IRC log of dig on 2006-10-15

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18:05:46 [timbl]
Hi, I was just answering a bunch of things about tab'r on #swig
18:06:01 [sheets]
ah
18:06:02 [timbl]
I aded a link to the 0.7 tgz to the doc -- hope that's ok
18:06:09 [sheets]
yep
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that file is the release
18:06:36 [timbl]
danja found the feature I had put in to make it use a proxy when you run it from localhost.
18:06:43 [sheets]
i'm working on bugs + my map routefinder pset
18:06:50 [timbl]
is there any installation doc?
18:06:59 [sheets]
nope :-/
18:07:18 [timbl]
well, people who develop this stuff dhuldn't ben much
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:)
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APIs later
18:07:37 [timbl]
"map routefinder pset"?
18:07:37 [sheets]
ok
18:07:44 [sheets]
yes, for my software design class
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make an app that finds routes around stata
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:-(
18:08:24 [timbl]
Have you done the routefinding itself?
18:08:30 [sheets]
yes
18:08:41 [sheets]
i'm hacking at the UI now
18:08:47 [timbl]
So there is a database of interconnections in stat somewhere?
18:08:55 [sheets]
yes, indeed
18:09:03 [sheets]
I'm not sure if it's complete
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but it got me to thinking about formula pattern matching
18:10:06 [sheets]
what algorithm do we currently use for matching a formula pattern to a graph?
18:10:07 [timbl]
We (Hal Ableson etc ) have a plan to get an API course where people come and for aproblem take one MIT dataset and turn it in it into RDF
18:10:20 [sheets]
ohhh... interested
18:10:31 [sheets]
interesting
18:10:42 [timbl]
Algorithm is to look at each arc in the template
18:11:25 [timbl]
and then pick one whcih has (a) as few variables as possible and then (b) as small an index hash table as possible, and then
18:12:07 [timbl]
find each occurrence of that arc which matches in the graph. For each map, remmber bindings, and then recurse on a now smaller set of pattern arcs.
18:12:59 [sheets]
hmm...
18:13:18 [timbl]
The connection data would g nicely with the course catalog of rooms
18:13:30 [sheets]
yes
18:13:56 [sheets]
I'd REALLY like to see the floorplans turned into RDF
18:14:28 [sheets]
i started working on a tool last year to parse the CAD drawings and abstract some semantics from the position of elements
18:14:47 [sheets]
so if a region has a label and is mostly enclosed, we call it a room, etc
18:15:03 [sheets]
rooms are connected through these funny symbols that look like sectors (doors)
18:15:38 [sheets]
i stopped working because I figured the corpus that my tool would run on would be too small and there were bigger fish
18:15:54 [timbl]
How much would it take to get tabulator current svn version to do the right thing with 03?
18:15:57 [timbl]
303
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?
18:16:09 [sheets]
that is all but done
18:16:11 [timbl]
There are bigger fish
18:16:30 [sheets]
I need to do a little more hacking but I have all the pieces needed
18:16:30 [timbl]
You keep tabr going well, and things will appear -- they are appearing
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Like the geo data just come out - places i
18:16:53 [timbl]
Like the fact htat D2R Srevre is now tabulatable
18:17:02 [sheets]
D2R?
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I'd also like imdb and allmusic DBs accessible
18:17:34 [sheets]
i think imdb provides their data in some relational format
18:17:43 [sheets]
allmusic... is very closed
18:17:58 [timbl]
D2R is a dbview-like thing, does sparwl but also RDF data http://roller.blogdns.net:2020/all is an example
18:18:15 [sheets]
oh, and amazon book data
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or some other book db vendor
18:18:30 [timbl]
You could ask on #swig about IMDB
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may be some ghistory of RDF
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I think it may have gone from open source to commercial though
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:-/
18:19:36 [timbl]
http://roller.blogdns.net:2020/
18:20:56 [sheets]
very neat
18:21:11 [sheets]
grrr we need embedded xhtml in syndicated content
18:22:17 [timbl]
?
18:22:35 [timbl]
You mean we need to be able to handle it?
18:22:36 [sheets]
the blog content on that site is not formatted
18:22:45 [sheets]
well, we need to be able to handle it
18:23:02 [sheets]
but we also need syndication formats that support it without silly hacks
18:23:13 [timbl]
Yes - is it done properly with XML literal?
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or just plain text which happens to have ngle brackets?
18:23:47 [sheets]
the "right way"? or what we do?
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it looks like imdb is all closed up
18:24:45 [timbl]
without silly hacks: yes
18:53:37 [timbl]
http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/person/1650 is a good test case
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for HTTP 303
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I'm checking in a couple of things I had changed in my local copy
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