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Conditional entropy and the Indus Script
« previous post | next post » A recent publication (Rajesh P. N. Rao, Nisha Yadav, Mayank N. Vahia, Hrishikesh Joglekar, R. Adhikari, and Iravatham Mahadevan, " Entropic Evidence for Linguistic Structure in the Indus Script ", Science , published online 23 April 2009; also supporting online material ) claims a breakthrough in understanding the nature of the symbols found in inscriptions from the Indus Valley Civilization .
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Why men turn to a mistress: a Valentine’s Day tutorial
31 January 2011 Last updated at 04:42 GMT Hyderabad has seen angry protests over the weekend India has condemned US authorities for tagging Indian students who, it says, were duped by a fake university. External Affairs Minister SM Krishna said Indian students were "not criminals" and that radio collars put around their ankles must be removed. US authorities have shut down the Tri-Valley University near San Francisco, accusing it of an immigration fraud.
India condemns US for radio-tagging duped students
Bloggers' word choice bares their personality traits, study finds
(PhysOrg.com) -- Words convey meaning, but our choice of specific words also conveys details about our personalities, new research confirms. For example, extraverts are likely to use the word "mouth" frequently, and "open" personalities are likely to use words like "folk," "poetry" and "universe." In one of the largest studies on the matter to date, Tal Yarkoni, a psychology and neuroscience postdoctoral fellow at the University of Colorado at Boulder, explores what our written words reveal about us. His work also rebuts the widely held belief that people can maintain distinctly different offline and online personalities.
How to improve writing skills by falling in love - by Maria Papadopoulou
by Maria Papadopoulou Created on : January 09, 2011 When you fall in love, your whole world changes. You view everything from a different perspective. Undoubtedly, this affects your writing as well and it is up to you to make those changes positive ones.
Hyper-Social Organizations
This is a review of the new book by Francois Gossieaux and Ed Moran called The Hyper-Social Organization; Eclipse Your Competition By Leveraging Social Media . This is not a technology book, but rather a good explanation of how consumers are changing due to prevalence of social technology, and what companies should do in order to thrive. Before reading this book, you should already have read “ groundswell ” and “ empowered “, two books that cover the idea that social media will transform the way that customers communicate with companies. Gossieaux and Moran take this a step further and teach how one might leverage this throughout the organization. We all will have to learn this eventually. The book starts with a simple explanation: “Human 1.0″ is the way that people have interacted and worked together for thousands of years.
Michael Wu, Ph.D. is Lithium's Principal Scientist of Analytics, digging into the complex dynamics of social interaction and group behavior in online communities and social networks. Michael was voted a 2010 Influential Leader by CRM Magazine for his work on predictive social analytics and its application to Social CRM.He's a regular blogger on the Lithosphere's Building Community blog and previously wrote in the Analytic Science blog. You can follow him on Twitter at mich8elwu . In my last post, I wrapped up my initial exploration on the subject of relationships. I can hardly believe I’ve written 13 articles on this topic, ranging from understanding social relationship on social media to interpersonal relationships on Facebook.
My Chapter on Relationships: The R in Social CRM
Kim Jong-il 'Exhibits Criminal Behavior Traits'
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il apparently visited Hwanghae Province just before both the sinking of the South Korean Navy corvette Cheonan and artillery shelling of Yeonpyeong Island, while attending musical performances following both attacks, according to government intelligence. Hwanghae Province is the region in North Korea that is closest to the sites of the attacks. In March this year, Kim conducted one of his on-the-spot guidance tours at a cooperative farm in Sariwon, North Hwanghae Province around two weeks before the March 26 attack that sank the Cheonan. On March 27, Kim attended a performance by the North Korean national symphony orchestra. On April 3, Kim attended a performance by the Mansudae Art Troupe. The North Korean leader's itinerary was similar around the time of the artillery attack on Yeonpyeong Island on Nov. 23.