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| 11:50am 10/04/2009 | ||||
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!' If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run - Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son! --Rudyard Kipling |
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determined| Radio Controlled Pirate Ship | ||||
| 11:33am 24/03/2009 | ||||
Sorry I haven't been keeping tabs.. still living with Ellen, that's going really awesome. Kids are having trouble adjusting - first Anthony more than Sophia, now he's doing quite well but Sophia is having trouble. Ex is still jobless and really struggling, but I've been working at CD Baby for the last 7 months, and that's going pretty well too. We're moving from PHP/MySQL/Apache to a .NET/C#/Microsoft Enterprise environment, but at least we're getting to use this chance to create a new and better system. Portland is way better than Eugene.. still not the Bay Area, but probably the best I'm going to do outside of it. Don't be a stranger! Find me on IM sometime and say hi! |
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busy| Someday When I Write My Own Programming Language... | ||||
| 05:39pm 16/09/2008 | ||||
q = 0; r = 0; r = 17 % 3; q = (17 - r) / 3; Mind you, it's trivial. Still, it's an extra, unnecessary step and seeing as how the division calculation must have been done in the first place to get the remainder. Oh, and I work at CD Baby now. Yay! |
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mischievous| Sacrifice | ||||
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exhausted| New Cell Phone, I Need Your Number! | ||||
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| Apologies To Mr. Bierce | ||||
| 11:39am 17/03/2008 | ||||
Ray Bradbury (person) : The resulting author of a literary genetics crossover between pulp science-fiction and South American magical realism. Probably just a little insane, to boot. |
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anxious| Artificial Pain | ||||
| 10:26am 07/03/2008 | ||||
Part of constructing an AI is designing it how to learn and adapt, and training it. To start with, a good AI will have a somewhat arbitrary set of weights assigned to help it interpret data and stimulae (this is good, this is bad), as well as feedback to help decide if it made a good or bad choice. How does this translate? At what point do we say an AI is sentient, and at what point do we call that feedback "pain"? I could see how it would happen - one day, an AI analyst is working with an AI, when suddenly the machine informs the analyst, "It hurts." The analyst discovers that the AI has come to associate a wrong choice with pain. Is it feeling pain like we do? The first thing I think is, "no, of course not, we feel biological pain". But think about it, what IS pain exactly? It's just feedback, electrical impulses managed by a chemical network that turns on and off switches in the brain. It's no more or less real than the electrical impulses that flow through a circuit board. We hurt physically because our body tells us we need to, and chemical unbalances aside, we hurt emotionally when we process/interpret negative data. Can you imagine how painful it must be, therefore, to be an AI? In my mental excursion, I imagine the AI informing the programmer analyst how to adjust its own program so that it can learn in a gentler, less painful way... |
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contemplative| Movie Review: Tekkon Kinkreet | ||||
| 01:54am 04/03/2008 | ||||
What ended up happening, of course, is that by the time the movie got going, I was actually pretty drawn into it. Though it played haphazardly with my sense of disbelief (as anime will tend to do - nature of the beast), I found the abstract departures of reality to masterfully add depth and perspective to the storytelling, which is what drives this piece. Two young orphans, Black and White, are one set of vying rulers of the debauched, ruinous Treasure Town. As a troublesome duo, they have become as much an accepted institution in the city as the local cops and Yakuza. While these institutions go about their sibling spars, they are all forced to explore themselves and each other as the city is besieged by Change. Beyond the obvious asian/Zen Yin-Yang theme is a very human portrayal, a shamanic view of a difficult world. There is no absolute black-and-white dichotomy, per se, but an adventure into the heart by way of fire. Along with Tokyo Godfathers, this is probably one of the greatest movies you will never hear of unless you are either tuned into the anime scene, or you happened to stumble upon it as I did. I beseech you to give this movie a chance - it's worth your time and your dollar. (Taiyo Matsumoto, Michael Arias) |
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| 10:30am 27/02/2008 | ||||
"Learning" is the natural setting of logic/data paths through experience and observation. "Faith" is the result of manually setting logic/data paths without necessarily regarding experience or observation. |
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curious| What It's Good For (HUH!) | ||||
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cold| For FW, In Case You Haven't Seen It | ||||
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| New Year, For Once | ||||
| 11:14am 18/01/2008 | ||||
- new life - new house - new love - new(ish) job - new hope - new dislike of Windows That's right folks, I'm leaving Windows. My plan is (barring some major Vista overhaul, or some new Windows OS that is absolutely unbelievable in a good way for once) to be using Windows only in a virtual setting on some other OS, preferrably as a background service that permits me to run Windows programs from another OS's desktop. Right now I'm experimenting with Fedora 8 in this capacity - I've been using Fedora (and occasionally OSX) for actual server stuff for years now, and occasionally I've toyed with the idea of using them as my daily work OS. Now it's time to take the dive. It's no longer a question of if, but when, and which virtual machine software I'll use to get me there. Also, my project partner from last year and I are hurriedly finishing up work on the laser harp in time for it to be presented in the main gallery on campus next week. We're going to put up a site for it, so you'll finally get to see some pics, production and finished and in use and everything. It's pretty exciting because I guess the video the professor took of all the projects from last year's class got passed around the department, and everyone's in a tizzy about it. At least that's what I heard... |
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| Oh And I'm Not Doing It, You Can't Make Me | ||||
| 02:51am 21/12/2007 | ||||
Just so you know. |
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devious| Keepin' It Real... | ||||
| 02:28am 21/12/2007 | ||||
2) Finally registered my car, 7 months late. 3) Got my new Dell and it's working as it should. 4) Got a new set of those kickass headphones someone ripped off in NY, and for half what I paid last time. 5) Got enough money to pay bills and buy presents (I think). 6) Got health and dental insurance starting January for the kids and me. 7) Getting along with the ex pretty nicely, waiting to get a judgment finished written up so we can file and make it legit. 8) Not at all least, still utterly in love, and utterly loved. Still totally amazed by it all, but wtf why the hell not? Awwwhhh yeah, peace out. Oh and Stellaspike? Find me on googletalk or messenger when you get a chance, 'k? I think I may have something you'd like... |
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| What If The Lorax Became An Eco-Terrorist? | ||||
| 08:43pm 02/12/2007 | ||||
Frightening! |
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