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About Inferencing | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog
Inferencing
Inferencing, or machine reasoning has a slightly unsavoury reputation perhaps stemming from the failure of Strong AI and its association with science fiction. This is a bit unfortunate and it could be argued that it has led Semantic Web technologies to be underdeveloped.With…
Adaptive Learning White Paper | Knewton
Adaptive learning
When most people use this phrase, what they’re really discussing is either a) single-point adaptivity, which evaluates a student’s performance at one point in time in order to determine the level of instruction or material she receives from that point on, or b) adaptive…
Information Anxiety 2
Learning
My expertise has always been my ignorance, my admission and acceptance of not knowing…. When you can admit that you don’t know, you are more likely to ask the questions that will enable you to learn. [quote found in Cairo's 'The Functional Art']
Mission Statement « Liquidfeedback – Interactive Democracy
Liquid democracy and delegated votes
A representative democracy is founded on the principle of elected individuals representing the people. Usually you elect a representative (individual or party) for a fixed term – if you change your mind during the term – you can’t do much about it. Also representatives usually…
Ontology And Reification
Quine: ontology is what variables range over
Quine wrote that one's ontology coincides with the ranges of the variables in one's formalism. This usage is entirely appropriate for AI. Present philosophers, Quine perhaps included, are often too stingy in the reifications they permit. It is sometimes necessary to quantify…
Richard Feynman On Religion, Science, The Search For Truth & Our Willingness To Live With Doubt - Open Culture
Agnosticism
“But what is truth?” asks a certain kind of skeptic. That, suggests the late Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman above, depends upon your method. If you’re doing science, you may find answers, but not necessarily the ones you want: "If you expected science to give all…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Metaphysics is fascination with the whole thing
Chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy are special fascinations with the details of our environment, but metaphysics is fascination with the whole thing. I find it almost impossible to imagine a sensitive human being bereft of metaphysical wonder, a person who does not have…
From the Ceramic Model to the Crackpot Model
Another powerful image is the Ceramic Model of the universe, in which we think of it as so many forms of one or more substances, as pots are forms of clay, and as God is said to have created Adam from the dust. This has been an especially troublesome image, bewildering…
Watts on Wittgenstein: wonder is not a disease
Ludwig Wittgenstein and other modern “logical” philosophers have tried to suppress this question by saying that it has no meaning and ought not to be asked. Most philosophical problems are to be solved by getting rid of them, by coming to the point where you see that such…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
An empty question about sameness
As long as you know what aspect of sameness matters to the questioner, you can provide an answer. If you’re a forensic investigator searching for traces of DNA left before the ship went into dock, the boat you want is the one rebuilt from original parts. If you’re Theseus, your…
The Tao Of Topic Maps
Occurrences link topics to resources
A topic may be linked to one or more information resources that are deemed to be relevant to the topic in some way. Such resources are called occurrences of the topic. An occurrence could be a monograph devoted to a particular topic, for example, or an article about the topic…
Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney)
Ask questions rather than tell
Piaget’s theory tells us that it will be more effective to ask questions that help children think through the problem on their own than to tell them flat out, “An iron would hurt the baby.” If they construct that knowledge for themselves by puzzling through the teacher’s…
Open-ended activities and questions
Open-ended activities do not have a predetermined result or product. For example, when a teacher plans a science experiment to which she already knows the answer, the experiment is not open-ended. However, when children plant seeds and chart the days until the shoot breaks…
Using Reason And Evidence To Do The Most Good - Effective Altruism
Effective altruism
Effective altruism is changing the way we do good. Effective altruism is about answering one simple question: how can we use our resources to help others the most? Rather than just doing what feels right, we use evidence and careful analysis to find the very best causes to work…