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We Experiment On Human Beings! « OkTrends
maybe our matching algorithm was just garbage and it’s only the power of suggestion that brings people together. So we tested things the other way, too: we told people who were actually good for each other, that they were bad, and watched what happened. Here’s the whole scope of results (I’m using the odds of […]
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Soviet synthesizer bridged occultism and electronic music – Boing Boing
“The political tides turned against the Russian avant garde by the time Murzin began working on the ANS in 1938. As Isobel Clouter explains in an episode of the BBC radio show The Soundhunter, most early sound art projects were destroyed. Engineers were forced to work on art projects in secret and had little access […]
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‘Because’ has become a preposition, because grammar | Sentence first
“Is prepositional-because grammatical? Sure. Not in Standard English, of course. But lots of people are using it in a systematic and semantically transparent way. It has obvious appeal in a range of informal contexts, though whether it manages ultimately to insinuate itself into more formally acceptable usage remains to be seen. You needn’t use or […]
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![via googleblog.blogspot.com "In May [Google] launched the Knowledge Graph, [the] database of more than 500 million real-world people, places and things with 3.5 billion attributes and connections among them."](http://gle.ovo.kom.uni.st/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/82073-media_http3bpblogspot_cnhla-scaled500.png "Building the search engine of the future, one baby step at a time | Official Google Blog")
Building the search engine of the future, one baby step at a time | Official Google Blog
via googleblog.blogspot.com “In May [Google] launched the Knowledge Graph, [the] database of more than 500 million real-world people, places and things with 3.5 billion attributes and connections among them.”
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How DARPA uses Mechanical Turk to Translate Social Media – The Mechanical Turk Blog
DARPA produces software that translates thousands of Arabic documents every day using their own state of the art machine translation technology. But as communication shifts from written documents (which tend to follow formal Arabic grammar convent…
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“???_Anoni_nisu_pokret,_anoni_su_ideja_??? je ideja.
???_Anoni_nisu_pokret,_anoni_su_ideja_??? je ideja. Ta ideja je zbog svoje kompleksnosti vrlo zavodljiva (specifi??nom (suvremenom) senzibilitetu) i ona mobilizira jako puno ljudi u pokret oko sebe. Pokret koji za sebe ka??e da nije pokret je, naravno i…
