On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Trevor Nelson <blindph...@gmail.com> wrote: > I really would truely appreciate and example coding of how to put together an > initial basic "AI" bot where it can monitor the system and tell me alerts as > with being able to query it for questions. As with I am looking for some sort > of time efficient way for it to gather it's own data. As otherwise all the > information I would have to manually put in would be extreme.
An interesting concept. AI monitoring systems have never really appealed to me; I personally prefer something with simpler and clearer rules (eg "if server load exceeds 3.0, raise an alert"), coupled with information retrieval commands that read like commands, not natural English. But I can see the value of the more "human-friendly style", if that's the term for it. > I greatly appreciate any help you guys can prodive me with to help me get > started. Before you assume I want everyone to do all the work for me, it's > not the case. It's just that I learn best/faster from example code. > Also, I am thinking of going with python 2.7 for this since it seems all the > documentation I run into isn't for the 3.x Python. > Understandable. I would recommend treating this as two completely separate projects: 1) Natural language request/response - the "AI" bit, tinkering with the HOWIE bot 2) Server status querying, log analysis, etc, etc. You may already be familiar with one or the other, I don't know. But in any case, they're quite separate; it'll be easier to develop one and then the other. Divide your problem into pieces, then divide the pieces further, and keep on dividing until you have a series of one-banana problems[1]. I would also recommend using Python 3.3, for several reasons: * There's plenty of docs for 3.3; perhaps web searches are highlighting 2.x, but if you go to the main docs page[2] you'll find 3.3 there. * Py3 has much better Unicode support than Py2, a significant factor when you're working with natural language parsing * The 2.x line is no longer being developed. Only bugfixes and security patches will be applied. 3.x, on the other hand, has cool toys added periodically with new versions. ChrisA [1] http://catb.org/jargon/html/O/one-banana-problem.html [2] http://docs.python.org/py3k/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
