<story><title>What if journalists had story writing tools as powerful as those used by coders?</title><url>http://pudo.org/blog/2014/12/03/newsclipse.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Alex3917</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been messing around with something similar, specifically though focused on tracking strengths and weaknesses in US infrastructure:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alexkrupp.com/Citevault.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.alexkrupp.com&amp;#x2F;Citevault.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s actually a lot easier than you&amp;#x27;d think, because thanks to Zipf&amp;#x27;s law pretty much every article in these evergreen topic areas is using the same set of 1,000 or so facts. And these facts mostly come from the same set of government or NGE reports, which are updated at most once a year, and often only once every ten years.&lt;p&gt;The cool thing is that you can then use a javascript snippet to track which facts are being used in which documents, automatically mark facts as outdated when they change, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MrBuddyCasino</author><text>Thats a really great idea! We definitely need some primary source of truth to refute all this half-wisdom thats going around, and of course to self-educate.&lt;p&gt;Not to nitpick, but I looked up a single random article, namely &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alexkrupp.com/Citevault.html#parenting&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.alexkrupp.com&amp;#x2F;Citevault.html#parenting&lt;/a&gt;, and Wikipedia says its not that simple:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;An attempt to replicate this study in 5934 8 year old children failed: No relationship of the common C allele to negative effects of formula feeding was apparent, and contra to the original report, the rare GG homozygote children performed worse when formula fed than other children on formula milk.[5] A study of over 700 families recently found no evidence for either main or moderating effects of the original SNP (rs174575), nor of two additional FADS2 polymorphisms (rs1535 and rs174583), nor any effect of maternal FADS2 status on offspring IQ.[6]&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FADS2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;FADS2&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>What if journalists had story writing tools as powerful as those used by coders?</title><url>http://pudo.org/blog/2014/12/03/newsclipse.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Alex3917</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been messing around with something similar, specifically though focused on tracking strengths and weaknesses in US infrastructure:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alexkrupp.com/Citevault.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.alexkrupp.com&amp;#x2F;Citevault.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s actually a lot easier than you&amp;#x27;d think, because thanks to Zipf&amp;#x27;s law pretty much every article in these evergreen topic areas is using the same set of 1,000 or so facts. And these facts mostly come from the same set of government or NGE reports, which are updated at most once a year, and often only once every ten years.&lt;p&gt;The cool thing is that you can then use a javascript snippet to track which facts are being used in which documents, automatically mark facts as outdated when they change, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mnarayan01</author><text>Bookmarked. Editing nit in the FAQ.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  C.f. comments on Peter Thiel&amp;#x27;s graph of the year...
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Should be &amp;quot;Cf.&amp;quot; -- also I believe &amp;quot;cf.&amp;quot; should be read as &amp;quot;compare&amp;quot;, so really it shouldn&amp;#x27;t even be that (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cf.&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Cf.&lt;/a&gt;)</text></comment>