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Is the pope catholic, or statistically related to catholicism? Is Chicago related to Illinois by published evidence? Thank you, and congrats on the launch. I loved freebase, and de…

hi Brian, thank you for your work and your response. You've chosen to work on the world's most important and difficult project, and for that you should be thanked every day. Apolog…

to summarize, crop pesticides are converted to glucose internally, causing diabetes. a pretty big plot-twist for a delirious problem in global health, and a find that resembles a 2…

for the others curious, seems javascript handles dates with 64-bit floating points, which have a maximum of 9007199254740991. The highest date I could make with node+chrome was 'De…

thanks for sharing this. It was nice to see this week with the lumia launch, how many people want a low-stress mobile phone, that doesn't beep, and doesn't track your every move. b…

It's cute to seeing freebase ids surfaced in all sorts of projects. It's incredible how powerful and useful that project is. Interestingly, those mids are hashes of an earlier id s…

i completely agree. The dna-data metaphor has been a huge, decades-long mistake, and with the state of things today, it's clear we have massive errors in our assumptions.

this is a very impressive project; also a humiliation of the field of computer science.