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by solveforall 3798 days ago
Great work! The UI is a bit old school -- reminds me of Windows 3.1 crossed with some wireframe creation program, but it is not hard to use. But I especially like the timeline and encyclopedic information. Since I run a search engine myself (solveforall.com), I would like to ask you the sources of the encylopedic information, timeline, and quotes. The result that doesn't seem to add much value is the NELL project one, which lists the type hierarchy. Maybe that could just be summarized to "Albert Einstien is a male scientist" ...

Of course autocomplete would be nice as well as more tolerant input acceptance.

I don't get the finder ... do you plan that people will register, then you can find other users that way? This is not a general search for someone by email, right? That would be cool...

I am looking forward to using your API as well! Do the endpoints on https://tuvalie.com/?do=developers work?

Anyway, cool stuff. If you want to discuss further with me, contact me at jctsay AT aim.com.
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tuvalie 3798 days ago
Thanks for the feedback! What's being demonstrated here is one part of one feature of a larger project I've been working on over the last several years. I've built a lot of custom parsers that continuously mine/merge facts from various sources. (I think it's sitting at around 215 million atomic facts, right now, outside of what it can dynamically calculate.) The APIs work (theoretically), but they're very rough. Showing this project off is very new to me!
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solveforall 3798 days ago
215 million facts, that's impressive! Anyway, congratulations on shipping. If you ever want to collaborate on search, please let me know.
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tuvalie 3798 days ago
I'd love to find ways to collaborate with anyone who's interested :) I also forgot to mention that you can download an export of (most) of the timeline events from http://endlessorigins.com/ -- I update it from time to time with new events, too. To my knowledge, it's the largest freely available structured data set of historic human events. Could that be useful to you?
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solveforall 3798 days ago
That looks great, I am going to look into this at some point. Thanks a lot for the link and all your hard work.
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