I’m still hoping we get to see the day with fully autonomous vehicles. The technology is still not there, but we are getting closer. Can we turn down the actual speed of the vehicles. Some statistics on speed: At 40 mph, a driver has a 15% risk of serious (or worse) overall injury. At 55… Continue reading Go slower to go faster with autonomous vehicles
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Meditate when you can’t sleep
I have had sleep problems on and off for most of my life which has probably contributed to my short-term memory. I completely changed my life when I started practicing this technique of a specific form of practicing presence/meditation. Often nights, I will make up and an unable to fall back asleep. I would just… Continue reading Meditate when you can’t sleep
why conceptnet won’t work
Conceptnet is a project I’ve been dreaming about on/off since at least 2013. I wanted to list out why it won’t work so I can potentially talk myself out of dreaming about it. There is no known data structure or algorithm to contain the kind of data that I am thinking about for this idea.… Continue reading why conceptnet won’t work
The human mind as a simulation engine
What is it thats makes the human mind unique? One hypothesis I’ve been building up is that the mind has a limitlessly inspectable simulation engine. Think of a video game engine like Grand Theft Auto, where you can walk around and explore a world, only infinitely. From the first day of life, all organisms are… Continue reading The human mind as a simulation engine
Homeostasis is core to intelligence
You cannot have an intelligence being without the organism being able to control for homeostasis. Homeostasis means “the tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements, especially as maintained by physiological processes.” All organisms live and survive by the actions they do in their environment to maintain homeostasis. For a living organism, homeostasis means… Continue reading Homeostasis is core to intelligence
To avoid
The definition of avoid means to “stay away from something”. Usually one avoids something so as to not encounter pain or some kind of negative effect. All organisms do some kind of avoiding, for example avoiding being killed, attacked, or eaten in order to survive. To avoid is an action verb, where the subject moves… Continue reading To avoid
Always Be Conscious (ABC)
Often times we are letting poison and negative thoughts into our mind which make us miserable. We must always practice presence. The goal is to always be conscious of your state of mind. Whether you are working, relaxing, living, or doing anything, you want to be conscious of what you are letting into your mind.… Continue reading Always Be Conscious (ABC)
Keep a log of your personal conflict incidents
In many companies, there is a concept of the postmortem where if an incident happens that effects the business negatively, they review how and why it happened. Solutions are suggested to prevent the problem from happening again and this is all recorded as a log entry so others can review it later. I have started… Continue reading Keep a log of your personal conflict incidents
Turing Test Crypto Coin idea
Could you create a cryptocurrency where you incentivize people to look at computer training data and evaluate if it is correct or not? Think of it like mechanical turk for machine learning data with crypto. The main training data set would be an open source data set used to evaluate if a computer is intelligent… Continue reading Turing Test Crypto Coin idea
The Turing test is the best and worst artificial intelligence test we’ve got
There has been a lot of debate on whether the Turing test is a good test of artificial intelligence. The good Without having a formal definition of intelligence, Alan Turing created a test using the closest thing we could use to evaluate computers, humans. A computer talking to a human via a terminal is a… Continue reading The Turing test is the best and worst artificial intelligence test we’ve got