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One thing that amazed me was when he searched for that DNA sequence, and then traversed up and down a chromosome. Mapping out the human genome has been done for
by kyro 17y ago
One thing that amazed me was when he searched for that DNA sequence, and then traversed up and down a chromosome. Mapping out the human genome has been done for some time, but I've never actually seen any sort of interface or app that hooks into this sort of data, and this does.
I can't tell you what revolutionary applications or mashups will make use of this data, but I can definitely say I was 'amazed' when he did demo that part of alpha. It's like I'm searching my body!!!
- mojuba 17y agowarfangle said "It's lightyears beyond Google's NLP". I'm afraid there's nothing NLP about WA, neither Google. It's just very basic parsing in both cases, if you know what I mean. Not only chromosome traversing, there were a few other impressive things in the demo, but that's some level of structurization and formalization of certain knowledge domains done by respective professionals. Good job. No, very impressive, stunningly scrupulous job. But I see nothing revolutionary (edit:) technology-wise.
- sundeep 17y agoI'm afraid there's nothing NLP about WA, neither Google You might be mistaken there, Google very much uses NLP , though at the backend and not at the user interface. Norvig himself said so ... I cant find to the exact talk where he said this( It was one moderated by Nova Spivak,if I can remember correctly) but here's a link to a TC article that discusses this ..http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/18/googles-norvig-is-down-on-natural-language-search/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/18/googles-norvig-is-down-...