Archive for the ‘google’ CategoryGoogle, Please Filter ThisMonday, May 7th, 2007Google Support:
… Yes, we now have an automatic filtering system which can recognize illegal use of the original content. It works with all the possible media: text, audio and video.
Benny M.:
That filtering system, how does it do it?
Internet Causes Amnesia?Thursday, April 19th, 2007William James:
Our memory is always used in the service of some interest; we remember things which we care for or which are associated with things we care for. When we wish to fix a new thing our conscious effort should not be so much to impress and retain it as to connect it with something already there. The connecting is thinking. I would say that the art of remembering is the art of thinking.
The human brain is a very powerful and adaptive system. A curious example of the brain’s ability to adapt is our bad visual memory. As you all know it is quite difficult to hold a mental picture in mind of what you have just seen. The reason for that is simple, it is not necessary for the brain to memorize the image while you can actually see that image with your eyes. In a sense, the brain uses sight as the external memory, so it adapted to not spend effort on memorizing what it is seeing. Student:
Professor, may I ask a question?
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