Complex things are not useful; useful things are not complex. Mikail Kalishnakov Read more »

I am studying both disciplines here lately

• NLP ( in this case the MetaModel )
• Business Rules (a way to sort out the "if this, then that" logic that guides actions.)

No relation to each other, I just like them both.

But if I add in a third thing called the Rule of Seven it seems that humans are just not ready to do both rules and NLP in one easy operation. Pick any two Read more »

Capitalism has many meanings to many people through many different periods of time, as this wikipedia article on Capitalism suggests. 

The central "metric", or measuring stick in Capitalism seems to be money, or sometimes in a more abstract sense power, such as the power that having lots of money brings someone. But mainly it's the "more is better" metric, expanded to whatever culture it is implemented in. Read more »

My topic today is not, for me, hypothetical ...

... and I would be delighted to hear from anyone else in this predicament, and how they approach it.

For a couple of years now, I have been spread out over all the computers that I have been asked to work with. (including some of my own). This includes the following: Read more »

This whole thing about Automation and Creativity is an odd contradiction.

I have half a day of work getting my 4 minute blog created from a one hour bike ride yesterday.

I can now automate most of these tasks, they are already much more automated than they would ever have been 5 years ago, but the more automated they are sometimes the least creativity.

Its an odd contrast.

Used to be an NPR junkie until we invaded Iraq.

Now I can't listen and enjoy it because it doesn't even seem like news any more.

blah blew up blah .... this is news? It's news when that doesn't happen. Read more »

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What if Humans Could Process Like Computers ?

If computers can't handle the object graph, then humans can't handle the data sets and dynamic object graphs. Over-generalization on both parts, but largely true. Read more »

This is a conceptual what if, please dismiss this immediately as even being remotely possible.

But I did it myself for a month, and it was more fun than at least 1 1/2 barrels of monkeys.

Just sat down with a fresh page of paper in my little notebook and wrote out six impossible things, and tried to believe each of them at least for a nanosecond or two. Read more »

What if Computers Could Process Like Humans ? Forget that, just get them up to the lizard level.

Computers are the dumbest of the dumb, so let's really talk about software. What if we could write software that processed as well as even the dumbest animals, even sometimes plants.

To Be Specific:

To be specific what makes software insanely incapable, at least compared to humans or even lizards, is that it constantly has to be taught a very specific "object graph". Humans, even lizards, just kind of "get" the object graph. Read more »