Academic knowledge if often pretty narrow. Recently I was searching for a way of describing human movement. It turns out that while biologists do have large controlled vocabularies for describing spiders, I couldn"t find a controlled vocabulary for the task that's done by good biologists.
It seems that the frameworks that are out there were done by dance theorists and aren"t well updated to the 21st century. And by that I mean it"s not trival to express everything in an XML file.
If you want to know which genes express which proteins than biologists are the right people to ask. On the other hand there a lot in biology, where biologists don"t know very much.
Recently I was searching for a way of describing human movement.
Can you tell me some more about that? (PM is fine if it's not relevant to LessWrong.) I have worked on procedural animation for sign languages, based on the HamNoSys notation, and I am interested in extending it to more general movement and more general applications.
I was just wondering. Human minds are messed up in 1001 ways, but are there a few rational principles that most people already have down? Of course, the answers to this question are probably so extremely obvious that I haven't even considered them. But I ask all the same.