I'm guessing that this is for data in multiple versions of documents -- spatial and temporally disparate ones.
One of the groups that I work with does some data analysis stuff with how data changes over space (location based) and time (your beliefs yesterday vs. your beliefs today) and the ilke -- so this could be something along those lines.
To make sense of what it is reading, the software uses algorithms to examine the context behind words.
They make it sound like Semantic and Contextual modeling is done on the fly -- the way I see this system, it does this based on a preset lexicon or database.
Thats again brute forcing the problem -- a lot of researchers in the field feel that real solution does not lie that way. We need to analyze this from ground up, to gather meaning from data.
The above method fails the moment you have spatial and temporal data -- my lexicon may evolve over a period of time.
You're looking at all the information and then deciding whats for you -- a better way is to develop an "instinct" for the right kind of information and refine it.
If you really want to know where data mining is going to, look at KDD or SIGMOD -- thats where all the real action is.
Thats works alright for an individual, but what about a software project thats grown large, like Mono?
You cannot just change developers because of fear of DMCA now, can you? However, that would be a very viable alternative that MS would have to keep in mind if they so choose to invoke the DMCA.
I will have to admit that I agree with you on most counts.
Despite the image that most of the Slashdot crowd portrays on MS, they are a company that does some _very_ cool stuff -- in CS and in Software.
And more than anything, they do amazing HCI research. From what I've heard, I feel that they do as much CS research as any academic institute, perhaps more. This is what keeps them ahead of the pack.
I think that they are better off pursuing that stuff than fighting Mono. Because all said and done, MS will always be a step ahead of Mono. This is similar to what a poster said of Wine -- there is always some undiscovered API or the other.
But then, do remember that if it pinches them hard enough, they wouldn't think twice before slapping hard. The Open Source community cannot be complaining when that happens.
The OSS Community is still trying to get into the game -- while MS is setting the rules of the game.
See the difference? Unless something is done about _this_ we'll always have a problem. And Microsoft's problem is to keep making sure that the rules of games aren't always quite the same.
Hate replying to my own comments, but my point was that MS works on key stuff thats not just commercial viable, but also has great value in terms of innovation -- if not today, then 5-10 years down the line.
I'm sure that a lot of this research would be concentrated on solving the problems that you mentioned, and also on new areas which MS perceives would be important in the days to come, which is the reason I mentioned NLP.
You're quite right, because MSR does some very cool research on NLP and Formalisms.
While the OS community does try to bring in a lot of commercial solutions, I don't find as much effort being put in key areas of research (well, some areas _do_ have some very good OS contribution, like Bioinformatics, but not all).
It would be nice if we had a lot of cutting edge OS work thats done in areas like semantics, scm and the like -- however, these are areas where good innovations can be leveraged to make money. Any guesses why people would rather work with a commercial organization if they do such stuff?:)
Hardly. I think its a valid point, and something that should be handled soon enough.
The largest threat does not come from MS changing interfaces greatly, but from patent infringement and DMCA related issues (as the article said).
IANAL. However, with the threat of anti-trust looming large over Microsoft, this is unlikely as the counter-argument could be that Microsoft does not allow for third party interfaces on something thats widely deployed, and this could reflect badly upon them in a court of law (not that they care).
So, I feel that Microsoft is probably in just as much as a fix as we are. Better state, but a fix neverthless.
I guess the difference is the fact that unlike SAN, this is a central implementation of something that can be accessed like yet another network drive.
So all your distributed data is shown as a single drive that you can access. The article also sounded like SAN is independent of the number of systems on the network, immaterial of the storage capacity needed.
If you had read the article (which you have not), you would notice that the very first line of the second article says this --
The IBM TotalStorage SAN File System (based on IBM Storage Tank(TM) technology) is designed to help reduce the complexity of managing files within SANs.
The first article also says that --
Storage Tank also makes a distributed storage network look and behave just like a local network. No matter where or on what operating system any piece of stored data might reside, it can be located quickly and used by anyone else on the network.
I guess this is just a central access implementation of SAN for very large amounts of data.
Your comment is true not just for Physics, but most sciences and even some engineering labs.
I work at the Georgia Tech CASE Lab, and here they have some pretty old systems.
They have this software thats more than 30 years old, and has been evolving! The basic code base that does the core stuff is analog and is still in Fortran, and all other future versions just interface wit this.
Whats funny is that I do my coding (largely simulation graphics and viz.) on this state of the art P4 2.8 Ghz (I think) system with more than a gig of DDR, while at the backend is some old tattered down system thats been working for the past 30 years!
Most of the comments to my post just make me think of this -- if Newton were alive today, would he have survived with his almost anti-social skills?
Yes, I lack social skills. But are they really that important? Does that mean that there is only so much that I can do, and only so much that I can accomplish just because I'm bad with people?
I would like to believe otherwise. I would like to believe that despite my shortcomings, and despite my inability to adjust, I can live the way I want to. And do things that I like, and the things that I'm good at.
I'll end this on a quote by Bernard Shaw -- "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
Mark this as troll, if you will, but what you're saying is crap.
Yeah, I have no social skills. I'm what you would call a dork or a nerd. But thats ok, because am not here to be please everybody.
As far as the holier than thou attitude, yeah, so what? I'm choosy about the people I like and if I'm condescending its because a lot of people who're above me are there not because they're better than me but because they have the "Oh so called Social Skills."
I don't see the point -- as long as I do my job and get my stuff done, whats the point and the problem?
All that most "informed bosses" can do is kiss everyone's ass and pretend to know everything. And serve everything as sugar coated lies to the clients and investors.
I would much rather not pretend to empathize with such people.
And it is just this reason that I would prefer to be in an academic or research environment. Atleast its mostly free of this hypocritic attitude.
On a more serious note, it _is_ scary to think that these are the people who are handling some of the most important stuff in the corporate world.
And this newly-gained half knowledge only makes it worse. Now from being executives who did not know a thing, they would be executives who pretend to know everything.
Remember, partial knowledge is a terrible thing, indeed.
I doubt if they any longer care -- with all the insder trading and what not, all this stuff now is just a means to help the upper echelons wrap up as much as they can before the company's down under:)
Its funny you should mention this, because I recently decided that I was perhaps being paranoid and opted to have my e-mail address displayed with Slashdot's spam armour (or whatever that its called).
And I ended up getting spam in the account after just 2 or 3 postings -- this is my school account and I receive absolutely ZERO spam -- that was my first spam mail.
Perhaps it was co-incidence, perhaps it was not. Perhaps there are bots and people hovering on Slashdot harvesting e-mail addreesses. I do not know. However, the fact that the spam was a techy-spam made me all the more suspicious.
Whoa! A scientist who's worked hard enough to win the Nobel Prize should at the very least live to see it, and enjoy the peer acclaim of having gotten one, if not for the monetary commendation.
And yes, if they've done enough to contribute so much to society, you cannot spare a few hundred thousand dollars to them just because they're old?
Remember, age is not a deterrent to feel accomplished -- and this is something that should not be taken away. They deserve atleast this much.
Bengali, Kannada, and Tamil use Devanagari-like scripts. They have similar character-merger rules, and we support them as well as Hindi-like languages.
Tamil does not have character merging that I know of, and even in the odd case that there is, there are work-arounds.
However, the poster could be talking about phonetic modifiers -- converting something like Th to something like Th-ee etc. In that case, you would not quite be merging the characters, but then for a novice that term would do just fine.
In fact, the poster's statement does hold true for most Devanagiri based languages.
But then, as far as I know, there is true character merging in Malayalam -- Th+th could be merged into one doubled Th. Ofcourse, there are other ways of representing the same, like using the equivalent of a Halant in Hindi (not sure if thats what its called) and the like.
I would think that Devanagiri languages inherently have half-characters and terminate without a phonetic extension -- however, I do not think many other (Indian) languages share the same attributes.
With the ongoing cold war between India and Pakistan, the Indian military might well have shot first, and asked questions later, causing a small nuclear war, and a much greater loss of life than the initial meteorite.
Actually, it wouldn't have been that easy. As of January 2003, India has a formal nuclear command structure under civilian control, with a Nuclear Command Authority comprising of a Political Council (chaired by the Prime Minister and an environmental board) and an Executive council (chaired by the National Security Advisor and a scientific board). The advisory committee would comprise of the Commander-in-Chief of Strategic Forces Command.
So IMHO, its not that easy to launch a deterrent without validating the origin of the said event:) Do rememeber that despite the tension in the region, India is a largely peaceful democracy.
Better idea -- rake that money anyway, and spend it on encouraging existing Opensource projects. There are so many good opensource developers out there who've been hit hard by the recession.
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I'm guessing that this is for data in multiple versions of documents -- spatial and temporally disparate ones.
:)
One of the groups that I work with does some data analysis stuff with how data changes over space (location based) and time (your beliefs yesterday vs. your beliefs today) and the ilke -- so this could be something along those lines.
Or like you said, it could just be a buzzword!
To make sense of what it is reading, the software uses algorithms to examine the context behind words.
They make it sound like Semantic and Contextual modeling is done on the fly -- the way I see this system, it does this based on a preset lexicon or database.
Thats again brute forcing the problem -- a lot of researchers in the field feel that real solution does not lie that way. We need to analyze this from ground up, to gather meaning from data.
The above method fails the moment you have spatial and temporal data -- my lexicon may evolve over a period of time.
You're looking at all the information and then deciding whats for you -- a better way is to develop an "instinct" for the right kind of information and refine it.
If you really want to know where data mining is going to, look at KDD or SIGMOD -- thats where all the real action is.
Thats works alright for an individual, but what about a software project thats grown large, like Mono?
You cannot just change developers because of fear of DMCA now, can you? However, that would be a very viable alternative that MS would have to keep in mind if they so choose to invoke the DMCA.
I will have to admit that I agree with you on most counts.
Despite the image that most of the Slashdot crowd portrays on MS, they are a company that does some _very_ cool stuff -- in CS and in Software.
And more than anything, they do amazing HCI research. From what I've heard, I feel that they do as much CS research as any academic institute, perhaps more. This is what keeps them ahead of the pack.
I think that they are better off pursuing that stuff than fighting Mono. Because all said and done, MS will always be a step ahead of Mono. This is similar to what a poster said of Wine -- there is always some undiscovered API or the other.
But then, do remember that if it pinches them hard enough, they wouldn't think twice before slapping hard. The Open Source community cannot be complaining when that happens.
The OSS Community is still trying to get into the game -- while MS is setting the rules of the game.
See the difference? Unless something is done about _this_ we'll always have a problem. And Microsoft's problem is to keep making sure that the rules of games aren't always quite the same.
Hate replying to my own comments, but my point was that MS works on key stuff thats not just commercial viable, but also has great value in terms of innovation -- if not today, then 5-10 years down the line.
I'm sure that a lot of this research would be concentrated on solving the problems that you mentioned, and also on new areas which MS perceives would be important in the days to come, which is the reason I mentioned NLP.
You're quite right, because MSR does some very cool research on NLP and Formalisms.
:)
While the OS community does try to bring in a lot of commercial solutions, I don't find as much effort being put in key areas of research (well, some areas _do_ have some very good OS contribution, like Bioinformatics, but not all).
It would be nice if we had a lot of cutting edge OS work thats done in areas like semantics, scm and the like -- however, these are areas where good innovations can be leveraged to make money. Any guesses why people would rather work with a commercial organization if they do such stuff?
Hardly. I think its a valid point, and something that should be handled soon enough.
The largest threat does not come from MS changing interfaces greatly, but from patent infringement and DMCA related issues (as the article said).
IANAL. However, with the threat of anti-trust looming large over Microsoft, this is unlikely as the counter-argument could be that Microsoft does not allow for third party interfaces on something thats widely deployed, and this could reflect badly upon them in a court of law (not that they care).
So, I feel that Microsoft is probably in just as much as a fix as we are. Better state, but a fix neverthless.
I guess the difference is the fact that unlike SAN, this is a central implementation of something that can be accessed like yet another network drive.
So all your distributed data is shown as a single drive that you can access. The article also sounded like SAN is independent of the number of systems on the network, immaterial of the storage capacity needed.
If you had read the article (which you have not), you would notice that the very first line of the second article says this --
The IBM TotalStorage SAN File System (based on IBM Storage Tank(TM) technology) is designed to help reduce the complexity of managing files within SANs.
The first article also says that --
Storage Tank also makes a distributed storage network look and behave just like a local network. No matter where or on what operating system any piece of stored data might reside, it can be located quickly and used by anyone else on the network.
I guess this is just a central access implementation of SAN for very large amounts of data.
Your comment is true not just for Physics, but most sciences and even some engineering labs.
I work at the Georgia Tech CASE Lab, and here they have some pretty old systems.
They have this software thats more than 30 years old, and has been evolving! The basic code base that does the core stuff is analog and is still in Fortran, and all other future versions just interface wit this.
Whats funny is that I do my coding (largely simulation graphics and viz.) on this state of the art P4 2.8 Ghz (I think) system with more than a gig of DDR, while at the backend is some old tattered down system thats been working for the past 30 years!
Most of the comments to my post just make me think of this -- if Newton were alive today, would he have survived with his almost anti-social skills?
Yes, I lack social skills. But are they really that important? Does that mean that there is only so much that I can do, and only so much that I can accomplish just because I'm bad with people?
I would like to believe otherwise. I would like to believe that despite my shortcomings, and despite my inability to adjust, I can live the way I want to. And do things that I like, and the things that I'm good at.
I'll end this on a quote by Bernard Shaw -- "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
Mark this as troll, if you will, but what you're saying is crap.
Yeah, I have no social skills. I'm what you would call a dork or a nerd. But thats ok, because am not here to be please everybody.
As far as the holier than thou attitude, yeah, so what? I'm choosy about the people I like and if I'm condescending its because a lot of people who're above me are there not because they're better than me but because they have the "Oh so called Social Skills."
I don't see the point -- as long as I do my job and get my stuff done, whats the point and the problem?
All that most "informed bosses" can do is kiss everyone's ass and pretend to know everything. And serve everything as sugar coated lies to the clients and investors.
I would much rather not pretend to empathize with such people.
And it is just this reason that I would prefer to be in an academic or research environment. Atleast its mostly free of this hypocritic attitude.
On a more serious note, it _is_ scary to think that these are the people who are handling some of the most important stuff in the corporate world.
And this newly-gained half knowledge only makes it worse. Now from being executives who did not know a thing, they would be executives who pretend to know everything.
Remember, partial knowledge is a terrible thing, indeed.
I doubt if they any longer care -- with all the insder trading and what not, all this stuff now is just a means to help the upper echelons wrap up as much as they can before the company's down under :)
Its funny you should mention this, because I recently decided that I was perhaps being paranoid and opted to have my e-mail address displayed with Slashdot's spam armour (or whatever that its called).
And I ended up getting spam in the account after just 2 or 3 postings -- this is my school account and I receive absolutely ZERO spam -- that was my first spam mail.
Perhaps it was co-incidence, perhaps it was not. Perhaps there are bots and people hovering on Slashdot harvesting e-mail addreesses. I do not know. However, the fact that the spam was a techy-spam made me all the more suspicious.
Just my thoughts.
I'd rather see the honour bestowed posthumously
Whoa! A scientist who's worked hard enough to win the Nobel Prize should at the very least live to see it, and enjoy the peer acclaim of having gotten one, if not for the monetary commendation.
And yes, if they've done enough to contribute so much to society, you cannot spare a few hundred thousand dollars to them just because they're old?
Remember, age is not a deterrent to feel accomplished -- and this is something that should not be taken away. They deserve atleast this much.
Bengali, Kannada, and Tamil use Devanagari-like scripts. They have similar character-merger rules, and we support them as well as Hindi-like languages.
Tamil does not have character merging that I know of, and even in the odd case that there is, there are work-arounds.
However, the poster could be talking about phonetic modifiers -- converting something like Th to something like Th-ee etc. In that case, you would not quite be merging the characters, but then for a novice that term would do just fine.
In fact, the poster's statement does hold true for most Devanagiri based languages.
But then, as far as I know, there is true character merging in Malayalam -- Th+th could be merged into one doubled Th . Ofcourse, there are other ways of representing the same, like using the equivalent of a Halant in Hindi (not sure if thats what its called) and the like.
I would think that Devanagiri languages inherently have half-characters and terminate without a phonetic extension -- however, I do not think many other (Indian) languages share the same attributes.
I for one, would welcome our new Meteorite Overlords!
With the ongoing cold war between India and Pakistan, the Indian military might well have shot first, and asked questions later, causing a small nuclear war, and a much greater loss of life than the initial meteorite.
Actually, it wouldn't have been that easy. As of January 2003, India has a formal nuclear command structure under civilian control, with a Nuclear Command Authority comprising of a Political Council (chaired by the Prime Minister and an environmental board) and an Executive council (chaired by the National Security Advisor and a scientific board). The advisory committee would comprise of the Commander-in-Chief of Strategic Forces Command.
So IMHO, its not that easy to launch a deterrent without validating the origin of the said event
However, I found this link.
:-/ Hope they got their facts wrong.
And this site says that just 1000 copies worldwide would be released.
Ya, I have an 11 inch... but you can only see 6.
Trust me, I don't want to!
Gee! Yeah yeah... thats what all ye' guys with them smaller ones keep saying.
:-p
Grow up
Better idea -- rake that money anyway, and spend it on encouraging existing Opensource projects. There are so many good opensource developers out there who've been hit hard by the recession.
Just my 0.02.
I had written a paper on this of the application of N-gram technique with statistical methods for use in CBR a long time ago.
;-)
You can find the paper here (PDF) and the presentation here.
From their site -
"Radiation and Uranium", a hands-on laboratory class personally instructed by the well-known "Area 51" scientist, Bob Lazar.
Right! Pass me the tinfoil hat, please. Thank you.