25 May 2016
race and inequality links flow both ways
Racism is also emergent en-masse because it allows a population to subconsciously rationalise their privilege. So instead of just causing social injustice, racism is also a result of social injustice. The more you see racially implemented social privilege, the more you have to apply racist models to subconsciously justify that privilege - when you have it.
07 May 2016
principles of hierarchical-temporal-memory
HTMemory and Sparse Distributed Networks. Lots of progress in understanding the neocortex - how intelligence works in the brain - and modelling that for a cortical approach to machine intelligence
UPDATE: broken link: Video moved to http://numenta.com/learn/htm-videos-from-jeff-hawkins.html.
Direct link on youtube: https://youtu.be/6ufPpZDmPKA
UPDATE: broken link: Video moved to http://numenta.com/learn/htm-videos-from-jeff-hawkins.html.
Direct link on youtube: https://youtu.be/6ufPpZDmPKA
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06 May 2016
collaboration will out-compete competition
... especially if we document and share our work properly. Value public ownership via the general public license or CopyLeft and CopyFarLeft licenses on all our self documentation and outputs.
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