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Artificial Intelligence Doesn't Have a Right Hemisphere

Artificial Intelligence Doesn't Have a Right Hemisphere

Language is the prime material of logical constructions. Owen Barfield, Poetic Diction (1928) Large language models are trained on human data from the Internet. Lex Fridman, #370, Edward Frenkel (37:30) "AI Might Eliminate Us, but It Can't Replace Us." Anonymous

The Architecture of Speed

The Architecture of Speed

Thoughts build your everyday existence. Technology affects your thoughts. The implications? Ask Marshall McLuhan. Sometimes I’m Gothic. Other times, Tudor-ish. In the morning I might be Romanesque, but by the afternoon I’m Bauhaus. The architecture of my mind changes day-to-day, hour-to-hour, sometimes minute-to-minute. I generally want to live

Wednesday

Ride the Wave I came into an easy $80 a few weeks ago, so I splurged on something that has long intrigued me: a shortwave radio. I bought a Grundig G4000A. The model was recommended by a "survivalist" blogger as a solid less-expensive radio, and the Amazon reviews

Friday

Received in an Email My computer guy saw yesterday's post and emailed further suggestions to me. I pass them along as a public service: "Don't click OK or CANCEL on pop-ups that are telling you that you are infected or that your hard drive has

Thursday

Cyber Hell Man, whatta rotten week of technology. My computer at the office got hacked. The following is a memorandum (redacted as appropriate) that I circulated to all attorneys and staff. You might want to read it carefully: > My work computer has been compromised. The virus is particularly insidious.

Monday

iPad Review I bought one ten days ago. It's really cool, but I'm not convinced it's worth the price. It doesn't do one key thing that I was told it would do (see below), but it does a lot of neat stuff.

Tuesday

Random Tuesday [http://www.cnbc.com/id/38307617] [http://www.cnbc.com/id/38307617] "President Barack Obama took aim at Republican lawmakers Monday, accusing them of holding the public hostage to Washington politics by blocking extended unemployment benefits for millions of out of work Americans." I haven'

Free iPod Poor Man App

I've been vacationing in Alpena, Michigan. I return today. Regular posting will hopefully resume tomorrow morning. Ever since getting my iPhone, I've been looking for Catholic devotional applications. I haven't had much luck, so I created my own. If you own an iPhone, it&

Facebook

"Facebook has more followers than Buddha." Evan Hessel, Forbes, 9/7/09, p 80. Great line. It's accurate (fb has 250m members, Buddhism something fewer). It's clever, it's tightly-written, and it either required the writer to research the number of Buddhists or

The Wednesday Eudemon

The Disappearing Art: Doing Nothing While sitting on a bench outside a shop in Potemkin Bavaria [http://www.frankenmuth.org/] last weekend, I reached for my iPhone. I had 10-15 minutes to kill while my wife and children shopped, so I thought I'd do some Internet surfing, maybe