Sempre caro mi fu quest’ermo colle, e questa siepe, che da tanta parte de l’ultimo orizzonte il guardo esclude. Ma sedendo e mirando, interminati spazi di là da quella, e sovrumani silenzi, e profondissima quiete io nel pensier mi fingo; ove per poco il cor non si spaura. E come il vento odo stormir tra queste piante, io quello infinito silenzio a questa voce vo comparando: e mi sovvien l’eterno, e le morte stagioni, e la presente e viva, e il suon di lei. Così tra questa immensità s’annega il pensier mio: e il naufragar m’è dolce in questo mare. L’Infinito | Giacomo Leopardi Unofficial English TranslationTumblr (3.0; @abiogenesis)http://abiogenesis.emind.org/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m47y0uj4pO1qz4m8vo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>(via <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/04/historic-photos-from-the-nyc-municipal-archives/100286/">Historic Photos From the NYC Municipal Archives - In Focus - The Atlantic</a>)</p>http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/23287641127http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/23287641127Fri, 18 May 2012 14:43:42 +0200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3x0e73Nyb1qz4m8vo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://instagr.am/p/KhSFUlNUQ2/">http://instagr.am/p/KhSFUlNUQ2/</a></p>http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/22904000343http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/22904000343Sat, 12 May 2012 17:01:18 +0200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2mtjl3bdU1qdh7g0o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/22371810992http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/22371810992Fri, 04 May 2012 08:09:38 +0200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3bc9yqhZk1qcolnvo1_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3bc9yqhZk1qcolnvo2_500.gif"/><br/> <br/>http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/22252850634http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/22252850634Wed, 02 May 2012 14:47:25 +0200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luno70Ckai1ql8pueo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/22252838526http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/22252838526Wed, 02 May 2012 14:46:58 +0200<a href="http://semanticweb.com/how-watson-works_b28437">How Watson Works - semanticweb.com</a>: <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://smarterplanet.tumblr.com/post/21791009852/how-watson-works-semanticweb-com">smarterplanet</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Ivan Herman recently offered some insight into <a href="http://ivan-herman.name/2012/04/20/how-does-watson-work/">how Watson actually works</a>. Herman reports, “I was at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Welty" title="Chris Welty">Chris Welty</a>’s keynote yesterday at the <a href="http://www2012.org/">WWW2012 Conference</a>. His talk was on Jeopardy/Watson and, althou<img align="right" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-28438" height="300" src="http://semanticweb.com/files/2012/04/6477299395_a6b029d669-300x300.jpg" title="6477299395_a6b029d669" width="300"/>gh this is not the first time I heard/saw something on <a href="http://semanticweb.com/?cx=014154320031312368439%3Aroum4ta8hle&cof=FORID%3A11&s=1&q=watson">Watson</a>, some things really became clear only at his keynote. Namely: what is <em>really</em> the central paradigm that made the question answering mechanism so successful in the case of Watson? Well… query answering in Watson is <em>not</em> some sort of a deterministic algorithm that turns a natural language question into a query into a huge set of data. This approach does not work.”<span id="more-28437"></span></p> <p>He continues, “Instead, a question is analyzed and, based on search in various set of data, a large set of possible answers is extracted. These ‘candidate’ answers are analyzed <em>separately</em> along a whole series of different dimensions (geographical or temporal dimensions, or, which I found the most interesting, putting back candidate answers into the original question and search <em>that</em> again against various sources of information to rank them again). The result is a vector of numerical values representing the results of the analysis along those different dimensions. That ‘vector’ is summed up into one final value using a weight values for each dimension. The weights themselves are obtained through a prior training process (in this case using a number of stored Jeopardy question/answers). Finally, the answer with the highest value (I presume over a certain threshold value) is returned.”</p> <p><a href="http://ivan-herman.name/2012/04/20/how-does-watson-work/">Read more here.</a></p> </blockquote>http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/21966522793http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/21966522793Sat, 28 Apr 2012 09:48:05 +0200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m33cl9VdDM1qcokc4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/21917049053http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/21917049053Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:27:31 +0200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m33ij9qgur1qcr84ro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/21916955353http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/21916955353Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:25:15 +0200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2ypiwBhj21r4wkhgo1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/21916870727http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/21916870727Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:23:13 +0200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m27qlgSknA1qlvqwko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/21916797740http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/21916797740Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:21:28 +0200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly1tmwsRRG1qzjc1ro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/21916732930http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/21916732930Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:19:53 +0200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2y5cslMIw1qda0zyo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/21916542534http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/21916542534Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:15:21 +0200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0jbatq6qs1qa9mbeo1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/21916514548http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/21916514548Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:14:39 +0200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m34g9nO0Se1rn2xtio1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em>OPS</em><span>!</span></p>http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/21916216878http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/21916216878Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:07:50 +0200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m33zdk1HSp1qzyhb5o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m33zdk1HSp1qzyhb5o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m33zdk1HSp1qzyhb5o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m33zdk1HSp1qzyhb5o4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/>http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/21916112031http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/21916112031Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:05:13 +0200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2zz3w9IY81qb0zaro1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2zz3w9IY81qb0zaro2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/>http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/21916029519http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/21916029519Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:03:04 +0200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lztua7Ojpc1qbk0rto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/18120045146http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/18120045146Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:46:36 +0100<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lt1lsgElwK1r0yyoco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/18119972381http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/18119972381Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:44:10 +0100<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzhc0iw6vc1qgdqnvo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://crownedrose.tumblr.com/post/17705550494">crownedrose</a>:</p> <blockquote> <blockquote> <p><em><strong>Tyrannosaurus Sue etching</strong></em> (by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/angusmcdiarmid/">angus mcdiarmid</a>)</p> </blockquote> <p>This is a metal etching of “Sue”, done on a zinc plate with ferric chloride. This is absolutely stunning, and even more awesome because of the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/angusmcdiarmid/2439663344/#comment72157604822152968">process</a> that was followed to create this. View the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/angusmcdiarmid/2439663344/sizes/l/in/photostream/">etch in a larger form</a> here.</p> </blockquote>http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/17768386199http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/17768386199Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:54:32 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx76q4oStK1qdanvuo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/17766841406http://abiogenesis.emind.org/post/17766841406Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:09:43 +0100