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the semantic web is philosophically bankrupt. schemas and curation lost to the algorithm, by a wide margin, and for a good reason. ontologies are infinite.
by chaganated 5y ago
the semantic web is philosophically bankrupt. schemas and curation lost to the algorithm, by a wide margin, and for a good reason. ontologies are infinite.
- streamofdigits 5y agothe algorithm is morally bankrupt. which is worse
- chaganated 5y agothe world doesn't care. whoever finds the needle quickest, cheapest, wins.
- echelon 5y agoYou can define an infinite number of hypothetical APIs in all different shapes and sizes, but you don't. You decide what you're building and move on, letting other people begin to use your work. Same with ontologies.
- chaganated 5y agoseasoned programmers struggle to figure out the "right" API for a single purpose, and still get it wrong. good luck figuring out the "right" API for the sum of human knowledge & our ever changing interpretations & interrelations of it.
- echelon 5y agoIt's not the sum of human knowledge, though. Any subset works. Your grammar can have five nouns and that can be enough for your use case.
- chaganated 5y agountil it isn't. then the semantic librarians have to re-classify everything. while an army of them spend months on their RDFs, OWLs, & re-taggings, a lone undergrad overtakes them in a week with a web scrape & word vectors. that, and people lie.