Shinran's Idea of Wisdom

Idea screening in engineering design using employee-driven wisdom of the crowds

Wisdom of Crowds or Wisdom of a Few?

The Web continues to grow and evolve very fast, changing our daily lives. This activity represents the collaborative work of the millions of institutions and people that contribute content to the Web as well as more than two billion people that use it. In this ocean of hyperlinked data there is explicit and implicit information and knowledge. But how is the Web? What are the activities of peopl...

The Rationality of Educating for Wisdom STANOVICH EDUCATING FOR WISDOM

Sternberg’s call for an educational focus on teaching wisdom can be viewed as part of a nascent trend to reorient educational psychology away from exclusive focus on the so-called algorithmic level of analysis. The thrust of his research program on wisdom, like those emphasizing rationality as a critical construct in educational psychology, is on aspects of cognition heretofore backgrounded: th...

Unconventional Wisdom

Science is an "endless frontier," and opportunities for transformative discovery abound. The young scientist will profit by paying mind to two forms of balance: the contrast between depth and breadth in training, and the contrast between hypothesis-driven research and random inquiry into the unknown.

Mining wisdom

Simple text classification algorithms perform remarkably well when used for detecting famous quotes in literary or philosophical text, with f-scores approaching 95%. We compare the task to topic classification, polarity classification and authorship attribution.