Ask HN: How to make computer browse internet automatically?
2 pointsby imvetri5 months ago4 comments
  • PaulHoule5 months ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler ?
    • imvetri5 months ago
      no
      • fsflover5 months ago
        Why not?
        • imvetri5 months ago
          A web crawler requires me to program the logics.

          The concept does not require me to program the logics, instead it starts reading a seed page, stores information/knowledge breaks it down to doable actions and performs action one by one.

          This design allows the information to direct the concept. Where as, in case of web crawler, me/I will have to direct it.

          • giveita5 months ago
            You want the system to have learned (discretion, taste...), but it cannot learn from a human programing logic, so it must learn either from

            1. Something like Machine Learning

            or..

            2. Some emergent property of mathematics / computation.

            If you find 2... hell that would be something.

            Maybe genetic algorithms?

          • fsflover5 months ago
            A good web crawler can just go through all links it finds, no programming is required.
  • eimrine5 months ago
    Just power it up, the vendor's spyware will do exactly this for fulfilling some vendor's profits.
    • imvetri5 months ago
      it would be cool to watch a computer browsing. Cooler to build one.
  • geophph5 months ago
    Stumbleupon but inside a for loop
    • imvetri5 months ago
      how does it work ?