“I’m the Imelda Marcos of sunglasses”. – Bono
(Hat tip: Chris Blattman)
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cvjugo
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cvjugo
To a certain extent, those at the front-lines of Society’s welfare services find it necessary to turn off their compassion if only to maintain their competence at delivering such services.
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cvjugo
It’s only here in the blogosphere where i realized that it is possible to violently agree with someone.
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cvjugo
Besides, i don’t think hanging out with lawyers is healthy.
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rom
i quit! the woman is FREE! Lord almighty, the woman is free!!!!
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rom
cvj: hahaha. no politics! ok. no more. 😀
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cvjugo
I find the FV Community’s first attempt at being advice columnists hilarious, especially the opening response by Benign0 which is a classic. I do hope DJB’s suspicions about the true identity of the letter writer are correct. Heaven forbid that it was actually someone who was genuinely seeking our help.
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cvjugo
David Foster Wallace (1962 to 2008)
I just bought his Consider The Lobster a few weeks ago during the Borders Warehouse Book Sale. With the above, i guess now is a good time as any to buy Everything and More.
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cvjugo
Rom, i thought no politics?
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rom
Malaysia’s top anti-government blogger arrested under law allowing detention without trial
By SEAN YOONG | Associated Press Writer
3:26 AM CDT, September 12, 2008
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) _ Police arrested Malaysia’s top anti-government blogger Friday under a law allowing indefinite detention without trial in a move likely to face public reproach.
I felt sad that I had no shoes, until I met a man with no feet.
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cvjugo
That’s supposed to be a lighthouse.
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rom
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rom
re:LHC – coolness. we finally get to touch the face of God.
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cvjugo
Today, the Large Hadron Collider which has figured in a number of end of the world scenarios, will finally be started up.
The event is being liveblogged over at Cosmicvariance.
Here is a list of what scientists hope to discover with the LHC.
Here are the reasons why the scientists don’t think fears surrounding the LHC are justified.
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cvjugo
Hmmm, that’s fundamentally different from my understanding of the nature of Trinity’s (as well as Neo’s, Morpheus’ and the others’) residual selves. I thought that it was still their human selves and not a computer copy that inhabited the Matrix. But then again, your interpretation might be correct since i noticed the big difference in the ‘Matrix’ and ‘real world’ fight scenes between Neo and Agent Smith. The former was kung-fu style while the latter was more of a clumsy brawl.
On the Stanford achievement, i think the challenge is not to pass on expertise to other computers which is relatively straightforward. The challenge is to pass expertise from computer into humans which means translating machine encoding (made up of 1’s and 0’s) into the human brain’s neural patterns.
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rom
ah, but the trinity that flew the chopper wasn’t exactly human. she was a computer program that bore likeness of the flesh-and-blood trinity. and besides, in Stanford, once the human expertise was transferred to one computer, its a pretty short step for that computer to pass on the same expertise to another computer. or a thousand other computers.
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cvjugo
I think what the Stanford scientists have done is to transfer human expertise into a computer. In the Matrix, they did the reverse.
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rom
The Matrix is coming …
Remember how in the first Matrix, Trinity downloaded a program into her brain that taught her how to fly a helicopter? Well, they’ve done that already.
In 10 minutes, a computer algorithm developed by Stanford University scientists learned, and then flawlessly replicated, more than 20 years of radio-controlled helicopter expertise.
Ok, so it isn’t Trinity just yet, but like the four-minute mile, this breaks a psychological barrier. Now we know for a fact that computers can be made to learn; the future is now just a matter of time.
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rom
“For the crown you’ve placed upon my head / feels so heavy now / and I don’t know what to say to you / but I smile anyhow // and all the time I’m thinking … i want to be a hunter again”
Dido sang that, and it was running through my head all night as we stared alternately into the distance and into each other’s blank eyes.
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cvjugo
Rom, I took the HBDI test as part of some leadership training where i work. It’s very interesting because it will reveal what your thinking preference is, both under normal circumstances and under stress. I was about to say in my previous response that if you get the chance, do take the test. I doubt it would be free but i think it’s worth it if only for self-knowledge.
Hi J!
speed blogging 