Just when I found myself thinking that John Robb can speak no wrong, he posts some silly rant tryingabout the intelligence of U.S. military officers. He says “The only exception to this rule in modern times is Schwarzkopf, with his 170 IQ, and his ability to deal in strategy at its deepest level. In contrast, [...]
Only in America could a comment like “stupidity should be cured” or “ugly should be prevented” be met with such indignationand embarassment. It’s as if James Watson let out a loud belch during a dramatic pause in the preacher’s sermon, and the congregation has quickly muffled their snickers to act as if nothing has happened. [...]
Richard Caetano is reading about Site Server’s “prevalence” layer, and wondering if anyone still uses it. Since I haveworked with systems using Site Server’s “prevalence” and most other competing technologies, I feel qualified to say some things about the topic.
Now, the first thing to realize is that such layersare nothing new, and there are many [...]
[American Philisophical Association] viaSeb’s Open Research: “Should (can?) philosophers, as a discipline, build a formal ontology of philosophical concepts to enhance searching, linking, and cross-referencing of philosophical content on the World Wide Web?”
Seems like a rather contrived question for such a symposium. Did anyone actually answer “no”?
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[Sjoerd Visscher] RDF is the only standard format that [...]
Steve Lohr writes for NYT that an expert is wary about IAO’s all-seeing TIA database. Borrowing a page from John Markoff’s playbook, he starts with an exciting and heroic thesis, and then shops around for facts that might support the basic theme.Unfortunately, he doesn’t have grasp enoughof the basic facts to realize that his facts [...]