http://www.businesspundit.com/wolfram-alpha-may-beat-wikipedia-not-google/
This time it's Wolfram Alpha.
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On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:33 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.businesspundit.com/wolfram-alpha-may-beat-wikipedia-not-google/
This time it's Wolfram Alpha.
Wikipedia kills itself just fine thanks.
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I can't recall whether it's every few hours, days or weeks that human beings
destroy and remake a large part of our cellular anatomy. Point being that
theHindu culture has that bit right - creation and destruction are both
creative forces, and in many ways the same creative force. Its hard to say
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote:
Ok, how do you quantify that? You gave a numerical value for the slog
rate, what is the formula for calculating it? And what's the slog
rank?
I'm using rank here to refer to a level of deterioration within an
2009/5/4 stevertigo stv...@gmail.com:
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Thomas Dalton
thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote:
Ok, how do you quantify that? You gave a numerical value for the slog
rate, what is the formula for calculating it? And what's the slog
rank?
I'm using rank here to refer
2009/5/4 stevertigo stv...@gmail.com:
Dealing with an issue on [[Talk:Perfect crime]]:
Me: ...which is of course not to say that the concept of perfect crime is
meaningless, just that it only has meaning outside of a religious view and
within very narrow contexts like colloquial usage and
I didn't want to seem rude my asking what the point was, but I agree - I
don't understand the point you were trying to make. If I had to make a
guess, I assume you are in some sort of disagreement on that talk page - I
haven't visited it - about what is and isn't encyclopedic and came here
2009/5/4 Angela Anuszewski angela.anuszew...@gmail.com:
I didn't want to seem rude
I never let that concern me! ;)
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Nice comment on this article:
Some say that all software loaded on a local machine will soon be
obsolete, so it's not a problem with Encarta, but with technology. I
wonder if Wikipedia will be here 10 years from now, with it's
long-winded
2009/5/5 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
http://www.lisnews.org/encyclopedic_knowledge_then_vs_now
Nice comment on this article:
Some say that all software loaded on a local machine will soon be
obsolete, so it's not a problem with Encarta, but with technology. I
wonder if Wikipedia will be
2009/5/5 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com
The Peloponnesian War, which lasted from 431-404BC, was an Ancient
Greek military war, fought by Athens and its empire against the
Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta.
That's 167 characters. Think we could get a 140 character requirement
added to
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:48 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/5/5 geni geni...@gmail.com:
2009/5/5 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
know in 140 characters or less. You should read the Twitterpedia
version of the Peloponnesian War. Soon, that's all we'll be able to
comprehend,
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Michel Vuijlsteke wikipe...@zog.org wrote:
2009/5/5 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com
The Peloponnesian War, which lasted from 431-404BC, was an Ancient
Greek military war, fought by Athens and its empire against the
Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta.
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The Peloponnesian War (431-404BC): Athens and its empire fought the
Peloponnesian League, led by
Hmmm. Interesting.
I do think that some of the introductory sentences of some articles go
on too much with information that should be in other sections or
paragraphs, and an introductory sentence should convey the main
subject of the article and some basic fact so you can look at it and
know that
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:28 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.lisnews.org/encyclopedic_knowledge_then_vs_now
(okay, there is no Twitterpedia,... not a real one, anyway.)
So. Who's going to start Twitterpedia?
There's one at http://peqi.wikia.com/ and I've seen a couple of
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