If 100 experts each curated 1000 pieces of data a day, it would take them 20,000,000 days to curate 2 trillion pieces of data.
Has WA been in development for longer than I suspect, or am I missing something here?
it says it makes use of lots of public data sets. i'm sure there's some implicit trust there.
thats not to say that there isn't exaggeration happening. probably is. i'm just saying, lets not throw them under the bus just yet, either.
Even if one person is curating 100,000 a day, it's still way too long of a time frame.
I just object to someone throwing around the word trillion, related to something people do by hand. I understand it's probably not a straight out lie, but it's a dumb statement regardless.
Let's also say that by 'piece-of-data', we're talking about the famous pirate unit, the piece-of-eight, a.k.a. byte.
So, we need an output of 2e12 bytes, produced by 100 experts, in, let's say, 200 days (about a metric work-year ;-).
That's 10e8 bytes/expert.day. A 100 MB table of reliable non-trivial data per day. Not totally out of the question, but finding twenty thousand of those ...