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Madeline Rupard

Linguists, robots, or aliens? - 0 views

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google translate language linguistic computer robot

shared by Madeline Rupard on 21 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Madeline Rupard on 21 Sep 10
     
    Flipping back to our conversation about getting computers to understand our language, this google video explains the very interesting method which Google Translate utilizes for understanding human language.
Kristi Koerner

BBC - Languages - Homepage - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/languages

education languages

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  • Kristi Koerner on 12 Nov 10
     
    Cool education tool
Gideon Burton

RFC 1866 - Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0 - 0 views

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berners-lee HTML history request for comments RFC

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    • Gideon Burton
      Gideon Burton on 30 Aug 12
       
      This historical document laying out hypertext markup language (HTML) is an example of how an emerging standard was codified. HTML had been around since 1990. Berners-Lee formalized the standard and the process of revising it further through this informal request for comments.
Gideon Burton

Dear Internet: It's No Longer OK to Not Know How Congress Works - 1 views

www.informationdiet.com/...o-not-know-how-congress-works-

congress government sopa politics

shared by Gideon Burton on 07 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • the federal government is not attached to Moore's Law
  • Here's an area for both some disruption and some lobbying. Let's build tools that allow members of Congress to aggregate messages being sent to them, and to associate those messages with congressional districts. Let's come up with a way for a member to see what their constituency is saying about any particular issue they'd like, and let's provide that as an open service so that anybody can see what a particular constituency is saying. That way, when a member has a track record of voting against the desires of a substantial portion of his or her district, we've got a record of it, and it can get brought up in the next election.
  • Right now, your voice online -- in the mediums you participate in, not only don't matter: legally they can't matter. Online identities don't count when it comes to the official record
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  • The skill of making software isn't just about making cool software. It's about rewiring society. The sooner we acknowledge that, the sooner we can get on with the rewiring, and hopefully with a watchful eye, rewire it for the better.
  • Gideon Burton on 07 Jan 12
     
    Very important article on those in the info culture needing to understand and speak the language of Congress in order to properly educate and influence it on internet related matters.
anonymous

Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker - 2 views

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      anonymous on 03 Feb 12
       
      Do you agree with this?
  • This is in many ways a wonderful thing. There is strength in weak ties, as the sociologist Mark Granovetter has observed. Our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. The Internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency. It’s terrific at the diffusion of innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, seamlessly matching up buyers and sellers, and the logistical functions of the dating world. But weak ties seldom lead to high-risk activism.
  • The evangelists of social media don’t understand this distinction; they seem to believe that a Facebook friend is the same as a real friend and that signing up for a donor registry in Silicon Valley today is activism in the same sense as sitting at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro in 1960.
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  • Boycotts and sit-ins and nonviolent confrontations—which were the weapons of choice for the civil-rights movement—are high-risk strategies. They leave little room for conflict and error. The moment even one protester deviates from the script and responds to provocation, the moral legitimacy of the entire protest is compromised.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 03 Feb 12
       
      But it was just a phone.
  • A networked, weak-tie world is good at things like helping Wall Streeters get phones back from teen-age girls.
  • These events in the early sixties became a civil-rights war that engulfed the South for the rest of the decade—and it happened without e-mail, texting, Facebook, or Twitter.
  • “It is time to get Twitter’s role in the events in Iran right,” Golnaz Esfandiari wrote, this past summer, in Foreign Policy. “Simply put: There was no Twitter Revolution inside Iran.”
  • The cadre of prominent bloggers, like Andrew Sullivan, who championed the role of social media in Iran, Esfandiari continued, misunderstood the situation. “Western journalists who couldn’t reach—or didn’t bother reaching?—people on the ground in Iran simply scrolled through the English-language tweets post with tag #iranelection,” she wrote. “Through it all, no one seemed to wonder why people trying to coordinate protests in Iran would be writing in any language other than Farsi.”
  • What mattered more was an applicant’s degree of personal connection to the civil-rights movement.
Chase McCloskey

Movement of Video Game language into Popular Culture - 0 views

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VideoGames language digiciv

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  • Chase McCloskey on 24 Sep 10
     
    This is an interesting phenomenon that I also chose to write about on my blog. There's still a lot that needs to be researched though.
Brad Twining

Bebop to the boolean boogie - 0 views

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boole digiciv

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  • Brad Twining on 07 Nov 10
     
    Great book preview for understanding the dry language of Computer algebra.
Madeline Rupard

A Tool to Pronounce Every Word in the World - 0 views

www.forvo.com/languages

digiciv open language technology international world

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  • Madeline Rupard on 19 Nov 10
     
    It is what it is. A pretty cool, relatively simple resource.
kosmik

Java course in Hyderabad - 0 views

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  • kosmik on 01 Mar 23
     
    If you're looking to learn Java in Hyderabad, Kosmik Technologies is a great place to start. With a team of experienced trainers and state-of-the-art facilities, Kosmik offers a comprehensive Java course that covers all aspects of the programming language. The course starts with an introduction to Java, covering topics like data types, control structures, and arrays. From there, you'll learn about object-oriented programming concepts like classes, objects, inheritance, and polymorphism. You'll also cover more advanced topics like interfaces, collections, and exception handling. The course is designed to be hands-on, with plenty of practical exercises and real-world examples. You'll get to work on projects that simulate real-world scenarios, giving you the opportunity to apply your newfound skills in a practical setting. At Kosmik, the trainers are not only knowledgeable and experienced, but also passionate about teaching. They take the time to explain complex concepts in a way that is easy to understand, and are always available to answer your questions and provide guidance. Overall, if you're looking for a comprehensive Java course in Hyderabad, Kosmik Technologies is an excellent choice. With its experienced trainers, practical approach, and state-of-the-art facilities, you'll get the skills and knowledge you need to succeed in the world of Java programming.
kosmik

Java training in hyderabad |java online training in hyderabad - 0 views

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java javacontentpdf

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  • kosmik on 06 Apr 23
     
    Kosmik Technologies Pvt Ltd is conducting a free online demo on Java. This demo is a great opportunity for individuals who are interested in learning Java or want to enhance their existing Java skills. The demo will cover the basics of Java programming language, its features, and its application in real-world scenarios. Participants will have the chance to interact with experienced Java developers and get their queries resolved. The online demo will be conducted in a user-friendly and interactive manner. Register now to be a part of this exciting opportunity and take the first step towards a successful career in Java programming.
Gideon Burton

I'm So Totally, Digitally Close to You - Clive Thompson - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Gideon Burton on 05 Sep 12 - Cached
  • Social scientists have a name for this sort of incessant online contact. They call it “ambient awareness.” It is, they say, very much like being physically near someone and picking up on his mood through the little things he does — body language, sighs, stray comments — out of the corner of your eye
  • This is the paradox of ambient awareness. Each little update — each individual bit of social information — is insignificant on its own, even supremely mundane. But taken together, over time, the little snippets coalesce into a surprisingly sophisticated portrait of your friends’ and family members’ lives, like thousands of dots making a pointillist painting
  • Gideon Burton on 05 Sep 12
     
    A 2008 article in which the new kinds of digital relationships made possible through Facebook and other social media are discussed. Digital friends have "ambient awareness" through news feeds, begging the question about kind of friendship and their authenticity.
Ariel Szuch

Should We Fear the Digital Economy Bill? - 0 views

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digital economy copyright intellectual property publishing

shared by Ariel Szuch on 30 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • This indicates that no proof of copyright infringement must exist in order to block a Web site, just an assumption that a violation has occurred or will occur. Such broad language means that Web sites large and small, from YouTube to your next door neighbor’s blog, are in danger if accusations of copyright infringement are made against them.
  • Without any obligation to provide proof of wrongdoing, the bill creates the potential for abuse and…dare we say it…censorship.
  • The other side of the argument is, of course, that entertainment companies and copyright holders lose billions of dollars due to online piracy and illegal filesharing of copyrighted works.
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  • People and companies that make a living on content and intellectual property have a very real need to protect their investments and creative assets. Measures such as DRM and ongoing legal battles don’t seem to have slowed down online piracy.
  • But are such extreme measures like the Digital Economy Bill really necessary to fight copyright infringement? Should the British government be allowed limitless power to block Web sites and Internet users?
James Wilcox

Smith: Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Chapter 1 | Library of Economics and Liberty - 2 views

www.econlib.org/library/Smith/smWN12.html#B.IV, Introduction

digiciv economy

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  • Among the Tartars, as among all other nations of shepherds, who are generally ignorant of the use of money, cattle are the instruments of commerce and the measures of value
    • James Wilcox
      James Wilcox on 12 Oct 10
       
      That so interesting that cattle became the measure of money and wealth.  It seems that for something to be money it has to be able to come in large quantities, not have much difference between one to another, and carry a consistent value.
    • James Wilcox
      James Wilcox on 12 Oct 10
       
      This notion of a Gold or currency base stands so consistent that it is hard for us today to break away and have a purely digital or credit economy.  But ever so slowly we are getting there.
  • When those countries became commercial, the merchants found this prohibition, upon many occasions, extremely inconvenient. They could frequently buy more advantageously with gold and silver than with any other commodity the foreign goods which they wanted, either to import into their own, or to carry to some other foreign country. They remonstrated, therefore, against this prohibition as hurtful to trade.
    • James Wilcox
      James Wilcox on 12 Oct 10
       
      This principle of protectionism holds true today and is still argued about by growing economies.  Not so commonly with gold but with all different types of key commodities.
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  • They represented, secondly, that this prohibition could not hinder the exportation of gold and silver, which, on account of the smallness of their bulk in proportion to their value, could easily be smuggled abroad.*9 That this exportation could only be prevented by a proper attention to, what they called, the balance of trade
    • James Wilcox
      James Wilcox on 12 Oct 10
       
      I have heard this same argument for illegal drugs.  I have heard people say we should legalize it so that it can be tracked and limited in a legal manner.
  • hat wealth consists in money, or and silver, is a popular notion which naturally arises from the double function of money, as the instrument of commerce and as the measure of value. In consequence of its being the instrument of commerce, when we have money we can more readily obtain whatever else we have occasion for than by means of any other commodity. The great affair, we always find, is to get money. When that is obtained, there is no difficulty in making any subsequent purchase. In consequence of its being the measure of value, we estimate that of all other commodities by the quantity of money which they will exchange for. We say of a rich man that he is worth a great deal, and of a poor man that he is worth very little money. A frugal man, or a man eager to be rich, is said to love money; and a careless, a generous, or a profuse man, is said to be indifferent about it. To grow rich is to get money; and wealth and money, in short, are, in common language, considered as in every respect synonymous.
Katherine Chipman

George Boole (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) - 0 views

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boole

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  • George Boole (1815–1864) was an English mathematician and a founder of the algebraic tradition in logic. He worked as a schoolmaster in England and from 1849 until his death as professor of mathematics at Queen's University, Cork, Ireland. He revolutionized logic by applying methods from the then-emerging field of symbolic algebra to logic. Where traditional (Aristotelian) logic relied on cataloging the valid syllogisms of various simple forms, Boole's method provided general algorithms in an algebraic language which applied to an infinite variety of arguments of arbitrary complexity.
  • Starting at the age of 16 it was necessary for Boole to find gainful employment, since his father was no longer capable of providing for the family. After 3 years working as a teacher in private schools, Boole decided, at the age of 19, to open his own small school in Lincoln. He would be a schoolmaster for the next 15 years, until 1849 when he became a professor at the newly opened Queen's University in Cork, Ireland. With heavy responsibilities for his parents and siblings, it is remarkable that he nonetheless found time during the years as a schoolmaster to continue his own education and to start a program of research, primarily on differential equations and the calculus of variations connected with the works of Laplace and Lagrange (which he studied in the original French).
  • Katherine Chipman on 14 Oct 10
     
    More about George Boole.
  • Katherine Chipman on 14 Oct 10
     
    This is fascinating that he began his career as a school teacher.
Bri Zabriskie

Plover: Freeing Stenography | Geek Feminism Blog - 0 views

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open source software stenography

shared by Bri Zabriskie on 13 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • overlap between the stenographic and computer geek worlds is bafflingly small, considering how vital efficient text entry is to virtually every tech field
  • on-commercial applications for stenographic technology.
  • into any X window using a $45 off-the-shelf keyboard.
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  • Steno is the only text input system that’s functionally equivalent to conversational human speech.
  • wearable computing is unlikely to really take off until we get the head-mounted display issue worked out, and I don’t currently have any idea of how to make that happen on a practical level.
  • could be attached to thighs, belly, biceps, or wherever,
    • Bri Zabriskie
      Bri Zabriskie on 13 Oct 10
       
      initial reaction? weird, weird weird weird!
  • phonetic system in your muscle memory.
    • Bri Zabriskie
      Bri Zabriskie on 13 Oct 10
       
      which is why TypeWell which expands words when you type all the consonants is so much easier to remember. Plus you can program your own abbreviations. It' makes mroe sense for the general public. And how are Deaf/ HoH people supposed to learn the phonetic system of what to them is a foreign language? That seems a bit short sighted to me. 
  • hackathon
    • Bri Zabriskie
      Bri Zabriskie on 13 Oct 10
       
      a what?
  • Bri Zabriskie on 13 Oct 10
     
    Interview with someone who's created an open source stenograpic keyboard emulator for transcription services. I work in transcription so I think this is pretty stinking awesome.
Madeline Rupard

Feedjit: Incredible Tracking Service - 0 views

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open government blog media security internet digiciv google communism big brother

shared by Madeline Rupard on 12 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Madeline Rupard on 12 Oct 10
     
    Yes, I never sleep. Anyways, I thought this sample page of visitors to a website about languages was incredibly precise and accurate. How does a computer get this knowledge, one might ask? (Does google have a tracker on where people come from to help their ads/ search services?)
Parker Woody

Boolean Data Type - 0 views

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digiciv tags boolean algebra boole

shared by Parker Woody on 18 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Most control structures use a test expression that executes either selection (as in the: if then else) or iteration (as in the while; do while; or for loops) based on the truthfulness or falseness of the expression. Thus, we often talk about the Boolean expression that is controlling the structure. Within many programming languages, this expression must be a Boolean expression and is governed by a tight set of rules. However, in C++ every data type can be used as a Boolean expression because the value of any data type within C++ can be demoted into a Boolean value.
Andrew DeWitt

xkcd: a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - 0 views

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  • Andrew DeWitt on 08 Nov 10
     
    A funny comic strip for the intellectually minded. Randall Munroe, the creator of xkcd must be an open-source kind of guy because he has put something like a Creative Commons (noncommercial, attribution) license on his work.
Megan Stern

This Is Just To Say- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - 0 views

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digiciv Modernism

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  • Megan Stern on 27 Oct 10
     
    A very famous Modernist poem. In stark contrast to e e cummings' poem, this one deviates from the norm by being so prosaic in its language.
Kristi Koerner

Wilfred Owen - Greatest War Poet in the English Language - 0 views

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  • Kristi Koerner on 28 Oct 10
     
    More about Wilfred Owen
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