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At work I’m dealing with this “Semantic Web” concept thingy. “Web 3.0″ it is called. Frankly I don’t see the point in it yet. The goal is to have the internet also contain data to ensure that computers can find relations in the data and such, not just pages with links that people can browse. One of our projects involves taking unstructured data and mining entities and relationships from it. I’ve picked up a book, the only book, on programming software to (ab)use the semantic web. So far, I am unimpressed. The source code in the book does not match the source code that you can download from the books website. And, the two different packages on the books website (one is just Chapter 2’s code, the other is all the code for the whole book) also had different code, and the “all encompassing” one was even missing the right files needed to run the code!

So yeah, unimpressed.

I’m noticing that these problems aren’t as much about learning the language as I’d have thought. They’re fairly simple tasks.

Anyways, here’s the second problem’s solution:
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