August 2011
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“The best we can hope for the role of progress in a universe running downhill as...”
– Wiener, Norbert. The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society. London: Free Association, 1989. 41. Print.
First published in 1950.
IT’S ALL UPHILL FROM HERE.
July 2011
2 posts
GR v. R's DE round 1000
“He’s a blasphemer. Islam has its own machineries for that. Angels and sanctions, and careful interrogating. Leave him. He has a different way to go.” How alphabetic is the nature of molecules. One grows aware of it down here: one finds Committees on molecular structure which are very similar to those back at the NTA plenary session. “See: how they are taken out...
June 2011
1 post
Repairing the ArtBase →
May 2011
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April 2011
1 post
“I began my training in a very different manner from Dr. McCulloch. I began as an...”
– OH SNAP
Von, Neumann John, and A. H. Taub. “The General and Logical Theory of Automata.” John Von Neumann Collected Works. Vol. 5. Oxford: Pergamon, 1963. 289-328. Print.
Dr. Rafael Lorente de Nó, responding to von Neumann’s Theory of Automata and referencing the following...
February 2011
2 posts
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– SOURCE
January 2011
2 posts
John McCarthy, inventor of LISP, coiner of the term “artificial intelligence”, wrote a story in 2001 called THE ROBOT AND THE BABY. It is exactly what you are imagining it to be.
“He had one of the finest minds of the nineteenth century.”
– George Armitage Miller on B. F. Skinner in The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal by M. Mitchell Waldrop
December 2010
2 posts
November 2010
5 posts
Issues with object-oriented programming:
An object got away from me in my bed, in layers of blankets. How to tell without having a good look at the object if it was anthropomorphic because of its element ID or its function— and while frantically looking for it I demanded of Sarah: Was that a real object? And when she didn’t respond: Sarah? And when she said she didn’t think...
October 2010
2 posts
Kaninchen, Kaninchen, Unendlichkeit.
September 2010
1 post
Part 6 of a dream last night:
I’m Batman, year 80. Robin and I are near an open air, igneous rock smothered Donkey Kong Country Mine Cart Carnage coaster track at night, on the fourth of July. Robin is preparing to ascend Sarah’s old shed to woo Tora Gross or someone like that, but not Barbara Gordon.
I say, “She doesn’t need your design. Forget your Youtube, forget...
August 2010
4 posts
The last few sentences to a dream last night, saved early this morning.
I ask is it this? Is it this? She keeps saying no, in digests, those are factory made things. She takes up what the thing is and puts it on. It is a zip up hoodie that is embroidered and woven with flowers and is beautiful and she says I know it is a bit radical.
Estimated number of combs in Harold Bloom's... →
Web Plan From Google and Verizon Is Criticized
‘But some expressed fears that this exception could let companies bypass open-access regulations. For example, an online video start-up could create a competitor to YouTube that did not run on the public Internet and would pay for faster connections to viewers. As those types of payments grew, the access companies might have less incentive to...
July 2010
6 posts
Notrees, Texas →
