video of my talk at the Machine Learning lunch

Googling myself, I just found http://videolectures.net/gustavo_lacerda/ as the fourth hit. I should study this video so that I can refine the talk. The next one might be at NESCAI.

relation between papers

I want to say that poster of mine is "obsoleted" by a more recent paper. What's the right way to say this?

being an "expert" (on argument-mapping)

This Tuesday, for the first time, a random grad student stopped by my office to consult my expertise... namely, on argument mapping.

I was happy to help, and we chatted for almost 10 minutes. He seemed rather satisfied with truthmapping.com. I'm not, of course, given my normativistic tastes for fine-grained, modular arguments.

I'm holding out for Iyad Rahwan's system, although Lucas Dixon makes an interesting comment: "I want to be able to see an argument's historical evolution, and even allow rephrasing of existing points as a valid move."

I find this kind of a fascinating idea, especially since I spent much of Friday refactoring someone else's mathematical proofs. I think ordinary arguments are no different.
big theoretical tangent ahead: ( Read more... )

Anyway, if someone makes a MediaWiki plug-in for Iyad's format, Lucas's request would come for free.