Here’s why.. How many of us have attractive, intelligent, out-spoken, confident women in our family? I bet you can name at least a couple would you CHANGE her/them? How many of us know of a woman who would put us in our place in a minute if we got out of line? And that includes your mom, would you tell HER to shut up?

Click Here for a bit of a review and ensuing discussion on Brad Stine’s blog. (Brad is a big-time comedian and somewhat of a spokesman on Christian/conservative issues) I haven’t seen the documentary yet myself, although I’m hearing a lot about it. The premise of the documentary is something I’ve heard from

The world of semantic searching just got a little bigger thanks to some pretty savvy investors and talented scientists and computational engineers over at Feedster. My hat is off to them. Applying semantic search to raw RSS feeds is very challenging and is no small undertaking. Feedster has more than three hundred million

How important do you think that it is to recognize when you are about to make an error? If you rate it as pretty important to you, then you will agree that that sort of recognition would be something very meaningful. The very act of distinguishing the error is of perceptual significance

Things do heat up in the summer time and some say there is some competition brewing among Natural Language vendors that are offering search services. Over at the Conceptualist, Sahar Sarid comments on whether 30 years of research is enough to beat Google. Citing Michael Reisman for MIT Technology, he thinks semantic search is

I promised in the last post that I could offer a solution to the disconnect between what search engines locate and what people think is relevant. Now there is nothing wrong with search engines as long as you know what you are looking for and it has a uniquely relevant name or handle. Some

I would like to address the few questions I received on the three parts 1,2 and 3 of the semantics of interpersonal relations. The first and most obvious questions was: I don’t get it. What are the semantics? This question is about the actual semantic rules that I did not state fully or formally in any

In a recent Read Write Web article that was much more myth than reality, Alex Iskold posits the fact that a semantic search engine must dethrone Google (myth1). Fortunately by the end of his article he concludes that he was mislead into thinking that. I do not think he was misled at

On the May 30th post entitled “Do car engineers turn to Darwinian evolution or intelligent design?”, Casey Luskin writes: Don’t read into this post too much. I am sorry, but even with the disclaimer, there is plenty to read into this post. Casey Luskin thinks that the use of the term “intelligent design” and not evolution when

The Discovery Institute is upset with Richard Dawkins. They posted this at their blog: Should Strident British Atheist Richard Dawkins Dictate Education Policy to US States? Barbara Forrest Apparently Thinks So. The title tells most of the story. As you recall, Barbara Forrest has been urging people to send email to Louisiana Governor Bobby