Daily Archives: April 16, 2005

Ontology is Overated (on the web)

Posted on April 16, 2005 by Steven

Clay Shirky talks about ontology and categorization ala Yahoo! and Mozdev. It’s foolish for global portals like Yahoo! to categorize the world, let alone the web in a ontological ontology, because it assumes every one categorizes in the same way. … Continue reading →

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Common Mathematics

Posted on April 16, 2005 by Steven

Lobsters, birds, cats, dogs and people who don’t do well on math tests are nonetheless math geniuses. Keywords: math, education. IT Conversations: Keith Devlin – Tech Nation

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