (and not about its features, but about its shortcomings), in your analysis/software, it is impossible to compare choices among them, which is a huge hindrance to the method.

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Re: Show HN: Help Me Decide Please

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Post by copperx »

raister wrote: post #39

I'm sorry to say this, but, this is not so very good. Having worked with other decision methods such as TOPSIS, AHP, and ANP, and note that those are the simplest and most commented on (and not about its features, but about its shortcomings), in your analysis/software, it is impossible to compare choices among them, which is a huge hindrance to the method.

Is there a good introduction to decision methods on general like the ones you describe? I'm very interested in this.

Re: Show HN: Help Me Decide Please

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Post by copperx »

dilippkumar wrote: post #13

Here’s my output for trying to figure out what I am going to do for dinner: 1. pizza: 54 2. beer: 54 3. italian: 45 4. home cooked food: 44 5. thai: 42 6. mexican: 34 It’s fair to say the quality of the decisions this tool will enable is bounded by the ability of the user to make good decisions :-)

Why is food made by strangers even an option in this pandemic?

It's a serious question. Unless the "staying alive" criterion has no value to you.

Re: Show HN: Help Me Decide Please

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Post by sixdimensional »

emmanueloga_ wrote: post #28

I just stumbled upon a product that helps solve decision making problems while looking for info on the "Rete algorithm" [1]. On that note, it is pretty cool that you made a V1 and just released it. If it was me I would get lost in a bread first search of algorithms and prior art and whatnot :-p 1: https://www.sparklinglogic.com/smarts-decision-manager/

Rete algorithm - famous in business rules engines, forward chaining, backward chaining, inference engines - all fun topics in the field of expert systems. Much of it, however, left behind in the pursuit of more complex machine learning and AI approaches, as of late.

I did a lot of work/research in this area while working for a fraud detection company.

You might be interested in an old public domain tool called CLIPS that NASA released many years ago [1]. It is a lot of fun and amazingly powerful, albeit, I don’t hear much about it anymore. Still works though!

[1] http://www.clipsrules.net/

Re: Show HN: Help Me Decide Please

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Post by TekMol »

Since there is nothing in the "about" page, I looked at your HN profile. But it only carries a link to LinkedIn which only shows me a login page.

A link to a personal website or Twitter profile would be nice.

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