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axolotl farmer posted:it's a direction, opposite of down.[citation needed]
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Jul 17, 2015 15:42
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Sweevo posted:not the statpedia page views thats for sure We are releasing a new version in the coming time. We re-did the back end framework for performance and scalability. 
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Jul 17, 2015 21:57
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why? was that actually solving something or were you doing what you knew how to do?
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Jul 17, 2015 22:39
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Ian McLean posted:We are releasing a new version in the coming time. We re-did the back end framework for performance and scalability. finally statpedia can hold up to all the intense traffic it's been subjected to over the past few weeks
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Jul 17, 2015 23:14
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the people were just waiting for the back end updates
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Jul 17, 2015 23:14
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hey, remember like 4 years ago when I told you how election data de- or re-wonkified would be a great opportunity vector for you? congrats, here we are again with the chance to ignore that
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Jul 17, 2015 23:20
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http://www.gofundme.com/zmhyyw
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Jul 17, 2015 23:20
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it's been like this for several minutes. so how is the new backend working out
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Jul 17, 2015 23:25
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statpedia is supposed to have 80 million users by the end of this year keep at it, only another 79,999,998 to go
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Jul 17, 2015 23:31
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ian i really think you need your search box to do natural language processing. for example, one thing that i'm very interested in right now is actual weather data vs. forecast weather data. i'd like to search for, say, "rainfall at my location vs forecast last week". in fact any stat search would be qualified in some way - it has to be.
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Jul 18, 2015 00:01
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JawnV6 posted:hey, remember like 4 years ago when I told you how election data de- or re-wonkified would be a great opportunity vector for you? congrats, here we are again with the chance to ignore that Yes, I've thought about this and want to do it hopefully by the beginning of 2016 the new system will be stable and we can have this. Dr. Honked posted:it's been like this for several minutes. so how is the new backend working out This is why we are updating the back end. It's like... all these javascript boxes, an insane amount of rendering. No the new back end is not there yet. Sweevo posted:statpedia is supposed to have 80 million users by the end of this year Dude. I haven't been funded yet. Working on a Wolfram salary doesn't exactly allot me a great deal of capital to invest in marketing and servers. If someone were to throw me a bone, this thing can seriously explode.
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Jul 18, 2015 00:13
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Ian McLean posted:This is why we are updating the back end. It's like... all these javascript boxes, an insane amount of rendering. No the new back end is not there yet. yeah you need a good back end to render all that javascript 
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Jul 18, 2015 00:16
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Dr. Honked posted:ian i really think you need your search box to do natural language processing. for example, one thing that i'm very interested in right now is actual weather data vs. forecast weather data. i'd like to search for, say, "rainfall at my location vs forecast last week". in fact any stat search would be qualified in some way - it has to be. I know, this like election data are two places where I can become granular and be really good at one thing. This is probably where I have been criticized most with statpedia (trying to do stats on everything or anything instead of being really good at one thing and using this a building block to expand further). I do make nice statistics though (I know, my links are long, this is being updated): http://statpedia.com/index.php/publ...null&_yMax=null http://statpedia.com/index.php/search/?title=Supercomputer+Share+by+Countries&source=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOP500&id=MzY3&type=table
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Jul 18, 2015 00:19
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Dr. Honked posted:yeah you need a good back end to render all that javascript javascript boxes that are being fed data ! data from the back end! it makes sense!
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Jul 18, 2015 00:21
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Boxturret posted:please Homestuck guy's Kickstarter got bamboozled by their contractors, the 2.5 million went toward a new King's Quest game.
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Jul 18, 2015 00:23
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Ian McLean posted:I know, this like election data are two places where I can become granular and be really good at one thing. This is probably where I have been criticized most with statpedia (trying to do stats on everything or anything instead of being really good at one thing and using this a building block to expand further). once again you are not getting it. at all. example: http://statpedia.com/#!/supercomputers+in+france how are you generating your data about supercomputer share by country? you must surely have a list of all the supercomputers in the world, and what country they are in, and you should be parsing that query (Supercomputer+Share+by+Countries) to produce that data. if you are not doing this, then it is utterly worthless.
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Jul 18, 2015 00:57
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madeupfred posted:Homestuck guy's Kickstarter got bamboozled by their contractors, the 2.5 million went toward a new King's Quest game. 
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Jul 18, 2015 01:16
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also check out this goog search what purpose does statpedia serve? goog links me directly to the SOURCE DATA for your statpedia entry. statpedia does not have this data and can't answer the question, despite the fact that it's actually using data directly from wikipedia. the wikipedia page that your data is from, is much more useful than the statpedia entry. let's say i don't care about all the blurb in wikipedia, i just want to know numbers. statpedia should be able to do that for me. to do that, it needs to do NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING like goog does, but focussed in on PURE STATS. "number of supercomputers in france" is a question that statpedia should be able to answer by itself. try harder Ian!!!!!
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Jul 18, 2015 01:21
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Ian McLean posted:If someone were to throw me a bone, this thing can seriously explode. this brings up an interesting startup failure mode. the funding should ideally come as seed/series A/series B/etc., but a lot of people get really excited by any money at all and don't figure out if what they're asking for a seed round, and promising those investors in the meantime, is actually enough to get them to a series A. so you have this great idea, it starts to get going, then y'all burn out before doing a 10-15M round that would let them kick back and breathe easy for a bit
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Jul 18, 2015 01:41
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i recently inherited quite a sum of money, how much are you looking for as an investment?
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Jul 18, 2015 01:43
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Beast of Bourbon posted:i recently inherited quite a sum of money, how much are you looking for as an investment? give to this man http://www.gofundme.com/makevirgilamillion
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Jul 18, 2015 02:05
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Beast of Bourbon posted:i recently inherited quite a sum of money, how much are you looking for as an investment? Seriously? Between 300k and 2.5 mil depending on the time horizon and scale you are looking to invest. I can show detailed summaries for the varied amounts invested and what it would be put towards. 300k would be to expand the current team for a year as well as ramp up marketing and server requirements. You can email me if you are serious. ian@statpedia.com Dr. Honked posted:
IBM and Microsoft are investing billions in doing just this. It is not like this is something that can just happen overnight. The long term goal is to do this, and ideally the crowd sourced repository can be leveraged in such a way that this changeover will be unique and meaningful. I have pages of designs made years ago for how this data mashup can work and create unique insights. JawnV6 posted:this brings up an interesting startup failure mode. the funding should ideally come as seed/series A/series B/etc., but a lot of people get really excited by any money at all and don't figure out if what they're asking for a seed round, and promising those investors in the meantime, is actually enough to get them to a series A. so you have this great idea, it starts to get going, then y'all burn out before doing a 10-15M round that would let them kick back and breathe easy for a bit I have read that there is a serious series A crunch right now.
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Jul 18, 2015 02:06
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i found a picture of people lining up to give ian money
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Jul 18, 2015 02:07
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the kickstarters are coming from inside the thread
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Jul 18, 2015 02:08
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Ian McLean posted:IBM and Microsoft are investing billions in doing just this. It is not like this is something that can just happen overnight. The long term goal is to do this, and ideally the crowd sourced repository can be leveraged in such a way that this changeover will be unique and meaningful. I have pages of designs made years ago for how this data mashup can work and create unique insights. your pages of designs are worthless if the data is inaccessible. check this out https://opennlp.apache.org/
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Jul 18, 2015 02:17
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i'm not being mean ian, i'm just telling you what i can see. i can't see a useful service. i am in the market for this kind of data but you are rejecting my needs. it's feasible, right now, to make an amazing product, and you are rejecting advice from people who want to use it.
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Jul 18, 2015 02:24
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Ian McLean posted:IBM and Microsoft are investing billions in doing just this. It is not like this is something that can just happen overnight. The long term goal is to do this, and ideally the crowd sourced repository can be leveraged in such a way that this changeover will be unique and meaningful. I have pages of designs made years ago for how this data mashup can work and create unique insights. I go to statpedia.com and I see a search bar. I don't think it's absurd to suggest you have at least partially working search. Wolfram Alpha can do this and they're a giant pile of dog poo poo written in Mathematica.
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Jul 18, 2015 02:26
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Suspicious Dish posted:I go to statpedia.com and I see a search bar. I don't think it's absurd to suggest you have at least partially working search. Wolfram Alpha can do this and they're a giant pile of dog poo poo written in Mathematica. btw ian apparently works for wolfram alpha and has created a layer on top of it that makes it even worse
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Jul 18, 2015 02:27
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I tried typing several queries of data I'd perhaps like to see and got zero results. I'll not exactly sure how to use your website, as there's no "browse available data" page. There's perhaps a need for this but you don't have a working product. I can't get any utility out of the lovely website you built.
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Jul 18, 2015 02:28
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Dr. Honked posted:btw ian apparently works for wolfram alpha and has created a layer on top of it that makes it even worse he's still better than ryan charles
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Jul 18, 2015 02:28
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ayn rand hand job posted:he's still better than ryan charles he's way better. i like ian and i want to help him somehow. somehow. how. i like how.
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Jul 18, 2015 02:29
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ian mclean have you ever thought maybe you've been spending too many years on statpedia and you should try something new?
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Jul 18, 2015 04:32
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Ian McLean posted:Seriously? Between 300k and 2.5 mil depending on the time horizon and scale you are looking to invest. I can show detailed summaries for the varied amounts invested and what it would be put towards. ok, to be honest I was thinking bigger but something like this could be a good starter for me, can you go in to more detail on the growth plans?
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Jul 18, 2015 05:06
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the tech bubble thread is thataway folks
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Jul 18, 2015 05:14
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ive spent like 5 minutes on the statpedia.org site and i have no idea what it does
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Jul 18, 2015 05:25
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this seems like a very odd place to be discussing giving 300k-2.5m to a startup. look at the thread. look around you.
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Jul 18, 2015 05:33
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i've been up since 9:00 AM yesterday so I'm not sure I can discount the possibility I'm imagining these posts
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Jul 18, 2015 05:39
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please do not interfer with friend of the forums Ian McLean posting, thanks
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Dr. Honked posted:also check out this goog search My cat is not afraid of getting wet! Doll Doll likes the water.   what is this website? http://imgr.com/ My name is Ian McLean so I should probably post this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2u8MWXcGLM Ian McLean fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Jul 21, 2015 |
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