Sometimes I’m impressed by things I did when I was younger. This image still holds truth and insight for me, my opinion or perspective hasn’t really changed much in the way I regard it. I wonder if that’s a bad thing?
The more I learn about Artificial Intelligence the more I worry about actual human intelligence.
It seems like objective reality is constrained in significant ways, and I’m not sure we’ll ever be able to know or speak the whole truth.
I’ve started the ML class.
My notes are on my sixsigma wiki.
I noticed this in my inbox today, it got past the spam filter:
“If all you dream about is pain relief, why are you still living? It is not real life!”
It’s fun to interpret it in different ways. And it’s kind of shocking as an advertisement.
I think this is rather amusing.
If you go to the AI-class FAQ the first thing you will see is:
Q: What if I don’t receive a verification e-mail after submitting my enrolment?
A: Confirm that it is not in your spam box.
Which is funny, isn’t it? I mean, it’s applied AI that is doing your spam filtering, and the most likely cause of you not getting your email from the AI-class is that the AI that’s filtering your mail is wrong with a false-positive.
Well I think it’s funny. :P
I think I’m clever.
I used to link to this soundtrack (and I still do) from my manifesto, but I reckon approximately no-one clicked on it.
Now when you go to www.jj5.net you can click on the …with soundtrack link on the top of the page and browse with the site’s soundtrack playing. Cool!
I was reading my default .bashrc file, and found the following:
# Alias definitions.
# You may want to put all your additions into a separate file like
# ~/.bash_aliases, instead of adding them here directly.
# See /usr/share/doc/bash-doc/examples in the bash-doc package.
if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
. ~/.bash_aliases
fi
This suggested that I wanted a .bash_aliases file for my aliases, so I set one up:
jj5@sixsigma:~$ cat .bash_aliases alias home='cd ~' alias jj5='cd /var/www/www.jj5.net/' alias profile='cd /var/www/www.jj5.net/profile/' alias chomsky='vim /var/www/www.jj5.net/profile/chomsky/index.html' alias henney='vim /var/www/www.jj5.net/profile/henney/index.html' alias lakoff='vim /var/www/www.jj5.net/profile/lakoff/index.html' alias norvig='vim /var/www/www.jj5.net/profile/norvig/index.html'
This is my basic “CMS” system for http://www.jj5.net/profile/.
I was having trouble integrating the latest version of Doctrine and CodeIgniter, but luckily I found an article replete with implementation package for that: Integrating Doctrine 2 with CodeIgniter 2.
I’m a little embarrassed to say that I only looked this up for the first time today. Although, I’ve been programming in JavaScript for so long that I must have known this years ago, but “forgotten” as I haven’t done much JavaScript programming in the last few years. Hey, at least I retained that niggling feeling like I had to look that up!
Important: JavaScript does not have block scope.
Basically:
var x = 1;
{ var x = 2; }
print( x ); // outputs 2