links for 2008-07-24

July 24th, 2008 1:33:08 am pst by Sterling Camden

• Adam @ Dusk » Elephants All The Way Up
  Hadn’t seen this one before. Fascinating…Subscribed.
  (tags: consciousness mind)
• SCHOOL — 1957 vs. 2007 – iBLOGthere4iM
  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.
  (tags: school childabuse add weapons drugs education)
• librarian.net : five technically legal signs for your library
  What about the footprints in the butter? Oh, wait, that’s elephants in the fridge.
  Thanks, Reg.
  (tags: fbi library privacy)
• Being in the Minority is No Party | Workbench
  Democracy: the group that shouts the loudest wins.
  (tags: democracy politics twopartysystem)
• Quoted | Good Morning Silicon Valley
  Not so much “David vs Goliath” as “The Stonemason’s Guild vs Michelangelo”
  (tags: linux apple ubuntu design ui)
• Wonderland or Not » Blog Archive » Pure Life, Unnecessary Death, and Infinitesimal Congressional Terms
  “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.
  (tags: arteypico awards wonderlandornot blogging activism)
• Thankfully Homeland Security is not Interested in Missouri | MissouriGreen
  Never assume malice when stupidity will suffice — but I don’t know…
  (tags: homelandsecurity borders immigration riogrande hurricanes dolly texas mexico borderfence)

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6 Responses to “links for 2008-07-24”

1. teeni says:

   July 24, 2008 at 9:09 am

   Great links! Some broke my head but others made me laugh so it’s okay.

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   • Sterling Camden says:

     July 24, 2008 at 9:22 am

     Thanks, teeni! I guess laughter really is the best medicine — even for broken heads.

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2. Ole Phat Stu says:

   July 24, 2008 at 1:03 pm

   School 1957 : Do you understand, lad? Yes, Sir!

   School 2008 : Yo get me dude? Huuuuh???

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   • Sterling Camden says:

     July 25, 2008 at 9:45 am

     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!

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3. Ole Phat Stu says:

   July 25, 2008 at 10:03 am

   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.

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   • Sterling Camden says:

     July 25, 2008 at 10:29 am

     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.

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