Alexa vs. Siri vs. Google: Which Can Carry on a Conversation Best? - 1 views
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Just in case you were under the misimpression that artificial intelligence will be taking over the world shortly, this article suggests that digital assistants really can't even handle the sort of everyday linguistic interaction that humans take for granted. Still, it is interesting to find out how product engineers are designing the assistants to become "smarter" at comprehending your words and requests. Machine learning algorithms can help devices deal with turn-by-turn exchanges. But each verbal exchange is limited to a simple, three- or four-turn conversation.
You Still Need Your Brain - 0 views
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Daniel T. Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, notes that while Google is good at finding information, the brain beats it in two essential ways. 1. Context: Champions of Google underestimate how much the meaning of words and sentences changes with context. With the right knowledge in memory, your brain deftly puts words in context. 2. Speed Quick access is supposed to be a great advantage of using the internet. Students have always been able to look up the quadratic equation rather than memorize it, but opening a new browser tab takes moments, not the minutes required to locate the right page in the right book. Yet "moments" is still much slower than the brain operates. That's why the National Mathematics Advisory Panel listed "quick and effortless recall of facts" as one essential of math education. Speed matters for reading, too. Researchers report that readers need to know at least 95 percent of the words in a text for comfortable absorption. Pausing to find a word definition is disruptive. Good readers have reliable, speedy connections among the brain representations of spelling, sound and meaning. Speed matters because it allows other important work - for example, puzzling out the meaning of phrases - to proceed. Using knowledge in the head is also self-sustaining, whereas using knowledge from the internet is not. Every time you retrieve information from memory, it becomes a bit easier to find it the next time.
Linguistics of American Sign Language: An Introduction - Clayton Valli, Ceil Lucas - Go... - 0 views
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the part of this text that I was able to read, talked about the basics of sign language and how it is characterized as a language in the field of linguistics. This text explains how there are different meanings for similar signs based on hand shape, movement, location, orientation, and non-manual signs.
: Exclusive: Football player slams lawmaker over marriage equality - 0 views
How the internet is changing language - BBC News - 2 views
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'To Google' has become a universally understood verb and many countries are developing their own internet slang. But is the web changing language and is everyone up to speed? In April 2010 the informal online banter of the internet-savvy collided with the traditional and austere language of the court room.
The powerful and mysterious brain circuitry that makes us love Google, Twitter, and tex... - 2 views
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In 1954, psychologist James Olds and his team were working in a laboratory at McGill University, studying how rats learned. They would stick an electrode in a rat's brain and, whenever the rat went to a particular corner of its cage, would give it a small shock and note the reaction. One day they unknowingly inserted the probe in the wrong place, and when Olds tested the rat, it kept returning over and over to the corner where it received the shock. He eventually discovered that if the probe was put in the brain's lateral hypothalamus and the rats were allowed to press a lever and stimulate their own electrodes, they would press until they collapsed.
With Shifts in National Mood Come Shifts in Words We Use, Study Suggests - 0 views
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In relation to the current election that just passed, it was pretty obvious that there was a huge disconnect between two opposing sides. Words of frustration and anger flooded newsprints and social media. In the past, researchers found that there was a curious phenomenon in known as "positive feedback", which refers to people's tendency to use more positive words than negative words. In recent years, Google Books and the New York Times partnered to disprove this phenomenon. Both major print companies forged through tons of texts and found that 16.2 million of those texts contained negative language. They also found that negative words were used more frequently during times of unemployment, poverty, inflation rates, wartime casualties and political tension. More research has been conducted by psychological scientist including William Hamilton and Mark Liberman. Shockingly, they found that events like these were being triggered more often and positive language has decreased in the last 200 years.
Punapps - Powered by Google - 2 views
New social media? Same old, same old, say Stanford experts - 1 views
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"Two scholars of the 17th and 18th centuries say the earlier era prefigured the "information overload," with its own equivalents of Twitter, Facebook and Google+. Social networks have been key to almost all revolutions - from 1789 to the Arab Spring." Also includes an short, interesting video interview with the researchers.
Exposing Literary Style, One Word at a Time - NYTimes.com - 5 views
Language exodus reshapes India's schools - 0 views
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=newssearch&cd=2&ved=0CDUQqQIwAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Feducation%2F2012%2Fmay%2F15%2Findia-schools-english%3Fnewsfeed%3Dtrue&ei=...
Effects of Facebook on Relationships - 6 views
Music Affecting Reading Comprehension - 0 views
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"Music stimulates various parts of the brain, making it an effective therapeutic or mood-altering tool." I totally agree with that statement and it is also said that 80% of students do homework and study while listening to music. I find that slower pace songs don't distract people as much as fast paced and up-beat songs do.
Love in Japan and Kierkegaard - 7 views
similarity between human and primate gesture body language site:edu - Google Search - 2 views
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I couldn't get the link to work, but maybe this will: http://j.mp/9e2qBm
r u talking 2 me :-? - Feature - UCLA Magazine Online - 17 views
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Of course, most everyone multitasks now, and UCLA experts say it's making us faster, but sloppier; more involved, but less engaged. Tweeting, texting, Googling, blogging — it's actually rewiring our brains, contends Professor Gary Small '73 of UCLA's Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. "It's changing our neural circuitry," he explains, based on his research showing new pathways created in the brains of first-time Googlers. What's left may be a shorter attention span and, especially among the generation raised on technology, a decreasing ability to socialize and empathize, Small says.
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We're developing multitasking brains, this staccato-kind of thought that jumps from side to side," Small says. But for good or for ill? "Studies show it's for ill. We're faster, but we're sloppier." This is problematic enough for adults, but for malleable young minds, it could mean a lifetime of short attention spans. Studies are connecting multitasking to attention deficit disorder (ADD) and addiction. Despite the gloomy predictions, Small sees real benefits from our ultra-linked society, if we can find the right balance.
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