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TjyvTompa posted:i am thinking about all the uploadad stats mmmm stats all those different stat companies, uploading their stats. there's never been anything like it
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Ian McLean posted:https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5644217/EIIA2013%20Students%20submissions/IanMcLean-eiia13-HW1.pdf 
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holy poo poo
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Ian McLean posted:https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5644217/EIIA2013%20Students%20submissions/IanMcLean-eiia13-HW1.pdf quote:Before Wikipedia there was encyclopedia. fucks sake ian
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weve been trolled, there is no way
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BiohazrD posted:weve been trolled, there is no way im jealous that you've never had to fend off a pitch like this irl
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i assume HW1 stands for Homework Assignment #1
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im ordering a certified check for ian right now and i can't stop myself send help
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quote:Current progress of Statpedia has built this in as a functional API linking to the Wolfram search, much like how the iPhone has done with Siri.
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It truly is about 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration. Perhaps I am the best person to do it because I am the most passionate about it. Perhaps I am the best person because I know how web products are supposed to be built. Perhaps I am the best because I came from a financial background and have spent countless hours reading charts.
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ian do you have any mental illnesses that you are not telling us about
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This brings wealth to the team in both a good cause, as well as financially Ah yes, investors love their returns to be in karma
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Ian as someone who works at Encyclopedia I can tell you we are doing fine
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Jan 29, 2013 19:53
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West SAAB Story posted:dont worry ian i got you covered oh yeah
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Jan 29, 2013 19:56
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Ian McLean posted:So about that Python program I wrote. You have no idea how google works do you
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Jan 29, 2013 19:58
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quote:I aim to take on role models such as Steve Jobs, and Larry Page to push me towards this future we live in. well, steve wouldn't let statpedia get out of r&d, and larry page would probably ok releasing a half-finished version and then quietly abandoning it when nobody uses it i don't think either of these are good role models for you ian
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Jan 29, 2013 19:59
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quote:The competition is any company displaying statistics somewhere on the internet in some way.
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please write a plugin to query the farmers almanac i need to know the proper time to sow my seed 
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quote:This brings wealth to the team in both a good cause, as well as financially. Down the road, Statpedia can take similar advertising approaches as Google has done. It would require a keyword input box for advertisers, then when those keywords are searched, Statpedia can display approved ads in a nice way. As Statpedia evolves as an organization, further growth and innovation can provide additional
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Jan 29, 2013 20:09
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Ian McLean posted:If I do nothing but live that long, and still have statpedia running, I will be super successful. 1 - buy statpedia dot com name 2 - python ?? 3 - ???? 4 - profit 
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Jan 29, 2013 20:09
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Ian what if your friend came and asked you for 100 bucks and was like yeah, i'll pay it back eventually but i dont have a job right now but dont worry ill figure out a way to make that eventually and pay you back would you give your friend the money?
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i'm sure he would
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Ian McLean posted:So about that Python program I wrote. ian what is your opinion on the gold standard? could i use statpedia to track the proportion of purestrain gold to boring normal gold in the world?
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Ian can I invest I am in the uk, so I can add continental flair to the board room. Unlike the French for they are le tired. Regards, Wayne King
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Sweevo posted:ian, who do you think is going to use statpedia? because academics aren't going to touch it with a bargepole. so you're basically aiming at lazy journalists, and people who need one more useless "fact" to pad out their latest tedious fwd: fwd: fwd: email ian answer my loving question!
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MORE CURLY FRIES posted:You have no idea how google works do you A professor mentioned something about it yesterday. They are able to make custom cases for situations I do believe.
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Sweevo posted:ian, who do you think is going to use statpedia? because academics aren't going to touch it with a bargepole. so you're basically aiming at lazy journalists, and people who need one more useless "fact" to pad out their latest tedious fwd: fwd: fwd: email The reality is... statpedia can live forever with this collection of stats. When all those academics die, then who is to say what?
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Ian McLean posted:The reality is... statpedia can live forever with this collection of stats. When all those academics die, then who is to say what? Do you actually store the data you're scraping, or just blindly do a MitM passthru to Wolfram?
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Ian McLean posted:The reality is... statpedia can live forever with this collection of stats. When all those academics die, then who is to say what? Muad'Dib could indeed see the Future, but you must understand the limits of this power. Think of sight. You have eyes, yet cannot see without light. If you are on the floor of a valley, you cannot see beyond your valley. Just so, Muad'Dib could not always choose to look across the mysterious terrain. He tells us that a single obscure decision of prophecy, perhaps the choice of one word over another, could change the entire aspect of the future. He tells us "The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door." And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning "That path leads ever down into stagnation."
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West SAAB Story posted:Do you actually store the data you're scraping, or just blindly do a MitM passthru to Wolfram? We store it of course.
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Hashtag Nascar posted:Ian can I invest I am in the uk, so I can add continental flair to the board room. Unlike the French for they are le tired. Hi Wayne. You are welcome to contact me on email to email to discuss: ian@statpedia.com 
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Ian, you have not even gained enough experience to understand that statpedia is utter dumpster garbage in every possible way. Only when you feel it in your heart that you have produced a steaming turd of a project, can you move forward on a quest to build a Less lovely Thing. oh and by the way that next thing will be lovely too
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I work for a startup whose main product is a pretty stupid idea, but they have something that you don't. their plan to generate revenue is not: 1. gather unverified crowdsourced stats on a server 2. uhhh ads i guess? 3. maximum profits, fifty million dollar house
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hmm. Then Siri violates this. Why does wolfram not sue apple? Because it is free advertising on Siri for them. That Policy Agreement is stupid and doesn't apply to me. I will prove my case in court. We do not do any further processing of the data. We just display it like Siri, and store it because our severs are slow.
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Ian McLean posted:hmm. Then Siri violates this. Why does wolfram not sue apple? Because it is free advertising on Siri for them. no, ian siri is a passthrough. siri does not store the data. when you ask siri a question it queries WA and then passes the data back to you. it does not store the data and use it later or anything else that would violate that (incredibly simple) EULA
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raruler posted:Muad'Dib could indeed see the Future, but you must understand the limits of this power. Think of sight. You have eyes, yet cannot see without light. If you are on the floor of a valley, you cannot see beyond your valley. Just so, Muad'Dib could not always choose to look across the mysterious terrain. He tells us that a single obscure decision of prophecy, perhaps the choice of one word over another, could change the entire aspect of the future. He tells us "The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door." And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning "That path leads ever down into stagnation." Ian is the kwisatz haderach
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Ian McLean posted:hmm. Then Siri violates this. I don't really give a poo poo, I'm just telling you that it explicitly states that you're not allowed to do that without a prior agreement. Also, Apple has one. Siri doesn't store this anywhere, AFAIK. Perhaps you can add that into your blob data. How are you indexing this internally? Please tell me you aren't just storing query strings with blobs of pre-parsed data.
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hey Ian your overarching goal of owning a 50 million dollar house or die is indicative that you are a bratty whitebread burgoise-wannabe fucker so maybe you should pick the latter option
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Ian McLean posted:hmm. Then Siri violates this. Why does wolfram not sue apple? Because it is free advertising on Siri for them. no, it's because apple gave them a shitload of money because apple has a shitload of money because apple sells products for money
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