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28 Apr 09

The fundamental problem of ‘owning’ user data « Alexander van Elsas’s Weblog

  • Is the ability to innovate with user data fundamentally more important than the right of a user to keep his data (interactions)  private?
  • It is tempting to answer this question with a ‘yes’. Many web advocates will explain that by giving up privacy they get value
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06 Apr 09

Share This Lecture! on Vimeo

Annual lecture for "Cyberworlds" class, Sydney University, 31 March 2009. About the significance of sharing across three domains: sharing media, sharing knowledge, and how these two inevitably lead to the sharing of power.

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19 Dec 08

Research as a Second Language: Citing Wikipedia (i.e., why not to)

  • Any specific criticism of Wikipedia can be countered, but why on earth would we ever rely on Wikipedia? Scholars do the research that Wikipedia sometimes summarizes very nicely (sometimes wholly ineptly). Wikipedia relies on scholarship; each article is based on "reliable sources". Not the other way around.
  • the question is whether you can cite Wikipedia as a source, not whether you can use Wikipedia as a resource.
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25 Oct 08

石墨工房 5.1β - 評論記事 - 給需要擁抱的媒體一個擁抱

  • 我仍然尊重記者必需的專業與訓練，許多「公民記者」的撰述並不能成為獨立而平衡的報導（當然，很多專業記者也做不到），但卻提供了另外一種觀點、或是突破會讓主流媒體大招牌卡住的限制，讓我們有更多的資訊可以選擇。
  • 無論主流或是公民媒體，我基本上都抱持著一種「照單接收、但不信任」的態度；理論上（只是理論上），真正的事實來自不同資訊來源之間的交叉比對
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19 Oct 08

为什么大家都努力，最终却有更多的人不成功？ | Pure Pleasure - Reborn

  • 因为懒惰没有技术上的解决办法。
  • 大多数人既然是人就继承了作为生物而应该天生拥有的进化本能和进化能力。长久的观察使我得出一个结论，大多数学生实际上是勤奋的，他们并不懒惰，他们只是花费了很多时间精力却没有收获而已。过分简单地把最终的收获归结于“勤奋”，而把颗粒无收归结于“懒惰”，只不过是于事无补的空洞评论而已，不为解决问题提供任何线索。
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Is it rational to agree to disagree? - Rondam Ramblings

  • In the vast majority of disputed topics, the available evidence does not pin down with absolute certainty what we should believe. A consequence of this is that if there are no constraints on which priors are rational, there are almost no constraints on which beliefs are rational. People who think that some beliefs are irrational are thus forced to impose constraints on what priors are rational.
  • These common criticisms suggest that most people implicitly uphold rationality standards that disapprove of self-favoring priors, such as priors that violate indexical independence. These criticisms also suggest that people in fact tend to form beliefs as if they had such priors. That is, people do seem to think they can reason substantially better than others, in the absence of much evidence favoring this conclusion. People thus seem to violate the rationality standards they uphold. And as we have mentioned, such tendencies seem capable of explaining a great deal of human disagreement.

How do you know that you are right?

    • Doing well can mean several things:


      • What you state is factually correct.
      • Many people know or appreciate your work.
      • The performance of your tool  or system is competitive with respect to some measure.
      • You are getting a lot done.
      • You are making a lot of money.
  • For most tasks we accomplish, no quantitative measure is satisfying
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