Continuing my search for AGI I’ve been thinking about conscious and unconscious thought. Investigating these led me to explicit and implicit memory. This actually led me to the lecture by Eric Kandel (above), which goes into good detail the mechanisms by which animals learn. Read More »
This blog comes straight from the middle of Kansas. The low rumble of the bus engine underscores the bleakness, as most other passengers on the bus are catching up on the sleep they were unable to get during the night. My mind is so active that I don’t easily become bored, but there’s something about this place that drives one to madness.
I was given How to Think About God by Mortimer J. Adler to read, but I find it very difficult to focus on the dry concepts while my eyes droop from fatigue. In the pages that I’ve read so far I’ve come across an interesting concept—that of a “supreme being.” Adler elaborates a bit on the concept by clarifying that a supreme being is one that is greater than any other, like the concept of infinity is greater than any number. As the author moves on from this to discuss things such as the existence or non-existence of such a being, I have trouble following because I fail to see the metric by which the greatness of a being is measured.
One weekend, about a month ago, I threw together a quick simulation of the solar system because I was studying gravitation in school. Since I have some time now I went back and polished it to allow user interaction and remove various glitches. It’s still quite crude, but I’m done dealing with it, so I figured that I’d throw it up here. One of the coolest things it does (IMO) is show the paths of the planets from a non-heliocentric viewpoint.
Vanguard has some of my favorite reporting on global events and trends. This week they investigate robotic warriors, a subject which I have written about in the past. The only thing which was really news to me was the fully-automatic shotgun (3:20). Scary stuff.
