Moral: Brief intro to KBE. A start, thereof.
GenAI/LLM has lessons to learn beyond being silly and gluttonous. How can we derive these without ruining the plante?
Remarks: Modified: 07/03/2025
07/03/2025 --
Moral: Another year. Lots to do.
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Notice our decline in activity here when we move to Quora (2015). We will be picking this up again. One motive? Here, I can write without the clamor of the crowd. Is that good or bad? Cannot know one without the other.
Here are posts related to a Quora article.
There has been a lot of activity on Quora. The world has changed considerably since 2015. I have twenty years to organize (first post in truth engineering, 2007). And, mathematics has the keys to the kingdom. Always has had. Let's show them how.
Remarks: Modified: 01/08/2025
01/08/2025 --
Moral: Look at a non-capitalist banker.
Just ran into this guy's work. Will tell the tale of that odyssey at some point.
This is a quote by him on X (formerly, twitville).
He started Visa and was an inspiration for crypto and blockchain.
So, we’ll see what this is about. Dee died in 2022.
Review by The Practical Polymath.
Remarks: Modified: 03/21/2024
03/21/2024 -- There is a video of him talking to a colleague. Dee says that his net worth is only $2 million or so. What this a remorseful lookback? Too, later, after Dee retired, Visa went and made themselves a stock company. What was Dee's reaction to that? ... You know, we're on the wagon for the truly sustainable economy in which the billionaires and their type are constrained and hugely so. Fools' gold? Nope. Fairness and justice will rise into a mature balance.
Moral: Another year. Lots to do.
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Notice our decline in activity here when we move to Quora (2015).
Here is a list of posts.
We will be active in 2024.
Remarks: Modified: 01/01/2024
01/01/2024 --
Moral: Machine learning's recent splash brings Herbert L. Dreyfus back to the conversation. Let's look at that.
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I first heard of Dreyfus while listening to a discussion about artificial intelligence and databases at a conference that was sponsored by the "very large-database" group. The meeting was in the 1980s and was held at Kyoto, Japan. The reactions were varied, but one could see the positions being taken. He didn't seem to have many friends there defending him.
Okay, leap forward. Looking further, I agreed with the guy. However, at the time, my focus was on implementation of algorithms for knowledge based systems (and, later, knowledge based engineering modes) that were highly effective in providing solutons that mattered. Needless to say, subsequent work involved a broader scope for computing that suggested its potential.
Ubiquity? The concept was not unknown. However, the release of IP changed the whole tone. That was in the mid-1990s. Since then, we have had several cycles of boom and bust. The first one? Go look up the tech bust of 1999/2000 to read about one.
There were others before and after 2000. A couple of the ones before related to artificial intelligence. This post provides a brief summary of Dreyfus's involvement in the discussions.
Remarks: Modified: 08/23/2023
08/23/2023 --
Moral: Wherein we declare that our doors, once again, are open for business.
Two major incidents happened. There were more. These are sufficient.
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Remarks: Modified: 03/26/2023
03/23/2023 -- Added an image from this post: Ben and the taper (from 2013). He threatened to taper. The addicts to the ca-pital-sino rebelled. Back and forth. Did he taper? Nope. Several times. Until Janet came to be, there was no challenge to addicts. You hear them, even now.
03/26/2023 -- The Tablet Magazine has a good article: How the Bank Collapse Goes Nuclear.
Moral: Wherein we do a quick recap.
This blog started in order in 2009 which was about when the last recession was over. The topic tells it all; we watched the Fed's reaction to the downturn. And, were posting in the 7'oops7 and Truth Engineering blogs. But, that was extraneous to those two topics. We needed something financial.
Two motivations? One deals with MIT and their clever development of the concept of financial engineering. I ask them, engineers mostly. What science is behind this bit of shenanigans? Okay, 2009, that was the timeframe. Now, messes. Even the supposed financial bots are supposed to be smarter than MIT folks (well, perhaps we ought to start there; they never had claim to all of intelligence). Now, another motivation (there are several more, btw)? As the financial stuff unraveled, the Fed seemed to react in an old mode and then just capitulated to those who push the ca-pital-sino. Oh yes. As I said, in 2009, it'll be worse the next time. We have not seen this yet, but people who consider these matters worry.
In the meantime, follow discussion at Quora. It has been at Quora where most of our attention has been given and most of our energies spent since 2015
Remarks: Modified: 03/23/2023
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