Information Theory and Language | MDPI Books Human language is a system of communication. Communication, in turn, consists primarily of information transmission. Writing about the interactions between information and natural language, we cannot fail to mention that information theory has originated with statistical investigations of English text in the turn of the 1940s and 1950s. …
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Special issue about gamification (also ‘ludification’, from Latin ‘ludus’, play), in the Journal “Enseñanza de las Ciencias de la Tierra” (in Spanish): Evaluate with games. Tools and methods for a diversified assessment in gamification This paper presents some tools and methodological considerations about assessment through gamified activities and tools. More specifically, the mix of dynamics …
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Previous version of the article originally published in The Conversation (Spanish version): https://theconversation.com/cuatro-consideraciones-para-la-ensenanza-en-la-pandemia-145364 Lo bueno, si breve, dos vezes bueno; y aun lo malo, si poco, no tan malo. “‘Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia’ ” (1647), Baltasar Gracián The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the greatest disruption in education systems in the history of Humanity, …
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After a very interesting talk by Manlio De Domenico, soon in UBICS-Complexitat channel, here is a link where you will find an informative, but very comprehensive, introduction to complex systems: https://complexityexplained.github.io/ Don’t miss the free booklet… Català English Español …and many other languages in the website! * This project is released under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. Please …
These past weeks, we have been working on a new digital book of Agus & Monsters by Jaume Copons & Liliana Fortuny in collaboration with Dr. Salvador Macip, Toni Hernández and Elena Rottier. TOGETHER AT HOME. Coronavirus Days invites (young, or not) readers to learn to live under lockdown and subsequent lifting of the lockdown …
Technology humanizes us. Against the repeated mantra that digital technologies ‘dehumanize’ us, it is worth remembering a project urgently developed by the Societat Catalana de Tecnologia (Institut d’Estudis Catalans). Basically, electronic devices have been provided for patients to isolated by Covid19 in Catalan hospitals to communicate with their family and friends. In moments of isolation …
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(An open letter to leaders responsible for science and technology) I have several scientific friends, some regular collaborators, who are personally and professionally blocked. These are scientists in training, some with a doctorate recently completed in 2019 and who are waiting for a response to their requests for the Juan de la Cierva or Ramón …
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Italian edition of “Lingüística cuantitativa. La estadística de las palabras” is comming! Soon in 2020: https://www.hachette-fascicoli.it/grandi-idee-della-matematica-uscita-30 LINGUISTICA QUANTITATIVA. LA STATISTICA DELLE PAROLE – La linguistica quantitativa è una disciplina empirica. Fa parte della linguistica matematica e ne condivide l’ansia formale, poiché pretende di stabilire leggi generali e universali che ci spieghino come funzionano le lingue. …
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Here you have a reading recommendation for these days … In Catalan, “Filosofia de la tecnologia” by Mario Bunge (2019). Among the possible development models, Bunge reminds us of the importance of incorporating biology and not only focusing on the economy or culture, to achieve a comprehensive model. #UPCdesdeCASA
If several months ago we had the pleasure of celebrating the centenary of the physicist and philosopher Mario Bunge at the Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC), with the special publication of “Filosofia de la Tecnologia“(2019), for the first time in Catalan, on February 24, we had the regret of knowing his death in Montreal (Canada). Following …
