Ask HN: How to make computer browse internet automatically?
2 pointsby imvetri16 hours ago4 comments
  • PaulHoule16 hours ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler ?
    • imvetri16 hours ago
      no
      • fsflover16 hours ago
        Why not?
        • imvetri16 hours 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.

          • giveita8 hours 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?

          • fsflover12 hours ago
            A good web crawler can just go through all links it finds, no programming is required.
  • geophph6 hours ago
    Stumbleupon but inside a for loop
  • eimrine16 hours ago
    Just power it up, the vendor's spyware will do exactly this for fulfilling some vendor's profits.
    • imvetri16 hours ago
      it would be cool to watch a computer browsing. Cooler to build one.