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Sunday, April 10, 2016
calendar thing
but there is this calendar thing. it comes from the years.
it's the Sunday before we leave for ...
it's the week leading up to today
working the whole week on organization
and the even more basic tidying
tidying, and then organization
noticing late in the week that
packing
could only follow organization
and organization could only follow tidying
that was the theory
a magical type formula
and, you know what, it worked
putting things off until the last
until i know what to do
and sometimes it's too much
really really looking forward
to moving things around
when we get back and to cutting branches
but, also,
getting everything ship shape
before we leave
so it'll be clean when we get home is great
and cleaning the floors at almost the last moment
means they're now at
maximum cleanness.
it's the Sunday before we leave for ...
it's the week leading up to today
working the whole week on organization
and the even more basic tidying
tidying, and then organization
noticing late in the week that
packing
could only follow organization
and organization could only follow tidying
that was the theory
a magical type formula
and, you know what, it worked
putting things off until the last
until i know what to do
and sometimes it's too much
really really looking forward
to moving things around
when we get back and to cutting branches
but, also,
getting everything ship shape
before we leave
so it'll be clean when we get home is great
and cleaning the floors at almost the last moment
means they're now at
maximum cleanness.
the years
56
and all the efforts to connect even intensifying
and it's a giant disaster
off on holiday and
contemplating live blogging
preparing for action on the server front
and creating a resource (or trying to)
Zero
but there is this calendar thing
and all the efforts to connect even intensifying
and it's a giant disaster
off on holiday and
contemplating live blogging
preparing for action on the server front
and creating a resource (or trying to)
Zero
but there is this calendar thing
vacation is almost over
rainy Sunday, packing for a trip
had breakfast at The Normal and walked back through neighborhoods
here's where i wrote about making places to put places
hey wow this is fun
but it's not too profoundly relevant
learned about a place in Facebook today
where messages can remain unseen for years
checked it
someone sent me an invitation to connect
isn't that what i wanted?
trying to think what to do.
it's like the pages of my calendar overlap
this story is about the previous story, and earlier
i was writing about the next story ... this one.
ready for Zero? no, i want to put something else
in between.
had breakfast at The Normal and walked back through neighborhoods
here's where i wrote about making places to put places
hey wow this is fun
but it's not too profoundly relevant
learned about a place in Facebook today
where messages can remain unseen for years
checked it
someone sent me an invitation to connect
isn't that what i wanted?
trying to think what to do.
it's like the pages of my calendar overlap
this story is about the previous story, and earlier
i was writing about the next story ... this one.
ready for Zero? no, i want to put something else
in between.
passage of time
as it turns out, though, i want to capture the passage of time
and that is accomplished by capturing small events
the word small, here, has a special meaning which is not immediately obvious
it is raining
the words that describe the event are small in number, but, unpacking them, so much could be said.
wishing i could share such thoughts
thoughts like it is raining and
wishing i could share such thoughts
with my parents
and in there is an action plan
live again!
history of an idea ... just wrote that
but this is different. it's not topical, it's just about a moment in time. how do i link that to Zero? a calendar? no, a location on a calendar. gradually you work towards a new post, a place to put this, a home for this ...
and that is accomplished by capturing small events
the word small, here, has a special meaning which is not immediately obvious
it is raining
the words that describe the event are small in number, but, unpacking them, so much could be said.
wishing i could share such thoughts
thoughts like it is raining and
wishing i could share such thoughts
with my parents
and in there is an action plan
live again!
history of an idea ... just wrote that
but this is different. it's not topical, it's just about a moment in time. how do i link that to Zero? a calendar? no, a location on a calendar. gradually you work towards a new post, a place to put this, a home for this ...
the history of a project
tracing the history of an event
setting up a Facebook account - ten years or so ago - invited to friend various people i might know
invited to like this or that
at some point due to having, at any rate, indicated in one way or another a connection with a certain outfit, invited to join a group
some horrible looking person acting as a (seemingly self appointed) den mother for a bunch of AI people.
seeing, then, the occasional incomprehensible message from that group ... of course, it's math, so i'm interested. but i stop following the links. (too confusing, too busy)
now, networking like my life depends on it, i try one of their links. there's a reasonable amount of information about a doctoral candidate in AI, and a link to an interview in which he and a guy who podcasts interviews with science people discuss AI. he speaks at length in a very impressive way. they are both impressive.
watching this, all the time i am thinking "could i interest these guys in my ideas?" decide not to try because the answer is obvious, but decide to offer a paper to that awful seeming person. i don't care so much if she hates me or despises me, so let's find out.
and that's pretty much that. i've decided AI means All Idiots. i mean, it's either intelligence or it isn't. you are interacting with something intelligent but somehow are convinced it is you who are intelligent. if you were intelligent you would see that this is so. apparently in this very important group they do discuss, in all sorts of arcane, obscure terms, what intelligence supposedly is. they don't know! and yet they purport to be building intelligent machines, or supervising that, or some such thing.
and i think it could be very useful, an intelligent system. if you do understand intelligence, it should be possible to build such a system, except for this: you need a language. well, you've got your lower level languages, with which you can do absolutely anything, but my tests suggest it is very hard to gain access to those languages, and they you've got your higher level languages, which you can easily access, and then you can do some things with them.
so it seems to me to really realize the potential of intelligence in a system demonstration i would need access to lower level languages. and it is evident, whether it makes sense or not, that access to lower level languages is achieved via higher level languages. and higher level languages are like catalogs. you can leaf through them and try offerings that might give you access to lower level languages. i have looked at many such offers, or, at any rate, some, because in a way they are not so numerous, but i have yet to put together a combination that gives me access.
still, i have been doing reasonably well, just for my own purposes, building a kind of resource. if you test a link and aren't sure what the result is, which is to say if you get some kind of result, and maybe a promising one, but there are next steps to take and you want to think them over before trying anything else, then if you loose that link it's just like saying "failed again." but if you can somehow keep that link - and the real challenge is where to put it so you will follow it again - then you are building a resource. you might be getting somewhere.
so, where does it go from here? i am working on the problem of gaining access to lower level language, or, to put it another way, server side methods. this paragraph is an empty variable. if you or i return here in the future it may have then been initialized. as created it isn't even a link, it is just a location that has been created for something to be added in that future.
that is half the problem, and the other half is where do i put this. it's the history of a project, the history of a project of mine, the history of "my project". it belongs on page Zero, but then again, it doesn't. it belongs on - not only here, but yes, here - a list of projects. that actually makes sense.
setting up a Facebook account - ten years or so ago - invited to friend various people i might know
invited to like this or that
at some point due to having, at any rate, indicated in one way or another a connection with a certain outfit, invited to join a group
some horrible looking person acting as a (seemingly self appointed) den mother for a bunch of AI people.
seeing, then, the occasional incomprehensible message from that group ... of course, it's math, so i'm interested. but i stop following the links. (too confusing, too busy)
now, networking like my life depends on it, i try one of their links. there's a reasonable amount of information about a doctoral candidate in AI, and a link to an interview in which he and a guy who podcasts interviews with science people discuss AI. he speaks at length in a very impressive way. they are both impressive.
watching this, all the time i am thinking "could i interest these guys in my ideas?" decide not to try because the answer is obvious, but decide to offer a paper to that awful seeming person. i don't care so much if she hates me or despises me, so let's find out.
and that's pretty much that. i've decided AI means All Idiots. i mean, it's either intelligence or it isn't. you are interacting with something intelligent but somehow are convinced it is you who are intelligent. if you were intelligent you would see that this is so. apparently in this very important group they do discuss, in all sorts of arcane, obscure terms, what intelligence supposedly is. they don't know! and yet they purport to be building intelligent machines, or supervising that, or some such thing.
and i think it could be very useful, an intelligent system. if you do understand intelligence, it should be possible to build such a system, except for this: you need a language. well, you've got your lower level languages, with which you can do absolutely anything, but my tests suggest it is very hard to gain access to those languages, and they you've got your higher level languages, which you can easily access, and then you can do some things with them.
so it seems to me to really realize the potential of intelligence in a system demonstration i would need access to lower level languages. and it is evident, whether it makes sense or not, that access to lower level languages is achieved via higher level languages. and higher level languages are like catalogs. you can leaf through them and try offerings that might give you access to lower level languages. i have looked at many such offers, or, at any rate, some, because in a way they are not so numerous, but i have yet to put together a combination that gives me access.
still, i have been doing reasonably well, just for my own purposes, building a kind of resource. if you test a link and aren't sure what the result is, which is to say if you get some kind of result, and maybe a promising one, but there are next steps to take and you want to think them over before trying anything else, then if you loose that link it's just like saying "failed again." but if you can somehow keep that link - and the real challenge is where to put it so you will follow it again - then you are building a resource. you might be getting somewhere.
so, where does it go from here? i am working on the problem of gaining access to lower level language, or, to put it another way, server side methods. this paragraph is an empty variable. if you or i return here in the future it may have then been initialized. as created it isn't even a link, it is just a location that has been created for something to be added in that future.
that is half the problem, and the other half is where do i put this. it's the history of a project, the history of a project of mine, the history of "my project". it belongs on page Zero, but then again, it doesn't. it belongs on - not only here, but yes, here - a list of projects. that actually makes sense.
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