Seth Russell's BlogAbout the semantic web ... and it's finding ...It is said that reasoning on the semantic web must be monotonic. Why is this so .....- January 25, 2003 From the last call RDF Semantics document ... "All logics based on a conventional model theory and a standard notion of entailment are monotonic. Monotonic logics have the property that entailments remain valid outside of the context in which they were generated. This is why RDF is designed to be monotonic." Nonmonotonic conclusions can be said to be valid only in some kind of 'context', and are liable to be incorrect or misleading when used outside that context. Making the context explicit...http://robustai.net/papers/Monotonic_Reasoning_on_the_Semantic_Web.html Language evolved in a leap (Article in Nature)- January 24, 2003 "The richness of human languages is a fine-tuned compromise between the needs of speakers and of listeners" ... "A language that conveyed all information unambiguously, would have a separate word for every thing" ... would be "ideal for the listener, who wouldn't have to work out any meanings from a word's context." but "Ideal for the speaker is a language of few words, where simple, short utterances serve many purposes." Hmmmm ... I wonder where the compromise is for the AI...http://www.nature.com/nsu/030120/030120-3.html Why is this so facinating- January 23, 2003 ... it demonstrates dynamically how many people are viewing a page and allows us to see each other. Very kewl !http://www.frozenman.com/ Shaggy the Luv Pup- January 21, 2003 This is just soooo cute ... Shaggy ... he sings and dances to the song "Only You" while he begs for your love. The manufacturer thinks it will be the hottest thing since Big Mouth Billy Bass. Have a listen ...http://speaktomecatalog.com/page/valentin.htm Does anyone know how deep is the river and how fast it is flowing- January 9, 2003 Of course I'm talking about the river of text that is defined by all RSS feeds of all versions. Does anyone have a python tool for sampeling the entire river as it flows by I'm interested in downloading some python code to poll all the RSS feeds and see how easy or hard it would be for me to tap into that river of text with key word searches. I realize that Janes' Blogosphere is playing with some of the same ideas, but i'm finding it hard to find the current things I'm looking for in his...http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-dev/message/4772 Going beyond Google by tapping into the river of text flowing in blogs ...- January 8, 2003 Google is great, but it's not very good if you want to know what's being said right now. Has anyone established the streme of text flowing in a a selection of blogs and reported only the items that match specific key word searches showing the key words like Google does in their cachehttp://google.com |