Sunday, April 22, 2018

books.google.com/talktobooks @ LESSER-KNOWN TREASURES FROM THE WEB


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LESSER-KNOWN TREASURES FROM THE WEB

A pick of offbeat, non-mainstream blogs and sites

Is loneliness bad? If you google the question, your first few answers will be links to general articles that quote researchers, or people’s views on Quora. You could use some of these to write your own essay or presentation, but it would seem dishonest. Now, you have a better tool than plain vanilla Google for quick research — a new Google tool called ‘Talk to Books’.

As Google explains: “when you type in a question or a statement, the model looks at every sentence in over 100,000 books to find the responses that would most likely come next in a conversation. The response sentence is shown in bold, along with some of the text that appeared next to the sentence for context.”

Here are some of the answers Talk to Books pulled in answer to our question on loneliness: “Loneliness has produced several public health concerns, including depression, increased illness, and earlier mortality. People who self-isolate are caught in the middle of a double-edged dilemma”; “Although loneliness is not specifically an internalizing disorder in itself, it is a symptom of mood disorders and an especially important predictor of suicidality, particularly in adolescence (American Psychiatric Association, 2000)”; “At a basic level Moustakas (1961) has described it as a longing to be with others and to be loved, while Weiss (1973) argues that loneliness is caused not by being alone but by being without some definite needed relationship or relationships.” Pretty good, isn’t it? 

Source | Times of India | 22nd April 2018

World Book Day or World Book and Copyright Day (also known as International Day of the Book or World Book Days) is celebrated every year on April 23

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Mr. Pralhad Jadhav 
Master of Library & Information Science (NET Qualified) 
Senior Manager @ Knowledge Repository  
Khaitan & Co 
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