Monday, October 29, 2018

Where did language come from? Where Did Searches end up?

The creators of deepblog.com who link to MEdia Dragon are chaffed that some of  their referrals generate enthusiastic hunters and gathers of stories ... as this little blog hit 700,777 views around All Saints Day ...  We (royal we) are also grateful for those kind and not so kind referrals from characters who reach the heights of AC & DC levels  ...  Many years ago, the DeepBlog.com ran an April fool's spoof claiming Jozef Imrich was actually an Accencture (or was it IBM) bot ;-) Blogging is one of our favourite pastimes which started at the NSW Parliamentary Library many moons ago under Dr Cope's leadership. Geoffrey White, Josef Guzef, Ronda Miller and other media clippings librarians breath between the lines...If there is a magic bullet, it is to keep showing up every day and keep sharing links ...

"Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”
~ Hermann Hesse - Rod Rimington would add that without video we are also lost ...


*Amazingly fearless Michael Pezzullo: know thy place, public servants
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP: The Home Affairs secretary urges his colleagues to think more on the origins and principles of the Westminster system, and their role within it, and realise they are on the front lines of an "unceasing war" to defend the notion of empirical truth.



"By one estimate, MEdia Dragon genealogy has now become the second-most-popular search topic on the internet. It is outranked only by Porn  ...


True artistic freedom comes from not caring about quality, métier, or meaning. Magrittefound it when he set those all aside to make a  joke and hard core irony 

How to Remember What You Read on MEdia Dragon by Farnam Street: “Why is it that some people seem to be able to read a book once and remember every detail of it for life, while others struggle to recall even the title a few days after putting down a book? The answer is simple but not easy. It’s not what they read. It’s how they read. Good reading habits not only help you read more but help you read better…”
Human evolution is a million-year story.
Yet human language only appeared through a chance mutation in a single individual in the last 100,000 years. That’s the view of one of the world’s most influential linguists. But is the story far older and more complex than that? Psychologist Michael Corballis presents a different view on the evolution of language and how it progressed our cognitive ability to move back and forth in time. Recorded 2 October 2018 Institute of Advanced Studies UWA Speaker Michael Corballis Emeritus Professor University of Auckland
Where did Cold River come from

Comparison of Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo Searches: Business Insider: “Switching your search engine is not something to be taken lightly — it’s our internet lifeblood. We rely daily on algorithms we don’t understand to surface the exact article we’re looking for. And if for some reason it’s not at the top of our results — even if the search we entered was a half-baked string of words — we get frustrated. Luckily, in 2018, Google has put most of those frustrations to rest. But now that search seems to be in a “steady state,” it gives us some time to consider what else is out there. These past two weeks, I did something that 15, maybe even 10 years ago, may have been inconceivable: I gave other search engines a go. First, I tried the privacy-focused, ad-blocking DuckDuckGo. The next week I moved to Microsoft’s Bing, something I never thought I’d hear myself say…”