Archive for February, 2009

cognitive semantics : lexemes and memes

The study of the morphology of language has at its heart an acceptance of imperfection and change. It seems intuitive that our grammars and vocabularies have allowed several random phonemes to accrete around central lexemes, subtly changing the meanings associated with those latter, and all the while carrying that meaning across an awesome stretch of time (and [...]

My ‘dillinja’ escape plan

My Blogido Fu has been weak of late.
But I have an escape plan… thanks to an old blog draft I found; in it I ramble on about what I like about electronic dance music (or EDM).
If you’re a NINer and landed here thinking this was a 9-inch nails article, erm… sorry.

future sites, and datamining with teeth

SEED magazine had a tiny article about how web datamining is an inefficient way to conduct scientific inquiry with large datasets, the reason being that any such dataset cannot really have been created with the goal of answering the scientific questions that a research team happen to have decided to ask. I’d like to expand [...]

quantization bugs me…

[edits 2010-06-03]
Quantisation.
Essentially, the drawing of lines in the proverbial sand: discrimination… discerning this from that.
But when quantisation arises naturally, what causes it? Is there an informational limit to how much information can accrete below the threshold of a quantum, before the latter manifests itself? I mean, I think there is… but how would you define such a [...]