links for 2008-07-24
July 24th, 2008 1:33:08 am pst by 
Sterling Camden
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Hadn’t seen this one before. Fascinating…Subscribed.
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I might not believe that everything in 1957 was as rosy and normal as Randy paints it here, but I’ll agree that fifty years later we’ve gone way overboard in the other direction.
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What about the footprints in the butter? Oh, wait, that’s elephants in the fridge.
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Democracy: the group that shouts the loudest wins.
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Not so much “David vs Goliath” as “The Stonemason’s Guild vs Michelangelo”
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“They say the older you get the less likely you are to protest the rules. I think there is some truth in that.” I’ve found the opposite to be true, at least after 40.
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Never assume malice when stupidity will suffice — but I don’t know…
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Great links! Some broke my head but others made me laugh so it’s okay.
Thanks, teeni! I guess laughter really is the best medicine — even for broken heads.
School 1957 : Do you understand, lad? Yes, Sir!
School 2008 : Yo get me dude? Huuuuh???
Now class, I want you all to research this tonight for your homework.
School 1957: Aw, there goes my date with Betty Sue…
School 2008: I’ve already Googled it on my cell phone!
Re. Elephants all the way up.
It’s not quite as they suggest there. The local neural nets/programs/elefants each do a small task particular to their own level, each level does different tasks, but there is much synergy between the levels.
Lets take a traditional IT program example : a compiler.
Level 1 might do the lexical analysis. level 2 build the name table. level 3 do the syntax analysis. level 4 do the semantics.
level 5 do code generation. level 6 resolves forward references,
level 7 does peephole optimisation. level 8 generates a cross-reference listing, level 9 does error message generation etc etc.
And all the levels together have done a compilation, although each only did a little bit.
Declaration of interest . Yes I have written/edited a half a dozen textbooks on AI. Sorry for being geeky.
Geeks Welcome Here, Stu.
Sorry for being dense, but I fail to see the conflict. Groups of humans also specialize into sub-groups that handle certain functions, but interact with other sub-groups.