adam_bly

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   by adam_bly 5y ago

   Important question. Here's our launch announcement with the full answer: https://about.system.com/blog/announcing-the-public-beta-of-... TL;DR Because the biggest challenges we face in the world — from COVID to cl
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   by adam_bly 5y ago

   Thanks very much for the feedback. Hopefully the welcome screen (post video) more clearly spelled out the product purpose. You can also read our full product guide here ICYI ("Using System"): https://docs.system.com&#x2
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   by adam_bly 5y ago

   Thank you so much! We really appreciate it. We obtained the domain from a company that was using it for a very different purpose. They appreciated our mission and we arrived at a reasonable price. And we're grateful to them.
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   by adam_bly 5y ago

   Thank you so much. We'd love for you to join our Slack community (link on system.com). Great question. There is no ground truth that we are modeling System after, i.e. there is no causal model of the world out there (to use Pearl'
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   by adam_bly 5y ago

   Hmm. A System Search for "unemployment" shows you how unemployment is (importantly) related to crime, health, substance abuse, and suicide. https://www.system.com/view/topic/lBZj8Zxk60L?view_context=g...
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   by adam_bly 5y ago

   There is great work out there that mines Wikipedia for semantic relationship (co-occurrence of topics for example, parent-child relationships, etc.). But that methodology would not provide the statistical evidence that is the building block
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   by adam_bly 5y ago

   Search results are not necessarily comprehensive — but they will be. System is in the early stages of its development as a public resource and you should expect that knowledge will be missing (just like the early days of Wikipedia and Googl
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   by adam_bly 5y ago

   Our technical documentation details what constitutes a node and edge ICYI: https://docs.system.com/system/ In brief, System is designed to maximize precision in how evidence is captured and represented, while also ensu
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   by adam_bly 5y ago

   Thanks so much! That's exactly the point. Great question. We present all the evidence behind a relationship (on "evidence cards" that show the source, strength, sign, direction, population, controls, and reproducibility). The
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    by adam_bly 5y ago

    And we're big fans of those often hilarious spurious correlations! But System filters them out (methodologies here: https://docs.system.com/system/using-system/investigating-re... and here: https:/&#x2F
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    by adam_bly 5y ago

    Thanks for the feedback. Relationships on System carry several parameters that address your question. For example, in what population was this measured/what time period, a normalized measure of the statistical strength, statistical sig
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    by adam_bly 5y ago

    Thanks! Updated.
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    by adam_bly 5y ago

    Hi, I'm the founder of System (www.system.com). System is a free, open, and living public resource that aims to explain how anything in the world in related to everything else. We just launched our public beta. You can read the announc
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    by adam_bly 5y ago

    That choice will hopefully always be true in a free society. I founded System because the biggest challenges we face in the world — from COVID to climate change — are systemic, yet our data and knowledge are organized into silos. I believe
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    by adam_bly 5y ago

    Thank you
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    by adam_bly 5y ago

    These threads on Product Hunt may be useful to some: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/system
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    by adam_bly 5y ago

    No, Wikidata is an open database of semantic definitions and relationships. System is a public resource that aims to explain how anything in the world is related to everything else based on statistical evidence. Semantic vs statistical is t
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    by adam_bly 5y ago

    Thanks for sharing our beta Danielle! We appreciate it. I'm the founder of System.
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    by adam_bly 5y ago

    Thanks very much. We hope System will be complementary to Wikipedia. They share a core open ontology that will allow for possible future interoperability. That is very much the risk and one we have taken on as part of our tech and culture f
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    by adam_bly 5y ago

    We're big fans of metaweb (and had one of their founding engineers as an advisor early on). At their essence, knowledge graphs (like metaweb) are based on semantic relationships, e.g. coffee is a beverage, apple and banana are fruit, d