Archives for the 'Philosophy' Category
Intelligence
Published on 10 Oct 2007 at 11:18 pm.
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Filed under Intelligent Systems, Philosophy, Quotations.
A quote from my father’s blog (From the Back of the Room)…
The behaviorist measures the intelligence of a laboratory rat by how quickly it can learn to manuever through the halls of a maze in order to reach some tangible reward for it’s efforts. The reward is meant to provide for it a goal, something [...]
Diamond Road
Published on 7 Oct 2007 at 1:59 am.
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Filed under Entrepreneurship, Philosophy, Social Justice.
I am watching the Discovery Channel and am seeing the documentary titled Diamond Road for the fourth or fifth time. The diamond entrepreneur Martin Rapaport impresses me every time. He has been inspired to create a fair trade system for diamonds from war-torn Sierra Leone. In one of his talks, he points out that if [...]
Plants and Animals: Chemists and Engineers
Published on 8 Aug 2007 at 2:26 am.
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Filed under Biology, Evolution, Philosophy.
Last winter I went to the Galapagos Islands. While there, I was wondering why plants have all sorts of medicinal properties, but it is rather rare that animals do.
A naturalist explained to me that plants evolved to use chemistry as their main defense; whereas animals developed locomotion. Two different kingdoms adopted two distinct technologies for survival: chemistry [...]
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MaxEnt 2007
Published on 14 Jul 2007 at 2:11 am.
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Filed under Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics, Probability, Research.
Friday marked the closing session of the 27th International Workshop on Bayesian and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering (MaxEnt 2007). I had the great pleasure to host this year’s meeting in the lovely city of Saratoga Springs. We had approximately 100 participants from almost 25 countries spanning all six of the populated continents!
This year [...]
Topography in Machine Learning
Published on 7 Jul 2007 at 2:38 am.
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Filed under Intelligent Systems, Philosophy, Research, Solutions.
I recently chaired the Science Session of the Data Mining in Aeronautics, Science and Exploration Systems (DMASES 2007) Conference at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View CA. I gave a short 20 minute talk on Problem Solving and referred to a book by David Perkins that I really enjoy, called The Eureka Effect: The [...]
