Sorin Adam Matei
Analysis, research, maps, and essays from Sorin Adam Matei.
Agree or disagree? The Value of Admitting What We Don’t Know – Commentary – The Chronicle of Higher Educationhttp://chronicle.com/article/The-Value-of-Admitting-What-We/147983/All dialects are equal linguistically, in that they are regular, rule-governed, and just as effective at communicating as is standard English. They are not,…
John Wilbanks Image via Wikipedia At the Microsoft Faculty Summit John Wilbanks from Creative Commons foundation advocated very, very, very hard for better standards and ontologies and for making sure that everyone follows them. He brought up in his support Berners Lee‘s…
NYT makes “deletionst”–as in “someone who deletes Wikipedia article on a daily basis”-a notable phrase… In the Wall Street Journal, Julia Angwin and Geoffrey A. Fowler reported on a dramatic decline in the number of Wikipedia editors (down by more than 49,000…
Image via Wikipedia Face is the mirror of the soul. Or so E A Poe thought, who believed that you can feel what a person thinks just by trying to mimic their facial expression. NYT blogger (and evolutionary psychologist) Olivia Judson takes…