{"id":602,"date":"2007-11-06T03:35:01","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T08:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/?p=602"},"modified":"2007-11-06T03:35:01","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T08:35:01","slug":"can-a-spam-filter-play-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2007\/11\/06\/can-a-spam-filter-play-chess\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a spam filter play Chess?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dbacl.sourceforge.net\/spam_chess.html\">Can a spam filter play chess?<\/a> via Digg<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d rather see Deep Blue try to filter out spam, but this could be entertaining too.  Hmm, has anyone heard of any progress on getting a computer to play Go competitively?  From what I&#8217;ve heard, pattern recognition and intuitive, or right-brained thinking, are more important than look-ahead computation.  And, the game gets more complex as game pieces are added to the board.  This could be exactly what is needed for spam filtration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/offbeat\/articles\/1102wedgie-invention1102-ON.html\">8-year-old Ohio twins gain fame for anti-wedgie underwear design<\/a> via Digg<\/p>\n<p>This is what every 8-year old inventor needs, rip off underpants.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ericjoisel.com\/Site\/barbarians.html\">Lord of the Rings Origami<\/a> via Boing Boing<\/p>\n<p>Yup, you guessed it, this guy has way too much time on his hands.  Perhaps more than any&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/starwarscrafts\/5887.html\">Life sized Jabba the Hut DIY project<\/a> via Digg<br \/>\nNo wait, that title belongs to this guy.<\/p>\n<p>Marv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can a spam filter play chess? via Digg I&#8217;d rather see Deep Blue try to filter out spam, but this could be entertaining too. Hmm, has anyone heard of any progress on getting a computer to play Go competitively? From &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2007\/11\/06\/can-a-spam-filter-play-chess\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe53l-9I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}