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."

Comments

Re:Many of these are inaccurate...

[wishus]

Inaccurate, and weird.

0.97 Is Jerry Garcia dead?
0.90 Did Jerry Garcia die in 1995?
0.85 Was Jerry Garcia a member of "the Grateful Dead" before he died?
0.76 Did Jerry Garcia play guitar for the Grateful Dead?
0.32 Did Jerry Garcia have 9.5 fingers?

I don't understand how it's 32% probable that Jerry Garcia had 9.5 fingers. Does that mean that, of all the Jerry Garcias in the world, 32% of them have lost half a finger? Or that Jerry Garcia of the Grateful dead had 9.5 fingers for 32% of his life?

mindpixel youre WRONG

[mnmn]

I signed into mindpixel, and submitted my first mp. As I was typing the second one, it dawned on me that the project was not free. I looked around and couldnt find a spot to download mindpixels. Later I read that people who submit 'enough' mindpixels will be given shares in a subsequent company.

This is not only wrong, its surprising that you are posting it on slashdot of all the places. Youre planning to take public knowledge from the public, and what do you give back in return? I can come up with some algorithm, and try to parse mindpixels, but you own all the mindpixels in the first public frenzy, after which people will stop submitting mindpixels to every such database online.

'Mindpixels' should be free, and I'll wait till I see a free (GPL or otherwise) site where I can both submit and download all the 'mindpixels'. You can develop some algorithim or neural network and thats all yours. But leave the public knowledge so generously given to you in the name of science, to the public.