MachIne Learning (ML)

This is one of the important things everyone (or almost everyone) is talking about. Let me see if I can explain it to you:

The usual way to operate a computer is to give it data, and the code to process that data. The   Computer then goes to work on the data and outputs the result. Two inputs (data and code) and one output. Got that?

For ML, the computer also gets two inputs: a one containing input data and other containing the desired output from processing that input. The Computer gets the input data, and output data both, then figures out, for itself, how the input produces the output.

This leaves one question on everyone's mind. How does it do this? The answer is:

If you format the input in a certain way then process it in a certain way - it works!

This what you learn when you take a course like this and then get the big bucks ($200 K a year) for knowing how to do this.

Sex as Enlightenment

I could have used many words here, in the space occupied by enlightenment in this sentence. People have a need to experience something unusual - and the more unusual the better. This is what entertainment is all about. Drugs can also be used.

This often occurs in Business. People who work together feel the need to have sex together. If they go to work for another company, this urge is transferred also.

This also occurs in the Military. In the American military (the most expensive and the most advanced) sex is replaced by the urge to eliminate the enemy. Using the most efficient method available.

If a military unit is employed in peacekeeping, as it sometimes is. this usually does not work very well.

My Laptop is Working Fine

Even the audio, that was not working at all before. is working at full-volume now.

Why? Windows 10 must-have fixed itself.

Pizza was invented in New York City

In Lower Manhatten, in an area inhabited by Italian immigrants (Little Italy). The design was then copied in Italy, and exported again, all over the world.

You can still see them making the Pizza dough there by twirling it in the air. They also invented the Sausage there and the tomato sauce.

You can still get some of the best Italian food in Manhatten (and in Queens) and the beer to go with it. Even early in the morning.

Rust Belt Slums

This is what my hometown of Ft. Madison, Iowa has turned into - and Burlington, Iowa just upstream on the Mississippi River.  You can buy a house there, very cheaply, because there are no jobs there.

Also, many towns in the Industrial Midwest, that once manufactured half of all the goods produced in the entire world.

I include in this list Terre Haute, Indiana, which I discovered when I worked as an Electronics Engineer, for the FAA, and flew my own plane between jobs. I also discovered my first sexual partner there, who had severe mental problems.

I had these problems also, but they were not as severe.

Keija Parssinen on her Saudi childhood

NY Review

Good things and bad things end up in my inbox. This is one of the good things.

If you read this carefully, you will see how it applies to you.

You Want me to do Too Much

Fullstack

This forced itself into my overcrowded inbox, and I am pissed off about it.

I left the US to get away from this crap, but it is cluttering up my screen again.