KartooA search engine that presents results as a network of interlinked graphic objects. Jorn considered it “mildly interesting”, but was clearly not impressed by the Flash content. (He picked up from the AI Forum). I reckon the idea is magic – in fact it exactly mirrors the Mind Map (or the Fuzzy Cognitive Map version [...]
Entries from May 2002
Kartoo – Visual Network Search Engine
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May 31, 2002 at 3:50pm
by Psybertron
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“Deliberate” Failure To See Facts
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May 31, 2002 at 12:23pm
by Psybertron
Deliberate failure to see the facts(Another link brought to us by Robot Wisdom.) Those of you following the threads winding through this Blog, can’t fail to have noticed my “Emperors Suit of Clothes” thread. The in-built cultural tendencies to not see the obvious, even to justify not seeing it. This is part of, or at [...]
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Blogger Template Failure
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May 30, 2002 at 1:15pm
by Psybertron
Apologies to all readers.I seem to be suffering the missing Blogger template problem.By the time you can read this it must however be fixed.Unfortunately the fix seems to have re-introduced the by-line / archive-link bug.
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Another (Cynical) Day At The Office
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May 30, 2002 at 11:12am
by Psybertron
Yet another day at the office ? Letter of Resignation, Poem by Matthew RohrerQuote [extract] This office was designed to be pleasant, not the charnel house of lies and insinuations you have made it ….. I’m telling you this because you obviously have no marketable skills. Unquote. There’s a lot of it about apparently – [...]
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Diskless In Detroit – Cars as Comms Trojan Horse
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May 30, 2002 at 10:59am
by Psybertron
Diskless in Detroit – Why Your New Car Doesn’t Have a Built-in PCCringely says not just UI and apps problem, but disk drives just not rugged enough, and car / disk business development cycles will always be out of sync, however ..Quote : Cars are the perfect Trojan horse for distributed communications, for example. Cars [...]
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Dupuy – Mechanization of the Mind
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May 30, 2002 at 10:48am
by Psybertron
The Mechanization of the Mind : On the Origins of Cognitive Scienceby Jean-Pierre Dupuy (Stanford), Translated by M. B. DeBevoise. Princeton Univ Press.von-Neumann, Wiener, Mind-Matter, Cog-Sci, AI, Chaos and Complexity all in one package.Ref from RobotWisdom – must investigate.
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Site Traffic Monitoring – Hits as Cross-Links
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May 26, 2002 at 4:30pm
by Psybertron
All the Hits – Site monitoring is interesting. I can recommend Site-Meter. Over the past 3 or 4 months I have to say the majority of hits are Google hits. What Google indexes is mind-boggling. Amazing number of recurring Google hits from people in the US looking for Friedrich Durrenmatt references on “Die Physiker” (The [...]
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We Enterprise ? Plus Douglas Adams and Francis Bacon
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May 26, 2002 at 3:57pm
by Psybertron
We Enterprise ? Link from Blogger to “Time to Blog On”, article by Ben Hammersley of The Guardian. Quote “This is my guiding principle in journalism. My readers know more than I do, and that’s great! We have gone, [claims Dan Gillmor of the San Jose Mercury News], from Old Media, through New Media, to [...]
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Mentioned in Dispatches
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May 17, 2002 at 2:24pm
by Psybertron
Mentioned in DispatchesQuote from my 1998 Paper in response by NASA (!) to FAQ on the importance of exploiting information standards … “Taking a step forward with FLAIR (Foster Wheeler Lifecycle Asset Information Architecture — [Standard Information Model])”, arguing that information management is more important than information technology, Ian Glendinning of Foster Wheeler describes the [...]
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Confusing Learning with Education
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May 10, 2002 at 12:39pm
by Psybertron
Learning – as in getting oneself educated for your purpose, as opposed toLearning – as in assimilation a piece of information – receiving communication.Part of education / learning confusion apparent within and between learning organisation approaches in business organisations in general, and those “educational” organisations whose “customers” are learning. Some references suggested by Sylvia from [...]
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Ev on Commercial Blogging
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May 8, 2002 at 12:01pm
by Psybertron
Quote from Ev (talking about Blogger Pro natch)It’s a testament that people will pay for web services that are important to them or make their lives easier.
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Virtual Mobs – Another Day at the Office
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May 8, 2002 at 11:57am
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Virtual Mobs, Terrorists For Troop, Police TrainingFrom UniSci via JornImportance of subjective content in simulations.QUOTEThere’s a growing realization that more realistic training simulations lead to higher levels of skill attainment for trainees, but current training games are more concerned with eye-catching graphics than with modeling real human behavior,” said Silverman, professor of systems engineering and [...]
