“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn no other way” — Mark Twain I don’t watch much TV, but I am always fascinated by science fiction, especially when a real…
Date Archives May 2019
“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
AlphaCoders “There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.” — Vladimir Lenin A century ago a lion tamer named Clyde Beatty discovered a secret. This secret ensured Beatty lived into his sixties in…
Survival By Symbiosis: Collaboration, I, Pencil is mightier than I, Sword
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Baz18 “It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” — Charles Darwin The cover image for today’s thought is the fascinating boxer crab…
Energy Flows Where Attention Goes: Business Recommendation Systems
AlphaCoders “Think of it this way: the input remains the same, so the output has to remain the same. How, then, can you ever create anything new?” — Dr Joe Dispenza To obtain all the information on…
Data Dolls — We “Ai”n’t Seen Nothing Yet
“By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.”- Eliezer Yudkowsky Animism (from Latin anima, “breath, spirit, life”) is the religious belief that objects, places and…
Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.
Tana Umaga and Brian O’Driscoll perform a Māori Hongi “You learn a lot from the scars that you get. If you think it was a nick, you can get complacent and see it as just an…