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Final project Bit by Bit
For my final project, I was dealing with the question of grammar, and gramatisation as a principle of normalising ones voice. What distincts man from the animals is the fact that man’s voice, can be gramatised , articulated therefore included in the order of the state. State of agramatized voice is state of ones deprivation [...]
Recommendation systems
During my observation of the recommendation systems, I’ve somehow found them to have a completely different impact, depending on the sphere I am moving in, and applicability of the, for example, item I am trying to buy, or look for. In the case where I am looking for an air pump, I keep getting recommendations [...]
Jaron Lanier’s You are not a gadget
Essay on Jaron Lanier’s, “YOU are not a gadget” Inevitability of the things spoken about in the book is something that is present from the begginig to the end of the book in the process of witnessing explicit statements of the negative influences of the web in general, by the very person that pioneers the [...]
Hidden Markov Models
I got the trained model file from the brown corpus, but there’s something seriously wrong with Processing core file in eclipse…..it just keeps saying that it’s missing a library….even though I imported it…..not sure what the problem is…..
N-grams of the Big other
Processing of the Slavoj Zizek’s text “The Big other doesn’t exist “, using 2 grams, 3 grams, and 5 grams, and generating 200 words text. 2-grams: was lost is a grain of the ” : the big Other , i . In this new conception of the Self ” secret teaching ” use of the [...]
Stop tokenized analyses of the TRUTH
StopTokenizer that extracts tokens from Michel Foucault’s Techniques of Parrhesia…..analyses of “truth”….except for obvious words like “a”, “an” and punctuative signs, I tried to clean the text from factography and leave it with bare thoughts……..with the TRUTH… One annoying thing- for some reason I couldn’t extract the “-”, even though I’ve put it on the [...]
Eliza
Simple chat-bot program, with the curious bot asking questions about prior to “believed to be known”. package class2.regexes; import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.util.regex.Matcher; import java.util.regex.Pattern; public class Eliza { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println(“Who are you?”); //open up standard input BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)); String inputText = “”; [...]
Turing vs. Searle
Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Alan Turing Minds, Brains and Programs, John Searle Can machines think, if by thinking is thought manipulation with the information from the position of understanding it and not just formally rearranging it in a way that make sense with the prewritten logic? I am not sure I have an opinion toward [...]