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othman
8y ago
Building on decades of insights from the information retrieval world, and using highly-scalable, battle-tested open source packages, we’ve found it invaluable for exploring genetics in novel ways.
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A search engine for the human genome
(blog.color.com)
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othman
8y ago
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The Economics of Dissent: How Twitter & Fbook Tipped the Revolutionary Equation
(zarnotes.blogspot.com)
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othman
16y ago
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The Rise of the Angels
(venturehacks.com)
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othman
16y ago
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Objectives-Constrained Design - not Capacity-Constrained Design
(zarnotes.blogspot.com)
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othman
17y ago
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othman
17y ago
BTW, there are also a number of other differences - below is a quick list: - Type of data: One of things we do is combine a number of different datasets (16+ M businesses, points of interest, intersections, etc...) - Query type: You get ver
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othman
17y ago
In the werks :)
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othman
17y ago
Hi - it's actually quite different. As of now, we don't (yet) have a forward geocoding api exposed. Rather, most of the API functionality that's live is for backward geocoding. As in, with Google's Geocoder, you give a string and you ge
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othman
17y ago
There will always be a free plan with a relatively reasonable volume - at minimum, it will always be a 'fremium' kind of thing. At which point we start charging is, frankly, to ensure that we can at least cover serving costs.
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othman
17y ago
As you might guess, the ownership over the data is a tricky issue, where there are many variables that aren't under our control. Our objective is to make the information as open as possible within these constraints. One thing to note, howev
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othman
17y ago
Right now the model is free. We limit it to 20K hits per day. If you need more than that, ping us and we can help out (api at geoapi.com)