a new ontology

This is an argument for the ontological primacy of verbs instead of nouns.
I just want to point out that we have no reason (except for the real-world experience of things bumping into each other that we recently discovered wasn’t actually happening) to believe that there needs to be a “thing” in order for “it” to do an action. We have no reason to believe that verbs require nouns; that acts require actors. Everything we’ve observed in physics has been verbs, no nouns yet discovered. ANYWHERE. EVER. Why should we believe that “things” exist at all, when all we’ve ever observed has been the existence of “actions”?

IBM “Watson” and Artificial Intelligence

Oooh! IBM “Watson” is being designed to compete on Jeopardy!  (link) It will take complex natural language analysis, MASSIVE data crunching, speedy processing of trends & statistics. This is asking a lot more than we already can get from the statistical translations done by Google Translate. If a computer can understand what you’re asking and [...]

Bandwidth and Augmented Reality NOW

Please forgive the notation style of this post.  Quicker for you to get the info, faster for me to write.  –brendan More BANDWIDTH means the “computer” that you carry with you doesn’t need to have much storage space or processing power.  a computer somewhere else can do all your processing and storage for you and [...]

CADIE and INTERCAL

All I wanted to know was “What’s the code for Love” (even if it’s in INTERCAL)?

Talk to me CADIE.

Future of the Internets

I’ve been thinking about that dreamy device The Cloud9, and I’m still revising my ideas of what the internet should be in the ideal future: 1) all radio/wireless frequencies consolidated for universal use with a single protocol.  pay whoever is operating the hubs that you pass your data through for connectivity service, unless you can [...]

How To: Bend Space and Time

Here’s the hypothetical situation. 1) We have a special engine that allows us to accelerate to light speed (or close enough). We put it on the back of a rocket ship carrying one passenger, so that from the time the ship departs the “start” line until it reaches the “finish” line, it is traveling at [...]