Artificial intelligence is artificial because it’s a representation of
how humans think
      humans think.

It’s a mimicry of how we perceive our thought process. Attempts to create models from the top down in this way will be nothing but worthless. In Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach the authors point out that no other technology is ( Read more... )

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I had this dream abotu a guy I know from twitter who happens to live in Fayetteville. The dream was that Matthew and I went to a reading for AWP and after, he wanted me to join on his skype call to talk to his daughter. After going somewhere we can do this, we set up and his daughter asked what enlightenment was. I was surprised at the question ( Read more... )

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I finished Wole Soyinka's (winner, 1986) Death and the King's Horseman.The wikipedia link contains the basic synopsis and a lot of background into the play. It's certainly a deep, dwelling work, and for me gave an even deeper global insight into the linkage between upholding the concept of honor and maintaining a patriarchal society. When seen ( Read more... )

http://www.pnas.org/content/101/30/10895.long

Excerpts from the research, with my highlights:
[T]here is a dramatic increase in longevity in the modern humans of the Early Upper Paleolithic. We believe that this great increase contributed to population expansions and ( Read more... )

The current theory in science (or at least a common one, maybe it's not a good one) is that there are multiple universes, infinite ones, in fact, with every possible universe existing alongside the others ( Read more... )