Category: Naming
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Names.
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet". This phrase - from William Shakespeare's tragic play Romeo & Juliet - is among the most famous acknowledgements in Western culture of the power of naming to shape human perception. According to the International Union of Geological…
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Reading robots' mind? Not.
In a darkened, hangar-like space inside MIT's Building 41, a small, Roomba-like robot is trying to make up its mind. Standing in its path is an obstacle — a human pedestrian who’s pacing back and forth. To get to the other side of the room, the robot has to first determine where the pedestrian is,…
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Thoreau. Naming things. Lost memories. Important things.
A vast pyramid of talus and scree in the Sierra Nevada range, it sits between the aptly named Wonder Lakes Basin and Mount Emerson, a namesake of the great 19th-century author Ralph Waldo Emerson. It might seem only fitting that it should bear the name of Emerson’s close friend and fellow transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.…
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