Dr Wingnut

Day: April 22, 2009

  • Manna for Children

    —

    by

    Dr Wingnut
    in

    I found this item at J-Walk Blog yesterday, and decided to add it to my blog so I can find it again when we need to feed younglings.  I might even make it for Jill… It contains two of her favorite foods.

  • Artificial Intelligence

    —

    by

    Dr Wingnut
    in ,

    Machine intelligence and human intelligence are not comparable (Computer, Nov. 2003, pp. 120, 118-119).  Machine intelligence is a computational phenomenon, human intelligence a social one.  Computing professionals do great social harm when they portray their machinery as anything but tools to amplify human accomplishment and originality.Neville Homes, Computer, March 2009, page 99

  • AGP – (A Good Point)

    —

    by

    Dr Wingnut
    in ,

    Trust the computer industry to shorten “Year 2000” to Y2K.  It was this kind of thinking that caused the problem in the first place.via email from Lynn Showalter, Tuesday, January 26, 1999 4:12 PM