Input from a 2 AM perspective.

I just read Shelby's post on imput and I would like to add things or something *tired*.

I like the idea of information being derived from enviromental monitoring, however you can just stop there.
If a system is automagically adding things to your calender based on a conversation it is listening to, there is really no need for a retarded ass, wait sorry ridiculous gesture for a simple confirmation to add it. If you have gone through the effort of creating an algorithm that is intelligent enough to pull useful information from what is going on, why add a further complicated step?

However the gesture proposed is not defined or explained so I can't argue on that level, I can say however that a key phrase would be tolerable in a system of this degree, crap just got distraec and lost my train of thought um where was I.

In order to have something like running in realtime, it would take some heavy crunching noming threw the crap, so it would be idealy a thin client based system where as there are enviromental sensors such as a cell phone mic or a computer webcam that sends its data in a refined and precise manner to a server that crunches the data.

I had a similar idea a while ago that took this to a much further degree and was much more useful than adding thinks to your calendar. It was a algorythim that takes all the input it can for your life and finds patterns in what you do, it then optmizes and alters your enviroment to better suit your living style.

Of course this kinf of information could have so many applications, for instance if say you had data from most of the people living with in a city, the program could find patters on a larger scale, this information could then be applied to predictive systems, a simple system would be predicting traffic patterns to a such precision that once believed random events would be within a narrow range of possibility.

For this to be effective at a degree as large as a city or bigger it would have to not only collect incredible amounts of data in realtime but it would also have to process this in realtime and not only does it have to do current data it would also be going through  the entire historyn of the system looking for connections and patterns.

So yes I think I just stole Shelby's Ridiculousness title and the more awesomer ide title as well :D

Now back to monitoring GPU temps!