LabKitty Apps #3: xBetween

LabKitty Apps is a recurring LabKitty feature in which I describe one of my app ideas that I've finally accepted I'm never going to develop because I'm too busy or too dumb to figure it out. But that doesn't mean it can't help someone else become a billionaire. If you successfully bring a LabKitty App to market, LabKitty, like Erlich Bachman, owns 10%.

Some things are most easily described as what they are not. For example: LabKitty is not a dessert topping. Alternatively, borrowing from vector algebra, we may describe a thing using a cross product, analogous to how the vector cross product defines a new direction in terms of two existing ones. For example: LabKitty is like a cross between a Ph.D. and a fever dream.

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We find this schema generalizes to all manner of everyday topics. For example, it works for movies (The Hunger Games is like a cross between Battle Royale and Alien from LA; Transformers is like a cross between Popular Mechanics and a strobe light; Edge of Tomorrow is like a cross between Groundhog Day and Starship Troopers), television (Deadwood is like a cross between Shakespeare and Tourette's; The Daily Show is like a cross between CNN and an applause sign), music (The Decemberists are like a cross between Bob Dylan and Jeopardy, Lady Gaga is like a cross between Salvador Dali and Cher), the Internet (Twitter is like a cross between ADD and Morse code, Wikipedia is like a cross between The Encyclopedia Britannica and an angry mob), technology (FORTRAN is like a cross between square dancing and a soldering iron; a Tamagotchi is like a cross between a pet rock and a clock radio), or life in general (Lebesgue integration is like a cross between integration and a cat fight in your brain). The cross-between construct truly is a Rosetta stone of the human condition.

So, in that spirit, LabKitty imagineers xBetween. An app that generates amusing descriptive cross products for you to use and abuse. I whipped up a little JavaScript prototype of xBetween for you to try! This is shown below. Instructions: (1) press button, (2) be amused (or not). The app currently does not identify the target to which the description should be applied; that remains for you, the developer, to develop (for Cat's sake, I'm giving you the idea, the name, a working prototype, and code you can cut and paste into XCode -- would you like me to feed and burp you as well?)

Be aware that once somebody creates a program which understands humans well enough to describe our foibles in terms of a cross product, Judgement Day is probably not far off. I suppose that is the risk you take. Remember, as always, LabKitty gets 10%.

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It's like a cross between:  

- press generate -

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