Justin Lloyd's Thinkering

Somebody needs to think about this stuff...

Managing up

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I do so love getting congratulated by my colleagues for having done a stellar job and good work sufficiently well that it got my boss promoted and me nothing.

Flavours of ice cream

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Friend of mine was showing off this “new” language called Ruby the other day.

“It has this feature called mixins! It lets you use features from several classes at once! It’s totally revolutionary! Nobody else is doing this!” he said breathlessly.

“Those who do not study the history of programming are doomed to reinvent features from other languages.” I quipped.

“Huh?”

“Mixins are for “programmers” who had difficulty understanding multiple inheritance.” I added.

“Mixins in completely different and totally new.”

“I will let Howard Cannon from Symbolics know.” I offered.

“Huh?”

Judging a book by its cover

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Imagine you picked up a book and skimmed very quickly a single chapter.

And then you had to make a critical evaluation about all of the people and their circumstances in the book based on just that one chapter you briefly glanced over.

Now why are you judging someone’s life story by that single lone chapter you just read?

Or even the few words you picked up.

 

Studying – Woodworking

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This month I am studying “Woodworking”

1st month of a class with no definite end and no particular formal learning structure. Turn up, get hands-on time with an expert woodworker who can guide you and teach you.

Paper – An Integrated Framework for Learning and Reasoning

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Today I read a paper titled “An Integrated Framework for Learning and Reasoning”

The abstract is:
Learning and reasoning are both aspects of what is considered to be intelligence.

Their studies within AI have been separated historically, learning being the topic of machine learning and neural networks, and reasoning falling under classical (or symbolic) AI.

However, learning and reasoning are in many ways interdependent.

This paper discusses the nature of some of these interdependencies and proposes a general framework called FLARE, that combines inductive learning using prior knowledge together with reasoning in a propositional setting.

Several examples that test the framework are presented, including classical induction, many important reasoning protocols and two simple expert systems.

Studying – MSc Computer Science

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This month I am studying “MSc Computer Science”

Update: I am terminating my Masters at this time.

Two reasons:

1. Finances (college is expensive in the US) and

2. I just learned what “accreditation” means.

Well… fuck me.

America, your educational system is seriously fucked up.

An over-priced piece of paper that isn’t even valid and won’t be taken seriously. I don’t need that.

First time I’ve ever considered the fact that a college can exist (that isn’t an obvious diploma mill) and actually be allowed to get away with.

How can people justify charging $40,000+ for a MSc that isn’t even worth the paper its printed on?!?

Me Be Smart!

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A visit to Silicon Valley and San Francisco has made me realise one thing.

Intelligence is the new rock and roll.

Studying – MSc Computer Science

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This month I am studying “MSc Computer Science”

Starting the 2nd month.

Update: Easy stuff.

Easier than my Bachelor’s.

Only reason I am not going through the coursework faster is because:

1. They won’t let me and,

2. I work for a start-up and my work schedule is crazy.

Well that didn’t take long…

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Was eating at a diner on Main St last night with a colleague from work when a very loud American came and stood right next to the table we were at.

“You’re the reason I can’t find a job!” one of them shouted belligerently, stabbing a finger at me. “You lazy immigrants coming over here and taking jobs away from us!”

I sat there, quietly, rather embarrassed as the gentleman in question continued to berate me for his economic woes.

After a minute or two of this the loud American’s friend came out of the bathroom and started to usher him away not before loud American shouted that my colleague should go back to his own damn country too.

My colleague is, as they say locally, Native American.

Lazy immigrants coming over here and taking jobs apparently.

I am Shcrodinger’s Immigrant.

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