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Issue #21
August 2004

By Dennis Merritt

AI - The art and science of making computers do interesting things that are not in their nature.


The code from last month's newsletter is finally available in the download area of www.ainewsletter.com. As always, any and all feedback is welcome.

Also, anyone interested in contributing to the newsletter -- book reviews, product reviews, overviews of areas of research, collections of good links in a topic area, editorial commentary, introductions, code examples, etc. -- should send them to me as well.

Dennis

Applying Network Analysis to Amazon Book References

PCAI issue 17.6 has an article by Valdis Krebs on the possibility of using network analysis on Amazon reader data. You've undoubtedly noticed that when you purchase a book on Amazon (or more generally something from anywhere online) you get a list of other books that readers of the book in question have purchased.

Valdis Krebs took this a step further, and still using Amazon, went to each of those books and then looked at the connections from them—and then did it again, and again.


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CMP DevNet Spotlight

Regular Expressions: Two Easy Steps Better Than One Hard One
Complicated regular expressions and yacc are powerful parsing tools, but they can cause trouble in inexperienced hands. One helpful alternative is "partial evaluation" (PE) or "active data" parsing

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