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The bat problem
The ‘Bat problem’ was coined by Japanese economist Yukio Noguchi to describe a problem which arises when classifying information and goods. Material things and information can have multiple attributes that are used descriptively depending on the context (Bats have the…
Iannotate — Whatever Happened To The Web As An Annotation System? | The Scholarly Kitchen
Personal versus social annotation
We need to distinguish personal annotation from social annotation. Much of Todd’s article seems to refer to the latter (note that this sentence refers to the entire article). Social annotation requires far more than placing anchors. The case I worked on was integrating public…
Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina)
Heuristics: good enough approximations
These tactical rules of thumb are called heuristics and crop up in AI systems everywhere. Heuristics don’t guarantee success or correctness, but offer a good approximation. Heuristics are used when more exhaustive and precise methods are intractable.
Kick The Can Down The Road - Idiom Definition - Usingenglish.com
Kick the can down the road
If you kick the can down the road, you delay a decision in hopes that the problem or issue will go away or somebody else will make the decision later.
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Research problems
In 1900 the German mathematician David Hilbert delivered a lecture in Paris in which he laid out the problems he thought mathematics might deal with in the coming century. Before getting to them he said what he thought were the general criteria which mark a good one. He…
Open-access Website Gets Tough : Nature News & Comment
DOAJ keeps dodgy journals out
When Lars Bjørnshauge founded a website to index open-access journals in 2003, just 300 titles made the list. But over the next decade, the open-access publishing market exploded, and Bjørnshauge’s Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) along with it. Today the DOAJ comprises…
Quotes About Introspection (133 Quotes)
Introspection
“The problem with introspection is that it has no end.” ― Philip K. Dick
Rdf Primer
Reuse existing vocabularies like Dublin Core
Even then, RDF's use of URIrefs does not solve all identification problems because, for example, people can still use different URIrefs to refer to the same thing. For this reason, it is a good idea to try to use terms from existing vocabularies (such as the Dublin Core) where…
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
Deep problems need a deeper level of thinking
Albert Einstein observed, “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” As we look around us and within us and recognize the problems created as we live and interact within the Personality Ethic, we begin to…
Solution selling
then to develop an effective presentation showing how their abilities can help solve the organization’s problem. It’s called “solution selling,” and is a key paradigm in business success.
Asking the proactive question
So on the third day, we decided to focus on the proactive question, “What is our response? What are we going to do? How can we exercise initiative in this situation?”
Direct, indirect and no-control problems
The problems we face fall in one of three areas: direct control (problems involving our own behavior); indirect control (problems involving other people’s behavior); or no control (problems we can do nothing about, such as our past or situational realities). The proactive…
The circle of influence is filled with be's
The Circle of Influence is filled with the be’s—I can be more patient, be wise, be loving. It’s the character focus. Anytime we think the problem is “out there,” that thought is the problem. We empower what’s out there to control us. The change paradigm is “outside-in”—what’s…
Working on roots prevents crises
Whether you are a student at the university, a worker in an assembly line, a homemaker, fashion designer, or president of a company, I believe that if you were to ask what lies in Quadrant II and cultivate the proactivity to go after it, you would find the same results. Your…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
Problems can only be transcended
For a moment I saw into the mind of God. Everything was equal—that was the secret. All creation was of a piece. Problems, and this was as clear as a bell, can never be solved, they can only be transcended. All you can do is step back into a larger and more inclusive frame; and…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Does technical progress get anywhere?
In solving problems, technology creates new problems, and we seem, as in Through the Looking-Glass, to have to keep running faster and faster to stay where we are. The question is then whether technical progress actually “gets anywhere” in the sense of increasing the delight…
The Functional Art: An Introduction To Information Graphics And Visualization
Form follows function and the Lamarckian fallacy
Another problem with Sullivan’s law is that the sentence “form follows function” indicates that the relationship between the two components is unidirectional. [..] The problem is that the world doesn’t work that way. A species doesn’t feel a need first (the function) and then…