Response to Yann LeCun’s post on Facebook!

Yann LeCun: How would you compare this offering to the DGX-1 from Nvidia, Google TensorFlow ASICs available on the G-Cloud, TerraDeep, D-Wave 1000-Qbit QPU [with quantum DL], and other deep learning-compatible hardware that can both train and test without using Spark or Map/Reduce? What about cost, time to perform a cross-validation, space (cubic feet), power,Continue reading “Response to Yann LeCun’s post on Facebook!”

A New Kind of Social Mobility [& Politics] — A Different Approach to solving the Financial Divide

Why doesn’t Bernie Sanders advocate using the tax money from the 1% to fund universal exercise programs for the 99%? Why doesn’t Bernie Sanders advocate using the tax money from the 1% to fund universal education/startup programs for social mobility for the 99%? All this talk about robin hood-esqe tax breaks doesn’t result in betterContinue reading “A New Kind of Social Mobility [& Politics] — A Different Approach to solving the Financial Divide”

Bill Gates: Interesting finding with his single-author patents

Look ahead of links/alter links (0 citations according to Google Scholar) Architecture for user- and context-specific prefetching and caching of information on portable devices (5 citations according to Google Scholar) Data management in social networks (2 citations) Search guided by location and context (0 citations) Search engine that identifies and uses social networks in communications,Continue reading “Bill Gates: Interesting finding with his single-author patents”

Steve Jobs: Interesting Findings by Cited Co-Author in Patents

Today, let’s look at the top 8 cited patent portfolio that included Steve Jobs as one of the many co-authors during his two tenures are Apple Computer: Computing device (2002) — Design patent on the MacBook (prior art: Dynabook: 1972 – Alan Kay) Electronic device (2005) — Design patent on the iPad (prior art: Telautograph:Continue reading “Steve Jobs: Interesting Findings by Cited Co-Author in Patents”

How do you get a Kindle book to talk on MacOS?

1.) First install homebrew with the following command: /usr/bin/ruby -e “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)”   2,) Second, install tesseract using homebrew: brew install tesseract   3.) Run the following command and then select the X1, Y1 and X2, Y2 that contain the text in the Kindle book page: screencapture -s ~/Downloads/screen.png; tesseract ~/Downloads/screen.png ~/Downloads/screen; say -iContinue reading “How do you get a Kindle book to talk on MacOS?”

Notes: Creating Human-Level AI: How and When | Ray Kurzweil

Key challenges – Marvin Minsky [MIT] (symbolic school) & Frank Rosenblatt [Cornell] (connectionist school) Deep neural networks in the 1960’s with Rosenblatt — high on research agenda — (My thought: Why not until the 90’s or 2000’s if high on research agenda?) Output of each layer needs to be convex otherwise you will not reachContinue reading “Notes: Creating Human-Level AI: How and When | Ray Kurzweil”

Fluid intelligence in “Organic” Intelligence

Crystallized intelligence is overrated and static Fluid intelligence should be the sole focus and is dynamic Artificial intelligence is on the wrong path due to its heavy dependence on crystallized intelligence Using long-term memory to do tasks means nothing about the malleability of the working memory operators Fluid intelligence is about “pattern recognition, abstract reasoning,Continue reading “Fluid intelligence in “Organic” Intelligence”

Steve Jobs – Interview at CHM (2011) – Walter Isaacson (First 20 minutes)

Key points from the interview with Walter Isaacson: Technology Personification Traits of Steve Jobs – passion, perfectionism, impatient, storytelling He changed the way we listen to music Humanities + Technology Creativity + Engineering Brutally Honest Mind Distortion Reality Field (Game Theory) Don’t Preach, do the Fareed Zakaria or Christopher Nolan? Night shift Simplicity in bridgeContinue reading “Steve Jobs – Interview at CHM (2011) – Walter Isaacson (First 20 minutes)”

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