Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little - Epicurus
Saturday 25 March 2017
Friday 24 March 2017
Thought of the Day: The Battle for AI Talent.
The Battle for AI is the battle for the next century and beyond.
For example, Intel wants its monopoly over computing hardware back. And they better be quick about it.
https://www.wired.com/2017/03/intel-just-jumped-fierce-competition-ai-talent/
I still think it is crazy how much the variance is between top talent and your average worker, researcher.
For example, Intel wants its monopoly over computing hardware back. And they better be quick about it.
https://www.wired.com/2017/03/intel-just-jumped-fierce-competition-ai-talent/
I still think it is crazy how much the variance is between top talent and your average worker, researcher.
Wednesday 22 March 2017
Deep Quote of the Night, By The Einstein
“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.”
Thursday 16 March 2017
The meaning of life
I think the standard meaning of life is to be happy.
Which is an awfully vague kind of meaning, which in turn, feels like no meaning at all. What is happy? How much of it is enough? What if you don't get it? Does that mean your life becomes meaningless?
So I prefer something like the standard Christian meaning of life - to serve and glory God.
Which for the less religious, would be to serve and glorify life.
Which is an awfully vague kind of meaning, which in turn, feels like no meaning at all. What is happy? How much of it is enough? What if you don't get it? Does that mean your life becomes meaningless?
So I prefer something like the standard Christian meaning of life - to serve and glory God.
Which for the less religious, would be to serve and glorify life.
What's the difference between a genius and an avg person?
https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-difference-between-a-genius-and-an-average-person
"An average person learns, a Genius thinks."
That's one of my major concerns about IT jobs. There is a lot to learn, but as for thinking... if you have to think, you're not very effective at your job.
If you can follow algorithms well and have excellent short/mid-term memory (technical details requiring memorisation are rarely useful in the long run), you can make a decent career in IT.
As much as the image of IT seems to include bright minds and smart people, not that much room for geniuses.
Meaningful Conversations
"Most people may live 70,80,90 years, but only live meaningfully for, maybe, hours."
Never miss a chance to have meaningful conversations.
Pass down the life lessons. Allow others to pass down life lessons.
Those could be the most meaningful days of your life.
TODO
More videos of grandparents so I can show their great-grandsons and daughters (if any) what major periods of Chinese history were like.
Never miss a chance to have meaningful conversations.
Pass down the life lessons. Allow others to pass down life lessons.
Those could be the most meaningful days of your life.
TODO
More videos of grandparents so I can show their great-grandsons and daughters (if any) what major periods of Chinese history were like.
Saturday 11 March 2017
What is Thought?
1. Thinking is the interplay between emptiness and non-emptiness.
If one's mind is full, one does not think.
Thinkers are between worlds, transitioning in some way from emptiness to non-emptiness.
A classic example would be the optimization problem. Trying to figure out the optimum combination that most satisfies the criteria.
Perhaps when we are thinking, we are training those neural networks too.
Neural networks training other neural networks.
Just what Google's doing too.
2. When it gets complicated enough, consciousness emerges. When side-effects cannot fail to cause other effects, which cause those side-effects themselves, until the entity cannot find the origin.
But that's cliched.
When the entity cannot detect the origin, consciousness no longer exists. So consciousness is the fleeting moments of achieving this state of wholeness.
3. What is the link between thinking and consciousness?
They are analogous in that both are fleeting moments between emptiness to fullness. In thinking this is from no solution to finding a solution. In consciousness, it is going from the change of a piece of data not being able to cause itself, to being able to cause itself, the process in which its components come together.
Both are about fulfilment, a journey to a certain end.
But technically, what does it mean? How are they related in the mind?
Is all thinking conscious?
This is like asking "if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it still exist?". Yes. We know for certain that some of the energy must be converted to sound. In the same way, we can know that thinking occurs anytime we are alive.
4.
Thinking: Training a network, trying things randomly specifically to reach a specific goal. It is triggered by some other process.
Consciousness: Involuntary, natural process which naturally occurs in the mind if all the pieces are available.
If one's mind is full, one does not think.
Thinkers are between worlds, transitioning in some way from emptiness to non-emptiness.
A classic example would be the optimization problem. Trying to figure out the optimum combination that most satisfies the criteria.
Perhaps when we are thinking, we are training those neural networks too.
Neural networks training other neural networks.
Just what Google's doing too.
2. When it gets complicated enough, consciousness emerges. When side-effects cannot fail to cause other effects, which cause those side-effects themselves, until the entity cannot find the origin.
But that's cliched.
When the entity cannot detect the origin, consciousness no longer exists. So consciousness is the fleeting moments of achieving this state of wholeness.
3. What is the link between thinking and consciousness?
They are analogous in that both are fleeting moments between emptiness to fullness. In thinking this is from no solution to finding a solution. In consciousness, it is going from the change of a piece of data not being able to cause itself, to being able to cause itself, the process in which its components come together.
Both are about fulfilment, a journey to a certain end.
But technically, what does it mean? How are they related in the mind?
Is all thinking conscious?
This is like asking "if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it still exist?". Yes. We know for certain that some of the energy must be converted to sound. In the same way, we can know that thinking occurs anytime we are alive.
4.
Thinking: Training a network, trying things randomly specifically to reach a specific goal. It is triggered by some other process.
Consciousness: Involuntary, natural process which naturally occurs in the mind if all the pieces are available.
Sunday 5 March 2017
A Most Philosophical joke
One of the most memorable jokes I have ever heard is this:
Q: What is the most philosophical job?
A: Security Guard. Because he gets to ask "Who are you?", "What are you doing here?" and "Where are you going?"
Q: What is the most philosophical job?
A: Security Guard. Because he gets to ask "Who are you?", "What are you doing here?" and "Where are you going?"
The Result of Tech Society
"Someday, the default option of almost everything will exceed even average expectations.
When machines can predict what we want before we want something, let alone have expectations."
When machines can predict what we want before we want something, let alone have expectations."
Thursday 2 March 2017
Friendships are based on something common.
Without something common, they will fall apart.
What are we keeping in common?
What are we keeping in common?
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