If you are in search of a blog that will put an end to all of your earthly troubles, look no further than the Noisy Channel. Aside from being a font of knowledge that will turn you into an AI from a futurist’s dream, there have been reports that regular TNC readers have been cured [...]
Archive for March, 2009
The Noisy Channel – Better than kittens!
Posted: 31 March 2009 in UncategorizedTags: april fool's day, blagoblag, humor, the noisy channel
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%w{Scheme Python Rage Love Apathy}
Posted: 27 March 2009 in UncategorizedTags: cognitive psychology, mit, programming languages, python, scheme
John Cook just brought up the changeover from Scheme to Python in MIT’s beginning CS classes. I was exposed to Scheme very early in my programming career during my ill-fated quarter at the University of Chicago. For some reason I can’t remember (it was 14 years ago), I registered late and couldn’t get into entry [...]
Much ado about nothing
Posted: 26 March 2009 in UncategorizedTags: blagoblag, computational linguistics, disappointment, google, hype, information retrieval, search, semantic search
There has been much ballyhoo in the blogosphere touting Google’s so-called foray into semantic search. The blog post announcing the new feature doesn’t even mention the word semantics, but it does say it looks at associations and concepts related to your query. I see no mention of tuples or anything of the sort and the [...]
