Languages--Chinese:
I watched episode 66 of Travel in Chinese. This episode was about the food in Xi'an.
Articles:
There was an interesting article in the LA Times about the Yahoo CEO, Marissa Mayer, and how she plans to turn the company around. Her strategy revolves around hiring engineering talent, making a move towards mobile devices, and only pursing the Yahoo products that will most likely succeed. A few people seem to think Yahoo is a lost cause but others feel that Mayer will be able to turn the company around. Since none of the plans have been implemented yet, it's difficult to say whether they will work or not.
Philosophy:
I read about the idea of "nothing" or "non-existence" in metaphysics. "Nothing" is what it sounds like. It's nothing. It's not an entity and it has no characteristics. It's a denial of existence and being able to deny something's existence implies that other entities exist. Otherwise, one wouldn't be able to deny an entity's existence.
Internships:
I looked at Dragon Go! on nuance.com. Dragon Go! is a smartphone app that hears the user's voice, understands their intent, and then proceeds to do whatever is the user wanted. This would mean that the app is able to process semantics, which is usually very difficult with speech processing.
"Nothing" is a very important abstract concept.
ReplyDeleteIt does not meant "empty". It was the Indian civilization that invented "zero", and the
scientific world benefited tremendously from that concept.
On Dragon Go!:
I wonder if the app is based on client/server model. Whereby the client app in the iPhone or Android device must communicate with a giant knowledge network in the server for knowledge of the world, knowledge of the user and to figure out what he/she meant.