http://motespace.com/blog Disclaimer: The following web space does not contain my own opinions, but merely linguistic representations thereof. Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:47:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Twittering provides just enough cognitive release that I haven't been feeling the blogging itch. It's so much lower-maintenance. http://motespace.com/blog/2008/09/11/cognitive-release/ Spent this last week in NY, for a summit on Machine Learning for work. Had a wonderful time. Networking-wise I found the experience much better than academia (more possibility, ease for future collaboration with the folks I met). Jetlag did a number on me (going to sleep at West ... http://motespace.com/blog/2008/05/17/back-from-ny/ Conversations at work recently have turned again and again to consciousness and self-awareness (what, you thought "Android" was just a phone? ;) ). Now, I'm not going to belabor the point with discussions of artificial intelligence and yet another amateur's resummarization of Searle's Chinese Room[1]. Instead, I've been ... http://motespace.com/blog/2007/11/28/i-can-has-consciousness/ I caught this morning morning's minion, king- dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing, ... http://motespace.com/blog/2007/10/13/the-windhover/ Two things this weekend: Port/migration/(possible downgrade) of my personal wiki to an earlier version of MoinMoin. I kept on getting a "CacheNeedsUpdating" error. Source diving and hack patching was no help. Fix was to go to "data/pages" directory, and run find . | grep "/cache$" | xargs rm ... http://motespace.com/blog/2007/08/06/weekend-hacking/ Migrating my life away from the ISI servers, as I don't know how much longer I'll have access to them. That means this blog needs a new home. And this is where it will stay, I guess, perhaps for the next decade at least... My email, too. It's ... http://motespace.com/blog/2007/04/14/changes/ Ugh, circadians are all off today, what with daylight savings' time. Yawn Circadian situation perhaps worsened by the weekend's fun: On Saturday, got together with a 5 other Los Angelean tea-drinkers, and together we held a tasting of 12 different teas, drinking ~50 cups per person. The "theme" ... http://motespace.com/blog/2007/03/12/time/ Went to see the Magritte exhibit at LACMA today. Thoughts: I'd never thought of the parallels between The Red Model and cyborgs/cybernetic enhancement before =). Likewise, I stared at The Human Condition for a good 20 minutes, and couldn't help but thinking about AI agents and World Models Everything in the Treachery ... http://motespace.com/blog/2007/03/03/magritte-thoughts/ As a break from Artificial Intelligence ponderings, I was recently mailed a sampler of darjeeling oolong teas so that I could participate in an "on-line tasting". Thanks to T-Ching, and Phyll Sheng for arranging the tasting. And, finally, a huge thanks to Lochan Tea for providing the leaves, ... http://motespace.com/blog/2007/02/28/darjeeling-oolongs/ Thinking a bit about AI this weekend. 30 years ago, we tried to imagine what life would be like in 2010. Intelligent Agents, Strong AI, etc etc. It's a bit disheartening that the pinnacle of AI that we have to show for our efforts are things like ... http://motespace.com/blog/2007/02/12/where-is-my-cure-for-this-disease/