Picoftheweek

Picoftheweek
Waaaaaaaay too many to count...

My Statement

"Let me emphatically say that I am not anti-Facebook (Fleecebook), anti-smart phone, anti-Microsoft, anti-Apple, anti-Google or anti-Internet. I do believe, though, that the consumer is being ripped off of his privacy, identity and purchase history. We are being herded into a Facebook corner where what we "Like" and where we go physically and on the net will be scrutinized and sold numerous times to actually corrode and erode our culture while tempting us only with convenience, high tech and flashing video screens. The unsuspecting consumers need to be aware..." - Gary Lapman

Quote of Note

“If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.”-W.C. Fields

"For the strength of the Wolf is in the Pack, and the strength of the Pack is in the Wolf." - Rudyard Kipling
"Common sense is not so common. " -Voltaire

“Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, but only character endures.” - Matthew McConaughey
"In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him"

"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason" - Jerry Seinfeld

"Fleecebook is free, you (and your identity) is the product!" - Gary Lapman

"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves." - Eric Sevareid

"'Smart' phones are only smart for the cell phone providers!" - Gary Lapman

"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -- Charles Babbage (1791-1871)

“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.” -Albert Einstein

"Technology creates the illusion of companionship without the intimacy of friendship." - unknown

"No worry, there's an app for that..." - Gary Lapman

Thursday, February 17, 2011

A Billion More for Baghdad...

Watson rules.  The bout finished as predicted, with Watson in the lead and Ken Jennings finishing second.  Thinking more about the problem, I can believe that the computing power was put to good  use to calculate inference, anecdotal reference and probabilities.  I also believe that the contents of the database that is searched and linked (and re-linked) would have a tremendous impact on the performance of the algorithms.  It was, I'm sure, a monumental task just to figure out what information to load into Watson, never mind the linkages between the items.  Building heuristic algorithms, as well as heuristic linkages in the database is no easy task.  The human brain is quite impressive in this area of content addressibility of its memory.  I would say to IBM, "A job well done".  A documentary on the building of Watson would be very interesting.

This will go REALLY far:  Baghdad has demanded a billion dollars from the U.S for war damages.  Gimme a break!


Bye Borders.  It is a shame that paradigm shifts have passed you bye.  We'll miss you (for a bit).






A man goes into the government office in Tehran and asks to speak to an official about emigrating to America.
"OK" the clerk says, "So you want to leave and live in America. Why do you want to do this? Are you not happy with your Government?"
"I have no complaints", replied the man.
"Then perhaps you do not like your job?"
"I have no complaints" again replied the man.
"Are you not happy with your wives? They only let you have one wife in America"
"I have no complaints" the man said a third time.

The clerk, obviously a little frustrated, then says "If you are so happy with your job and your wives and your government, then why do you want to leave the great contry of Iran to live in America?"

"Because there, I can have complaints"




Sadie tells Maurice, "You’re a schmuck! You always were a schmuck and you always will be a schmuck! You look, act and dress like a schmuck! You’ll be a schmuck until the day you die! And if they ran a world-wide competition for schmucks, you would be the world’s second biggest schmuck!"
"Why only second place?" Maurice asks.
"Because you’re a schmuck!" Sadie screams.
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