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6 points by tefflox ↗ HN
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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utnick
was this post written by some kind of random phrase combining algorithm?
dfranke
Maybe he wrote the poem on the cover of ANSI Common Lisp.
ph0rque
It warms my heart to think that it's an infant botlet in training.
mixmax
"My background is in poetics"

I'd love to see your business plan :-)

tefflox
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.
murrayh
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 :-(

tefflox
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
softbuilder
Damn. I want to be that high. I want to know what blue tastes like!!!
[dead] tefflox
It tastes like a prison industrial complex. Just like this place.

Call in the Predator. The floor needs mopping.

crescendo
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?
tefflox
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.
vlad
Which rap song is this?
[dead] tefflox
A butterfly. Wow.
maxwell
I work with a guy you should talk to. Contact info...?
[dead] tefflox
Hi, I'm Jesse.. tefflox -at gmail.com. Will you send a url for a personal project of his? thanks..
sharpshoot
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.

[dead] NSX2
Try (if my understanding of what you're trying to do is correct): "I'd like to link a database full of terms with well-defined meanings to a graphics rendering engine so when I type "The dog runs in the green field" I get an instant green field with a dog running through it."
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tefflox
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.
sharpshoot
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.
[dead] tefflox
So what do you want from me? Affirmation of privilege? Compliance to some vague utopian model of 20th c. capitalism vis patriarchal tradition? I'm right here. It's unclear where you are. Clear that you aren't interested, except now to farther your own effusion of self esteem, and moreover then discount the life experienc of any other to disagree. I'm sure you can do lots of things very well, but for wit and force of action, you are overmatched right here, and on the ropes. I'm not your boy. I don't care who you are. I've taken harder hits than you could dream. So, what do you want from me?
timr
If this isn't incredible satire, it's just incredibly sad.
[dead] NSX2
Let me see if I get this: you want a database filled with words, and the words linked to a graphics rendering engine, so that if someone wrote, "The mighty oak between the streams that cuts through the green field" ... hypothetically you would be able to translate that into actually seeing an image of what the sentence describes?

So, you want to invent a new programming environment based on common language structure to ... make video games / virtual reality based on text descriptions?

[dead] tefflox
I am the king of the jungle, yes, and I have taken you all for a joyride.

You can reach me at tefflox -at gmail.com.