Silent Conversations
“Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.” — Cicero It’s been too many months since my last blog entry. I have remained silent in a field in which I have considerable experience and even more opinions. And it’s …
Category: Data Science
BLOG EX MACHINA
The arc of technology is ever forward — smaller, faster, cheaper. Ephemeralization. That’s the word Bucky Fuller coined to describe the phenomenon of technologically increasing productivity. I know I’ve written about Fuller a few times. There is no doubt he …
Questions with Flair
When I started on the path to becoming a data scientist I was a bit overwhelmed at the broad set of skills that were required. Granted, I took the decision at a point far enough into my software development career …
the Artificial Solipsist
More than once I have made the observation that Alan Turing used the philosophical foil of Solipsism in his seminal paper the Imitation Game to argue the point that we cannot fully nor completely specify what it means for a …
Pascal’s AI Wager
I believe in belief. A full essay on that particular statement I will save for a future blog entry. For the moment, suffice it to say that I believe that belief itself is a critical aspect of reality — perhaps …
Telepathy Today
The idea of technology-based telepathy has been around for a long time. Ever since the first written language, we have developed technology that allows for the expression of thoughts without the need to vocalize them. We started transmitting thoughts silently …
Quadratic Bowling
In November of last year I conducted a simple experiment, wondering if activity level on github could be a predictive factor in open source framework adoption. So I grabbed data from github APIs from several large organizations and played with …
Kauffman, Consciousness, and the Trans-Turing Machine
I met one of my heroes. Perhaps ‘hero’ isn’t the perfect word to best describe my view of Stuart A. Kauffman. But it comes close. Suffice it to say that I’ve been a fanboy of Kauffman for well over a …
Kauffman, Consciousness, and the Trans-Turing Machine Read more »
And so come Robo-Burger
From 2005 through 2014 I taught a number online courses for the University of Phoenix including MBA Capstone projects, Business Strategy for graduate students and undergraduate Java programming. One of the discussion questions I used during that phase was that …
Cognitive Prosthesis Now
Can you imagine a manufactured device that can serve as a storage upgrade for your brain? Your memories off-loaded to one or more backup mirrors as needed? No? Well such a device now appears to be in the human trials …