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Re:The web is fucked by chaganated on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @11:22AM (#29553333)
the semantic web is philosophically bankrupt. schemas and curation lost to the algorithm, by a wide margin, and for a good reason. ontologies are infinite.
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Re:The web is fucked by echelon on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @11:51AM (#29553840)
You can define an infinite number of hypothetical APIs in all different shapes and sizes, but you don't. You decide what you're building and move on, letting other people begin to use your work.

Same with ontologies.

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Re:The web is fucked by chaganated on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @04:11PM (#29557832)
seasoned programmers struggle to figure out the "right" API for a single purpose, and still get it wrong. good luck figuring out the "right" API for the sum of human knowledge & our ever changing interpretations & interrelations of it.
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Re:The web is fucked by echelon on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @09:17PM (#29561238)
It's not the sum of human knowledge, though. Any subset works. Your grammar can have five nouns and that can be enough for your use case.
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Re:The web is fucked by streamofdigits on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @11:49AM (#29553797)
the algorithm is morally bankrupt. which is worse
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