Coming to end of second term

6 days left for the term to finish at last :D. Exams finished as well. Exams i could have done much much better but my laziness had brought me down from term one. This teaches me a lesson to work harder next time. The new semester will be a new page for me. Go get those exams tiger :D. This school newspaper is killing me. Lucky editors are great and doing excellent jobs.

Chem Exam Over wohoo

At last the exam ive been dreading the most "chemistry" is over. Now i can get back into my memory training. Gold Coast here i come. :D

Mindmapping and brainstorming

2 exams have finished alhamdullilah. 5 more to go. Bio exam tommorow and im just about to finish my revision. My strategy is to mindmap the subject and compare it to the course syllabus. My hopes are high so lets see how we go. I actually had a problem with picking a carrier to persue but a valuable friend of mine gave me some advice so i might go by that. Maybe she may be right.

gotta get back to work

Biology all the way :D

Today i had nearly spent all my day preping for my upcoming exams. First english, then maths, then biology. My head is literally killing me and i need to take two asprins. Hmm people ask me what keeps me motivated. First of all my sister is always on my back motivating me to do well. Secondly my circle of friends really inspire me. Yess Humeyra Abla that includes you :D. Im off to bed now. Probably just sleep on this headache of mine

Anyone knows how to stop subvocalisation??

Currently at school. Yipeee. With the cards ive been having a problem of subvocalisation lately. Hmm waiting for an email from Ben Pridmore (anyone who doesnt know Ben he was the WMC in 2004 and is currently ranked 2nd in the world, he is also a grandmaster) Lets see how we go. Also would anyone know of any flashcode generators??

Studying for Maths test and doing web designing

Soo todayy i was studying for my maths test for five bloddy chapters off the cambridge unit one essentials book. (arghhh i hate mathematics. Its my worst subject). I have also been continiuing my web designing project that im doing for a dear friend that i admire dearly (yess you know who you are) just a little clue she is a photographer . Shhhhh don tell anyone. HAHA

Anyways back to work

Powerset brings the Semantic Web to Wikipedia

Amid speculation that Microsoft is looking to make an acquisition, Powerset launched a public beta of its Wikipedia search engine. It brings a new, rich semantic dimension via natural language query processing to Wikipedia that greatly improves the search and reading experience.

The company calls it a first step in changing the way users search and consume Web content. "It's a complete shift. You see this and you want to experience all content in this way," Barney Pell, co-founder and CTO of Powerset, told me. "And, as an introduction, it will drive huge investment in semantic and linguistic technology, just as investments were made in information retrieval and scalable databases in the past. People working in this space will be very marketable."

Users can enter keywords, phrases, or simple questions in Powerset's search box. Like many Web startups, Powerset is currently free of advertising.

Powerset's natural language search technology is based on patents licensed exclusively from PARC and its own proprietary indexing. Powerset's engine has read 2.5 million Wikipedia pages and extracted "meaning" from the sentences, creating a navigation and semantic layer on top of the popular Web encyclopedia. Following is a pictorial tour of Powerset features:

Powerset has also indexed Freebase, Metaweb's evolving, open database of structured information. The search result page presents Factz, a summary of key information extracted from Wikipedia pages.

Factz can be expanded to display more of the extracted verbs and their associated words and concepts.

Powerset creates a summary of information, or Dossier, on the right side of the page with Freebase and Wikipedia to give users a quick outline view about a topic. Clicking on an item takes the user to the location in the article and highlights the reference.

Powerset generates a summary of the key Factz to create a kind of Cliff's Notes version of Wikipedia article. Clicking on a summary item takes the user to the reference location in the article and highlights the key words. Powerset also includes a page for disambiguation of queries.

Powerset also shows a tag cloud of things and actions found by its linguistic analysis engine on the page. Clicking on a word shows related Factz in the outline.

Powerset can provide direct answers to queries from its Wikipedia and Freebase index, and highlight the most relevant search results based on the meaning of the query. Hakia, another semantic search engine, as well as Google can also surface the date Picasso was born at the top of their results pages.

Powerset's Wikipedia search engine isn't going to slow down the Google in the near term, but it will raise the bar on the search experience for all players. "There are implications beyond Wikipedia," Pell said. " Search is not done. You can see the emerging Semantic Web with our integration of Wikipedia and Freebase. We will add other components with structured data and ways to answers questions."

Powerset has said that the longer term plan is to read, linguistically analyze and index 20 billion documents on the Web, which will be a costly and ambitious undertaking. (Getting acquired by Microsoft would be helpful for that project. Powerset has received $12.5 million in Series A funding from Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, and angel investors in 2006.)