Enjoyed and enlightened. but still unable to say, "it’s so obvious and the moment you understand it, you forget how it was when you didn’t understand it". Keep up the interesting good work.
Dear Mr. Anderson, thank you so much for being the first person to comment on United States of Anderson. I appreciate your support. I know what you mean. I like your comment a lot. Even I still don't understand what an algorithm is, though I broke it down as best I could, and got it fact checked. What I know now is what it's comprised of: add, subtract, multiply, divide, if, and goto. Plus the God language. It's pretty exhilarating that so much possibility can be achieved with those few operators. I think John Francis Adams would approve of my technical writing this time. Thanks for coming by.
I am not a programmer although in the 1990's I built a website from scratch which came surprisingly to be admired by a bought and sold executive at a major record company. It didn't end well, lol. I knew nothing about the mathematics of the algorithm. I simply acted as a "trained monkey" and memorized some html. I have a couple of sons now who are very good programmers and internet architects. I see a deep dark problem in this.
Recently found out about the daughter of Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace, who was an early appreciator of power of the algorithm. She was a deeply deluded soul.
Hey KW, I just saw this comment now. Thanks for your contribution. May I ask about the "deep dark problem" you have identified? Also, what was Ada Lovelace's delusion--so curious because I also have those. Merry Christmas, KW!
Ha. I think we all have those delusions of Ada. And we are living the deep dark problem. Will clarify but will take a post which may take me awhile. Happy Day After Christmas.
Your essay gets close to what I believe are the true purposes of AI and algorithms, I have a post which must be edited more before I can publish. It is pretty dense and maybe past the patience of my readers to tolerate.
If I could hazard a wild guess? I would say Ada Lovelace saw in the mechanized looms of Newly industrialized Europe a way of enslaving mankind with those precious algorithms. Seems as if that is at least a factor.
The way I see it, a whole universe of devils has been conspiring to enslave humanity. (There are no masters, only slaves.) But it's something that I too ponder, KW. I'm going to look into it. Might these tools of mathematical convenience be used for the exaltation of the human spirit?
Oh I definitely believe the tools of mathematical convenience can be used for the good of the human spirit. No plans to give up my typesetting machine which also provides and endless supply of music anytime soon. The math existed as soon as our ancient ancestors learned to count fingers, toes, heads and so forth. It isn’t the tools that are at fault - it is the tool users.
Enjoyed and enlightened. but still unable to say, "it’s so obvious and the moment you understand it, you forget how it was when you didn’t understand it". Keep up the interesting good work.
Dear Mr. Anderson, thank you so much for being the first person to comment on United States of Anderson. I appreciate your support. I know what you mean. I like your comment a lot. Even I still don't understand what an algorithm is, though I broke it down as best I could, and got it fact checked. What I know now is what it's comprised of: add, subtract, multiply, divide, if, and goto. Plus the God language. It's pretty exhilarating that so much possibility can be achieved with those few operators. I think John Francis Adams would approve of my technical writing this time. Thanks for coming by.
I am not a programmer although in the 1990's I built a website from scratch which came surprisingly to be admired by a bought and sold executive at a major record company. It didn't end well, lol. I knew nothing about the mathematics of the algorithm. I simply acted as a "trained monkey" and memorized some html. I have a couple of sons now who are very good programmers and internet architects. I see a deep dark problem in this.
Recently found out about the daughter of Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace, who was an early appreciator of power of the algorithm. She was a deeply deluded soul.
Hey KW, I just saw this comment now. Thanks for your contribution. May I ask about the "deep dark problem" you have identified? Also, what was Ada Lovelace's delusion--so curious because I also have those. Merry Christmas, KW!
Ha. I think we all have those delusions of Ada. And we are living the deep dark problem. Will clarify but will take a post which may take me awhile. Happy Day After Christmas.
Your essay gets close to what I believe are the true purposes of AI and algorithms, I have a post which must be edited more before I can publish. It is pretty dense and maybe past the patience of my readers to tolerate.
What are their true purposes?
If I could hazard a wild guess? I would say Ada Lovelace saw in the mechanized looms of Newly industrialized Europe a way of enslaving mankind with those precious algorithms. Seems as if that is at least a factor.
The way I see it, a whole universe of devils has been conspiring to enslave humanity. (There are no masters, only slaves.) But it's something that I too ponder, KW. I'm going to look into it. Might these tools of mathematical convenience be used for the exaltation of the human spirit?
Oh I definitely believe the tools of mathematical convenience can be used for the good of the human spirit. No plans to give up my typesetting machine which also provides and endless supply of music anytime soon. The math existed as soon as our ancient ancestors learned to count fingers, toes, heads and so forth. It isn’t the tools that are at fault - it is the tool users.
Even so, we have to account for the seeming fact that algorithms can outsmart us, and take advantage of our tendencies.
But is that the fault of the algorithms? It is our culturally indoctrinated tendency to be outsmarted?
Yes I have questioned whether for now at least we are simply too dominated by the tools.
Wow. That piece of investigative journalism is probably outside the scope of my endeavor, but I would love to hear any details.