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Re:Show HN: Wit – Natural language for your app by skram on Thursday September 12, 2013 @11:31AM (#6374655)
How "open" is Wit? Open source or open APIs allowing users to modify your algorithms/training data? I assume there would be a significant cost to being able to run our own instance of Wit on-premise, right?

I applied for alpha access using the github username "marks"

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Re:Show HN: Wit – Natural language for your app by ar7hur on Thursday September 12, 2013 @12:16PM (#6374994)
> How "open" is Wit?

Openness is one of our core values. We're inspired by companies like GitHub.

- Regarding data, we encourage users to share their data, making “public” Wit instances free of charge (à la GitHub). We’re also working on standard formats for NLP/ML data (models, sets, etc).

- Regarding open-source, we plan to release our algorithms and infrastructure piecemeal (à la Prismatic). We’ll announce our open source plans in the near future.

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