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Re: Precio del Bitcoin y titulares de HackerNews: BigQuery y Kaggle

marianasoffer — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 15:47:21 -0000

Estimado, lo felicito por su trabajo, queria preguntarle como logro conectarse desde python a big query. Muchas gracias!

Re: Videogame AI has room to grow - Kill Screen

marianasoffer — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 10:21:00 -0000

check
http://www.scoop.it/t/artif...

Re: My Father and Me. A Memoir. For Mayer Spivack (1936 – 2011)

marianasoffer — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 08:09:06 -0000

Hi Nova, my dear friend Mayer (I am really fond of him, I felt like he opened a door for me). First sorry for writing now but I have an issue with death so it takes me time.

I want to tell you that I feel really honored to be in the blog roll of your father's blog, and that I consider that my blog has some interesting things but many not, So I appreciate how you described it a lot. (I did that blog as a challenge for myself in order to learn to write better in English.)

I have so many things to say about your post, but don't wanna be long.

1. I believe he was an extremely open mind and generous man. I am glad that he spent time talking to me and exchanging emails. Also that he sent me a message soon before he was about to die, telling me he was sorry for disappearing but that he was seek. I replied

2. I learn a lot from him about art, he opened my mind. Also about Synestesia and the different ways the mind can percieves/work/be. He did also introduced me to Mr Bloom, which seems to me one of the most clear and lucid persons in this world.

3. I did guess he liked the sea, we had long talks about how to represent it and which would be a good analogy for this new term. He told me beautiful ones in which messages where like fishes going down a river.

Hope you are doing fantastic
MS

Re: http://blog.davidad.net/post/647094783

marianasoffer — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 02:43:51 -0000

I did not know this, really interesting. Made me thing about statistic distributions. Real-World data according to statistics is mostly distributed as a normal curve. Which completelly contradicts this, because the normal distribution of lets say people's weights, like I bet more than 95% of the other things you can measure in nature don't have negative numbers, they would probably start on 0 or 1, making the media number 5 (the media is the most common number). So what might be the reason for this:
1. That the higher digit of numerical measures of real world things don't have a normal distribution, but instead have another one such as poision, or chi square, so the statistic asumption that the most common distribution the normal one is wrong.
2. That the starting number of 1 or more measuring numbers ranging from 1 to 9 shouldn't be considered as an ordered sequence, they should be thought as categorial variables like color (blue,red,...) without order and that the frequence of them is not related to statistic laws, because we are taking as our data the single number multiplied by the higher power of 10 that forms part of a number, by taking only that particular number of a complete number the frequency is biased due to math-nature related reasons making one the most frequent.

I would love to know the frequency of the other 8 numbers do you know it?

Re: { my book should be out in early 2012 }

marianasoffer — Sun, 08 May 2011 10:43:14 -0000

I keep liking a lot the style in which you write. I love how it soyds,, it sounds like tdark art.

Re: Best of 2010: We the People

marianasoffer — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 02:33:51 -0000

It might be interesting to not only search trough our interests but also about the emotional tone we put in our discurses about it, which could be facilitated trough technologies which are similar to opinion mining but more complex

Re: Viral Media and the Bored at Work Network

marianasoffer — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 03:32:36 -0000

Not only they are bored, they need to fulfill their need to relate to the rest of society at least in a virtual way

Re: http://iwasanewme.tumblr.com/post/857667276

marianasoffer — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:54:20 -0000

The video is awesome, miranda july is great, she has several other videos you can check in you tube and a fantastic movie that she released a couple of years ago.

Re: Customer Sentiment in Social Media: Massive Scale is Scary, And Just One Link in Larger Chain of Data - Semantic Web

marianasoffer — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:45:32 -0000

Great article, most people do not understand how complicated this is, and that it does not exist a magic solution for all this things, neither a magic metric that can tell you precisely what you want to know about the state of your brand or product in social networks. Nevertheless companies approach these projects as if it they could be an easy solution to their problems and/or as if they can quickly and without much work obtain benefits from tem.

Re: A New Layer of the Brain is Evolving: The Metacortex

marianasoffer — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:57:15 -0000

If you use a highly simplified brain model you can divided in two 3 parts, ranging from the most basic and indispensable towards the more complex and not so essential for surviving, they are:
1. ANS (reptile brain)
2. Emotional Layer
3. Cognitive (thinking, abstraction capabilities)
They have several rules how they relate among each other, for example you need the first layer to allow the second to work and the second to allow the third one to work properly. The lower layers have a very strong influence in the functioning of the upper ones, while the upper ones do not have such a strongly influence in the lower ones.
So I was thinking if by adding the metacortext as the 4th layer, the rules of the 3 layer model would still apply in this case.
This approach might be erroneous due to considering that the meta-cortex alone is the 4th layer, maybe it should be considered as a part of the it.
What do you think about this idea, I would like to know about it?

Re: Jamreilly

marianasoffer — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:31:42 -0000

My pleasure!

Re: Jamreilly

marianasoffer — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 05:49:26 -0000

Just wanted to tell you I loved your blog, I just discovered it, I also tried to contact you on twitter. MAn you amazed me long time since I hadn't discovered such an interesting collection of stuff

Re: Will the Web Become Conscious?

marianasoffer — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 04:32:14 -0000

I was wondering if you wouldn't mind explaining in more detail what consciousness means/represents/seems to be according to you. Thanks!

Re: The Global Brain is About to Wake Up

marianasoffer — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:06:05 -0000

I believe each human has it’s particular timing for his/her thinking and learning processes, and that these timings influence the collective thinking time. I am afraid collective timing may be driven/affected mainly by a small elite of persons (the more skilled internet users), provoking the failure to synchronize personal and collective times in a large amount of individuals.
It might be useful to create new timing-adjustable tools that enable all individuals to “see the movie instead than single frames”.

Re: How Conceptual Metaphors are Stunting Web Innovation

marianasoffer — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:04:48 -0000

I think that the last part of your article is compatible with what I said before as a reply:etaphors might have to be evaluated and resignified in the context they are being used.
Let me be a little delirious: I was thinking that a new analogy about documents (which are embedded in the big internet picture) can be made based on living organisms, such as the cells in a human being, how they interact, connect with each other, carry their information in the DNA, and so on.
Do you have a website I can see or an email. I really like reading your thoughts? My email is marianasoffer@gmail.com.

Re: How Conceptual Metaphors are Stunting Web Innovation

marianasoffer — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:49:37 -0000

I think metaphors might have to be evaluated and resignificated in the context they are being treated

Re: How Conceptual Metaphors are Stunting Web Innovation

marianasoffer — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:58:18 -0000

Excelent article, I loved it, congrats about it.
Here is another reason explaining why metaphors might not work (which might be applied to the document one):
"Metaphors are markers of the roots of thought itself. They are the main mechanisms through which we comprehend abstract concepts and perform abstract reasoning. Abstract thought would be meaningless without bodily experience. People think with their brains and their brains are part of their bodies as well". - Lakoff and Johnson
More here: http://singyourownlullaby.blogspot.com/2009/10/...
Twitter and the stream can also be considered metaphors, you can explain the stream one as:What the Web is thinking and doing, right now. It's our collective stream of Consciousness. The Stream is the dynamic activity of the Web, unfolding over time. It is the conversations, the live streams of audio and video, the changes to Web sites that are happening, the ideas and trends -- the memes -- that are rippling across millions of Web pages, applications, and minds.
More here:http://singyourownlullaby.blogspot.com/2009/05/metaphors-everywhere.html
And also like Spivak described it:
"If the Internet is our collective nervous system, and the Web is our collective brain, then the Stream is our collective mind. The nervous system and the brain are like the underlying hardware and software, but the mind is what the system is actually thinking in real-time. These three layers are interconnected, yet are distinctly different aspects, of our emerging and increasingly awakened planetary intelligence. The Stream is what the Web is thinking and doing, right now. It's our collective stream of consciousness".
More here: http://singyourownlullaby.blogspot.com/2009/05/...

Let me tell you also that I consider your conclusion excelent.

Re: Win BenSpark.com Swag

marianasoffer — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:05:25 -0000

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Re: The Book of Books

marianasoffer — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:02:57 -0000

Nice post my friend
After a dark mental period sometimes I start felling that I am walking thowards the right path again. Then I undersand that I do not want to spend time with worthless people in a desperate attempt to get distracted from the pain. I also realized that I can be my own best company most of the time.

Sadly this clearer mental state starts to go away at some point. It goes astray from the path.
Eventually things I thought I understood do not make sense any more. This reveals that I do not have a solid platform to stand on. Sometimes I ask myself if it is possible to find a solid base that could be able to support me.
Our life is an ethernal quest for the platform that can better support us. without getting too far from the path.

Re: Summersong

marianasoffer — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:32:14 -0000

Beautifull post, lovely pictures. I smile and feel happy like when I was a kid with this kind of readings and things. Check out the folowing, its about alice in wonderland:http://www.youtube.com/watc...
And also this about Pooh:http://singyourownlullaby.b...

Hope you enjoy the links

Re: The Eye Clinic

marianasoffer — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:09:24 -0000

Beautifull poem I was laughing by myself, cause it reminded me a few days ago when I went to the ginecologist, the image was the same.

Re: Flight

marianasoffer — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:33:32 -0000

It seems like a poem the hole poem is a butter fly dancing, a beautifull one

Re: Sister Free

marianasoffer — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:27:18 -0000

I am amazed by the painging, is gorgeous, you are so talented, congratulations, I know it is not easy to do that painting, I guess you use the speciall ink and the pot where you mix the solid stuff with whater to be able to pain over the paper. (my mom used to paint chinesse paintings, specially bamboo ones), and a beautifull poem poetrating everydaylife activities in a gorgeous way.
take care my friend

Re: Someday

marianasoffer — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:12:40 -0000

very nice words, beautiful poetry, the poem is strange to me, I do not see what can prevent somebody to age like that, neither what is so good about it.

take care

Re: Say Love

marianasoffer — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:38:27 -0000

Lovely poem it moved me, I imagined when someone says that for real is really emotional the way it makes you feel. And by the way I like the picture, at first I did not get it , but now I completelly digg it
Take care