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Who am I: A mind reader (don't forget to view source)

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Re: Who am I: A mind reader (don't forget to view source)

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indralukmana wrote: post #131
xor-ed-wolf wrote: post #126

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Did you ever heard of cold reading?

hey thanks, i just googled it. I knew something about it (like reading expression or something, from watching 'the mentalist'), but i did not know what it was called. but CMIIW the technique used in the linked app is categorized as 'hot reading' right? because it somewhat gather information from our "browsing history". Somewhat same technique used by google for user 'profiling' maybe? just a little bit of assumption.

No, it's exactly cold reading, because it tries everything and encourages and watches your reaction (with javascript) to determine which things it was throwing against the wall were relevant to you. It's an ePsychic™:)

Re: Who am I: A mind reader (don't forget to view source)

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iopq wrote: post #137
yzzxy wrote: post #49

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The coolest way would be cold, hard natural selection from Alexa top sites, possibly with weighting placed to relevant sites at the introduction of the dataset. Perhaps I will fork.

Your interests are: Google, Facebook, Youtube, Yahoo

Yeah - it might be even better to subtract the most common sites, so the results are more peculiar to you.
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