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Simia is the name of this website. It is the personal homepage of Denny Vrandečić, and reflects his interests, hobbies, research, and whatever else he wants to express here. It used to be called Nodix, but there were some issues with the name. It was renamed to Simia end of 2007. Thus Simia -- in its Nodix incarnation -- was created 14 January 2001, exactly one day before Wikipedia.
Simia has both a blog and other content pages, loosely coupled. It runs on Semantic MediaWiki. It's canonical URL is http://simia.net
The name Simia has several connotations:
- in biology it means ape or monkey. Simia was one of the four original genera of the primates, as introduced by Linnaeus himself. By 1929 it was decided to drop the genus, as all species who were considered simia have been sorted in other places in the taxonomy
- in the role playing game Das Schwarze Auge, Simia is the deity of creativity, and legends sing that Simia was the first of the elves to come out of the light
And I like the sound of it.
The following posts are about Simia:
- Moving to Germany (1 December 2023, English)
- Sam Altman and the veil of ignorance (18 November 2023, English)
- Babel (13 November 2023, English)
- Existential crises (4 November 2023, English)
- Wikidata crossed 2 billion edits (2 November 2023, English)
- The letter Đ (24 October 2023, English)
- Pastir Loda (19 October 2023, English)
- F in Croatian (15 October 2023, English)
- Do you hear the people sing? (5 October 2023, English)
- Immortal relationships (16 September 2023, English)
- Molly Holzschlag (1963-2023) (6 September 2023, English)
- Doug Lenat (1950-2023) (1 September 2023, English)
- Butter (4 August 2023, English)
- The Jones Brothers (16 July 2023, English)
- The Future of Knowledge Graphs in a World of Large Language Models (23 June 2023, English)
- Hot Skull (9 June 2023, English)
- The right to work (20 May 2023, English)
- Wikidata - The Making of (19 May 2023, English)
- 20 years of editing Wikipedia (11 May 2023, English)
- How much April 1st? (29 April 2023, English)
- No April Fool's day (28 March 2023, English)
- Gordon Moore (1929-2023) (25 March 2023, English)
- Last Unicorn dreamcast (22 March 2023, English)
- Running out of text (16 March 2023, English)
- Oscar winning families (13 March 2023, English)
- The place of birth of Ena Begović (24 February 2023, English)
- Ina Kramer (1948-2023) (15 February 2023, German)
- Connectionism and symbolism: The fall of the symbolists (26 January 2023, English)
- 22 years of Wikipedia (15 January 2023, English)
- Good bye, kuna! (9 January 2023, English)
- Happy New Year, 2023! (2 January 2023, English)
- Goal for Wikidata lexicographic data coverage 2023 (28 December 2022, English)
- Using ChatGPT for fact checking (21 December 2022, English)
- Economic impacts of large language models, a take (17 December 2022, English)
- ChatGPT lying like a child (8 December 2022, English)
- Tech layoffs of 2022 (18 November 2022, English)
- Galactica article about Denny Vrandečić (16 November 2022, English)
- Ten years of Wikidata (29 October 2022, English)
- Markus Krötzsch ISWC 2022 keynote (28 October 2022, English)
- Karl-Heinz Witzko (4 October 2022, German)
- RIP Steve Wilhite (23 March 2022, English)
- RIP Christopher Alexander (22 March 2022, English)
- Ante Vrandečić (1919-1944) (17 February 2022, English)
- A quick draft for a curriculum for Computer Science (13 February 2022, English)
- The Strange Case of Booker T. Washington’s Birthday (4 February 2022, English)
- Wordle is good and pure (26 January 2022, English)
- Meat Loaf (21 January 2022, English)
- Map of current Wikidata edits (16 January 2022, English)
- White's illusion (12 January 2022, English)
- She likes music, but only when the music is loud (9 January 2022, English)