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Happy Fifth Birthday GAC and Mindpixel!

Posted by timothy on from the you-think-you-can-you-think-you-can dept.

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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  1. celibrate? by enrico_suave · · Score: 3, Funny

    is that like a party without any nookie?

    e.

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  2. I love /. by mindpixel · · Score: 4, Informative
    For five years now, more than 50,000 people have been working to make a map of common sense. The project is known as Mindpixel. It was launched on July 6, 2000. On August 24, 2000 Chris McKinstry (me) and Mindpixel were profiled by Robert X. Cringely. In September of 2000 Both Time and Wired magazines carried news of the merger of Mindpixel with the MIT Media Labs Open Mind Common Sense Project.

    Now, what can you do with this data? Well, once it is in the google index - tomorrow, I suspect. Then the 3.5mb page of 80k validated pieces of knowledge will be able to do for consensus internal knowledge what wikipedia does for consensus external knowledge. I hope that eventually, google will trust Mindpixel as it does Wikipedia. Then commercial applications of semantic spectrum based technology can proceed, and the 50,000 owners of the

    1. Re:I love /. by TigerNut · · Score: 4, Insightful

      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.

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  3. not a lot of comments yet by zerkon · · Score: 3, Informative

    everyone elses browser must be choking to death on the 80,000 lines of text like mine is...

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  4. Many of these are inaccurate... by Muad'Dave · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...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. 1.00 is icecream cold?
    2. 1.00 is earth a planet?
    3. 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'.
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    1. Re:Many of these are inaccurate... by wishus · · Score: 4, Interesting

      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?