Re: hash.ai (Simulations meet the Semantic Web?)

On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 at 04:29, Aidan Hogan <aidhog@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> A colleague (Jorge Pérez) pointed out this recent blog post by Joel
> Spolsky, a co-founder of Stack Overflow. The post announces the
> acquisition of Stack Overflow by Prosus (for US$1.8 billion):
>
> https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2021/06/02/kinda-a-big-announcement/
>
> In this post he talks about an initiative he is working on that might be
> of interest to this list:
>
> """
> Together with David Wilkinson, I’m helping to build HASH
> (https://hash.ai/). HASH makes it easy to build powerful simulations and
> make better decisions. As we worked on that, we discovered that too much
> of the data that you might need to run simulations needs to be fixed up
> before you can use it. That’s because data is often published on the
> web, using page description languages that are more concerned with
> formatting and consumption by humans. They lack the structure to make
> the data they contain readily accessed programatically, so step one is
> miserable screen scraping and data cleanup. That’s where a lot of people
> give up.
>
> We think we have an interesting way to fix this. If it works, we’ll
> change the web as quickly and completely as Stack Overflow changed
> programming. But it’s kind of ambitious and maybe a little too GRAND.
> """
>
> I'm sure you'll agree that parts of that sound very familiar. :)
>

Interesting:) i noticed someone (the hash.ai team? A user?) has imported a
copy of schemaorg into their system - eg
https://hash.ai/@schema/behaviors

Dan


> Best,
> Aidan
>
>