Crazy But Able

Hi. Just showing my sister a “blog”.

Hey Google, can you guys cache page rank? Because it’d be really awesome to like, get perspective on the latest greatest thing by finding out what the internet thought about it *before* it became such a big hit.

Just wanted to let you all know that I haven’t forgotten about it, nor have I been slacking off. My wife’s birthday was a few days ago, and my mother-in-law and sister-in-law are both arriving tomorrow for ValleyFair foofiness and general sightseeing. Plus Peggy and I are going to Michigan for a family […]

“Good morning Mr. Stomach, how about I fill you right up with leftover spicy green curry, first thing in the morning?! Ah, who cares what you think!”
Ug. On the bright side of things, I’m definitely not hungry anymore.

And it’s a heave (ho!) hi (ho!), coming down the plains,
Stealing wheat and barley and all the other grains…

I can’t decide what’s more interesting in this photo: the painting or the people standing beside it.

Another one bites the dust.
I stopped using Linux as my primary OS a few months ago, although my reason was that I had a hard drive crash. The thought of reinstalling linux and figuring out, from scratch, all of the little fiddly bits, config files, and oddball software package tweaks that I […]

Last time we looked at symbolic logic and how it can be used for knowledge representation. Now we’re going to look at some problems with using symbolic logic for representing knowledge in a hypothetical AI program.
The first problem with symbolic logic is that nobody can agree on what symbols to use. […]

Alright, by request here is the first furpost post.
Not a bad day really. We didn’t even have any rotting animals laying around. We did however boil up a nice kettle of elk brains. Its kind of surprising how big an elk brain really is. Anyway we thawed out and cooked up about 2 gallons worth. […]

Other folks musing on expert systems reasoned like this. Expert systems have problems, deep problems, because they encode all of the knowledge in the system right up front! It’s easy to seem intelligent when someone has given you all of your intelligence. What we need are computers that can see problems and […]