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?
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@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.1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes -
Replying to @michael_nielsen @eboyden3 and
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!1 reply 0 retweets 10 likes -
Replying to @michael_nielsen @eboyden3 and
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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Replying to @rivatez @michael_nielsen and
i used to have *a lot* of fun uploading papers into it.
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Never heard of it, interesting. Reminds me a bit of an old emacs plugin (from an MIT thesis) that would monitor what you're typing, and find relevant documents, just for stimulus: http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~rhodes/Papers/remembrance.html …
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Tried it ~10 years ago, was great fun. I suspect that with today's much, much better machine learning something like that would work a lot better.
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Replying to @michael_nielsen @eboyden3 and
it's such a cool idea!
@eboyden3 you should incorporate this feature Michael just sent the link to in a very dope new version of Beagle :)1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes - 2 more replies
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