Condensing with Open Text Summarizer

"Properly speaking, Nadav Rotem's Open Text Summarizer (OTS) is not a summarizer at all. True summaries generally involve rewording contents at a higher level of generality while preserving the meaning, not just producing a condensed version of the original the way that OTS does. However, within its limits, OTS is an efficient tool for automatically producing abstracts of non-fiction, that, in the last 15 months, has received favorable mention from at least four academic publications, including one in which it outperformed similar utilities, including commercial ones such as Copernic and Subject Search Summarizer."

http://www.linux.com/feature/155693

The Fortunate and Ongoing Disaster of Lay Life

"Both lay and monastic worlds have their pathologies. The pathologies of the monastic life seem to be about clinging to purity. Purity is not a natural thing and needs to be guarded. Another way to say this is that monasteries tend towards monotheism - a single and orthodox view of reality. The monastic consciousness doesn’t believe in fantasies or in the arts because it doesn’t like the confusion of multiple views. Monasteries like rules because when we make a rule we gain the illusion that we have dealt with the problem."

http://www.arcanology.com/2008/12/15/the-fortunate-and-ongoing-disaster-of-lay-life/

"The pathologies of a lay life relate to a kind of getting lost, a forgetting of the quest, an unconscious immersion in the world. So much time is spent changing diapers or watching the stock market ticker that zazen never gets up enough steam to bring about a real change."

Morfilod am byth!

While stocks last ...

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Time Warp Is The New King Of Slow-Mo

"High resolution hyper sampled video is one part of digital technology we seldom see and light years ahead of anything you've seen before! More than likely until now any ultra slow-mo experience you've had has been on film or just realtime video shown slowly. That is so last century!"

http://www.appscout.com/2008/12/time_warp_is_the_new_king_of_s.php