Thursday, October 27, 2011
Plasma physics experiments for the undergraduate advanced lab
The following lab was created in 1982. I still use it but with the NL-OA4GA tube.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Intelligence and values
How intelligent you are depends upon how good your value system is. If you have bad values you make bad decisions.
The human value system appears to be a kludge made up of a set of simple drives and aversions. A better value system might be something like the network in my 21 Sept. 2010 blog.
The human value system appears to be a kludge made up of a set of simple drives and aversions. A better value system might be something like the network in my 21 Sept. 2010 blog.
Friday, October 21, 2011
formal systems <-----> informal description, a continuum
A good example of a formal system would be executables like my Asa H 2.0 lite (see my 10 Feb. 2011 post for a listing).
A good example of an informal description of (roughly) the same system is my graph in my 29 Sept. 2010 post. (One could make it more formal by adding details about what each node of the graph does, or by listing what quantities are sent from one node to another and when.)
A good example of a description that is less formal than executable code but more formal than my graph would be the equation set given in my 2006 paper on Asa H (Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., Vol 109, # 3/4, pg 159).
A good example of an informal description of (roughly) the same system is my graph in my 29 Sept. 2010 post. (One could make it more formal by adding details about what each node of the graph does, or by listing what quantities are sent from one node to another and when.)
A good example of a description that is less formal than executable code but more formal than my graph would be the equation set given in my 2006 paper on Asa H (Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., Vol 109, # 3/4, pg 159).
What is mathematics? (by a nonmathematician)
1. a science of patterns (Composed of a number of different theories of patterns.)
2. language
3. a game
2. language
3. a game
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Some history
Me (extreme right) 40 years ago in the beam-plasma group at Stevens Institute of Technology.
Monday, October 3, 2011
ebook
My book TWELVE PAPERS is available to download (free) from my website http://www.robert-w-jones.com/ , Book. It contains several years worth of work (~5), some old, some new, including the latest experiments with my AI Asa H 2.0 Included are initial efforts toward machine consciousness and natural language processing.
A kindle edition is available from amazon for $1.99 (ASIN: B005SVVEYC).
A kindle edition is available from amazon for $1.99 (ASIN: B005SVVEYC).
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Unemployment
Unemployment is one of the inherent failings (inefficiencies) of capitalism. It's a way for the rich to lower the wages of the poor. Norway and Sweden currently have the highest standards of living. The USA needs to become more like them. Norway and Sweden are socialist.
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