I once posted about making use of narrative objects. In this blog, I will be discussing an algorithm that supports the creation of these objects. I call it my “Infereferencing Algorithm”: this term is most easily pronounced with a slight pause between “infer” and “referencing.” I consider this a useful and widely applicable algorithm although I don’t believe it operates well in a relational database environment. Instead, I use “mass data files”: these contain unstructured lumps of…
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A person will ordinarily search the contents of a database using matching keywords and tags. Sophisticated databases might allow for filtering: for example using NOT, AND, OR on a number of keyword strings such as both titles and product descriptions. It is not normally possible to submit, say, a personality profile to a database - or a personality profile and a setting. Searching for “serial murders subway terminals” might lead to event information about precisely this, apparent serial…
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How might a person go about studying something elusive like serial murder or terrorism? I have no formal exposure in this area. Much of the technology that I mention in this blog is meant for another purpose. That other purpose is to study characters in movies, which for me is a great diversion. In particular, I like to map out where certain characters might be found (or lost - i.e. missing characters): the settings they occupy, their roles, their relationships. It goes without saying…
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I want to interrupt my "blogging fast" in order to discuss developments to my final programming effort called Elmira. On Elmira, among other things, I hold storylines from fairytales, movies, television episodes, and real-life court cases mostly dealing with abductions, forced confinement, missing persons, sexual predators, stalkers, and serial killers. Consider a movie like "Hostel" directed by Eli Roth. With my…
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