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12 Untranslatable Words (and Their Translations) | David Shariatmadari | Commentisfree | The Guardian
Sapir-whorf hypothesis
These examples of “untranslatability” are all wrong or just silly in their various ways. But it’s hard to shake off the feeling that there’s some truth in the idea that speaking a different language makes you see the world slightly differently: as though wearing tinted glasses…
A New Semantic Similarity Based Measure For Assessing Research Publication’s Contribution
Assessing researchers without waiting for citations
important feature of this idea is that our method does not require as long delay for assessment as the widely used cita- tion counts (typically decades) and can be therefore applied also to fairly young researchers.
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
From vague to crisp ideas
During the course of writing this book, many of these ideas became more crisp, while others that started as crisp became more vague and fuzzy. The vague-to-crisp concept (stolen from computer scientist Leonid Perlovsky) plays a central role in this story. After researching and…
Digital Transformation At Wellcome Collection – Stacks
Understanding of our audiences
We embrace decisions based on an understanding of our audiences Understanding our users is at the heart of everything we do. We spend time understanding what they do, what they want to do, what they can’t do, and we test our ideas with them. We consider those who use Wellcome…
Fragmentations
Fragmentions: linking to words in a page
What if instead we combined these two ideas: use a fragment to identify part of a page mention words in the page as the identifier I’ve named these “fragmentions” To tell these apart from an id link, I suggest using a double hash — ## for the fragment, and then words that…
From Encyclopedia To Ontology: Toward Dynamic Representation Of The Discipline Of Philosophy
Classification of ideas according to semantic inheritance relationships
Perhaps the most noteworthy aspect of our approach is its classification of ideas according to semantic inheritance relationships holding between the contents of ideas rather than more formal inheritance relationships observed in their types (e.g. social or structural roles)…
Structural idea-types are used marginally
Information about the “idea type” is nonetheless useful for inferential purposes. For example, knowing whether an idea is of the type position or of the type distinction can constrain the types of relationships philosophers can have to it. The InPhO thus repre- sents this…
Criticism: is the sep ontology a representation of meta-philosophy?
Some readers may be skeptical of our statistical approach, supposing that we are engaged in a very dubious metaphilosophical methodology: to be arguing that because two terms frequently co-occur in the SEP , they ought to be seen as mutually relevant. We want to make clear that…
Ideas for a visualization system; open challenges for digital philosophy
Such a system would facilitate interaction with the encyclopedia for expert and novice users alike. Experts could see the “big picture” of an idea or philosopher in a glance, capturing a large amount of information in an efficient manner, and novices could surf through the…
How To Get Startup Ideas
On getting startup co-founders
This gets harder as you get older. While the space of ideas doesn't have dangerous local maxima, the space of careers does. There are fairly high walls between most of the paths people take through life, and the older you get, the higher the walls become.
Jesus Myth Theory
Myth
Remsburg then went further using David Strauss and John Fiske to explain that there were three kinds of myths: Historical, Philosophical, and Poetical. A Historical myth is "a real event colored by the light of antiquity, which confounded the human and divine, the natural and…
Live Notation: Transforming Matters Of Performance
Code as a medium for improvisation
Programming language source code underlies almost all digital technology. The emerging practice of Live Coding brings source code from technical craft to live performance; a shift from the idea of the computer program as a tool, towards the idea of computer code as a medium for…
Louie Is Finally Coming To The Uk | Television & Radio | The Guardian
American sitcom
Louis CK is exploding a few myths about one of pop culture's most hallowed spaces, the sitcom writers' room. The assumption goes that it's a boozy, thrilling free-for-all, where brilliant ideas pour continuously out of the mouths of equally brilliant people. Apparently not. "A…
Ontology Maturing With Lightweight Collaborative Ontology Editing Tools
Ontology building as a maturing process
Based on the knowledge maturing process introduced in [Sch05], we have to view ontology building as a maturing process (see fig. 1). It starts with some emerging ideas of the individual without having a clear or even shared terminology, communicated only informally. These vague…
Overview \ Processing.org
Sketching is scripting with compiled Java
Processing sketches are made up of one or more tabs, with each tab representing a piece of code. The environment is designed around projects that are a few pages of code, and often three to five tabs in total. This covers a significant number of projects developed to test and…
Power Systems: Conversations On Global Democratic Uprisings And The New Challenges To U.s. Empire
Reading a book is an intellectual exercise
And reading a book doesn’t just mean turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back to, asking how to place it in a broader context, pursuing the ideas. There’s no point in reading a book if you let it pass before your eyes and then…
Roles In High Demand: What Exactly Is A Creative Technologist? | Propel London | Digital Recruitment Agency | We Recruit Across The Whole Of Digital
Creative technologist
Primarily a senior position – ranging from £60k to £100k and beyond – Creative Technologists need to be both strategists and innovators. The ability to ‘rabid prototype’, or quickly assemble working models (of apps, for example), is often required, and they must be at the very…
Shantaram (gregory David Roberts)
God is impossible, therefore He exists
‘Well,’ I laughed, ‘I certainly don’t know God, and frankly I’m inclined to think that God is impossible to believe in, at least most of the notions of God that I’ve come across.’ ‘Oh, of course, naturally, God is impossible. That is the first proof that He exists.’ He was…
Taking Better Notes In Zotero – Profhacker - Blogs - The Chronicle Of Higher Education
Notes like index cards, not marginalia
This is all well and good for certain types of notes, such as summaries of books that I read for exams. It’s kind of like scribbling marginalia in a book. But this method is not so good for other types of notes, such as pieces of evidence or quotations. The problem is that…
Tf–idf - Wikipedia
Tf–idf with citations
The idea behind tf–idf also applies to entities other than terms. In 1998, the concept of idf was applied to citations.[9] The authors argued that "if a very uncommon citation is shared by two documents, this should be weighted more highly than a citation made by a large number…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
Eleusis and Plato's Forms
Did Eleusis birth the basic concepts of Western and Near Eastern metaphysics—the “Forms,” the “Ideas,” the “Archetypes”? The concept of another world, prior to, more pristine than this, from which we journey forth and to which we return in a richer, more highly evolved form?…
The Case For Working Less
Work less to enjoy life more
The idea that society might work less in order to enjoy life more goes against standard thinking that celebrates the virtue and discipline of hard work. Dedication to work, so the argument goes, is the best route to prosperity. There is also the idea that work offers the…
The Limits Of The Digital Humanities, By Adam Kirsch | New Republic
The false analogy between the humanities and the sciences: humanistic thinking is creative and it doesn't proceed by experiments
If computers cannot think better than human beings, digital humanists are left with the argument that at least they can think faster—the John Henry argument. In the essay “Developing Things: Notes toward an Epistemology of Building in the Humanities,” Ramsay and Geoffrey…
Transitions - Keith Haring
Death and art
“No matter how long you work, it’s always going to end sometime. And there’s always going to be things left undone. And it wouldn’t matter if you lived until you were seventy-five. There would still be new ideas. There would still be things that you wished you would have…
Www.edwardtufte.com
Celebrate your information, not your institution.
The best source for design ideas for your humanities portal is to look at other scholarly portals, lots of them. Find a straightforward, conventional, rich design (lots of information always in view), and follow that design. The general idea is: don't get it original, get it…