Well, the paper from 98 that describes the PageRank algorithm (as used by Google) can be found here
Theres a simple explanation of various indexing/ranking schemes here, but if you really want to get up to speed on research into searching the web, try looking at some of the papers from the TREC Web Track
Now I have to say that I don't agree with censorship, but GTA: Vice City is a game that could do with restricting as to who can play it.
It has an 18 certificate - what more do people want? Sure the game is violent, but it's only a game. Shops shouldn't sell it to underage people, and parents shouldn't buy them for kids and then complain about the content.
Take the GTA arguement and substitute "Booze" or "Porn" for GTA - the story completly changes - suddenly it's completly obvious that its wrong to buy little jimmy those skin mags he's been eying up, or that bottle of vodka he "really wanted"...
Some people can be really dumb, but like to blame everyone but themselves for their shortcomings...
Note also however that this is one of the areas in NLP that is recieved a huge amounts of attention over the past two decades - people were producing papers on the recognition of indirect speech acts back in the 80's...
Now, Speech act theory and its applications is not directly my field of expertese, so maybe someone who does research in that area could let us know what the state of that art achieves these days...
You're absolutly right - however last time I checked, we all speak some form of natural language, right?
Would you prefer if we all spoke some sort of langauge governed strictly by some computer-linguistic grammar? I'll get started on the Yacc code right away...:-)
a computer has to be given programming for every idiom there is.
Rubbish - Ever heard of Machine Learning?
There has been much work on resolving coreferance and named-entity recognition problems has been onging for several years, with the aim being to lead onto full NLP. This research seems interesting in that it takes work from another field (genetic sequence matching) and applies it to an NLP problem. What links them all is that in almost every case, the research involves machine learning at some point... it makes no sense to hand-code millions of case-specific rules, when a machine can learn them faster and better...
Read their paper and you'll see that indeed it's an unsupervised learning approach - even nicer in that it doesn't require you to label training examples for the algorithm...
"The speed of light is equal to the wavelength multiplied by the frequency of an electromagnetic wave (microwaves and visible light are both examples of electromagnetic waves)"
Is it just me or does this seem like he's only measuring the speed of microwaves?
Because of this, I almost switched to KDE - but it only supports 16 desktops which is Fucking Lame.
What is the point of more than 16 desktops (really). I've used various linux and unix distros over the years and I've found that if I have more than 6, I just end up using the first few anyway...
No way to edge-flip to another desktop.Thus no d'n'd windows across desktops.
I do agree with you on this point - being able to do this it pretty useful (I'm a big fan of enlightenment because of these sort of things...)
There was a really good documentary about the 48-hour Coup on Irish TV the other night. These two film makers basically got caught up in the coup against Chavez and so we saw the whole thing play out from inside Chavezs place. I unfortunatly only caught part of it, but heres the jist of it (as told by people who actually saw it:)
Chavez wanted (wants) to share the money generated by the countries oil reserves with all the nations people, not just the few rich oil barons (as was (is) the situation). In order to prevent this from happening, the rich people bought the support of the armed forces and private national TV stations to convince the people that Chavez was the bad guy. They even tried to insinuate that he had a sexual fixation with Fidel Castro:)
With 7 of the 8 national stations broadcasting anti-chavez propaganda, the coup started (with the unofficial support of the US Government might i add!). Chavez used the one remaining government station to try and tell the people what was happening.
Unfortunatly, I didn't hear how it ended:-( If anyone saw the end, I'd love to hear how it played out...
A quick search on Google reveals that the same show will premiere in the states in March - find a description here
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Also, what is the basis of a search engine?
Well, the paper from 98 that describes the PageRank algorithm (as used by Google) can be found here
Theres a simple explanation of various indexing/ranking schemes here, but if you really want to get up to speed on research into searching the web, try looking at some of the papers from the TREC Web Track
Happy reading,
Dave
Now I have to say that I don't agree with censorship, but GTA: Vice City is
a game that could do with restricting as to who can play it.
It has an 18 certificate - what more do people want? Sure the game is violent, but it's only a game. Shops shouldn't sell it to underage people, and parents shouldn't buy them for kids and then complain about the content.
Take the GTA arguement and substitute "Booze" or "Porn" for GTA - the story completly changes - suddenly it's completly obvious that its wrong to buy little jimmy those skin mags he's been eying up, or that bottle of vodka he "really wanted"...
Some people can be really dumb, but like to blame everyone but themselves for their shortcomings...
but computer-type algorithms choke on this stuff.
Note also however that this is one of the areas in NLP that is recieved a huge amounts of attention over the past two decades - people were producing papers on the recognition of indirect speech acts back in the 80's...
Explanation-Based Learning of Indirect Speech Act Interpretation Rules
Now, Speech act theory and its applications is not directly my field of expertese, so maybe someone who does research in that area could let us know what the state of that art achieves these days...
~D
funniest machinima ever....
You're absolutly right - however last time I checked, we all speak some form of natural language, right?
:-)
Would you prefer if we all spoke some sort of langauge governed strictly by some computer-linguistic grammar? I'll get started on the Yacc code right away...
~D
There has been much work on resolving coreferance and named-entity recognition problems has been onging for several years,
:-)
And if only I spent as much time on my english usage research....
Obviously, I meant:
There has been much work on resolving coreferance and named-entity recognition problems in recent years,
~D
a computer has to be given programming for every idiom there is.
Rubbish - Ever heard of Machine Learning?
There has been much work on resolving coreferance and named-entity recognition problems has been onging for several years, with the aim being to lead onto full NLP. This research seems interesting in that it takes work from another field (genetic sequence matching) and applies it to an NLP problem. What links them all is that in almost every case, the research involves machine learning at some point... it makes no sense to hand-code millions of case-specific rules, when a machine can learn them faster and better...
Read their paper and you'll see that indeed it's an unsupervised learning approach - even nicer in that it doesn't require you to label training examples for the algorithm...
~D
Agent Smith is Neos Father... enough said...
tnx, aziraphale - you learn something new everyday.
:-)
Or in this case, something we should know from secondary school physics, if we had been paying attention all those years ago
"The speed of light is equal to the wavelength multiplied by the frequency of an electromagnetic wave (microwaves and visible light are both examples of electromagnetic waves)"
Is it just me or does this seem like he's only measuring the speed of microwaves?
Is there a physicist in the house?
Because of this, I almost switched to KDE - but it only supports 16 desktops which is Fucking Lame.
What is the point of more than 16 desktops (really). I've used various linux and unix distros over the years and I've found that if I have more than 6, I just end up using the first few anyway...
No way to edge-flip to another desktop.Thus no d'n'd windows across desktops.
I do agree with you on this point - being able to do this it pretty useful (I'm a big fan of enlightenment because of these sort of things...)
~D
There was a really good documentary about the 48-hour Coup on Irish TV the other night. These two film makers basically got caught up in the coup against Chavez and so we saw the whole thing play out from inside Chavezs place. I unfortunatly only caught part of it, but heres the jist of it (as told by people who actually saw it
Chavez wanted (wants) to share the money generated by the countries oil reserves with all the nations people, not just the few rich oil barons (as was (is) the situation). In order to prevent this from happening, the rich people bought the support of the armed forces and private national TV stations to convince the people that Chavez was the bad guy. They even tried to insinuate that he had a sexual fixation with Fidel Castro
With 7 of the 8 national stations broadcasting anti-chavez propaganda, the coup started (with the unofficial support of the US Government might i add!). Chavez used the one remaining government station to try and tell the people what was happening.
Unfortunatly, I didn't hear how it ended
A quick search on Google reveals that the same show will premiere in the states in March - find a description here
Just install the Quicktime Player under Wine - works fine for me...