what is the true nature of meaning? what is its status? what are differences between meaning, concept, referent and fact? is meaning mental or extra-mental or neither? these are fundamental questions on the nature and ontology of meaning.meaning is identified with concept by some, confused with referent by others. some scholars have not distinguished meaning from referent and fact. still anothe...

Instead of imagining space-time as being warped by mass and energy, one can speak of a classical spin-2 graviton field (in flat, Minkowski space-time) that generates gravitation. Although we don’t know yet how to quantize this field, we can think of it in a way similar to how we think of electromagnetism being mediated by photons. And just as a 1/r2 Coulomb force generates magnetism when the fi...

It is known that dimension of a set in a metric space can be characterized in information-related terms – in particular, in terms of Kolmogorov complexity of different points from this set. The notion of Kolmogorov complexity K(x) – the shortest length of a program that generates a sequence x – can be naturally generalized to conditional Kolmogorov complexity K(x : y) – the shortest length of a...

Abstractive Sentence Summarization generates a shorter version of a given sentence while attempting to preserve its meaning. We introduce a conditional recurrent neural network (RNN) which generates a summary of an input sentence. The conditioning is provided by a novel convolutional attention-based encoder which ensures that the decoder focuses on the appropriate input words at each step of ge...

The eighteen collages that accompany this description were the result of a pilot research project spurred on by a broader interest in the intersection between visual methods, ethnographic approaches, and practice theory. We asked participants to make a collage illustrating a domestic space they could imagine using to relax, and we also asked participants to include a particular form of technolo...