A life in words

  • Powers of Two

    Okay, I know I just had a post called “Two Ideas”. I guess I’m feeling binary lately. Here goes…. The two books I bought today Algorithms—this is for Computer Science 312. I think it will go a long way towards being able to understand what the people in the NLP lab are always talking about.…

  • Two Ideas

    These ideas have rather caught my attention: About the Semantic Web, see this TED talk by Tim Berners-Lee: The next Web of open, linked data A blog post about Internet-fueled government transparency: What the post-bureaucratic era will mean for the public service

  • Why…

    …are eBooks embracing DRM while online music stores are abandoning it? What’s the difference aside from a couple of megabytes?

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side; if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion…. Nor is it enough that he should hear the arguments of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations…. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and do their very utmost for them. He must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form….John Stuart Mill, On LIberty