Ever wonder how or even why your time spent upon the computer might dissipate into the incalculable unknown? Well, on occasion, I do, and since a majority of my time is spent upon the internet, I can wholeheartedly verify that a formidable amount of my time is spent rummaging through senseless data found upon the World Wide Web. If only someone was to develop a stupid filter, a tool that would ultimately serve as a FireFox web browser, my day might better be managed and diverted from such stupidity as is found upon the net.

Well, it just so happens, while engaged in the nightly self-education seminar, researching project documentation and project documentation tools, I happened upon advent of the STUPID FILTER ( http://stupidfilter.org/wiki/index.php?n=Main.About ), which is a program under development that will serve to filter the stupidity that exists upon the Internet and does so utilizing Bayesian Analysis ( http://www.bayesian.org/bayesexp/bayesexp.html ). Having spent a few years during my early and late teens, heavily indulged in the scientific writings that include the subjects of Chaos Theory, String Theory, Fractal Theory, Relativity Theory among others, the reference to Bayesian caught my eye and caused me to delve deeper into the Google search to ultimately find the subject of this writing, Stupid Filter.

Developed by Gabriel Ortiz and Paul Starr, the stupid filter seeks to enlist Bayesian Analysis methodology coupled with spam detection filter techniques to crack the filter of ignorant speech found upon the internet, allowing the user of such technology to bypass the ignorance abundantly found upon the web since the advent of user-derived content and enter into what a scientist might refer to in his realm as pure science - or in this case pure speech. Rather than a binary system of rules, this system utilizes a method of five-step degrees of ignorance to determine how utterly stupid the content is. And as you can well imagine, there's a lot of it on the net.

The working model is currently working on YouTube.com, a bastion of bullshit, as its playground to test the program. The results are interestingly "stupid" to say the least. Check out the Stupid Filter Results found upon this page, which is the result of searches for ignorant comments found upon YouTube, the video blogging website. Click on the submit button a few times to get a glimpse of the filter's capabilities and enter into just how bad the English language has been botched throughout the last decade or so.

The Stupid Filter software is open source and is due for an alpha release in December of 2007 and has already logged a database of comments of over 225,000. The hope is to integrate the filter into content management systems ( CMS ), blogs, wikis and other applications, including the Firefox web browser, which is my personal choice for perusing the World Wide Web.

RELATED LINKS

• Fractal Theory - http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ergreen/honors_thesis/fractal.html
• String Theory - http://superstringtheory.com/
• Chaos Theory / Fractal Theory - http://home.inreach.com/kfarrell/course.outline.html (It's been a while since I have seen this site. It hasn't changed much.)
• Albert Einstein's Theory Improved? - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/02/060214080204.htm
  

QUOTES

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) - At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a certain direction.

Fidel Gonzales (circa 1987) - Even within the realm of possibility, the impossible is possible, which without evident cause may very well lead the ignorant unto uniformed chaos without reason.