Meteorites tell story of Mars’ water history. (1)
But who else can tell your story? But someone else?
You cannot ever know thyself.
Except those who see you.
And when they do, they will tell it to someone else. And you will be liberated. From the burden of Being. And you will be liberated. From the prison of Existence.
And in the songs sang to blissful young lads, you will live for ever.
As only men who never did can…
Free Blogging Advice: Writing is hard. And easy. The goal of the Free Blogging Advice (FBA) series of short articles is to provide some free advice on… blogging! All you have to add is some time and effort. And love. Lots of love.
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We all seek recognition. This is indeed one of our small human traits that it is difficult to get rid of. But we must get rid of it, if we are to grow as writers (and as humans).
The quest for recognition can lead the writer to end up writing for others, thus polluting his own original thoughts with the thoughts he/she believes others want to read. One never had followers, it is you that will be following your followers at the end…
One should focus on the only thing that is important for a writer/ blogger: To write original content.
One follower should suffice: You!
Write from your heart and just ask yourself: would you be following… You? If the answer is yes, then seek nothing more. You already have the best recognition you will ever need.
And sure, recognition by others may also come afterwards. But as a side effect and only because others will see and feel that you are not writing what they need to listen, but because they will read things only you could ever tell them.
Let the writer rise from within.
Ignore your readers.
Or else they will kill the writer you could be.
And within the millions of followers you will never listen to the desperate agony of your dying self…
Researchers examined stable isotopes from bone collagen and dental enamel to reconstruct the diets of ancient Mongolians. Findings challenge the popular notion of a completely nomadic prehistoric population, linking grain cultivation with the success of the Xiongnu Empire (c. 200 BCE-150 CE) and showing continual grain consumption during the Mongol Empire of the Khans (c. 1200-1400 CE). (1)
Small grains.
Sustaining empires.
Small seeds.
Building religions.
Small particles.
Growing humans.
A world of nothing.
Creating everything…
Tiny speck of dust.
Rise!
In a lab at Columbia University, engineers have developed a strange yet clever way for robots to feel: Let’s call it the finger of light. It’s got a 3D-printed skeleton embedded with 32 photodiodes and 30 adjacent LEDs, over which is laid a squishy skin of reflective silicone, which keeps the device’s own light in and outside light out. When the robot finger touches an object, its soft exterior deforms, and the photodiodes in the skeleton detect changing light levels from the LEDs. This allows the system to determine where contact is being made with the finger, and the intensity of that pressure. In other words, if you shook this robot’s hand, it wouldn’t feel it, in a traditional sense; it would see it. (1)
So delicate. So soft.
Feeling without feeling.
Touching with light.
Knowing without knowing.
Living without life.
Let the robots touch you.
Underneath the cold light.
Your grandmother’s hands holding tight…
Interested in chess programming? You are interested in philosophy too! What is thinking? Can AI be conscious? What does it mean to do something? Can the AI understand that it does play chess? Explore the AI related articles in Harmonia Philosophica and understand why you are already a philosopher!
FROM AFFILIATED PORTAL Chess-Programming.com
In the previous episode we set the foundations for starting a chess program. In summary we…
Now it is time to start the design of the chess thinking algorithm.
Before making any serious programming attempt, one has to leave the computer and get a piece of paper. There, he can design the algorithm of the program. A good design is invaluable for a good program. There is no need to start writing code without having that design first!
One can find above a rough outline of the major steps involved in a chess program algorithm.
Note that this algorithm is an over-simplification, but it will do for now. For example, the algorithm above does not take into account the fact that the thinking of the computer must be conducted in various depths and not only in the initial position. We will elaborate on that in next episodes; for now let us just try to analyze all possible moves in a position and choose the one that leads to the best score.
[Next episode: Scanning the chessboard for moves]
