[Tutor] Program to Predict Chemical Properties and Reactions

[Christopher King]

Actually maybe not, depending on the complexity of the pattern, but it would
be difficult. You would have to know how much it decreases for every time
you go down or to the right.
If its more complex than that, you may have to program each rule in, not
just enter them in a prompt. I'm assuming none of the rules conflict,
because that would be a problem too.

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Dave Angel <d at davea.name> wrote:

> On 07/16/2011 05:32 PM, B G wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Emile-- although I'm not sure I was completely clear about my
>> objective. What I really meant is that is there a way (via machine
>> learning)
>> to give the computer a list of rules and exceptions, and then have it
>> predict based on these rules the ionization energy. Ultimately I'm pretty
>> interested in the idea of building a program that could predict the
>> expected
>> result of a chemical reaction, but that's a huge project, so I wanted to
>> start with something much, much, much smaller and easier.
>>
>> So I don't really want to manually input ionization energy, atomic radius
>> size, etc, since I'm not sure how much that would help towards the bigger
>> goal.  For this project, I already have the ~15 rules that describe trends
>> on the periodic table.  I want to write a program that, based on these
>> rules
>> (and the few exceptions to them), could predict the inputs that I want.
>>  Does this make sense?
>>
>>
>>  Neither ordering nor trends will give values for individual items.  So
> unless these rules are much more numerical than the clues you've mentioned
> so far, the problem is clearly impossible.
>
> But I suspect the problem is possible, and that you have much more
> information than you intend to tell us.
>
> --
>
> DaveA
>
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