I also don't understand the trillions claim. If 100 experts each curated 1000 pieces of data a day, it would take them 20,000,000 days to curate 2 trillion pieces of data.
Has WA been in development for longer than I suspect, or am I missing something here? Andrew Co-Founder, TrailBehind.com On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 12:43 PM, P Kishor <[email protected]> wrote: > "Wolfram says that trillions of pieces of data were selected and > managed by a team of experts at Wolfram Research, and that these > experts also tweak the information to ensure that it can be read and > displayed by the system. He says the system has become proficient at > eliminating "linguistic fluff," or words that are unnecessary for the > location and computation of relevant data. This statement disappointed > Boris Katz of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who is head > of the Start natural language processing project. "I believe [Wolfram] > is misguided in treating language as a nuisance instead of trying to > understand the way it organizes concepts into structures that require > understanding and harnessing," Katz says." > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8026331.stm > > > Imagine that... trillions! Katz, by the way, is the creator of > start.csail.mit.edu that I linked to earlier. > > In other news, ZDNet reported that Strunk and White released a beta > version of their highly popular guide to arguably better writing and > Eric Raymond was seen sellling t-shirts hawking his "how to ask smart > questions that answer themselves," both, no doubt, fueled by the rush > of all these new Google-killers! > > Of course, my mom, who has still never used a computer in her life, is > happy she doesn’t have to deal with nuggets like GDP of France and > demography of Lexington. > > > -- > Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org/ > Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org/ > Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org/ > Science Commons Fellow, Geospatial Data http://sciencecommons.org > Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/ > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > collaborate, communicate, compete > ======================================================================= > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >
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