Comments for csabaveres.net Blog http://csabaveres.net/blog8 "Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong." Oscar Wilde Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:00:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 Comment on A door out of guest room by dc3 http://csabaveres.net/blog8/2008/05/12/a-door-out-of-guest-room/comment-page-1/#comment-30908 dc3 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:00:13 +0000 http://csabaveres.net/blog8/?p=44#comment-30908 Funny. Just finishing today a novel by Norwegian author and the main character is named Trond. Out Stealing Horses. A+. Funny. Just finishing today a novel by Norwegian author and the main character is named Trond. Out Stealing Horses. A+.

]]> Comment on Different kinds of tags by dc3 http://csabaveres.net/blog8/2008/01/22/different-kinds-of-tags/comment-page-1/#comment-30907 dc3 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:55:08 +0000 http://csabaveres.net/blog8/?p=40#comment-30907 Coming at this as a lawyer and librarian I see connections within most of these groups. From the bottom up: 7. Verbs relating to activities that involve information 6. Proper Nouns of persons places and things that are involved in information transmission. Not sure about "World" 5. Modes of transmitting information 4. This one I can't get a handle on. 3. Aids in tracking information 2. Media is Media is Media 1. The Stuff that's being sent, shared, saved, etc: the Content. Not sure about "Business." Found my way here via image management, Protege, ontology creation. In other words a searcher using Google and links to find content about image management software. Backing up now on my path to explore another byway. Thanks for info here. Coming at this as a lawyer and librarian I see connections within most of these groups.
From the bottom up:

7. Verbs relating to activities that involve information
6. Proper Nouns of persons places and things that are involved in information transmission. Not sure about “World”
5. Modes of transmitting information
4. This one I can’t get a handle on.
3. Aids in tracking information
2. Media is Media is Media
1. The Stuff that’s being sent, shared, saved, etc: the Content. Not sure about “Business.”

Found my way here via image management, Protege, ontology creation.
In other words a searcher using Google and links to find content about image management software.

Backing up now on my path to explore another byway.

Thanks for info here.

]]> Comment on Good Bye Yahoo! by Csaba http://csabaveres.net/blog8/2008/04/08/good-bye-yahoo/comment-page-1/#comment-27873 Csaba Mon, 12 May 2008 12:22:56 +0000 http://csabaveres.net/blog8/?p=42#comment-27873 I just noticed Opera also do a blog. I normally love everything Opera does: http://my.opera.com/csabaveres/blog/ I just noticed Opera also do a blog. I normally love everything Opera does:

http://my.opera.com/csabaveres/blog/

]]> Comment on Yahoo!!! by jkn http://csabaveres.net/blog8/2008/05/03/yahoo/comment-page-1/#comment-27371 jkn Mon, 05 May 2008 06:09:32 +0000 http://csabaveres.net/blog8/?p=43#comment-27371 More and more companies need to do what Yahoo! had done. Protecting the interests of the employees, not a bad thing at all. In fact, something we ought to praise the CEO for. No doubt that the shareholders already have made money in the past, and will stillcontinue to make their money in the future. But, it is the employees who helped make the company by meeting deadlines, designing new products and features making many sacrifices on behalf of the company. If we simply look at the shareholders' interests only, like what many other companies are doing, laying off employees to cut costs and increasing the bottom line(forgetting that they too also decreasing productivity). The end result is that many good engineering talents will be lost and in the end the company will really be doomed because it does not have the necessary talents to compete with other stronger competitors. Too often corporate America follows a certain path of doing business the old fashion way. Similar to American Politicians, doing business the old-fashion way. Nothing new, nothing creative... It is refreshing to see a bright CEO taking a different, yet less popular approach to solving problem. Yahoo! does not need Microsoft. If Yahoo! can execute on their business plan and turn things around by focusing on their core strength. It can make it definitely worth a few multiples in say 5 years' time than what MSFT was bidding for Yahoo! up until Saturday. More and more companies need to do what Yahoo! had done. Protecting the interests of the employees, not a bad thing at all. In fact, something we ought to praise the CEO for. No doubt that the shareholders already have made money in the past, and will stillcontinue to make their money in the future. But, it is the employees who helped make the company by meeting deadlines, designing new products and features making many sacrifices on behalf of the company. If we simply look at the shareholders’ interests only, like what many other companies are doing, laying off employees to cut costs and increasing the bottom line(forgetting that they too also decreasing productivity). The end result is that many good engineering talents will be lost and in the end the company will really be doomed because it does not have the necessary talents to compete with other stronger competitors. Too often corporate America follows a certain path of doing business the old fashion way. Similar to American Politicians, doing business the old-fashion way. Nothing new, nothing creative… It is refreshing to see a bright CEO taking a different, yet less popular approach to solving problem. Yahoo! does not need Microsoft. If Yahoo! can execute on their business plan and turn things around by focusing on their core strength. It can make it definitely worth a few multiples in say 5 years’ time than what MSFT was bidding for Yahoo! up until Saturday.

]]> Comment on Good Bye Yahoo! by Csaba http://csabaveres.net/blog8/2008/04/08/good-bye-yahoo/comment-page-1/#comment-26531 Csaba Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:19:28 +0000 http://csabaveres.net/blog8/?p=42#comment-26531 Hello Nils, what a nice surprise my friend. This blog runs on Wordpress but is currently hosted at Yahoo!, which might change in the near future if Microsoft wins. I will probably move the whole site to a new hosting company that runs on some form of Unix (like Linux). Many of them do, thankfully! If you want to find out what operating system/web server a site is running, try http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph See "What's that site running?" at the top of the page? I have not had any experience with either of the services you mention, but a bit of poking reveals interesting information: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.blogger.com%2Fstart so blogspot is a Google service on Linux, which is probably a pretty good bet if you want hassle free hosting. Google seem to be taking over the world right now, so you might as well join them while you can! I guess wordpress.org don't host a blog for you? They recommend some hosting companies http://wordpress.org/hosting/ Of course Wordpress.org also runs on Linux. I have no idea how much configuration you can get with blooger.com, but if its free its worth a try! I know I was a little bit disappointed with wordpress on Yahoo! I think it is more Yahoo's fault than wordpress though. I think any gigantic company is going to suck when it comes to service and real customization. Anyway I just set one up. Looks O.K. A lot more basic than Wordpress in terms of plugins, modules, etc. http://csabaveres.blogspot.com/ So if blogger doesn't do what you want, I recommend getting in touch with a local hosting service ... someone you can actually talk to, preferably in Norwegian!!! Most people will support wordpress, which seems to be a good platform. Hope this helps! Hello Nils, what a nice surprise my friend. This blog runs on Wordpress but is currently hosted at Yahoo!, which might change in the near future if Microsoft wins. I will probably move the whole site to a new hosting company that runs on some form of Unix (like Linux). Many of them do, thankfully!

If you want to find out what operating system/web server a site is running, try
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph
See “What’s that site running?” at the top of the page?

I have not had any experience with either of the services you mention, but a bit of poking reveals interesting information:
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.blogger.com%2Fstart
so blogspot is a Google service on Linux, which is probably a pretty good bet if you want hassle free hosting. Google seem to be taking over the world right now, so you might as well join them while you can!

I guess wordpress.org don’t host a blog for you? They recommend some hosting companies
http://wordpress.org/hosting/
Of course Wordpress.org also runs on Linux.

I have no idea how much configuration you can get with blooger.com, but if its free its worth a try!
I know I was a little bit disappointed with wordpress on Yahoo! I think it is more Yahoo’s fault than wordpress though. I think any gigantic company is going to suck when it comes to service and real customization.

Anyway I just set one up. Looks O.K. A lot more basic than Wordpress in terms of plugins, modules, etc.

http://csabaveres.blogspot.com/

So if blogger doesn’t do what you want, I recommend getting in touch with a local hosting service … someone you can actually talk to, preferably in Norwegian!!! Most people will support wordpress, which seems to be a good platform.

Hope this helps!

]]> Comment on Good Bye Yahoo! by Nils http://csabaveres.net/blog8/2008/04/08/good-bye-yahoo/comment-page-1/#comment-26516 Nils Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:37:37 +0000 http://csabaveres.net/blog8/?p=42#comment-26516 Hi Csaba, reading your blog with interest, though I can't comment it in any way. Interesting stuff. I have a question partly relatee, since your are talking about plattform, which bolg server or host do you recommend? I want to give mine a mondern view, so do I choose Blogspot.com or Wordpress.org. Are there some 'do' and 'don't' things in these communities..... Thanks and best wishes to down under. Nils Hi Csaba, reading your blog with interest, though I can’t comment it in any way. Interesting stuff. I have a question partly relatee, since your are talking about plattform, which bolg server or host do you recommend? I want to give mine a mondern view, so do I choose Blogspot.com or Wordpress.org. Are there some ‘do’ and ‘don’t’ things in these communities…..
Thanks and best wishes to down under.
Nils

]]> Comment on Different kinds of tags by Koyo http://csabaveres.net/blog8/2008/01/22/different-kinds-of-tags/comment-page-1/#comment-24413 Koyo Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:40:03 +0000 http://csabaveres.net/blog8/?p=40#comment-24413 Tagging can be a lot like trying to trace down memes. Were the connections made organically or by machine? Put a booth up with a video camera inside that starts up when a person enters. They see an instruction sign that says to respond to a given word as a short story about themselves. After 100 people do this take the audio from one story and play it back to a group of 100 individuals and ask each one of them to give a single word for the story. See how often the response to the story is the word that started the original story. Audio meme tagging? What do you think? Tagging can be a lot like trying to trace down memes. Were the connections made organically or by machine?
Put a booth up with a video camera inside that starts up when a person enters. They see an instruction sign that says to respond
to a given word as a short story about themselves. After 100 people do this take the audio from one story and play it back to a group of 100 individuals
and ask each one of them to give a single word for the story. See how often the response to the story is the word that started the original story. Audio meme tagging? What do you think?

]]> Comment on Different kinds of tags by Csaba http://csabaveres.net/blog8/2008/01/22/different-kinds-of-tags/comment-page-1/#comment-23430 Csaba Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:02:07 +0000 http://csabaveres.net/blog8/?p=40#comment-23430 A few years ago I did a Ph.D. in Psycholinguistics and Pustejovsky's work featured quite heavily in my work. Also Jackendoff, who I find even more interesting. Yes of course ambiguity is always going to be a feature of natural language. It is interesting that such a fundamental part of natural language should be so impossible for all our computational models. Maybe there is a hint there for the computational models ... about some of their fundamental assumptions? A few years ago I did a Ph.D. in Psycholinguistics and Pustejovsky’s work featured quite heavily in my work. Also Jackendoff, who I find even more interesting.

Yes of course ambiguity is always going to be a feature of natural language. It is interesting that such a fundamental part of natural language should be so impossible for all our computational models. Maybe there is a hint there for the computational models … about some of their fundamental assumptions?

]]> Comment on Different kinds of tags by JP#125 http://csabaveres.net/blog8/2008/01/22/different-kinds-of-tags/comment-page-1/#comment-22165 JP#125 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:24:22 +0000 http://csabaveres.net/blog8/?p=40#comment-22165 Hi, tagging is interesting -- but it really needs to be underpinned by a good understanding of how to cope with lexical ambiguity and the role of knowledge representation. Have you hear of Pustejovsky? I would recommend a read :) --JP Hi,

tagging is interesting — but it really needs to be underpinned by a good understanding of how to cope with lexical ambiguity and the role of knowledge representation. Have you hear of Pustejovsky? I would recommend a read :)

–JP

]]> Comment on Vander Wal and Categorizing by Csaba http://csabaveres.net/blog8/2007/05/08/vander-wal-and-categorizing-2/comment-page-1/#comment-21751 Csaba Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:15:47 +0000 http://csabaveres.net/blog8/?p=33#comment-21751 Yes, again I think we agree. Except I don't accept your claim that it is "not a consistent categorization scheme". I actually wrote a paper about this, which you can see on http://www.springerlink.com/content/m14xuq3593268143/. I am not sure if you can get this paper, but I give a brief overview in my post "Ad hoc categories". The main point is that a cognitive psychologist, Larry Barsalou, actually did try to investigate empirically the same claim, that everyday, ad hoc categories are not consistent. But in fact he found that categories like "ways to escape from the Mafia" and "things to save in a fire" were in fact remarkably stable across time and subjects, and displayed many properties of "normal" categories. (e.g. prototypicality effects). Interesting stuff. Yes, again I think we agree. Except I don’t accept your claim that it is “not a consistent categorization scheme”. I actually wrote a paper about this, which you can see on http://www.springerlink.com/content/m14xuq3593268143/.

I am not sure if you can get this paper, but I give a brief overview in my post “Ad hoc categories”.

The main point is that a cognitive psychologist, Larry Barsalou, actually did try to investigate empirically the same claim, that everyday, ad hoc categories are not consistent. But in fact he found that categories like “ways to escape from the Mafia” and “things to save in a fire” were in fact remarkably stable across time and subjects, and displayed many properties of “normal” categories. (e.g. prototypicality effects). Interesting stuff.

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