Category Archives: humans

Learn with hashtags

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Hashtags are controversial: not necessary and/or irritating for some, useful for others. I find them useful for three reasons: they simplify machine treatment, they reduce noise and, most importantly perhaps, they teach humans how to interact with machines.
Hashtags simplify machine treatment
Hashtags simplify machine treatment because they make tag detection, or keyword detection, straightforward. Keywords are [...]

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A better world in 2008

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

As you probably know, The Davos Question is a Youtube initiative where everyone’s invited to say, in one minute, what they think is “the one thing that will help make the world a better place in 2008”.
This week, adding up to the thousands of individuals who posted their answers on Youtube, many world leaders have [...]

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