Archive for the ‘Fleeting Sanity’ Category  The JavaScript
Fallacy  April 26th, 2011   // true stuff 0 == false; 1 == true;
// also true "0" == false;  "1" == true;  // to be expected 0 ?
true : false == false;  // WTF? "0" ? true : false == true;  //
or in another light  Clearly we have some temperamental1 loose
typing. Stupid cats2.   A Coder's Guide to Life, Fleeting Sanity
Our new computer overlords  February 21st, 2011  Like many
others, I watched Watson on Jeopardy last week, feeling a sense
of simultaneous wonder and foreboding. Watson, for those of you
who haven’t been keeping an eye on the rise of the machines, is
a computer system built and programmed by IBM for the singular
purpose of destroying… err umm…competing on Jeopardy as part of
their most recent “Grand Computing Challenge.” Having
experimented in building AIs before, I know it’s no easy feat to
get a computer to understand people on a natural level. Granted,
this was only me playing around for a few hours–not a team of
mad computer sci