P. S.: Post Scriptum » publishable http://blog.pietrosperoni.it Pietro Speroni di Fenizio's web log Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:25:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Copyright © P. S.: Post Scriptum 2011 pietros@gmail.com (P. S.: Post Scriptum) pietros@gmail.com (P. S.: Post Scriptum) http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg P. S.: Post Scriptum http://blog.pietrosperoni.it 144 144 Pietro Speroni di Fenizio's web log P. S.: Post Scriptum P. S.: Post Scriptum pietros@gmail.com no no No more Ivory Towers http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2011/05/05/no-more-ivory-towers/ http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2011/05/05/no-more-ivory-towers/#comments Thu, 05 May 2011 08:39:18 +0000 Pietro http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/?p=439 I am right now at the FET 11 conference. There I was attending a session from my old friend Josh Bongard on Crowdsourcing Science . There I commented that it would be already a good thing if scientists started to make themselves available to the wider public. This by giving a timetable when they are [...] Related posts:
  1. My new homepage Recently I have made some serious changes to my homepage. SOme of those changes I have been planning from a long long time. Others were more sudden. The central page is of course at pietrosperoni.it that leads to home.pietrosperoni.it. But then there was something that I wanted to do for a long time. Integrate my [...]...
]]> http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2011/05/05/no-more-ivory-towers/feed/ 5 Ebooks, the next revolution. But this time is BIG! http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2008/11/22/ebooks-the-next-revolution-but-this-time-is-big/ http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2008/11/22/ebooks-the-next-revolution-but-this-time-is-big/#comments Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:21:41 +0000 Pietro http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2008/11/22/ebooks-the-next-revolution-but-this-time-is-big/ Another revolution is about to happen.

A revolution that is many times in size and importance bigger than the music revolution. I call it the e-book revolution.

In this moment a number of technologies are coming together:

On the one side OCR technologies are reaching a level of sophistication, where it is nearly as easy [...] Related posts:

  1. No more Ivory Towers I am right now at the FET 11 conference. There I was attending a session from my old friend Josh Bongard on Crowdsourcing Science . There I commented that it would be already a good thing if scientists started to make themselves available to the wider public. This by giving a timetable when they are [...]...
]]> http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2008/11/22/ebooks-the-next-revolution-but-this-time-is-big/feed/ 1 My Sunday Treasure Hunt: Enzymes and Digestion http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2006/02/14/my-sunday-treasure-hunt-enzymes-and-digestion/ http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2006/02/14/my-sunday-treasure-hunt-enzymes-and-digestion/#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2006 05:06:33 +0000 Pietro http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2006/02/14/my-sunday-treasure-hunt-enzymes-and-digestion/ If you go around the net, looking for information about enzymes and digestion, you often find detailed explanations. Explenations that generally say that enzymes come in a limited quantity, that if you eat raw food you are taking in new enzymes, thus not depleting your resources but if you eat cooked food you deactivate the [...] No related posts.]]> http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2006/02/14/my-sunday-treasure-hunt-enzymes-and-digestion/feed/ 7 Tag Clouds are hard to Spam http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/06/07/tag-clouds-and-spam/ http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/06/07/tag-clouds-and-spam/#comments Tue, 07 Jun 2005 19:17:49 +0000 Pietro http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/06/07/tag-clouds-and-spam/ I think the time have come to write my third, and hopefully last contribution to the topic of tagclouds.

I have been hearing a lot of talk on how users should not use too many tags in linking to url. I also am the maintainer of the mindmap maker, and I often look at some [...] Related posts:

  1. No more Ivory Towers I am right now at the FET 11 conference. There I was attending a session from my old friend Josh Bongard on Crowdsourcing Science . There I commented that it would be already a good thing if scientists started to make themselves available to the wider public. This by giving a timetable when they are [...]...
]]> http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/06/07/tag-clouds-and-spam/feed/ 17 Tagclouds and cultural changes http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/05/28/tagclouds-and-cultural-changes/ http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/05/28/tagclouds-and-cultural-changes/#comments Sat, 28 May 2005 19:55:09 +0000 Pietro http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/05/28/tagclouds-and-cultural-changes/ In the previous post I discussed how we can measure the relative importance of tags in a post, by calculating their weight, as

weight of tag t= (number of people using t)/(total number of people)

I also said that:

Not only we could study a culture by studying the differences in the power law approximated [...] Related posts:

  1. No more Ivory Towers I am right now at the FET 11 conference. There I was attending a session from my old friend Josh Bongard on Crowdsourcing Science . There I commented that it would be already a good thing if scientists started to make themselves available to the wider public. This by giving a timetable when they are [...]...
]]> http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/05/28/tagclouds-and-cultural-changes/feed/ 21 On Tag Clouds, Metric, Tag Sets and Power Laws http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/05/25/tag-clouds-metric/ http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/05/25/tag-clouds-metric/#comments Wed, 25 May 2005 18:52:59 +0000 Pietro http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/05/24/atg-clouds-vs-tag-sets/ Note: This entry is connected also to a mindmap. Some people were having problems in opening the page because of that. As such the mindmap has been stored in a separate page, and can be viewed from here.

Introduction

As correctly pointed out by Jeffrey Zeldman tag clouds are becoming more and more popular. Yet [...] Related posts:

  1. No more Ivory Towers I am right now at the FET 11 conference. There I was attending a session from my old friend Josh Bongard on Crowdsourcing Science . There I commented that it would be already a good thing if scientists started to make themselves available to the wider public. This by giving a timetable when they are [...]...
]]> http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/05/25/tag-clouds-metric/feed/ 31 A house divided http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2004/12/11/a-house-divided/ http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2004/12/11/a-house-divided/#comments Sun, 12 Dec 2004 06:41:59 +0000 Pietro http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2004/12/11/a-house-divided/ As the price of houses rises, more and more people find that the best solution is to divide a house among friends. Usually each person gets a room. The problem then is: who gets what room and how much should he pay. Usually the total rent is fixed, and usually the rooms are not exactly [...] Related posts:
  1. No more Ivory Towers I am right now at the FET 11 conference. There I was attending a session from my old friend Josh Bongard on Crowdsourcing Science . There I commented that it would be already a good thing if scientists started to make themselves available to the wider public. This by giving a timetable when they are [...]...
]]> http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2004/12/11/a-house-divided/feed/ 0