I see that the person I follow with such a query hasn't taken much flak, so I feel good about entering my own. I've just now applied for the YC summer of startup in Boston. My background is in poetics, so it's tough time delivering ideation to engineers, but I'm getting there. What I've got: a drawing board at transmuting WordNet into a virtual spacetime, over which meaning is generated, amalgamated into cosmic structures, rather than extracted. No successive collating of itemized personal info involved. Ideas are feasible, pending some well done system diagrams to begin with. How does lexical abstraction make any sort of spacetime? Let's talk.
Looking for a technical cofounder
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#2was this post written by some kind of random phrase combining algorithm?
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#3"My background is in poetics"
I'd love to see your business plan :-)
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#4I understand that, given the content of my appeal, these jokes are to be expected. Tho I assure you I mean business. Most people I approach about this startup take me seriously, in fact, as they should. I've agonized over it most of last year, while propelling a poetry journal to significant regard. Thanks for reading. Hope we can talk.
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#5was this post written by some kind of random phrase combining algorithm?
Maybe he wrote the poem on the cover of ANSI Common Lisp.
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#6I understand that, given the content of my appeal, these jokes are to be expected. Tho I assure you I mean business. Most people I approach about this startup take me seriously, in fact, as they should. I've agonized over it most of last year, while propelling a poetry journal to significant regard. Thanks for reading. Hope we can talk.
I can't quite tell if you are serious or not.
"What I've got: a drawing board at transmuting WordNet into a virtual spacetime, over which meaning is generated, amalgamated into cosmic structures, rather than extracted."
So... you would like to create a virtual spacetime consisting of cosmic structures from a lexical database (WordNet)?
So... each word would be like a body of mass (like a planet), and each cluster would be like a solar system, and so on?
Are you able to 'say it straight' instead of 'saying it clever'? I would describe your current contributions as pompous.
Damn, I must be naive to respond to this :-(
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#7Damn. I want to be that high. I want to know what blue tastes like!!!
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#8OK. I actually spent a few minutes trying to parse this post, and I think I get what you're saying. You want to make a spatial, navigable, and extensible model from the linkages in WordNet. Something like a semantics FPS. Either that or it's just gibberish and you're taking us for a ride. Am I close?
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#9I work with a guy you should talk to. Contact info...?
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#10If you ever meet investors, potential employees, or customers make sure you never ever speak or write like this.
I understand you are trying to create some kind of intellectual filter here but like any other kind of bullshit, this is totally unnecessary.
You'll find as an entrepreneur simple ideas are best, crisp articulation is key and being honest is going to win you more friends than you will with this approach.