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My interests
My interests are chiefly in
- science
- biology - evolution - insects - birds - biologists
- india
- science
- biology
- biologists
- mathematics
- recreation - numerical techniques - geometric algorithms - computational problems
Some of the articles that I take an interest in:
A-C
- Humayun Abdulali
- Douglas Adams
- Alfred William Alcock
- Amateur
- John Anderson (curator)
- Kenneth Anderson
- Artificial life
- Autocatalysis
- Bangalore
- Benford's law
- Bioinformatics
- Biologically-inspired computing
- Birdwatchers' Field Club of Bangalore
- Biswamoy Biswas
- Bombay Natural History Society
- George Albert Boulenger
- Dietrich Brandis
- Calvin and Hobbes
- Caterpillar
- Chaperonins
- Chemical database
- Chemometrics
- Computational chemistry
- Coorg
- Curve fitting
D-G
- Richard Dawkins
- Disassortative sexual selection
- Drug design
- Drug discovery
- Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology
- Evolution
- Fauna of British India
- Walter Hood Fitch
- Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher
- Floyd-Warshall algorithm
- Gene
- Gene finding
- Gene knockout
- Generating trigonometric tables
- Genetic algorithm
- Geographic information system
- Kurt Gödel
- Albert C. L. G. Günther
H-L
- J. B. S. Haldane
- W. D. Hamilton
- Rudolf Hoernes
- Horizontal gene transfer
- Horticulture
- Allan Octavian Hume
- Jim Corbett (hunter)
- Joseph Hume
- Immune system
- C. M. Inglis
- William Jardine
- Thomas C. Jerdon
- Junk DNA
- Kin selection
- David Lack
- Liana
- Carolus Linnaeus
- List of curves
- List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names
- List of notable myrmecologists
- List of ornithologists
- LogP
- L-system
M-R
- Major histocompatibility complex
- Lynn Margulis
- Charles Henry Tilson Marshall
- Polly Matzinger
- Harold Maxwell-Lefroy
- Ernst Mayr
- Prion
- Population viability analysis
- Richard Meinertzhagen
- Gregor Mendel
- Morphogenesis
- Natural language processing
- Odonata
- Old World thrush
- Olfaction
- Oriental Magpie Robin
- Parrot
- Steven Pinker
- plant propagation
- Polygon
- Propagation
- Pycnonotidae
- QSPR
- Rainforest
- Reporter gene
- Restriction enzyme
- Reverse genetics
- Sidney Dillon Ripley
- RNA interference
- William Roxburgh
S-Z
- Scientific fraud
- Scientific visualization
- Selection
- Selfish gene
- Sequence alignment
- Richard Bowdler Sharpe
- Shevaroys
- Simplified molecular input line entry specification
- John Maynard Smith
- Ferdinand Stoliczka
- Species
- Tahr
- The University of Agricultural Sciences
- D'Arcy_Wentworth_Thompson
- Samuel Tickell
- Timeline of ornithology
- Transect
- Martin Vahl
- Visualization (graphic)
- Voronoi diagram
- Nathaniel Wallich
- Water dispute
- Allan Wilson (biochemist)
- James Wood-Mason
- Amotz Zahavi
- Zoraptera
Musings
Sooner or later Google or its contemporaries will have to seriously use Wikipedia as a reference corpus for word-association building in the 'Cyc' style [1] (http://www.opencyc.org/).
What would happen to Wikipedia then ?
Another nice application would be to track the way users forage through the wikipedia. Like ant-trails these could be used to put scent-trails and strengthen topic associations.
From: Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales To: Shyamal Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 08:11:35 -0700 I do not own Wikipedia, it is owned by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, which I founded and am the president of. It really isn't possible to sell Wikipedia to anyone. However, the concept of intelligent word association is a great one, and I've played around a bit with the data myself toward that end. I do expect people will make use of it. Perhaps the smartest or dumbest thing I ever did was to give Wikipedia to a nonprofit organization. :-) Shyamal wrote: > Hi Jimmy, > > Just a query out of curiosity. > > Sooner or later, someone like Google would like to make use of Wikipedia for > intelligent word association identification (the 'Cyc' idea) and they are > probably going to be interested in getting more control as well i guess. > Would you sell Wikipedia off to Google if they made a huge offer ? > > I am interested merely in your stand on this. > > best wishes > Shyamal > ps: a very belated thanks for wikipedia :) > >