Lady Swineburn's Roundet d'etet

that old bum had he napoleans head he surely woulda sung
effegies for fleacers and pre raphaelites
a long stream of sneezes
among the uptights
anactoria's embrace
although lewd made haste
as sappho caught her taste
and history was undone

a screaching parlance a mischevious dance
Poe's passing said he launched in greatness
the last of the enchanced
what meat begins with the letter G?
Ask not old man swineburn
his lady, or the tree

Google Goofs With Ray Kurzweil

Ray Kurzweil wrote a book on "How to Create a Mind" and somehow Sergey Brin of Google was so dumb in these areas as to think that Kurzweil had said something significant. He hadn't. All Kurzweil did was rehash 1980s research and ideas by others and add a bit of modern brain imaging. Kurzweil is no more the messenger of how the brain works than Gould was for evolution. Both were huxsters and nothing more.

 Anyone who knows the history of A.I. will recognize that the basic theory (and even the diagrams that are used to illustrate it) is very much in the spirit of a textbook model of vision that was introduced in 1980, known as neocognitron.

Now that isn't to say that Kurzweil didn't start a music revolution with his synthesizer, and his blind reading machine, but that was 1960s technology and theres a big what have you done for me lately.

Sergey specifically hired Kurz to work on natural language processing, an area Ray knows little to nothing about.

I'm reminded of Hinton giving a ted talk about neural network recognition of individual letters. And as I watched I thought HEY this looks familiar. Nothing had changed since the 1980s. These old FRUMPS are not the leaders. Who are? Well people like me who are actually there in the details pushing on the real leading edge and testing mecanisms of neural design. Edelman's younger protege Olaf Sporns -Networks of the Brain

by Olaf Sporns, Edelman's Neural Darwinism and his earlier work - The Mindful Brain: Cortical Organization and the Group-Selective Theory...

by Gerald M. Edelman are still key lighthouses in our understanding.

Even more disappointing is the fact that Kurzweil never bothers to do what any scientist, especially one trained in computer science, would immediately want to do, which is to build a computer model that instantiated his theory, and then compare the predictions of the model with real human behavior. Does the P.R.T.M. predict anything about human behavior that no other theory has predicted before? Does it give novel insight into any long-standing puzzles in human nature? Kurzweil never tries to find out.

From Windows 7 To Linux Mint - The Lenovo Dragon Breathes Peacefully

I've been struggling to do development on my big lenovo dual pentium 3.4 gHz machine using windows 7. When pushed, this box goes into full dragon mode and huge fans scream to life as the CPUs peg 100% usage. The problem is, in Windows 7, it seems like doing almost ANYTHING pegs the CPU at 100% all part of the NSA spying software they've installed no doubt.

When the system would come back from sleep it would animate through all the background images I had missed locking my system for ten minutes.

Countless times the whole thing would just freeze up. Gool ol Indian H-1B engineering no doubt. So, while Windows 7 runs great on a i7 8 core CPU it runs like crap on  a brute of a box that it should be screamingly fast on. What gives? Obviously all the developers hadn't bothered to test it with older boxes.

Well it got so bad I couldn't run a database, a browser, and eclipse at the same time. So I gave up and installed MINT. Unlike PeppermintOS which is ugly MINT is a full 1 Giga distribution so you can't just slap it on a CD. So I put in a DVD and tried to burn it BUT turns out my refurb has only DVD reading capabilities. That sucks. OK so I slapped it on my smart key and used Auto-Load partition to get it recognized as a proper drive. It ran. But unlike when you boot with it and are allowed to test it all out it just asked "do you want to install it into your windows.." and feeling terrified I was about to blow away my boot I paused.

Then I got angry. Hell yeah blow away windows. I don't care I cant take it any more!

So I clicked. And in a few minutes MINT came up. And my windows 7 boot was nicely preserved.

And then it dawned on me. The beautiful silence. Both CPUs were running at 15%. Which was as it should be. In fact I cannot ever get the CPU to run at 100% dragon breath mode on Linux.

American engineers. God bless em.