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The Art of Letting Go…

December 26, 2009 – 2:09 pm

 

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
- Mary Pickford
Perhaps it would seem to be a bit of a pessimistic choice of quote… 
I am sitting here less than a week after handing, having spend most of this time going through all of the “screw-ups” I have done with this project. And thoughts about not having done enough, and thinking I could have done what I did much better. You know, the usual self-discouragements.
But fact is, it has been delivered. And in a week I will start preparing for the presentation, which lead me to think about something Gitte Grønbeck wrote on a status update of mine. “you have to be empty to be able to feel what it´s like to be filled up again.”
It makes sense. 
I actually think that being able to let go of possible mistakes and focus on… Well, anything else for a week or two, will create enough mental space to not repeat these mistakes. New inspiration needs to flow through, which means that holding on to this second-guessing way of thinking essentially is very counter productive, even if it seems to be a great way of punishing oneself.
…And now, back to Asimov.
By Malene Jessen |
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EntityCube, anyone?

December 14, 2009 – 1:26 am

So is this where we are all gonna be visible and united in the future?!:

EntityCube is a research prototype for exploring object-level search technologies, which automatically summarizes the Web for entities (such as people, locations and organizations) with a modest web presence.

The need for collecting and understanding Web information about a real-world entity (such as a person or a product) is mostly collated manually through search engines. However, information about a single entity might appear in thousands of Web pages. Even if a search engine could find all the relevant Web pages about an entity, the user would need to sift through all these pages to get a complete view of the entity. EntityCube generates summaries of Web entities from billions of public Web pages that contain information about people, locations, and organizations, and allows for exploration of their relationships. For example, users can use EntityCube to find an automatically generated biography page and social-network graph for a person, and use it to discover a relationship path between two people.

By Gitte Gronbek |
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