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A Third Industrial Revolution | The Economist
Digital manufacturing as a third industrial revolution
Everything in the factories of the future will be run by smarter software. Digitisation in manufacturing will have a disruptive effect every bit as big as in other industries that have gone digital, such as office equipment, telecoms, photography, music, publishing and films…
Additive manufacturing
And at the most recent EuroMold fair, last November, another group of machines was on display: three-dimensional (3D) printers. Instead of bashing, bending and cutting material the way it always has been, 3D printers build things by depositing material, layer by layer. That is…
Adesso basta (Simone Perotti)
L'inventario dei primi quarant'anni
Ho rovistato tra i miei abiti, li ho selezionati in base al cuore e in base alla logica. Ho passato al setaccio tutto quello che possedevo, per inventariarlo dopo tanti anni, per capire cosa mi portavo dietro, quale fosse l’eredità dei miei primi quarant’anni, e cosa avrei…
Baconian Method - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Bacon's idols of the mind
Bacon also listed what he called the idols (false images) of the mind. He described these as things which obstructed the path of correct scientific reasoning. Idols of the Tribe (Idola tribus): This is humans' tendency to perceive more order and regularity in systems than truly…
Boro Method (wikipedia Contributors)
BORO identifies concepts by their extent
Traditional methods of data analysis tend to be linguistic; comparison of concepts is based on the names these concepts have. More modern methods have introduced a more semantic approach, where the analyst will tend to analyse the meaning behind a word. Although these methods…
Bulletin February/march 2015
Information science is much older than the information technology boom in the 1990s
One only has to open a book such as Walker’s 1971 edited volume [15] documenting one of the first workshops about interactive information retrieval, Interactive Bibliographic Search: The User/Computer Interface, which contains citations to hundreds of studies, to appreciate the…
Cool Uris For The Semantic Web
URIs for things that are not web pages
Web documents have always been addressed with URIs (in common parlance often referred as Uniform Resource Locators, URLs). This is useful because it means we can easily make RDF statements about Web pages, but also dangerous because we can easily mix up Web pages and the…
Designing A Url Structure For Bbc Programmes | Smethurst
Versions influence genre and formats
Because an episode could be recut and the duration altered lots of things about that episode have the potential to change between versions. So the segments / running order / music played and contributors might change which is why they were modelled at version level. Or the…
Digital Hhermeneutics
Digital ontology
Digital hermeneutics is based on digital ontology, a concept that Michael Eldred (2001) and the author developed some years ago (Capurro 2001). What is digital ontology? Eldred writes: As long as we remain 'embedded' unquestioningly in the digital casting, everything is…
Edge.org
Consciousness and subjective experience
Our usual rule of thumb for the presence of consciousness is to assess, based on superficial cues, how similar to ourselves something appears to be. Thus a dog is more conscious than a duck, which in turn is more conscious than a daffodil. But our intuitions about so many…
Epigrams On Programming
Things no language can say well
There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.
Harnessing The Power Of Data Discovery: Pt. 2 | Yarcdata
Graph database vs relational database
The marketing manager is hypothesis-testing: she might use this data for a while and then realize that adding geographic information would be useful too since a marathon is going to take place in this town. This way, she can figure out which folks and their friends who live in…
Hierarchical Tags
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…
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
Nature is fundamentally illogical
The illogical is so imbedded in the passions, in language, in art, in religion and, above all, in everything that imparts value to life that it cannot be taken away without irreparably injuring those beautiful things. Only men of the utmost simplicity can believe that the…
Astrology and morality
Astrology and the Like.—It is presumable that the objects of the religious, moral, aesthetic and logical notions pertain simply to the superficialities of things, although man flatters himself with the thought that here at least he is getting to the heart of the cosmos. [...]…
It's hard to believe that the Christian doctrines are still believed
Christianity as Antiquity.—When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ringing, we ask ourselves: Is it possible? All this for a Jew crucified two thousand years ago who said he was God's son? The proof of such an assertion is lacking.—Certainly, the Christian religion…
The free spirit overturns whatever he finds veiled or protected by any reverential awe
With a sardonic laugh he overturns whatever he finds veiled or protected by any reverential awe: he would see what these things look like when they are overturned. It is wilfulness and delight in the wilfulness of it, if he now, perhaps, gives his approval to that which has…
Science should give us a chemistry of the moral, religious, aesthetic conceptions and feeling
Chemistry of the Notions and the Feelings.—Philosophical problems, in almost all their aspects, present themselves in the same interrogative formula now that they did two thousand years ago: how can a thing develop out of its antithesis? for example, the reasonable from the…
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…
Everything is necessity—so says the new knowledge: and this knowledge is itself necessity. All is guiltlessness, and knowledge is the way to insight into this guiltlessness.
The sun of a new gospel sheds its first ray upon the loftiest height in the souls of those few: but the clouds are massed there, too, thicker than ever, and not far apart are the brightest sunlight and the deepest gloom. Everything is necessity—so says the new knowledge: and…
I, Steve: Steve Jobs In His Own Words Via 200 Quotes | Brain Pickings
Creativity
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve…
Internationalized Resource Identifiers (iris)
The philosophical problem of identifiers
There is a philosophical problem with all identifiers, particularly obvious in an international context. Identifiers are not only used by computers, but also by humans. Humans have a strong preference for using mnemonic names: you call the address field in a form address and…
Lessons From My Career Change: Five Ways To Make Your Move Sustainable | Guardian Careers | Guardian Professional
Career change: take conscious action
Recognise what you can and cannot control, and do things with purpose. I cannot change the world around me. I cannot change others. But I do have control over my thoughts and actions. I don't have to live subject to the things or people I experience. I choose how I treat…
Linguisticdatastructure (gold-2009)
Linguistic data structure
Thing | Abstract | Linguistic Data Structure Direct SubConcepts: FeatureSpecification FeatureDistributionSystem FeatureAssignmentSystem FeatureConstraint FeatureStructure FeatureSystem InterlinearGlossedText LexicalItem Lexicon StructuralDescription Term Termset Definition: A…
Medieval Semiotics (meier-oeser, Stephan)
Words signify, as it were, infinitely many things
Even if impositio in the described sense is of pivotal importance for the constitution of linguistic meaning, the signification of words is by no means limited to it: “a vocal expression signifies many things for which it is not imposed, as it signifies all those things that…
The borderline between things and signs and thus the sign itself is defined functionally rather than ontologically
attributing a fundamental epistemic function to the sign, claiming that “all instruction is either about things or about signs; but things are learnt by means of signs” (Omnis doctrina vel rerum est vel signorum, sed res per signa discuntur) (Augustine De doctr. chr. I 1, 1963…
Bacon abandons the model of the semantic triangle: words signify the things themselves
2) In his account of signification of words regarding their ‘impositio’ Bacon accentuates the arbitrariness of meaning.[28] But even though the first ‘impositor’ (name-giver) is free to impose a word or sign on anything whatsoever, he does perform the act of imposition…
Ockham's logic and the mentalization of sign
Ockham's logic marks an important, though not the only important, step in the process that might be described as a progressive ‘mentalization’ of sign. The idea behind this process is the contention that without some sort of ‘intentionality’ the phenomena of sign, signification…
Boethius commenting on Aristotle
in his more elaborate second commentary on Peri Hermeneias, Boethius discusses at length the interrelations between the four elements of linguistic semeiosis mentioned by Aristotle, i.e., between external objects or things (res), mental concepts or representations (passiones…
Nigel Farage: Nhs 'negligence' Over Testicular Cancer Almost Killed Me | Politics | The Guardian
Death and risk taking
He added: “Having nearly died three times has made me a much bigger risk-taker. When you think your life is about to be taken away and you are given it back, you just want to get on and do things.”
Nishida Kitarō (stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy)
Nishida's logic of place
If judgments describe things and states of affairs and thus would give us access to reality by setting themselves over-against that reality, we must step back as it were and consider a wider reality that includes judgments. In other words, we must place judgments that predicate…
To be is to be within nothingness
Nishida initially formulated his logic of place or topos to counter Neo-Kantian epistemology that took knowledge to be the subject's form-ruled construction of an objective world. He sought not only to undermine the distinctions between subjective and objective but also to…
Oliver Burkeman | Journalist And Author | How To Be Interesting – And Why The Best Bits Of Life Are More Than 'interesting'
Interestingness vs truth
Do you long to become a "thought leader", thinkfluencing your way from TED talk to tech conference, lauded for your insights? I hope not. But if so, you could do worse than consult a paper published in 1971 by the maverick sociologist Murray Davis, entitled "That's…
Ontology
Logic plus ontology makes a language
The subject of ontology is the study of the categories of things that exist or may exist in some domain. The product of such a study, called an ontology, is a catalog of the types of things that are assumed to exist in a domain of interest D from the perspective of a person who…
Ontology And The Art Of Not Designing | In Context
Ontology is an exercise in detection not creation
Requirements have no effect on meaning. Concepts are unaffected by whether or not you choose to include them in an application. If a given concept is that of a relative thing then that is the only thing it can mean; if you need to stand it up in an ontology at all, you need to…
Rdf Primer
RDF identifies with URIrefs, browsers retrieve
Both RDF and Web browsers use URIrefs to identify things. However, RDF and browsers interpret URIrefs in slightly different ways. This is because RDF uses URIrefs only to identify things, while browsers also use URIrefs to retrieve things. Often there is no effective…
Anyone can mint a URI
..the Web provides a general form of identifier, called the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), for identifying (naming) resources on the Web. Unlike URLs, URIs are not limited to identifying things that have network locations, or use other computer access mechanisms. A number…
RDF statements: subject, predicate, object
RDF is based on the idea that the things being described have properties which have values, and that resources can be described by making statements, similar to those above, that specify those properties and values. RDF uses a particular terminology for talking about the…
RDF only represents binary relations
The beginning of this section noted that aggregate structures, like John Smith's address, can be represented by considering the aggregate thing to be described as a separate resource, and then making statements about that new resource. This example illustrates an important…
PRISM: discovery, rights tracking and end-to-end metadata
This overall goal requires a metadata approach that emphasizes discovery, rights tracking, and end-to-end metadata. Discovery: Discovery is a general term for finding content which encompasses searching, browsing, content routing, and other techniques. Discussions of discovery…
Reification is not quotation
It is also important to note that the interpretation of reification described here is not the same as "quotation", as found in some languages. Instead, the reification describes the relationship between a particular instance of a triple and the resources the triple refers to…
Vocabularies for types, properties and values
However, in addition to the basic techniques for describing things using RDF statements discussed so far, it should be clear that people or organizations also need a way to describe the vocabularies (terms) they intend to use in those statements, specifically, vocabularies for…
RDF: metadata about things on the Web
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a language for representing information about resources in the World Wide Web. It is particularly intended for representing metadata about Web resources, such as the title, author, and modification date of a Web page, copyright and…
Rdfs Vs. Owl - Cambridge Semantics
1st Difference: Vocabular
1st Difference: Vocabulary Of the differences between RDFS and OWL, the most important is just that OWL provides a far, far larger vocabulary that you can use to say things. For example, OWL includes all your old friends from RDFS such as rdfs:type, rdfs:domain, and…
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…
A tawdry business, gangster-style
The whole hanging-the-cunt-up-over-the-acid thing, it was all a bit—what did you call it, Salman? What was the word?’ ‘Tawdry,’ Salman suggested. ‘Yeah. Taw-fuckin-dry the whole thing. Farid, he likes to get respect, or cut to the chase and gun the motherfucker down, like. So,
Seize the loving, honest moment
Returning their warm handshakes, I moved past the young men to Kavita Singh sitting beside them. Kavita stood to give me a hug. It was the tender, close hug that a woman gives a man when she knows she can trust him, or when she’s sure his heart belongs to someone else. It was a…
The sin in the crime
For me, the most important thing is the amount of sin that is in the crime. You asked me, just now, why we do not make money from prostitution and drugs, as the other councils do, and I tell you it is because of the sin that is in those crimes. It is for this reason that I will…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
The body is in the soul
It is not enough, therefore, to describe, define, and try to understand things or events by analysis alone, by taking them to pieces to find out “how they are made.” This tells us much, but probably rather less than half the story. Today, scientists are more and more aware that…
Without enjoyment we have nothing to give
The reason is not just that we are too much in a hurry and have no sense of the present; not just that we cannot afford the type of labor that such things would now involve, nor just that we prefer money to materials. The reason is that we have scrubbed the world clean of…
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…
Many things which we felt to be basic realities of nature are social fictions
We have now found out that many things which we felt to be basic realities of nature are social fictions, arising from commonly accepted or traditional ways of thinking about the world. These fictions have included: 1. The notion that the world is made up or composed of…
One's human nature
If, then, I am not saying that you ought to awaken from the ego-illusion and help save the world from disaster, why The Book? Why not sit back and let things take their course? Simply that it is part of “things taking their course” that I write. As a human being it is just my…
Prickles versus goo
I have sometimes thought that all philosophical disputes could be reduced to an argument between the partisans of “prickles” and the partisans of “goo.” The prickly people are tough-minded, rigorous, and precise, and like to stress differences and divisions between things. They…
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…
Purposeless play gives survival a point
A Chinese philosophical work called The Secret of the Golden Flower says that “when purpose has been used to achieve purposelessness, the thing has been grasped.” For a society surviving to no purpose is one that makes no provision for purposeless behavior—that is, for actions…
Celebrating the great awakening of death
This is no more saying that we ought not to fear death than I was saying that we ought to be unselfish. Suppressing the fear of death makes it all the stronger. The point is only to know, beyond any shadow of doubt, that “I” and all other “things” now present will vanish, until…
All knowledge is in terms of contrasts
Yet metaphysics, like philosophy as a whole, is not something which can simply be cured or abandoned, as if it were an intellectual disease. The most antimeta-physical philosophers have, in fact, a tacit metaphysics of their own, which lurks behind the assertion that all…
Removing the illusion of oneself as a separate ego does not mean being “unselfish”
But this must not be confused with our usual ideas of the practice of “unselfishness,” which is the effort to identify with others and their needs while still under the strong illusion of being no more than a skin-contained ego. Such “unselfishness” is apt to be a highly…
Man is an action of the world
To say that man is an action of the world is not to define him as a “thing” which is helplessly pushed around by all other “things.” We have to get beyond Newton’s vision of the world as a system of billiard balls in which every individual ball is passively knocked about by all…
The Essence Of The Essence Of Constructivism
The essence of constructivism
In one famous article dating from 1988 (German edition 1998), Maturana states that the problem of reality is “the most important problem of our time”. I fully agree with him and I think that realism needs to be expressively refuted and the choice between realism and…
The Limits Of The Digital Humanities, By Adam Kirsch | New Republic
This is not Luddism?
The best thing that the humanities could do at this moment, then, is not to embrace the momentum of the digital, the tech tsunami, but to resist it and to critique it. This is not Luddism
The Tao Of Topic Maps
A thesaurus is a network of related terms
A thesaurus, on the other hand, emphasizes other aspects of an index. It is basically a network of interrelated terms within a particular domain, and although it will often contain other information (such as definitions, examples of usage, etc.), the key feature of a thesaurus…
Three C’s Of Ontology Engineering
Choosing what to model in an ontology
There is clearly a grey area in choosing at what level you should start modelling an abstraction layer in your ontology. This line should be drawn at the point at which the things you are modelling fall into your domain - i.e. the boundary (contract) at which your internal…
Tim Lott – Zen Buddhism And Alan Watts
Zen and science
While it is refreshing that Zen philosophy is supported in many ways by present scientific knowledge, it is also a critique of scientific thought. The scientific tradition requires things up to be cut up — both mentally and physically — into smaller and small pieces to…
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…
Unknown Source
Things that matter
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter
What Are The Differences Between A Vocabulary, A Taxonomy, A Thesaurus, An Ontology, And A Meta-model?
The many meanings of ontology
People use the word ontology to mean different things, e.g. glossaries & data dictionaries, thesauri & taxonomies, schemas & data models, and formal ontologies & inference. A formal ontology is a controlled vocabulary expressed in an ontology representation…
What Will Happen When The Internet Of Things Becomes Artificially Intelligent? | Technology | The Guardian
Internet of things
Running parallel to the extraordinary advances in the field of AI is the even bigger development of what is loosely called, the internet of things (IoT). This can be broadly described as the emergence of countless objects, animals and even people with uniquely identifiable…
Where Are The Semantics In The Semantic Web?
The evolving web
Various Perspectives for Characterising the Web: - Locating Resources: The way people find things on the Web is evolving from simple free text and keyword search to more sophisticated semantic techniques both for search and navigation. - Users: Web resources are evolving from…
Yet Another Post About Google (not Really) Removing The Url Bar From Chrome | Smethurst
URLs stopped being identifiers and became labels
A few years back I always used to say a good URL should be three things: - Persistent - Readable - Hackable And the greatest of these was persistent. Three is a nice number and I enjoy a biblical reference or two but I’m not sure I ever really thought hackable mattered. It’s a…
Zappa Quotes
The cool-person syndrome
The cool-person syndrome is peculiarly American. Part of that has to do with the way the educational business is run in the U. S. It’s not based on how much you can teach your child: it’s based on how much money the suppliers of basic materials can make off your child…