Looking for a technical cofounder
I see that the person I follow with such a query hasn't taken much flak, so I feel good about entering my own. I've just now applied for the YC summer of startup in Boston. My background is in poetics, so it's tough time delivering ideation to engineers, but I'm getting there. What I've got: a drawing board at transmuting WordNet <wordnet.princeton.edu> into a virtual spacetime, over which meaning is generated, amalgamated into cosmic structures, rather than extracted. No successive collating of itemized personal info involved. Ideas are feasible, pending some well done system diagrams to begin with. How does lexical abstraction make any sort of spacetime? Let's talk.
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If you ever meet investors, potential employees, or customers make sure you never ever speak or write like this.
I understand you are trying to create some kind of intellectual filter here but like any other kind of bullshit, this is totally unnecessary.
You'll find as an entrepreneur simple ideas are best, crisp articulation is key and being honest is going to win you more friends than you will with this approach.
I understand you are trying to create some kind of intellectual filter here but like any other kind of bullshit, this is totally unnecessary.
You'll find as an entrepreneur simple ideas are best, crisp articulation is key and being honest is going to win you more friends than you will with this approach.
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Where is this textbook you speak of? I'd love to gloss the index. Are you talking to me, or some professor of yours? Sounds like he's open to a leveraged buyout. Think again, son.
Hey Tefflox, its called real life experience. I'm a current winter YC founder, so i have some idea of what i'm talking about.
OK. I actually spent a few minutes trying to parse this post, and I think I get what you're saying. You want to make a spatial, navigable, and extensible model from the linkages in WordNet. Something like a semantics FPS. Either that or it's just gibberish and you're taking us for a ride. Am I close?
Let me tell you, I am expert in deflecting routine semantic parsing. Me, I parse on the level of one's reflexive vowels. I hate to wear the mask of brinksmanship, but yes, you catch the drift. The problem I face, as stated, and more to the point, I use my best strength which goes unrecognized by most, which really gives me the advantage. Of course, I am an old man of 30. Yes, you get the point, that the ideation is true, rather than false. What else is there, dealing with ideas? What can you expect from an idea, but to be taken for a ride? I think it's the definition of interest. For privilege, look elsewhere.
"My background is in poetics"
I'd love to see your business plan :-)
I'd love to see your business plan :-)
If this isn't incredible satire, it's just incredibly sad.
I understand that, given the content of my appeal, these jokes are to be expected. Tho I assure you I mean business. Most people I approach about this startup take me seriously, in fact, as they should. I've agonized over it most of last year, while propelling a poetry journal to significant regard. Thanks for reading. Hope we can talk.
I can't quite tell if you are serious or not.
"What I've got: a drawing board at transmuting WordNet <wordnet.princeton.edu> into a virtual spacetime, over which meaning is generated, amalgamated into cosmic structures, rather than extracted."
So... you would like to create a virtual spacetime consisting of cosmic structures from a lexical database (WordNet)?
So... each word would be like a body of mass (like a planet), and each cluster would be like a solar system, and so on?
Are you able to 'say it straight' instead of 'saying it clever'? I would describe your current contributions as pompous.
Damn, I must be naive to respond to this :-(
"What I've got: a drawing board at transmuting WordNet <wordnet.princeton.edu> into a virtual spacetime, over which meaning is generated, amalgamated into cosmic structures, rather than extracted."
So... you would like to create a virtual spacetime consisting of cosmic structures from a lexical database (WordNet)?
So... each word would be like a body of mass (like a planet), and each cluster would be like a solar system, and so on?
Are you able to 'say it straight' instead of 'saying it clever'? I would describe your current contributions as pompous.
Damn, I must be naive to respond to this :-(
To tell you the truth, had I been "talking straight" in the Cartesian manner you imply, I would have had to face much stronger opposition than these other besotted remarks. However, I hear your interest, and there is no question that I want to play ball. tefflox -at gmail.com