From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,385be4c68a9e4de6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-07-10 15:14:50 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!xmission!news-out.spamkiller.net!propagator2-maxim!propagator-maxim!news-in.spamkiller.net!newsfeed.sjc.globix.net!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!151.164.30.35!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D2CB1BB.9D1BFB64@despammed.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Smart sorting algorithm ? References: <3D2C46FD.AD325907@despammed.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:14:19 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1026339290 151.168.144.162 (Wed, 10 Jul 2002 18:14:50 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 18:14:50 EDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:27000 Date: 2002-07-10T17:14:19-05:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote: > >asking a human to make a better/worse value judgment on each pair. > Do you have grounds to believe the human's preferences are transitive? No, but I have three defenses against that: 1. Get a second opinion and merge. 2. Don't ask, don't tell. If they picked A over B and B over C don't even mention A vs. C (which was the whole point all along). The point of the whole thing is ranking/prioritizing/whatever-you-call-it. 3. If they actually notice and complain that C comes before A, say, "Sorry, time (or 'the list') is linear. Only one can be first." Also, that's not necessarily the only application. But it is my current application. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau