Archive for April 16th, 2005
Ontology is Overated (on the web)
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. The better solution seems to be social categorization which does not force the […]
Posted: April 16th, 2005 under Technology.
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Common Mathematics
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
Posted: April 16th, 2005 under Culture.
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