Archive for May, 2007
Is what you know about intelligence wrong?
Friday, May 25th, 2007I love the way the speaker, Jeff Hawkins, dismisses the “pit of metaphysical dualism” in this session at TED.
His general point about the proper definition of intelligence, reminds me that Google uses the approach of using “memory to make predictions” in it’s award winning translator. Interestingly, what is absent in this approach, and in Jeff’s […]
Thank you Steve
Monday, May 7th, 2007After Global Warming - A Prediction for bio-fuels
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007I’ve been gardening a lot lately, and through learning about soil, sunshine, and miracle grow, I’ve decided that bio-fuels may not be so great. The production of such fuels removes energy that would otherwise be returned to the soil (that whole “circle of life” thing). So based on that and some arbitrary, uneducated time estimates, […]