Rodney Brooks AI Pioneer Interview I came across this wonderful interview with Rodney Brooks a Professor at MIT. He talks in this interview about biological systems and the interactions of robots with their environments. I find this very interesting, this notion of feedback loops, especially. I’m glad that he references a rather disappointingly unknown W.… Continue reading Analogies have problems themselves
Month: July 2010
Athiesm and Secular Religion
As we move into an increasingly Secular age, the questions raised in this article by Alan de Botton Comte’s Secular Religion are very timely. As someone with an avid interest in Philosophy and Religion, I find it very uplifting to notice that huge swaths of people are reading Hitchens, and there is renewed interest in… Continue reading Athiesm and Secular Religion
On Personal Branding
I’ll need to think about this some more, I’m partly worried that people talk a lot about Personal Branding. By people I mean those in the 18-30 bracket. Is Hugh Mc Leods comment ‘While you were all worrying about personal branding, I was working this morning’ correct? Is personal branding simply a blend of salemanship… Continue reading On Personal Branding