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"The Pirahã language and culture seem to lack not only the words but also the concepts for numbers, using instead less precise terms like "small size", "large size" and "collection". And the Pirahã people themselves seem to be suprisingly uninterested in learning about numbers, and even actively resistant to doing so, despite the fact that in their frequent dealings with traders they have a practical need to evaluate and compare numerical expressions. A similar situation seems to obtain among some other groups in Amazonia, and a lack of indigenous words for numbers has been reported elsewhere in the world." - mkz

O hepimizin derdi ya. Bazen okudugum biseyi bulana kadar oyle kulagimi tersten gosterme yollarindan gidiyorum ki... Etiketli metiketli guzel arsiv tutmak lazim diyorum, yapabilenlere imreniyorum, yapamiyorum bir turlu. Language Log'da daha once de cikmis o arkadaslarla ilgili bir seyler http://158.130.17.5/~myl... Makaleye falan da baglanti veriyorlar,... more... - mkz

"birisi onun için türkiye'nin yedi harikasından biri demişti; evettir. // bir şiir üstaadı tarafından gayet büyük ciddiyetle yazılmış olan bi şiir vardı, şöyle ki: // sabah uyandığında günaydın / hapşırdığında çok yaşa / diyecek biri yoksa / yalnızsın // sabah uyandığında günaydın / hapşırdığında çok yaşa / diyecek biri varsa / ama demiyosa / yalnızsın // engin abi'nin bu şiire yaptığı ek unutulmazdır: // sabah uyandığında günaydın / hapşırdığında çok yaşa / diycek kimse yoksa / ama diyosa / delisin. // onunla her karşılaşma heyecan ve ışık yaratır." (psykhe, 26.12.2005 15:53 ~ 27.12.2005 02:17) http://sozluk.sourtimes.org/show... - mkz

"pişmiş kelle'de çizdiği gariban hikayeleri burnumuzda tüten çizer. genellikle iki sayfa çizdiği hikayeyi her zaman gerilimin tırmandığı bir yerde kesip, haftaya bir şekilde olayı bağlayarak heyecanı devam ettirmesiyle hatırladığım, kurgusuna, diline, çizgisine hayran olduğum süper yetenek. // bir hikayesinde, taksicinin boğazına bıçak dayayıp para istiyordu iki izbandut. adam çok az... more... - mkz

sitki siyril'in anlattigi hikayeyi ben de hatirliyorum. cok acayipti, sertti. - mkz

99 yasindayken yapilan bir roportajin girisinden: "You might think that with him confined to a wheelchair, Cassin’s sprit might be broken, but when you ask Cassin how he feels, he smiles and says he is happy to be alive and that it was just four years ago when 30 minutes of push-ups and sit-ups were part of his morning routine. That is why at 85 he was able to climb the 5.10b Luna Nascente, in Val di Mello, Italy. " - mkz

NYT'deki yazinin sonunda Denali/McKinley duzeltmesi yapmislar. (Denali, ABD'de resmi adi McKinley olan dagin yorenin yerlileri tarafindan kullanilan adi. McKinley yerine Denali dedigi icin ozur dilemis NYT.) Onu yapana kadar "conquer" kelimesini kullanmaktan vazgecselermis ya. - mkz

"there’s been a fair amount of buzz this year over the finding that web search behavior is correlated with offline outcomes, including flu incidence and economic activity (e.g., auto and home sales).[...] Motivated by these examples, fellow yahoos [...] and I recently investigated the extent to which search behavior predicts the success of cultural products, namely movies, video games, and music. In a departure from past work that has focused on real-time reporting of current activity (e.g., flu trends) — what Choi and Varian cleverly call “predicting the present” — our objective was to predict future events, typically days to weeks in advance. Specifically, we use query volume to forecast opening weekend box-office revenue for feature films, first month sales of video games, and the rank of songs on the Billboard Hot 100. In all cases that we consider, we find search volume on its own is predictive of future outcomes, but search is nevertheless outperformed by baseline models trained on publicly available data; combining search and baseline models generally leads to modest improvements." - mkz

Bu da filmler icin olan o "prediction market" sitesi: Hollywood Stock Exchange - http://www.hsx.com/ - mkz

"The relationship of language to cognition, especially in development, is an issue that has occupied philosophers, psychologists, and linguists for centuries. In recent years, the scientific study of sign languages and deaf individuals has greatly enhanced our understanding of deafness, language, and cognition. This Counterpoints volume considers the extent to which the use of sign language might affect the course and character of cognitive development, and presents a variety of viewpoints in this debate. This volume brings the language-thought discussion into a clearer focus, both theoretically and practically, by placing it in the context of children growing up deaf and the influences of having sign language as their primary form of communication." - mkz

Ben hızlı okuma eğitimi aldım. Ama söylediğiniz şeyi hala yaparım, bazen... Okuduğum şeyi gerçekten çok ciddiye alırsam yaparım. Sanki zihnime daha sıkı bir şekilde yerleştirmek istermişim gibi. "Neden bahsedildiğini" bilmek istediğimde ise hiç yapmam, hızla geçer. Ya da okuduğum şeyi belli bir amaçla kullancaksam, bir şeyler derliyorsam, yine yapmam, o zaman da zihnimde kartotekstleri... more... - Ozgur Uckan

""I created a weapon to defend the fatherland's borders. It's not my fault that it was sometimes used where it shouldn't have been. This is the fault of politicians," he said." - mkz

Bu arada Paul Olum "kimse birakip gitmedi" diyor ama ben sanirim Weisskopf'un (unlu bir fizikci) anilarinda tam da bu sekilde, Almanya savasi kaybedince projeden cekilmis birinden bahsettigini hatirliyorum hayal meyal. - mkz

Tecahul-i arif bu deYil. - mkz

Şıp diye düşünüyorum günlerdir, suyun kolaylığı ile ilişki kurabiliyorum ancak. 'O da ne?' dersen, başka bir günlerce daha düşünmek icap edebilir. - Fikriye Guzel

Baya ilginc bir fikir. Polymath icin de cok uygun. Ama listelenen amaclara ulasmak cok zor gibi geldi bana. - husdemir

Sasirdim aslinda buna girmesine. Liste yapmisti vakti zamaninda olasi konular diye, bunu secse ne guzel olur, ama secerse de cok "gurultu" olur yorumlarda diye dusunmustum. Bana da zor geliyor o amaclara ulasmak. - mkz

Vakti zamaninda Guardian'da Britanya'nin en unlu "madam"ina sormuslardi, gercek mi sizce bu hanim diye.: "It's not erotic, nor is it believable. It's just filthy and far too clever for its own good." http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguar... - mkz

Bir suru kayitlar falan var, ne guzel. Bir de anlasam :) Google Translate'le gececegim uzerinden. - mkz

Cok sahane. - husdemir

"a meeting between Tatum and Horowitz": http://www.npr.org/program... - mkz

"He was nearly blind. Tatum is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time.[1] Critic Scott Yanow wrote, "Tatum's quick reflexes and boundless imagination kept his improvisations filled with fresh (and sometimes futuristic) ideas that put him way ahead of his contemporaries ... Art Tatum's recordings still have the ability to scare modern pianists." [2]" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - mkz

Bu da Dvorak'in Humoresque'ini ucurusu: http://www.youtube.com/watch... Orijinali soyle: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - mkz

"This guide attempts to rescue New York from the ghost of Andy Warhol, the cold, distant, disingenuous face of Popism who has haunted alternative culture in this city for 4 decades. Before Warhol, the cool cats around here had genuine heart and big love. The fiery engine of New York brought forth a great wide embrace. Warhol killed all that. Not consciously, but the force of his distant personality was so great that it overwhelmed the big-hearted New York spirit and slahed its soul and dulled its wisdom and in its place gave us image for image sake, beauty for brains, celebrity worship, irony as its own reward and love as an advertising gimmick." - mkz

Onlar surpriz, soylenmez. Yalniz bir surpriz de soyle: JTree'de yer ayirtmak icin epey erken davranmak gerekiyormus. - mkz

http://www.urban-age.net/confere... - mkz

"In the 1940s Feynman wrote about his wonderful path integral, a new means of quantifying things, and worked on it in a startlingly mathematical way—imagine something like the Eiffel Tower, hanging in the air with no foundation, from a mathematical point of view. So it exists and works just right, but standing on nothing we know of. This situation continues to this very day." - mkz

"Then Witten appeared, with his unique gift for the production of glorious mathematics from this very Eiffel Tower that hangs in the air. I looked in Wikipedia: before getting his Ph.D. in physics in 1976, when he was twenty-five, he was planning to engage in political journalism, then economics… until he finally heard the call of mathematics and physics. He is the master of such... more... - mkz

"The renowned physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson in his Gibbs lectures “Missed opportunities” (1972) has beautifully described many cases when “mathematicians and physicists lost chances of making discoveries by neglecting to talk to each other.” Especially striking for me was his revelation that he himself “missed the opportunity of discovering a deeper connection between modular forms and Lie algebras, just because the number theorist Dyson and the physicist Dyson were not speaking to each other.”" - mkz

Bunun ilk yarisini severek dinliyorum; gergin gergin gidiyor, sonra hos bir sekil "cozuluyor", pek guzel. Ikinci yarisini sonuna kadar dinlemeyi basaramadim. Basaran beri gelsin. - mkz

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - mkz

"With the continued development of the nLab and the Polymath Projects, and the rise of Math Overflow as a competitor to sci.math.research, mathematicians are busy talking about new ways to take advantage of technology. The arXiv is great for papers. Blogs are great for conversations. But how to more effectively gather, store, and make accessible the folk wisdom that traditionally spread through informal person-to-person conversations?" - mkz

iyyhieehh.. - arpat

Iyiymis, ucuza bulsam yaptiririm mi diyorsun? - mkz

Gabardic: "İnceler’de de kutsallığına inanılan ve kesilmeyip korunan birkaç ağaç vardır. [...] bu tarz korunup kesilmeyen bir ağaç türü de ardıçtır. Hemen belirtelim, normalde ardıç da çalı gibi kesilir ve yakacak olarak kullanılır. Yalnız iki tanesi bu şekilde korunmuştur. Bunların ikisi de Düz mevkiindedir. Bunlara gabardıç ( kaba ardıç ) ya da dedardıç ( dede ardıç ) adı verilir. 1- Büyük Gabardıç: Düz’de Taşlıyol denilen yolun sonundadır. Oldukça kalın gövdeli, yaşlı bir ağaçtır. Gabardıcın bulunduğu mevkie Fığla da denir. Fığla’da galiba İnceler’den çok önceye ait bir yerleşim vardı. Çünkü etrafta tuğla kırıntıları ve küp parçaları çoktur. Yine içinde saman bulunan büyük erzak küpleri çıktığı söylenmektedir. Gabardıcın dibinde uyunduğunda, kötü rüyaların görüldüğü ve belki insanın ölebileceği söylenir. Dalları kesilmez, ağaca zarar verilmez." - http://agaclar.net/forum... - mkz

Yani ardic agaci icin mutlak bir gerek durumundan bahsedilmese de tohumun kuslarin sindirimi yoluyla tasinmasinin faydasi olabilecegi soyleniyor (ama ozellikle ardic kusunun adi gecmiyor). Bazi baska bitkilerde hayvan (kaplumbaga!) sindirimi olayinin daha elzem oldugu da gorulmus. "Birlikte evrim" diye bir durumdan da bahsediliyor. Makaleyi okumadim, okuyan ozetlesin :) - mkz

Kaybetmistim aylar once, yenisini aldim, mesudum. - mkz

Rica ederim. :) - mkz

"Based on nearly eighty hours of conversations with fifteen all-time great programmers and computer scientists" - mkz

:) Tamam oyle yapayim. Tatli niyetine. - mkz

"Mario Klingemann (Quasimondo on Flickr) had a fascinating — call it crazy if you like — idea: can you encode an image such that it can be sent as a single Twitter message (”tweet”)? " - mkz

http://stackoverflow.com/questio... - mkz

ah.. çok tatlı bir challenge. - meren

"A VideoSong is a new Medium with two rules: 1. What you see is what you hear (no lip-syncing for instruments or voice). 2. If you hear it, at some point you see it (no hidden sounds)." - mkz

Foggy Mountain Breakdown - mkz

http://www.ciganskidiabli.sk/ - mkz

Hmm, sayilar biraz hizli artiyor :) Uc vidyoyla 10,010 oldum. - mkz

"We'll give it to 'em in black and white" :) - mkz

"‘‘During race, I am going crazy, definitely,’’ he says, smiling in bemused despair. ‘‘I cannot explain why is that, but it is true.’’ The craziness is methodical, however, and Robic and his crew know its pattern by heart. Around Day 2 of a typical weeklong race, his speech goes staccato. By Day 3, he is belligerent and sometimes paranoid. His short-term memory vanishes, and he weeps uncontrollably. The last days are marked by hallucinations: bears, wolves and aliens prowl the roadside; asphalt cracks rearrange themselves into coded messages. Occasionally, Robic leaps from his bike to square off with shadowy figures that turn out to be mailboxes. In a 2004 race, he turned to see himself pursued by a howling band of black-bearded men on horseback." - mkz

Adam sizmis sanki giderken... - mkz

Bunun daha "ciddi" hali de oldu yakinda, acik bir problem bu tur bir acik ortaklasa calismayla cozuldu, ama ona bundaki kadar cok katilan olmamisti. - mkz

"The process raises questions about authorship: it is difficult to set a hard-and-fast bar for authorship without causing contention or discouraging participation. What credit should be given to contributors with just a single insightful contribution, or to a contributor who is prolific but not insightful? As a provisional solution, the project is signing papers with a group pseudonym, 'DHJ Polymath', and a link to the full working record." - mkz