This roadmap navigates through the centrifugal forces of Burkean theory by arranging concepts around the central principle of a complementary duality between formal structure and psycho-social dynamic that comes together at many different levels in Burke’s thought, but particularly in his coinage of certain key terms that for him express both formal and social aspects [...]
Douglas Hofstadter examines the role and contributions of analogy in cognition, using a variety of analogies to illustrate his points. via YouTube – Analogy as the Core of Cognition.
Before proceeding one should assess the nature of the environment. A bookstore or library is a fine place for this. The presence of books by Philip K. Dick indicates a fictional universe. via Infictive Research – Uncle freddie’s guide for the ground level operative.
ABNER ABNER is a statistical named entity recognizer “using linear-chain conditional random fields (CRFs) with a variety of orthographic and contextual features. Version 1.5 includes two models trained on the NLPBA and BioCreative corpora, for which performance is roughly state of the art. The new version also includes a Java API allowing users to incorporate [...]
While First Wave Feminism focused on suffrage, and Second Wave Feminism focused on getting women ahead in the workplace, many of the more recent fractured feminist movements have continued to ignore the importance of play and leisure in everyday lives. This all-work-and-no-play focus has ricocheted to future feminisms: none have successfully reclaimed leisure and play. [...]
It’s the fast-growing social network and attracts far less attention than its far smaller rivals such as Twitter. And it is the users, not the site, who grab chunks of content to link to. via Facebook: friend or foe? | Media | The Guardian.
The killing of Americans through anthrax letters isn’t itself a useful end to the terrorists. Instead, the terrorists perceive that the communication of horror — not disease — through the country, along with the polarization of overseas opinion accomplished through viral marketing, will eventually lead to the adoption of their policy goals. To counter propaganda [...]
Have you used an online persona to accomplish self-transformation? I’m doing research for my hypersigil project currently thinking it will take the form of a free e-book, and then be extended into something else from there, and I’m looking for personal stories from people who have attempted to use online personas to make changes in [...]
She gives 5 tips, here’s the first 3… 1. Don’t follow just for numbers – Twitter is your chance to really get to know real people. The numbers may be worthless if you cannot connect and inspire others. 2. They are not mere avatars – They are human beings that live and breath. Twitter is [...]
The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open Source project based at Tufts University. The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information. via Visual Understanding Environment.
Seeds of AI at Google — how the internet is shaping intelligence and learning and, in turn, the role of human culture in natural selection via Director of Research at Google and AI genius | MetaFilter.
The agent changes by learning something new, the information changes by the knowledge the agent already had. Therefore, a meme reaching an agent, will be transmitted in a changed form. Thus, cultural evolution is Lamarckian: characteristics acquired during the lifetime of the meme’s carrier can be transmitted to later carriers selectively, depending on their fitness. [...]
His ideas of the mneme based on the Greek goddess, Mneme, the muse of memory were developed upon early in the 20th century. The mneme represented the memory of an external-to-internal experience. The resulting “mnemic trace” or “engram” would be revived when an element resembling a component of the original complex of stimuli was encountered. [...]
“Infictive is not an adjective (despite what its etymology may lead you to believe) — it is a subspace. It is not limited to the county bearing its namesake, but is instead an encompassing state of ultra-real. It is nothing which you can possess, nor is it a quality which can be attributed to any [...]
Today, all human communication is threaded, multi-participatory, multimodal, asynchronous, proximally indistinct, ubiquitous, continuous, and entirely pervasive. Given this enormous change in the ground conditions, it seems perfectly sensible that we should rethink the basic instrument of electronic communication. As the most concrete and pervasive manifestation of cyberspace, the mobile telephone establishes new cultural patterns of [...]
Of course merely having problems isn’t ENOUGH to qualify someone to help you. The next thing they need to have done is LEARNED from it. What have they learned about coping with, or solving the problem that you have? Even someone only slightly ahead of you on the recovery curve can help you. Next, they [...]
With all current fuss about automated content for SEO I've found the recent changes by Google here and here have only greatly diminished the value of SEO for the most valuable keywords those that have transactional value. via Jonathan Mendez’s Blog: Rising Tide of PPC Means SEO is Sinking.