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Re:Predicting Crime in Portland – data from the trenches on Friday September 22, 2017 @04:19PM (#15315434)
just skimming through, it looks like she's using past data to try to predict the future (call time and location, etc)

this seemed flawed from the start

it is an interesting project though

Re:Ask HN: Can anyone site an example of a Knowledge Base? on Monday August 28, 2017 @05:21PM (#15120174)
cool, though what is the difference between this and wikidata?

Ask HN: Can anyone site an example of a Knowledge Base?

"A knowledge base (KB) is a technology used to store complex structured and unstructured information used by a computer system. The initial use of the term was in connection with expert systems which were the first knowledge-based systems." - WikipediaProjects, code, research, anythingThanks in advance

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There are many countermeasures to scraping (some of which I employ)

Google is your friend

Re:CNN website hacked: "China dumps all bonds" on Friday January 24, 2014 @08:00AM (#7114683)
Any reports on stock crashes? I'm sure there are some sentiment analysis bots trading on news trends that read this and dumped everything.
And thirty times more likely if you are a minority.