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February 27th, 2008 Yashar
Timeless information…
“Knowledge is the only product which, when sold, remains with the seller. If you sell to me a widget, you have my money but you no longer have that widget, it’s mine. If I sell to you some knowledge, I have your money and I still have my knowledge. It even grows in the process as each time you deliver, you learn something new. Because of these attributes, we can afford to (and it is often profitable!) to give knowledge away for free.”
- Vladimir Dimitroff
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February 27th, 2008 Yashar
Two hunters were out in the woods one day when they heard the snarl of a grizzly bear. One hunter began to run, while the second stopped to put on his running shoes. “What’s the point of that?” asked the first hunter. “Do you really think you can outrun a grizzly?”
“No,” said the second hunter, straightening up. “I only have to outrun you.”
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February 27th, 2008 Yashar
Let me tell you a story about the spiritual guru guy who had a reputation for being completely unoffendable, with respect to the fact that this is not my story.
This macho American guy hears about this guru and decides to challenge him. Upon arrival in his temple he begins to insult and disrespect him in every possible way, saying things like “I slept with your mother” ,etc.
Throughout the entire interaction the guru stays calm and unaffected, and this macho man couldn’t believe it.
He says to the guru: “I understand this whole spiritual thing about not caring about what other people think, but man I disrespected you, you should learn to stand up for yourself”.
The guru responds: “my son can I ask you two questions?” the man says “sure”.
He says if I offer you a gift and you choose to not accept it, to whom does that gift still belong?
The man says “well if I choose not to accept the gift than the gift still belongs to you”.
And the guru continues with his second question: “and now let me ask you, if I choose not to accept your abuse to whom does it still belong”?
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February 27th, 2008 Yashar
You start out dead and get that out of the way right off the bat.
Then you wake up in an old age home feeling better every day.
When you get kicked out of the home for being too healthy,
you spend several years enjoying your retirement and collecting benefit checks.
Then when you start work, you get a gold watch on your first day.
You work 40 years or so, getting younger every day until pretty soon you’re too young to work.
So you go to School : drink alcohol, party, and you’re generally promiscuous.
As you get even younger — pretty soon you become a kid again.
You go to elementary school, you play, and you have no responsibilities.
In a few years you become a baby and everyone runs themselves ragged keeping you happy.
You spend your last 9 months floating peacefully in luxury, in spa-like conditions - central heating, room service on tap
Until finally. . .
You finish off as an orgasm.
I rest my case
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February 19th, 2008 Yashar
The latest lecture in my Cognitive Science class was about analyzing how the human brain works as a network of billions of neurons.
To illustrate a theory about how the brain functions the following illustration was presented:
Probably what you perceive is two lines intersection (or one line passing above another line). So then we ask the question, why don’t we see four lines intersecting at a point? Theorists have used such examples to explain human cognition and have concluded that the brain tries to maximize the overall simplicity.
These findings can be translated to soo many aspects of our lives. Remember whatever it is you’re doing K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Stupid!).
If I remember correctly the average reading comprehension is not over grade 6 (in the United States).
Whatever it is you do that will reach the masses try to adhere by this principle.
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February 9th, 2008 Yashar
This might not come as a surprise but 95% of people procrastinate. A recent study at the University of California, Berkeley showed:
In … research with graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley, [psychologist Neil Fiore] found that the people who made time to play sports, hang out with friends, and enjoy themselves were the ones who actually got work done faster.
Suggestions included in the study were to keep distracting items at a distance and to create small achievable goals rather than larger goals.
An American’s do say “procrastination is the number one reason for financial failure”.
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February 9th, 2008 Yashar
I was first introduced to Alan Turing in my grade 10 computer science class when we had to program in the “Turing” programming language. It was a primitive programming language in comparison to today’s object oriented languages, however it was a good way to introduce students to the concept of programming.
In the Cognitive Science university course I’m taking right now, there was also a lecture on the findings of Alan Turing and the famous “Turing Test”. The Turing Test is a test for a machine’s ability to demonstrate “intelligence”. Simply put, the test proceeds with a human judge having a natural conversation with both a machine and a human. If the human judge cannot decide correctly which is the machine and which is the human than the machine can be considered “intelligent”.
You can read more about the test on Wikipedia. Many cool chatterbots have come from the Turing Test hoping to be the winners of the Loebner Prize (prizes awarded for most human-like chatterbots). My favourite chatterbot is A.L.I.C.E (http://www.alicebot.org/).
Unfortunately, Alan Turing “the father of modern computer science” had a complicated life. As a homosexual he was given the option of going to jail or taking estrogen pills. Eventually he started to develop breasts and other abnormalities which drove him to commit suicide.
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