نقدی بر کتاب History: What and Why?

Information Systems history: What is history? What is IS history? What IS history? ... and why even bother with history?

The views of Collingwood can be summarized as follows. The philosophy of history is concerned neither with ‘the past by itself ’ nor with ‘the historian’s thought about it by itself ’, but with ‘the two things in their mutual relations’. (This dictum reflects the two current meanings of the word ‘history’ – the inquiry conducted by the historian and the series of past events into which he inqui...

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Word2vec: What and Why

Words have been studied for decades as the basic unit in natural language. Although words are traditionally modeled as atomic units, a real-valued representation can wield power in many application domains. The state-of-the-art in such real-valued representations is word2vec, known for its efficiency in handling large datasets and its ability to capture multiple degrees of similarities. In this...

What projects and why

Projection is widely used as a diagnostic for presupposition, but many expression types yield projection even though they do not have standard properties of presupposition, for example appositives, expressives, and honorifics (Potts 2005). While it is possible to analyze projection piecemeal, clearly a unitary explanation is to be preferred. Yet we show that standard explanations of projective ...