You can discover four types of Knowledge (from Twitter). The classification is inspired by Bloom’s Taxonomy. Factual Knowledge Conceptual and Meta Knowledge Let us briefly look at each type with a couple of examples. Factual Knowledge- Some observations You get…
It is nice to see challenge winners turning into product builders. It is nicer to see innovations that push the limits of what we can do. A news story about LaserMotive: It’s the first commercial product to be offered for…
The Biopython Project is a collection of freely available Python tools for computational molecular biology. The web site provides an online resource for modules, scripts, and web links for developers of Python-based software for life science research. From the Tutorial…
Here is a great story on how Shell plans to save 100s millions of dollars using Semantic Search. They estimate the savings to come from cutting the time of training their employees by providing right information based on the employee’s…
I am reading the UIMA overview document. It is a fascinating description of an architecture for analyzing unstructured documents. In analyzing unstructured content, UIMA based applications make use of a variety of analysis technologies including: • Statistical and rule-based Natural Language Processing…
At iMorph, we build tools to discover, gather and explore information. Here is one prototype we are playing with. It takes three publications and analyzes the top terms (we chose bigrams – pairs of words). Each tag cloud is build…
In one of my Infostreams alerts, there was an entry for a Librarian job. Out of curiosity I clicked on the link and was surprised to see these job skill requirements (partial) for a Digial Asset’s Librarian. knowledge of emerging…
Here are a set of links about Python and related products like Django, Pyramid and lots of libraries and tools. obspy.core 0.6.0o - a Python framework for seismological observatories. opencl-for-python 0.4.0 Open CL Python bindings Clyther 0.3-beta OpenCL Python integration selenium 2.16.0 Python…
Infostreams Alert on Mobile Devices, Apps, Vendors and Markets Silk ported from Kindle Fire to rooted Android devices, other web browsers now jealous Spotify CEO shows off iPhone voice integration hack, love for Siri, Coldplay Iwan Thomas on Motorola ACTV,…
Pipes and Filters are a familiar pattern for people managing data. Its use has been popularized by Yahoo Pipes. I always wanted to get a programmable version of pipes and filters and felt that a mini language would help a…
