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Visualizing Real-time Social Structures at TC50(techcrunch.com)
4 points by programnature 17y ago|0 comments
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Evolution of a Revolution: Visualizing Millions of Iran Tweets(readwriteweb.com)
3 points by programnature 17y ago|0 comments
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by programnature 17y ago
It would be wrong for Techcrunch to NOT publish this info, because by not publishing, it would simply circulate within the elite by other means. Techcrunch's friends, and any of the many companies with a stake in this, would find a way to g
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by programnature 17y ago
Thanks.. I'm working on some visualizations of this twitter stream, so will throw these points of reference in there. Theres been over 1 million tweets on iran in the last few weeks, over 95% of it total nonsense..
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by programnature 17y ago
BTW, if u hack it, you can use it for non-sleep related data too, as a general EEG to wear while programming etc.
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by programnature 17y ago
That is actually what is being used here. Wordnet is one of the sources for the WordData[] function. http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/WordData.html
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by programnature 17y ago
Hehe, true. However you need to take into account sw's career. Its pretty obvious if you look at his record that he is in this for the long term legacy. Alpha isn't just some web startup looking for an exit. Its the culmination of a life's
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by programnature 17y ago
Stephen has said many times that he will not be bought out. The important thing to understand is that Stephen Wolfram built Alpha as his personal "publication platform." He is going to use it to in effect "publish" his ideas about NKS and c
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by programnature 17y ago
Isn't it silly to judge a huge system by a single query which happened to to one logical thing instead of another?
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by programnature 17y ago
That is an interesting interpretation, though I think its correct to assume that you are trying to specify a computation rather than presentation. In general its best to thing of that input field as a API with a huge syntax space, rather th
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by programnature 17y ago
In the meantime, they just released a screencast demo done by Stephen Wolfram. It seems to be getting lost in the other news of the day but its pretty cool. http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2009/05/13/stephen-wolframs-int...
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by programnature 17y ago
That book is amazingly clear and concise. Its all about algorithms. Buddhism is truly the religion of computation.
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by programnature 18y ago
The article makes some good points, but unfortunately is based on 0 firsthand knowledge. Yes, machine learning+semantic web "sounds like" like oil. But neither of those technologies are very relevant to alpha. Yes, prolog had an algorithm
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by programnature 18y ago
If this was your startup, would you be saying no to the publicity? There is such a thing as too much hype, but so far all I've seen is 1 blog post from wolfram, and 2 posts from people he showed it too. There is no need to begrudge the fact
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by programnature 18y ago
Yes, his description is more on-the-money and bs-free than the other one's I've seen, particularly in describing the computational architecture of the system.
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Lenat (of Cyc) reviews Wolfram Alpha(semanticuniverse.com)
80 points by programnature 18y ago|16 comments
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by programnature 18y ago
There is no mention of "learning algorithms" or stuff of that nature in the post. Its a different approach: "But if one’s already made knowledge computable, one doesn’t need to do that kind of natural language understanding. All one needs t
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by programnature 18y ago
what is meant by curated data is the opposite of what google does, eg http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/NewIn70Comput... (google has pretty much admitted it does a horrible job with structured information...)
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by programnature 18y ago
the difference in approach is outlined in the following paragraphs: "But what about all the actual knowledge that we as humans have accumulated? A lot of it is now on the web—in billions of pages of text. And with search engines, we can ver
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by programnature 18y ago
An algorithm's meaning: that which is computed when the algorithm runs. Pretty simple. Of course, you need something to run it on. But one could say that proofs are meaningless without humans to run on as well. Given that algorithms can hav
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by programnature 18y ago
The post's logic goes like this: Evolutionary Biology originally has mistaken idea X. Person A corrects idea X with a more sophisticated idea Y. 30 years later, Gould corrects idea X with idea Z. The crime Gould is accused of is in arguing
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by programnature 18y ago
This is a rant based on scientific politics, and I am willing to bet there is more motivation here than the author is letting on. Its telling that the supposed 'intellectual property violation' is not something that Gould is even known for
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by programnature 18y ago
You can freely distribute your UI-based 'gadgets' and what not using Mathematica Player, which is a free download. http://www.wolfram.com/products/player/
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by programnature 18y ago
This book looks awesome. Mathematics is so vast that as a student its hard to know what classes you should take, or even what the map of the territory looks like. That is one of the reasons I got frustrated with my pure math BS. The Russian
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by programnature 18y ago
I don't know why you are speaking for other people. The OP I was responding to was clearly talking about the industry, and presumably those upvoting agree with the sentiment. The sentiment was "thank god the industry is finally allowed to d
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by programnature 18y ago
haha. Well, I think its mean-spirited to celebrate the demise of an industry that employs 3 million people, with no mention of the human toll involved in these transitions. And I think its disingenuous to claim that I said others are "happy
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by programnature 18y ago
There are a lot of exciting opportunities to restructure things that have sucked for a long time. This is a good thing. However, your logic doesn't make any sense. A bank can be totally solvent, but be wiped out by a bank run due to forces
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by programnature 18y ago
Perhaps for you. For others, its about putting abstract ideas and free market worship ahead of real people and real consequences to these abstractions.
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by programnature 18y ago
You can't just juggle the variables like that because there are discontinuities and nonlinear effects. Industries interact with each other. What is happening to auto is mostly caused by 1) the financial crisis making credit scarce and 2) a
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by programnature 18y ago
I don't think its the amount so much as who it is going to. The republicans are itching at a shot to break the backs of these unions, and this is their golden opportunity.

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