Our ability to view the world through a filter of our past knowledge underlines the importance of having systems that understand the difference between data and knowledge and their strong interdependence. We need both data and knowledge to perceive with…
Role of Knowledge: EC 12
Finding Patterns in Data
Data represents just observations or facts. People look at this data and try to find patterns in it and assign meanings to it. But the data is just the data. How does any pattern or meaning emerges from it? Consider the…
I as a Cancer Survivor
Today I had to go to a party where several families, more than 10, known to us were coming. Some of these people are known quite well to us and were very helpful during my worst days here. Many of…
Different types of experiences: EC 10
Considering the way technology has been evolving and the demands new applications are putting on it, we need to reconsider our current approaches. We are starting to work against ourselves, when we expect systems to decide how to extract information…
Intellectual and culinary preferences
When in Atlanta, I got used to spending some time daily interacting with people discussing research ideas. That was very good for my feeling back to normal life. After coming back here, I started missing those kind of interactions. So…