November 9, 2009
Masters of Tacit Knowledge (Ayrton Senna)

I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else…

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November 8, 2009
Knowledge, Intelligence, Wisdom and ... Grok

Excerpts from Robert A. Heinlein’s novel ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’

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November 6, 2009

[Preamble from the heart] Soren Kierkegaard. Fear & Trembling

It takes a purely human courage to renounce the whole of temporality in order to win eternity.

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October 1, 2009
“ If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.
Thomas J. Watson, IBM
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September 19, 2009
“ Science is supposed to be cumulative, not almost endless duplication of the same kind of things
R. W. Hamming
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September 17, 2009
On the park bench

On an early morning jogging visit to the nearby park, you notice a pair of unkempt men. What do you see with your eyes? What don’t you see with your eyes?

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September 16, 2009

Machine translation has a long way to go

So I just put the names of all twelve months into Google Translate and this is the translation I got. Notice the 5th month, May:

一月
二月
3月
4月
可能
6月
7月
8月
9月
10月
11
12月

It didn’t even bother with the ‘月’ for November.

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September 12, 2009
Differences between Asian and Western Children. A matter of context. Or category?

Given four words: Monkey, Banana, Cow, Grass. How do you categorize them?

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September 8, 2009
The Intelligent Crowd: Browser wars. Still no paradigm

The Intelligent Crowd: Browser wars. Still no paradigm

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August 28, 2009
When madmen go mad

A man’s wife commits suicide and he then goes on to marry a young, attractive but incompatible woman who drives him into the ground both mentally and financially. Add to this the outcome of a failing World War I effort and you might get the beginnings of a man who’s losing his marbles. Which is great news for science…

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