One of the interesting applications of symbolic systems is artificial intelligence, and I spent some time thinking about how to create a brain that operates the way ours does.
Before Google, I spent the summer building a program that would look at what websites you would go to and what websites other people would go to - and built a collaborative filtering program that helped you find related sites to look at.
I like to do matrices. One option per line, different facets for each column. Salary, location, happiness index, failure index, and all that.
The baby's been way easier than everyone made it out to be.
