ActiveCatalyst » Language & Cognition http://activecatalyst.wordpress.com Meme pump for working minds. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:34:29 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/83b9b1d3f9c3847dc67fd400cb19670b?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png ActiveCatalyst » Language & Cognition http://activecatalyst.wordpress.com Bad Writing for Fun and Profit http://activecatalyst.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/bad-writing-for-fun-and-profit/ http://activecatalyst.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/bad-writing-for-fun-and-profit/#comments Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:17:47 +0000 Mark P. Line http://activecatalyst.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/bad-writing-for-fun-and-profit/ ]]>

www.badhemingway.com

  • It was a website. It was a good website. It was the kind of website you would surf past on a cold, rainy night sitting in your hotel room in Bogota.
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Bringing Second Life To Life: Researchers Create Character With Reasoning Abilities Of A Child

  • Okay, now this is cool. Not much more I can say.
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Plain Language: Improving Communications from the Federal Government to the Public

  • Okay. So now all we need is a means of communication from the public to the federal government. But maybe that’s not as important.
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Ontology and Formal Semantics – Integration Overdue

  • Overdue indeed. I became a semantician because I found the content representations being used in cognitive science were vacuous. Then I became an ontologist because I found the content representations being used in semantics were vacuous.
  • Only with plausible, common-sense ontology can we ever do plausible, common-sesne semantics. Only with plausible, common-sense semantics can we ever do plausible, common-sense cognitive science. Only with plausible, common-sense cognitive science can we ever do plausible, common-sense social science. Only with plausible, common-sense social science can we ever design effective, evidence-based policies to put our society back on track.
  • I guess that’s why they call it “integration”.
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