{"id":10970,"date":"2012-02-20T12:27:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T18:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=10970"},"modified":"2012-02-20T12:27:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T18:27:51","slug":"thats-one-complex-algorithm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/20\/thats-one-complex-algorithm\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s One Complex Algorithm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I go to Barnes and Noble to spend my birthday gift card, and I pick up three volumes of Robert E. Howard&#8217;s Conan stories:  <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0345461517\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0345461517\" target=\"_blank\">The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0345461525\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0345461525\" target=\"_blank\">The Bloody Crown of Conan<\/a><\/em>, and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0345461533\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0345461533\" target=\"_blank\">The Conquering Sword of Conan<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It all started when I saw <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0575077662\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0575077662\" target=\"_blank\">The Complete Chronicles of Conan<\/a><\/em> around Christmas time, but it was gone before I could buy it with a gift card.  So I&#8217;ve thought about buying the paperback versions I listed above, but have been hemming and hawing until I got a $50 gift card (the books, in the store, are $17 each plus tax, unlike the lower rates you get if you click the handy Amazon links).  So I bought them with the card today and a couple grubzits of my own.<\/p>\n<p>So Barnes and Noble, in an attempt to remain relevant, replicated a bit of Amazon&#8217;s functionality by producing a list of recommendations that printed out with my receipt:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/youmayalsolike.jpg\" width=\"425\" alt=\"You might also like other books by this same author!\"><\/p>\n<p>It recommended the other books on the shelf by Robert E. Howard that I did not pick up today.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a stunning bit of artificial intelligence there, wot?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I go to Barnes and Noble to spend my birthday gift card, and I pick up three volumes of Robert E. Howard&#8217;s Conan stories: The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian, The Bloody Crown of Conan, and The Conquering Sword of Conan. It all started when I saw The Complete Chronicles of Conan around Christmas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10970"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10973,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10970\/revisions\/10973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}