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2011
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Luc Steels on creating artificial semiotic systems
Sep 2011
In this post, I'm presenting an organized version of the notes I've taken after reading a beautiful paper by Luc Steels titled "The Symbol Grounding Problem has been solved. So What's Next?"
2010
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Mathematics and our body
Oct 2010
"Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being" [amazon link] is a recent book by cognitive scientists George Lakoff and Rafael Nuñez, in which they argue that the origin of our mathematical ideas (even the most abstract and immaterial) is to be found in the materiality of our everyday experience. That is to say, in the body.
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Victim of the Brain
Mar 2010
If you've heard about the 'brain in a vat' thought experiment but never had the time to read more about it, this movie is a quite pleasant dramatisation of the argument!
2009
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Django signals
Nov 2009
This is a really cool feature of django that I've never explored, so I though I'd made a post about it so to remind myself of using it more often! It's discussed extensively in the docs here and here. In a nutshell:
2008
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Quotation from Gregory Bateson
Jul 2008
Gregory Bateson (9 May 1904 – 4 July 1980) was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. In the 1940s he helped extend systems theory/cybernetics to the social/behavioral sciences, and spent the last decade of his life developing a "meta-science" of epistemology to bring together the various early forms of systems theory developing in various fields of science.
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How semantic is the semantic web?
Jan 2008
Just read this article thanks to a colleague: I share pretty much everything it says about the SW, so I though it wouldn't be too bad to pass it on to the next reader. Basically, it is about some very fundamental issues: what do we mean by semantics? Does a computer have semantics? If not, what's the point of the name 'Semantic Web'? I think that it's quite un-controversial the fact that the choice of the name 'semantic' web is controversial.
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