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A New Semantic Similarity Based Measure For Assessing Research Publication’s Contribution
Impact depends on content, not interactions
In this paper, we present an approach for assessing the impact of a paper based on its full-text (Section 2). In this context, we use the term impact to refer to the research contribution to the discipline, which we believe is independent of the number of interactions in a…
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Infinitely many ways to represent numbers
Our concept of the number three can be represented as “3” in base ten, but as “0011” in binary. It is the same idea as using the word “three,” three fingers, or “III” to represent the concept of three. We likely use base ten to count because we have ten fingers and it naturally…
What 32-bit machines mean
You can begin to see why we refer to 64- and 32-bit machines to describe or classify computers—this corresponds naturally to the base two numbers. A 32-bit machine uses 32 bits to identify each address in its memory. This can also refer to the set of wires that connects the…
Sampling and quantization: from analog to digital
Analog signals are known as “continuous” and digital signals are called “discrete.” This distinction simply means that analog signals vary continuously in time, while discrete signals are chopped up into separate units at each time point—which is otherwise known as the sample…
The Mundurucu and words for numbers
Numerical cognition and its relationship to linguistic evolution is a large area of active research. In contrast to the Mangarevan example, where a complex cultural ecology involving a distributed trade network may have spurred the development of advanced math, the Mundurucu…
Language gives numbers their power
development cognitive psychologist Elizabeth Spelke calls this the “compositionality power” of language. It allows us to take the approximate sense of numerosity we are all born with and make sets out of the individual objects we estimate.43 Noam Chomsky has long claimed that…
Citation Indexes In Sociological And Historical Research
Importance vs impact of a paper; usage in selecting personnel
One purpose of this communication is to record my forewarning concerning the possible promiscuous and careless use of quantitative citation data for sociological evaluations, including personnel and fellowship selection. In particular, I wish to disassociate myself from such…
Epigrams On Programming
Computers process numbers, not symbols
Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers - not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity.
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
Religion against religions
The Breaking off of Churches.—There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.
Osx Dictionary
throng |THrôNG, THräNG
throng |THrôNG, THräNG| noun a large, densely packed crowd of people or animals: he pushed his way through the throng | a throng of birds. verb [ with obj. ] (of a crowd) fill or be present in (a place or area): a crowd thronged the station | the streets are thronged with…
Pluralism (philosophy) - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Ontological pluralism
Ludwig Wittgenstein's notion of language-games argues that there is no over-arching, single, fundamental ontology, but only a patchwork of overlapping interconnected ontologies ineluctably leading from one to another. For example, Wittgenstein discusses 'number' as technical…
Rdf Primer
Bags, sequences and alternatives
There is often a need to describe groups of things: for example, to say that a book was created by several authors, or to list the students in a course, or the software modules in a package. RDF provides several predefined (built-in) types and properties that can be used to…
Why properties are named with URIrefs
RDF uses URIrefs as predicates in RDF statements. That is, rather than using character strings (or words) such as "creator" or "name" to identify properties, RDF uses URIrefs. Using URIrefs to identify properties is important for a number of reasons. First, it distinguishes the…
Scrum (software Development) - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Sprint backlog (scrum)
The sprint backlog is the list of work the Development Team must address during the next sprint. The list is derived by selecting stories/features from the top of the product backlog until the Development Team feels it has enough work to fill the sprint. This is done by the…
Sick Of Impact Factors | Reciprocal Space
The way impact factor works
The impact factor might have started out as a good idea, but its time has come and gone. Conceived by Eugene Garfield in the 1970s as a useful tool for research libraries to judge the relative merits of journals when allocating their subscription budgets, the impact factor is…
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)
Peak during third hour
My only misgiving was that I had lost all sense of time. In itself this wasn’t particularly uncommon. To counter it, I had made a habit of always taking my dose at exactly twelve noon: twelve o’clock I could always remember, and I had only to look at my watch to tell my…
The Book Of Dead Philosophers (critchley, Simon)
Pythagorean numbers and the music of the spheres
Pythagorean doctrines were bound by an oath of secrecy, so we know very little prior to the version of them that appears in Plato. These include a belief in the immortality and transmigration of the soul and the view that the ultimate reality of the universe consists in number…
The Functional Art: An Introduction To Information Graphics And Visualization
Graphics are tools for the eyes and brain
By giving numbers a proper shape, by visually encoding them, the graphic has saved you time and energy that you would otherwise waste if you had to use a table that was not designed to aid your mind. The first and main goal of any graphic and visualization is to be a tool for…
The Tao Of Topic Maps
Topics and occurrences as two layers
An important point to note here is the separation into two layers of the topics and their occurrences. This separation is one of the clues to the power of topic maps and we shall return to it later. Occurrences, as we have already seen, may be of any number of different types…
Towards An Ontology Of Software: A Requirements Engineering Perspective
A program as an abstract artifact
Consider now a program, constituted by a certain code. Let us observe first that this is not a physical object, as it lacks a location in space. So, in pace with Irmak, we take a program to be a particular kind of abstract artifact. On one hand, it behaves like a type (or…