"AGI reseach = cancer, AIDS, heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease, Nanotechnology and clean energy reseach all in one."
No it doesn't. 1. Paying for research does not equal paying for the delivery of a product. 2. A message isn't obvious until you campaign successfully to make that message obvious. On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Azn A <[email protected]> wrote: > Okay, so it's pretty clear that the AGI community needs a little more than > an email-list and forum combination... That is if we want to be a little > more than a side show. AGI needs a coherent case, a community center, and > a unified data source to develop infrastructure to get money, support, etc. > Every AGI website needs be turned into a human-power, machine-accelerated, > collective knowledge system supporting an underlying unified data > source/content repository back-end. In other words, a services architecture > that allows for all of our apps to connect together and share one common > data store. > > On the money side, this will allow stunning effectiveness in the use of > randomized, controlled experiments able to isolate cause and effect in > public activities, microtargeting: algorithms weighing as many as 1,000 > different personal variables to generate probabilities predicting whether > individual citizens will donate, etc. For example, the Obama campaign used > experimental methods to test nearly all of its online communications, > randomizing the design of Web pages, the timing of text message blasts, and > the language of email solicitations to measure their relative > effectiveness. Any time you received an email from the Obama campaign, it > had been tested on 18 smaller groups and the response rates had been > gauged. The worst-performing letters did only 15 -20 percent of what the > best-performing emails could deliver. So if a good performer could do $2.5 > million, a poor performer might only net $500,000. Does anyone know how > much $$$ AGI research currently receives? > > By building our web frameworks with a shared content repository in mind, > we'll unified what know on a scale that's never been seen before. The > resulting platform will give us tools that help "force-multiply" > volunteers, researchers, etc, giving them organizational and communication > tools that will make them even more effective. On the research side, we’ll > be able to better see relationships between concepts, provide information > in different languages, use information to automatically create overviews > of data (like lists or charts), or answer language-based questions that can > hardly be answered automatically today. We’ll be able to merge all > references to a concept onto a single topic and you will have access to all > the information the systems knows about the concept in one place. And > that’s just the beginning. On the technology side, the AGI portal will be > is a true “Web of Data” platform that will publish and interlink web data > according to the “Linked Data” principles developed by Tim Berners-Lee > (inventor of the World Wide Web). The resulting structured data will allow > not only humans to understand what's happening, but computers too. Which is > truly exciting. > > Currently I'm working on a component > http://code.google.com/p/linked-data-api/wiki/API_Rationale to plug into > the content repository.... > > A tech architecture of what I'm working on would look something like this: > > a) web editing tool: The web editing tool provides an interface for > managing contents of the web pages. This includes features like rich text > editing, workflows and image handling i.e. http://aloha-editor.org/ > > b) web framework: responsible of matching URL requests to particular > content and generating corresponding web pages. This could be Drupal, > Flow3, Django, CodeIgniter, Midgard MVC, or something similar. > > c) content repository: A content repository would manage content models > and how to store them. This could be something like JCR, PHPCR, CouchDB or > Midgard2. > > > Seriously, AGI reseach = cancer, AIDS, heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease, > Nanotechnology and clean energy reseach all in one. Yet, there is no money? > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/23601407-ccf7ca1d> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > -- ~~ Warmly, Micah 7 1 4 ) 6 9 9 - 4 2 1 3 (voicemail and texting same digits) ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
