whilst a completely user-dictated model would be a bad thing here (3 hours after launch a crack team of mudkip enthusiasts ensure EVERYONE lieks mudkipz), i think allowing some degree of user control could be very beneficial in terms of growing the knowledge base:
blue monday
Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input blue monday: Help | Back | Associate
*chooses Associate*
Please enter a term for Wolfram|Alpha to associate with "blue monday"
*enters "new order"*
Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input new order: Help | Back | Associate
*chooses Associate*
Please enter a term for Wolfram|Alpha to associate with "new order"
*enters "manchester"*
wolfram alpha displays information about manchester, and perhaps asks the user about what subcategory of life in manchester 'blue monday' and 'new order' fall under. this will generate two new nodes, and also flag the nodes for peer review.
the next time a user enters 'blue monday', wolfram alpha will recognize it, and have a (two!) nodes to work off. It can use the opportunity to learn more about 'blue monday', as well as possibly 'new order' and maybe even something about 'manchester'.
but it's all flagged - nothing makes it out into the knowledge base that WA uses without approval by a human being with pieces of paper that say he knows loads of stuff about a particular thing.
yup, what i propose is essentially a merge with citizendium (deeply unfashionable), or it could even be considered a peer-reviewed expert system (deeply, deeply unfashionable) - but some user feedback could really speed the development of this beast up.
wtf, this is pretty much the way i use firefox at the moment, since the URL bar has a degree of parsing anyway.
if i want to look at bikini atoll on google maps, i type in 'google maps bikini atoll'. if i want to look at a startled cat on youtube, i type in 'youtube startled cat'. it works about 90% of the time.
whatever about dell or HP, the higher-end vaios are CRAZY overpriced. i often think that sony are pitching to the same market that is responsible for a large chunk of apple's sales.
Should be interesting to see how they handle that whole FTP and HTTP stuff next. After all, it's not like anything illegal hasn't ever been transferred this way as well.
After that, maybe they can start suing carrier pigeons. You know you can't trust *those* little bastards... just look at New York!
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whilst a completely user-dictated model would be a bad thing here (3 hours after launch a crack team of mudkip enthusiasts ensure EVERYONE lieks mudkipz), i think allowing some degree of user control could be very beneficial in terms of growing the knowledge base:
blue monday
Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input blue monday: Help | Back | Associate
*chooses Associate*
Please enter a term for Wolfram|Alpha to associate with "blue monday"
*enters "new order"*
Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input new order: Help | Back | Associate
*chooses Associate*
Please enter a term for Wolfram|Alpha to associate with "new order"
*enters "manchester"*
wolfram alpha displays information about manchester, and perhaps asks the user about what subcategory of life in manchester 'blue monday' and 'new order' fall under. this will generate two new nodes, and also flag the nodes for peer review.
the next time a user enters 'blue monday', wolfram alpha will recognize it, and have a (two!) nodes to work off. It can use the opportunity to learn more about 'blue monday', as well as possibly 'new order' and maybe even something about 'manchester'.
but it's all flagged - nothing makes it out into the knowledge base that WA uses without approval by a human being with pieces of paper that say he knows loads of stuff about a particular thing.
yup, what i propose is essentially a merge with citizendium (deeply unfashionable), or it could even be considered a peer-reviewed expert system (deeply, deeply unfashionable) - but some user feedback could really speed the development of this beast up.
i heard ray kurzweil is single-handedly DoS'ing wolfram. he's just repeatedly asking it "what is wolfram alpha?" until he gets his singularity.
wtf, this is pretty much the way i use firefox at the moment, since the URL bar has a degree of parsing anyway. if i want to look at bikini atoll on google maps, i type in 'google maps bikini atoll'. if i want to look at a startled cat on youtube, i type in 'youtube startled cat'. it works about 90% of the time.
"yeah, but does it run linux?" threads on slashdot.
If you have to blame something for this, blame Antares AutoTune.
whatever about dell or HP, the higher-end vaios are CRAZY overpriced. i often think that sony are pitching to the same market that is responsible for a large chunk of apple's sales.
fetch, apt-get, fetch! good boy. *tosses apt-get a biscuit*
*facepalm*
Should be interesting to see how they handle that whole FTP and HTTP stuff next. After all, it's not like anything illegal hasn't ever been transferred this way as well.
After that, maybe they can start suing carrier pigeons. You know you can't trust *those* little bastards... just look at New York!
Slashdot, 2029: RIAA to stop prosecuting filesharers using the IPoAC protocol. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers