On 1 March 2011 20:07, <Bowerbird@aol.com> wrote:
andrew said:
It is perhaps worth noting that Marcello deserves some recognition for this.
i'll give marcello the "recognition" he "deserves" for this...
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here's the deal. marcello is a "technocrat".
that's a word i made up, to refer to a person who's a _bureaucrat_ working in a _tech_ arena.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/technocrat "First known use of TECHNOCRAT 1932" See also: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=technocrat,blowhard&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy [snip]
_his_ technocrat catalog, so we'd be dependent on him. the "new" catalog is a great example of x.m.l. bloatware. so of course you must be a technocrat "expert" to use it.
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heavy-markup people think computers are stupid. they would have _never_ built watson.
According to this article (http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs124/AIMagzine-DeepQA.pdf), DBPedia was one of the components used in building Watson; the RDF version of the Gutenberg catalog is linked to in DBPedia. So, in a way, Marcello did contribute to the building of Watson. -- <Leftmost> jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil. <Leftmost> Also not-so-deep inside you.