One unexpected effect of Cpedia aggregating articles about things to build pages is that the page for the software I write and sell contains both it's description and links to where to get a cracked version :(
Cuil responds to critisism of Cpedia
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Re: Cuil responds to critisism of Cpedia
#22Article seems well written, and I can forgive the defensiveness given how much bile was spat in their direction. When I saw the cpedia article on here I also thought it was stupid. With the explanation it makes a lot more sense what it's trying to accomplish. A little blurb on each cpedia page with a summary of that explanation would probably do wonders. He's right though, often when I google something, there might b…
You are right that googles' results can be repetitive. But I am not expecting cpedia to be perfect. I am just expecting their solution to be better than the problem. And that's not the case right now.
Re: Cuil responds to critisism of Cpedia
#23"Blas, for those of you not from the West of Ireland, is the polish a hurley gets from the sliothar when used by a player of unusual skill, a patina on the surface of the wood testifying to the depth of talent of the player that had used the stick."
I'm from Ireland, have played hurling for about 21 years, this is the first time I have ever heard of this! Cuil finally taught me something, it only took them 2 years! Granted I never use their service...and there are many things I don't know.
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#24If your site is called -pedia, guess what - users expect a wikipedia like encyclopedia that is useful. It doesn't matter how incredibly sophisticated your algorithms are or how smart you are. It doesn't matter how hard the problems are or even if they are solvable. It doesn't matter that you know much more about linguistics than anyone else. If the end result shown to the user is utter rubbish for _their_ purposes, t…
I dunno about that. When I go to Uncyclopedia (http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page), I have no expectation that it will be useful, only that it will be like Wikipedia.
Re: Cuil responds to critisism of Cpedia
#25One unexpected effect of Cpedia aggregating articles about things to build pages is that the page for the software I write and sell contains both it's description and links to where to get a cracked version :( http://cpedia.com/wiki?q=GhostTrails&disambig=Andreas%20...
You seem to have done the impossible, and uncovered a Cpedia article that might actually contain exactly the information a search-engine user was looking for...
Re: Cuil responds to critisism of Cpedia
#26My first inclination was towards disliking the writer - he comes across as arrogant and dismissive of massive criticism, which seems foolish given his position. If he said something a little more humble, he'd be infinitely more sympathetic. Perhaps something like, "We're trying to do something meaningful, and still working to get it right" would go over well. So my first inclination was dislike. But my second was mor…
As a engineer, I sympathize with him completely. I would react the same if I had worked on a really really tough problem and made an incremental advance, which I thought was a breakthrough, but everybody dished it because they didn't understand it. Not to say what Cuil is doing a great job. But Machine learning and NLP is a tough thing.
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#27I've thought of a use for Cpedia: generating Mahalo pages.
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#28They'd have done much better if they'd called the project CrandombitsOfTextFromOurAlreadyBadSearchEngine.info Or OurCEOSuffersFromAbstractionDisorder.biz
Re: Cuil responds to critisism of Cpedia
#29Cpedia: Telling You Whether Your VC Over-Imbibes Since 2010 seriously though, he's trying to construct an argument around the necessity of bottom-feeding for information?
Well, you can tell he cares about his work. It may be somewhat funny now, but someday we'll say this was ahead of its time. I'm sure it wasn't easy to make this. I think there's something to take away, and maybe incremental improvements will eventually make it more useful. At least it's original.
> It may be somewhat funny now, but someday we'll say this was ahead of its time.
Things are usually only 'ahead of their time' if you ignore a lot of the implementation and operational details. For example, Vannevar Bush's famous Memex, always cited as the important precursor to hypertext, was flatly unworkable: A desk-sized machine built around microfilm? It makes as much sense to talk about Jules Verne as the father of manned spaceflight because he thought of firing men from cannons.
My point is that being the first to an idea is rarely the important thing. Being first to a good, solid implementation is what counts.
Re: Cuil responds to critisism of Cpedia
#30"Blas, for those of you not from the West of Ireland, is the polish a hurley gets from the sliothar when used by a player of unusual skill, a patina on the surface of the wood testifying to the depth of talent of the player that had used the stick." I'm from Ireland, have played hurling for about 21 years, this is the first time I have ever heard of this! Cuil finally taught me something, it only took them 2 years! G…
> Blas, for those of you not from the West of Ireland, is the polish a hurley gets from the sliothar when used by a player of unusual skill, a patina on the surface of the wood testifying to the depth of talent of the player that had used the stick.
Now, how about explaining this for those poor benighted souls who speak English?