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by dtunkelang 17y ago
Thanks. I'm sensitive about parasitic blogging--in fact, I've blogged about it: http://thenoisychannel.com/2008/12/20/fair-use-and-seo/ In this instance, my genuine hope was to get people to read Jeremy's post, and an unsolicited email fr
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by dtunkelang 17y ago
I agree that people should read Jeremy Pickens's post at IR Gupf--that's why I wrote a "quick bite" on my blog which a teaser excerpt and a link. Evidently Jeremy is getting a lot of readers today (including Mark Johnson, the program manage
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by dtunkelang 18y ago
Sounds like we may have talked to the same guy. I agree that breadth of data is a challenge, and I didn't have the chance to push its limits. Though I was surprised that it knew about acids but not about the pH levels. That might be ok--and
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by dtunkelang 18y ago
Yeah, that's at least how I saw it. And I think that message is being lost in the rush to see it as the next Powerset. I know Powerset and NLP generally gets lots of hype, but I think that sort of positioning for them would be a death sente
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by dtunkelang 18y ago
Actually, they're not really about natural language--that's what I'm trying to get across in my post. They're more about a place to store and use structured data and access it formally. That they have an NLP interface right now is, in my
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by dtunkelang 18y ago
Am very curious to hear from others who have seen Wolfram Alpha in action. They did a lot to address my initial skepticism (which was extreme--see my earlier post), but it's no slam dunk by any means.
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by dtunkelang 18y ago
Jacques, that's one of the stronger points made by those in favor of the motion, and I'm inclined to agree with them. If you nominate yourself for sainthood, you get judged by a higher standard. I think that Google has done some incredible
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by dtunkelang 18y ago
I'm not trained as an economist, but I understand microeconomics to be concerned with the behavior of individuals and macroeconomics to be concerned with the behavior of the economy as a whole. The first 4 of the 10 principles are micro, bu
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by dtunkelang 18y ago
This post is part of a series that goes through the ten principles from Mankiw's Brief Principles of Macroeconomics ( http://www.amazon.com/Brief-Principles-Macroeconomics-Gregor... ) and uses them as a jumping off point to analyze informat
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by dtunkelang 18y ago
All of these folks have a lot of such data, but they're hardly just sitting on it. Amazon uses it to push product; Google uses it to measure and improve both organic results and paid advertising; etc. It would be great to have broader acces