Building meta data, semantic web and a wiki for relevancy

Let’s build a semantic web by creating a Wikipedia for relevancy
Jim Benedetto, gigaom.com

Every­one is always ask­ing me how big our ontol­ogy is. How many nodes are in your ontol­ogy? How many edges do you have? Or the most com­mon — how many ter­abytes of data do you have in your ontol­ogy?

We live in a world where over a decade of…

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Why skilled writers are critical to the knowledge economy

The Simplest Way To Know What Everyone’s Doing At Work
BY JANET CHOI, fastcompany.com

In the modern—often remote—workplace, sharing work is essential to an efficient and collaborative team. Writing is the simple, powerful tool that can foster that culture of sharing. Here’s why.

We share so much on our dig­i­tal streams and fee…

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Facebook predicts when your relationship will fail

Can Facebook Tell When Your Relationship Is Doomed? | Popular Science
popsci.com

A Face­book Employ­ee’s Net­work

The cir­cle in the mid­dle rep­re­sents the Face­book user. In the lower left, one cir­cle serves as a bridge between two more sparse clus­ters. That’s the user’s spouse.

Back­strom and Klein­berg

Give up now…

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Live scribe 3 is best tool for field based research note capture

Livescribe 3 sends handwritten notes straight to your iPhone or iPad
by Rick Broida, cnet.com

This pen is definitely mightier than the stylus, as it gives you real-world note-taking coupled with mobile device world syncing.

The Live­scribe 3 is a wire­less ink pen that auto­mat­i­cal­ly syncs your hand­writ­ten notes with your iPhone or…

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Runnable is the YouTube of code

Startup Runnable fancies itself as “the YouTube of code”
Barb Darrow, gigaom.com

For folks who are search­ing the web for spe­cif­ic video clips, YouTube has become an invalu­able resource not just for view­ing your favorite stu­pid human tricks (or what­ev­er) but for find­ing them in the first place.

Now, Yash Kumar, a…

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Stanford researchers open source sentiment analysis project

Stanford researchers to open-source model they say has nailed sentiment analysis
Derrick Harris, gigaom.com

Stan­ford Ph.D. stu­dent Richard Socher appre­ci­ates the work Google and oth­ers are doing to build neur­al net­works that can under­stand human lan­guage. He just thinks his work is more use­ful — and he’s going to share his code with any­one wh…

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Raw: advanced data visualization via cut and paste

New tool lets you visualize just about anything in 5 minutes (maybe less)
Derrick Harris, gigaom.com

There’s a new web tool called Raw that makes it real­ly easy to do some advanced visu­al­iza­tions on data in just a few min­utes. (Hat tip to Nathan Yau of Flow­ing­Da­ta for point­ing it out.) The way it works is pret­ty sim­ple: You paste data…

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Numerate applies big data to drug design

Numerate Trains Its Drug Design Platform On Huntington’s Disease
Bernadette Tansey, xconomy.com

Bernadette TanseyThe path toward a breakthrough drug often starts with a new insight about the molecular cause of an illness, but only a few of these discoveries lead to new treatments. Steven Finkbeiner at the Gladstone Institutes in San…

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Tellspec app identifies weird stuff in your food

TellSpec identifies food ingredients and calories using science, magic
Zach Honig, engadget.com

Some of us can’t eat gluten, while oth­ers need to stay away from cer­tain fats. Meal­time can be incred­i­bly stress­ful for peo­ple with dietary restric­tions — espe­cial­ly when din­ing out — since man­u­fac­tur­ers aren’t always required to…

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Expect Labs’ anticipatory computing platform gets backing from Liberty Global, IDG — Tech News and Analysis

Expect Labs’ anticipatory computing platform gets backing from Liberty Global, IDG — Tech News and Analysis.

 

Calico: Google’s first leap into health enhancement

Calico: How Google’s stab at the fountain of youth could transform health care
Christina Farr, venturebeat.com

Google is back in the health busi­ness with a mys­te­ri­ous new ini­tia­tive to com­bat death itself.

Google’s top exec­u­tives didn’t say much about the biotech ven­ture, called Cal­i­co, when they announced it on Sept. 18, except to say that i…

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