ET-Prolog

Switching silent profile during sleep

I think you wouldn't be pleased if some unimportant call or, what is much worse, SPAM SMS message wakes you up. Solution would be to switch silent profile when you sleep. You can do it by hand ever day, but why not to automate it? You can use silencer, but it has very simple logic, which silences phone when it is late, but not when you sleep. What about something more intelligent?

ET-prolog - making phone smarter

Today many devices we use in everyday life are called "smart". What does it mean? Electronics (at least now) can't be smart, so we speak about intelligence imitation and following rules can be used for measuring its quality:
  • Device should do what user wants
  • If device doesn't obey user, it must tell user why it doesn't obey in such a way, that user would agree, that he was wrong. This is user misstakes control.
  • Device should guess, what user wants, if possible.
That last rule brings the problem.

ET-prolog - делаем телефон умнее

В последнее время "умным" стало большинство приборов, с которыми нам приходится работать. Но что стоит за этим словом? Ум (пока) не свойственен технике, поэтому мы говорим об имитации интеллекта и мерилом качества имитации являются следующие правила:
  • Прибор должен делать то, что от него хочет пользователь
  • Если прибор делает не так, как велел пользователь, то он должен аргументировать свое поведение, и пользователь должен согласиться, что был не прав.
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