The Importance of Connections
I ran across this quote from Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum via ONFOCUS:
“No piece of information is superior to any other. Power lies in having them all on file and then finding the connections. There are always connections; you have only to want to find them.”
This is the power of the internet. It is not in the information, but in the connections between them. I find that I tend to learn more from my search and subsequent linking from one page to another than I do from actually reading any one entry. It is the experience that sheds light on the subject, not necessarily any one entry. The medium is truly the message. It is an interlinked world we live in and the internet brings that fact to the forefront. “There are always connections; you have only to want to find them.” Makes me want to read Eco.
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Also a rapidly growing area of research for computational linguists trying to develop computer models of human language capability. How do we conect concepts and words. Interesting stuff…I think Taryn may have written a paper on it…
I’d be interesting reading that, word on the street is that she’s quite the paper writer. I’d actually be really interested in reading about that, know of anything online that has been written?
http://cs1.cs.nyu.edu/phd_students/schwarz/NLCP/index.html is a good starting point…I had Dougherty senior year and he is doing some really interesting stuff. There should be some good links on his site, and if you need more info you could always e-mail him…he’s really very receptive to people interested in this type of work. And speaking of the internet and connections…does anyone else find it odd that Noah and I now communicate through the comments section of NoahBrier.com? I really need to come into the city for beers sometime soon…this is just too weird.
Thanks for the link, I’ll check it out. As for communicating through the comments section, I’m fairly certain there’s no one else is the world who’s noticed. You do need to come in for beers though, I actually said the same thing yesterday.