Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode

2013-07-23 Thread Michael Hale
find the source database and reuse the code that imports from the database for their own purposes. From: dacu...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 22:49:40 -0400 To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode What do

Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode

2013-07-23 Thread David Cuenca
e library initiative we have > been discussing in this thread would be a hybrid of a wiki and a regular > source control system typically used in open source projects. Like I said, > I can still think of several reasons why it might not work, but I keep > finding myself thinking a fe

Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode

2013-07-23 Thread Michael Hale
2013 17:58:38 -0700 From: worlduniversityandsch...@gmail.com To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode Hi Michael and Wikidatans, I just created a beginning, wiki Software Library at World University a

Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode

2013-07-13 Thread Scott MacLeod
gt;> source control system typically used in open source projects. Like I said, >> I can still think of several reasons why it might not work, but I keep >> finding myself thinking a few times every week that maybe we should try. >> >> -- >

Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode

2013-07-13 Thread Gerard Meijssen
cts to the model to > gauge its sustainability, then other people could make each part of the > model more accurate, etc. I think it would help us find real solutions to > many problems in a much faster way than listening to political speeches or > exchanging paragraphs of imprecise huma

Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode

2013-07-13 Thread Michael Hale
wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode Hi Michael and Wikidatans, I just created a beginning, wiki Software Library at World University and School - see Software Libraries: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/w

Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode

2013-07-12 Thread Scott MacLeod
9 Jul 2013 09:55:38 +0200 > > From: jane...@gmail.com > > > To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata > and improved Wikicode > > > > Michael, > > The wonderful thing about organic growth models

Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode

2013-07-09 Thread Michael Hale
cal speeches or exchanging paragraphs of imprecise human language on social networking sites. > Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 09:55:38 +0200 > From: jane...@gmail.com > To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and > improve

Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode

2013-07-09 Thread Jane Darnell
istic. > > > From: dacu...@gmail.com > Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 19:32:37 -0400 > To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and > improved Wikicode > > Wikidata seems like a good platform for functional computing, it

Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode

2013-07-08 Thread Michael Hale
ipedia are definitely helping us all get gradually smarter though, so I'm optimistic. From: dacu...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 19:32:37 -0400 To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode Wikidata se

Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode

2013-07-08 Thread David Cuenca
300 > > > From: marty...@graphity.org > > To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata > and improved Wikicode > > > > Yes, that is one of the reasons functional languages are getting popular: >

Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode

2013-07-08 Thread Michael Hale
. > Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 23:01:50 +0300 > From: marty...@graphity.org > To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and > improved Wikicode > > Yes, that is one of the reasons functional languag

Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode

2013-07-08 Thread Martynas Jusevičius
he articles in the areas of >> > computer science category by popularity and start writing the first >> > things I >> > see that aren't already in the libraries I use. So I'll expand >> > Mathematica's >> > FindClusters function to support

Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode

2013-07-08 Thread Michael Hale
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconicity From: hale.michael...@live.com To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 15:57:44 -0400 Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode In the functional programming language family

Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode

2013-07-08 Thread Michael Hale
or specific > > projects. I'm trying to genetically engineer turf grass that doesn't need to > > be cut, so I need to automate some of the work I do for GenBank imports and > > sequence comparisons. For all of those, if there was an organized place to > > put my code afterwards so

Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode

2013-07-08 Thread Martynas Jusevičius
cut, so I need to automate some of the work I do for GenBank imports and > sequence comparisons. For all of those, if there was an organized place to > put my code afterwards so it would fit into a larger useful library I would > totally be willing to do a little bit of gluing work to help fit it

Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode

2013-07-08 Thread Michael Hale
;s a good thing. No one deletes stuff these days. They just let the databases grow because storage is so cheap. From: hale.michael...@live.com To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 15:13:21 -0400 Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and im

Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode

2013-07-08 Thread Michael Hale
Jul 2013 19:13:54 +0200 > From: jane...@gmail.com > To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and > improved Wikicode > > I am all for a "dictionary of code snippets", but as with all > dictionaries, you nee

Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode

2013-07-08 Thread Paul A. Houle
ata project. Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode I am all for a "dictionary of code snippets", but as with all dictionaries, you need a way to group them, either by alphabetical order or "birth date". It sounds like you

Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode

2013-07-08 Thread Jane Darnell
I am all for a "dictionary of code snippets", but as with all dictionaries, you need a way to group them, either by alphabetical order or "birth date". It sounds like you have an idea how to group those code samples, so why don't you share it? I would love to build my own "pipeline" from a series o

Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode

2013-07-07 Thread Michael Hale
>105000 bugs in the Ubuntu Linux database currently. >https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu From: hale.michael...@live.com To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 17:07:23 -0400 Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode

Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode

2013-07-07 Thread Michael Hale
tware averages 20-30 bugs per 1000 lines of code. http://www.wired.com/software/coolapps/news/2004/12/66022 > From: j...@sahnwaldt.de > Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 22:47:07 +0200 > To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata

Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode

2013-07-07 Thread Jona Christopher Sahnwaldt
re trying with the Wolfram Alpha website, but they > will always have to limit the time of the computations they allow you to do > on their servers, so that's why I think we need better libraries to more > easily program the computers we have direct control over. > > _

Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode

2013-07-07 Thread Michael Hale
From: dacu...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 14:12:19 -0400 To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 10:16 PM, Michael Hale wrote: [...] I think we need better libraries to mo

Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode

2013-07-07 Thread David Cuenca
On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 10:16 PM, Michael Hale wrote: > [...] I think we need better libraries to more easily program the > computers we have direct control over. > There is another interesting approach which is http://livecode.com/ where code is generated from sort-of-natural-language statements

Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode

2013-07-06 Thread Michael Hale
why I think we need better libraries to more easily program the computers we have direct control over. From: dacu...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2013 17:49:41 -0400 To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode Thanks

Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode

2013-07-06 Thread David Cuenca
Thanks for sharing your thoughts Michael, it is also something that has been bothering me for a while and not only in programming, also in other technical domains like electronics. In my opinion, the reason why programming (or technical design in general) couldn't follow the wiki world is because

[Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode

2013-07-06 Thread Michael Hale
I have been pondering this for some time, and I would like some feedback. I figure there are many programmers on this list, but I think others might find it interesting as well. Are you satisfied with our progress in increasing software sophistication as compared to, say, increasing the size of