5 ms·

Thats a really great idea! We definitely need some primary source of truth to refute all this half-wisdom thats going around, and of course to self-educate. No

Thats a really great idea! We definitely need some primary source of truth to refute all this half-wisdom thats going around, and of course to self-educate. Not to nitpick, but I looked up a single random article, namely http://www.alexkrupp.com/Citevault.html#parenting http://www.alexkrupp.com/Citevault.html#parenting, and Wikipedia says its not that simple: "An attempt to replicate this study in 5934 8 year old children failed: No relationship of the common C allele to negative effects of formula feeding was apparent, and contra to the original report, the rare GG homozygote children performed worse when formula fed than other children on formula milk.[5] A study of over 700 families recently found no evidence for either main or moderating effects of the original SNP (rs174575), nor of two additional FADS2 polymorphisms (rs1535 and rs174583), nor any effect of maternal FADS2 status on offspring IQ.[6]" Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FADS2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FADS2

Alex3917 12y ago
Good catch, that's exactly why this needs to be open sourced! I actually looked at that wiki article, but probably before that was added. And that's a good example a fact that had some editorializing on my part, which I ultimately want to eliminate. The original idea was to give context to facts, but I think it would make more sense to create a metadata format to do this, e.g.: - To understand this fact, you need to understand X, Y, Z. - This fact is needed in order to understand facts X, Y, Z. This way facts can live and die on their own, rather than being bundled together according to the tastes of a single curator.
EGreg 12y ago
I actually registered findmeaning.in to be the domain for a website I plan to build. Happy to accept partners! If you can find my email at http://qbix.com/about http://qbix.com/about then hit me up. The website was originally supposed to be an annotation site like rapgenius - and I have already spoken to people at LyricFind who would give me a license to use their entire database of songs! But then I thought it could go much further. First of all, you could release a bookmarklet and browser plugins that would let people mark up websites for others to see. Each such mark would have its own associated discussions etc. But we could go even further. We could source facts and debunkings of claims. We could in fact build a graph of dependencies between claims and give people a way to assess their truth value. In this way we could for example have a discussion of varios religious claims once and for all, and any visitor would see what other claims they depend on. I thought, for instance, that Coca Cola invented the modern image of Santa Claus as wearing red. I was wrong. Snopes, Politifact, etc. could all be sources. Something like facebook posts could definitely use this bookmarklet. So do you want to findmeaning.in/The-US-Constitution? Or findmeaning.in/Pokerface or findmeaning.in/Book-Of-Jubilees? If you want to help me build it, drop me a line. PS: Also I find it really valuable to have a followup after a news story has faded, eg to see if that kid facing life in jail for hash brownies got off (he did).
- alaskamiller 12y ago
  Genius.com meets first SERP in a meta reincarnation of hypertext. It's so esoteric that seems like such a good idea but requires so much definition and scoping in execution. Good luck :)

Alex3917 12y ago

Good catch, that's exactly why this needs to be open sourced! I actually looked at that wiki article, but probably before that was added. And that's a good example a fact that had some editorializing on my part, which I ultimately want to eliminate. The original idea was to give context to facts, but I think it would make more sense to create a metadata format to do this, e.g.: - To understand this fact, you need to understand X, Y, Z. - This fact is needed in order to understand facts X, Y, Z. This way facts can live and die on their own, rather than being bundled together according to the tastes of a single curator.

EGreg 12y ago

I actually registered findmeaning.in to be the domain for a website I plan to build. Happy to accept partners! If you can find my email at http://qbix.com/about http://qbix.com/about then hit me up. The website was originally supposed to be an annotation site like rapgenius - and I have already spoken to people at LyricFind who would give me a license to use their entire database of songs! But then I thought it could go much further. First of all, you could release a bookmarklet and browser plugins that would let people mark up websites for others to see. Each such mark would have its own associated discussions etc. But we could go even further. We could source facts and debunkings of claims. We could in fact build a graph of dependencies between claims and give people a way to assess their truth value. In this way we could for example have a discussion of varios religious claims once and for all, and any visitor would see what other claims they depend on. I thought, for instance, that Coca Cola invented the modern image of Santa Claus as wearing red. I was wrong. Snopes, Politifact, etc. could all be sources. Something like facebook posts could definitely use this bookmarklet. So do you want to findmeaning.in/The-US-Constitution? Or findmeaning.in/Pokerface or findmeaning.in/Book-Of-Jubilees? If you want to help me build it, drop me a line. PS: Also I find it really valuable to have a followup after a news story has faded, eg to see if that kid facing life in jail for hash brownies got off (he did).

alaskamiller 12y ago
Genius.com meets first SERP in a meta reincarnation of hypertext. It's so esoteric that seems like such a good idea but requires so much definition and scoping in execution. Good luck :)