It is the idea of automating difficult or boring work that led Mr. Parker to become involved. Comparing himself to a distant disciple of Henry Ford, he said he was “deconstructing the process of getting books into people’s hands; every single step we could think of, we automated.”Here's his YouTube video explaining the method. I only watched a minute if and fell asleep — on my tufted, washable scatter rug — so it's not vetted, except as a sleep aid.
April 14, 2008
"The 2007-2012 Outlook for Tufted Washable Scatter Rugs, Bathmats and Sets That Measure 6-Feet by 9-Feet or Smaller in India."
Just one of over 200,000 books that business prof Philip M. Parker has written using a computer algorithm that collects information from the internet. He makes money producing these obscure things by selling them on Amazon, which prints books to order.
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Kroger is always selling small rugs. I'll check the tag...hmm, no manufacturing location. Maybe we're exporting them.
Do they measure differently in the United States?
I bet the Pentagon has some of this software.
You type in..."Bin Laden"..."South Waziristan"....and out comes a ream of coordinates.
I don't know if we've gotten our money's worth yet.
It's a fascinating subject and it calls into question many of our assumptions about writing and research.
This guy is part of a movement that is doing to office workers what the industrial revolution did to blacksmiths.
It is fascinating (well, to some).
I'd have to consume its output on a subject I had some knowledge of before I believed it.
Hmmmm.
*shrug* not that big a deal.
I wrote a computer program that would spit out romance novels.
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You know maybe I need to dust that puppy off.
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