Since big scientific discoveries/inventions sometimes begin from obscure, poorly appreciated observations, it'd be great to have a search engine for the most important, but unpopular, facts. An anti-Google, if you will. Is such a thing possible?
I believe @greglinden had some thoughts on solving the "Harry Potter problem" (very popular books always show up) when he worked on the Amazon recommendation algorithm. Seems related.
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In a related vein,
@dabacon and Patrick Hayden had thoughts (more than thoughts?) about creating a virtual "Journal of Underappreciated Gems". Don't know if anything ever came of it, but it's a nice idea. Signals for sleeping beauty ideas need to be better understood! -
have you guys ever played with omnity? not a direct solution to ed's request but it had some pretty cool results on finding strangely correlated data as a sort of anti-search engine/ non- traditional NLP playhttps://techcrunch.com/2016/12/14/omnity-search-engine-finds-documents-relevant-to-yours-regardless-of-language/ …
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