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A New Semantic Similarity Based Measure For Assessing Research Publication’s Contribution
Judging a paper without reading it
The use of the current research publications performance metrics (citations, altmetrics, webometris, etc) is, in our opinion, based on a false premise that the impact (or even quality) of a research paper can be assessed purely based on external data without considering the…
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Make AI's hidden assumptions explicit
To reiterate, there are a few fundamental and implicit assumptions in current AI research that have to be made explicit. This is the only way that these assumptions can be acknowledged and improved upon before we can hope to create the world that Kurzweil and others imagine. I…
A principle of intellectual integrity
Identify all of the assumptions upon which you base your theoretical commitments, then state these assumptions as clearly as possible, and finally examine these assumptions as critically as possible. For what it’s worth, I am quite ambivalent about this future. I love…
What if there is no such thing as computation?
This metaphysical assumption—that human thought is based on objective computational rules—determines much of the methodology used in research on human psychology and artificial thought. But what if this assumption is wrong? What if there is no such thing as a computation?
Description Logic - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Unique name assumption
There are two features of Description Logic that are not shared by most other data description formalisms: DL does not make the Unique Name Assumption (UNA) or the Closed World Assumption (CWA). Not having UNA means that two concepts with different names may be allowed by some…
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
Logic and mathematics
Logic itself rests upon assumptions to which nothing in the world of reality corresponds. For example, the correspondence of certain things to one another and the identity of those things at different periods of time are assumptions pure and simple, but the science of logic…
The Diggicore Project: Aggregating And Mining The World Of Open Access Articles
Citations are insufficient evidence of impact
The assumption of our research is that citations themselves are an insufficient evidence of impact.
The Lean Startup (Eric Ries)
Leap-of-faith assumptions and the minimum viable product
To apply the scientific method to a startup, we need to identify which hypotheses to test. I call the riskiest elements of a startup’s plan, the parts on which everything depends, leap-of-faith assumptions. The two most important assumptions are the value hypothesis and the…
Where Are The Semantics In The Semantic Web?
Problem of incompatible conceptualizations
Even with a uniform language, there may still be incompatible assumptions in the conceptualization. For example, in [Hayes 96] it is shown that two representations for time, one based on time intervals and another based on time points, are fundamentally incompatible. That is…