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		qohen on June 29, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How a mathematician constructed a decision tree to... Even if I don’t know much about the medical aspects of the problem, I could try to learn his methodology following his decision-making process, and then I could use this knowledge to come up with a set of rules.” As the song says, "everything old is new again": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_engineering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_based_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system

pling on June 29, 2014 [–]

I wrote one of them for our support team to stop them asking me questions every two minutes (decision tree engine). Works wonders.

I'll eventually automate myself out of the office and then go sit on a beach somewhere.

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