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Happy Fifth Birthday GAC and Mindpixel!
mindpixel writes "GAC is five today! Wow, that was fast! To celibrate, I am releasing 80,000 mindpixels with their corresponding probability of truth for research use."
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...given the vagaries of English. For example:
Is rape a good thing?
Most people would say 0%, but rape is also a type of seed-bearing plant, so rape is a good thing for getting rapeseed (canola) oil. For this assertion to be useful, there must be a way to distinguish from the plant and the crime.
In fact, 3 of the first 5 are ambiguous or subject to interpretation:
- 1.00 is icecream cold?
- 1.00 is earth a planet?
- 1.00 Is it hot during the summer?
Is ice cream cold cold relative to liquid nitrogen? no.Earth is also a collection of organic and non-organic substances that plants grow in.
Hot, relative to what? At the north pole, it's never 'hot'.
Tiller's Rule: Never use a word in written form that you've only heard and never read. You will end up looking foolish.
Google may trust Mindpixel, but I sure don't have to. Not when you're claiming that blue and yellow make green (about 0.95 probability), without qualifying that it only applies to pigments.
Less is more.
You have to wonder about the quality of the data involved here, given lines like:
0.04 Can a fantasy beast can utter juniper bushes?
0.04 can you speak russian?
0.04 Will answer number 7 actually give you cheese?
0.04 Does an hour consist of 30 minutes?
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I think that the idea is VERY interesting.
There are obvious things, that GAC is certain (or nearly certain) about.
There are relatively obsure things that GAC is unsure about.
Other things that GAC is likely to be wrong about.
It is a very interesting way to get a sample of common knowledge.
The hard part seems (to me) to be to figure out how to use it.
Exam 4/C again. Maybe I'll do better this time.