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The political world has been waiting all week.  It now appears that Sunday will be the day The New York Times will feature the answer to the question so many have been asking.   How big a sex scandal will engulf New York Governor Paterson?  There was no story about Governor Paterson for the Saturday edition, so all bets [...]

J Storrs Hall: AI researchers in the 80s ran into a problem: the more their systems knew, the slower they ran. Whereas we know that people who learn more tend to get faster (and better in other ways) at whatever it is they're doing. The solution, of course, is: Duh. the brain doesn't work like a von Neumann model with an active processor and passive memory. It has, in a simplified sense, a processor per fact, one per memory. If I hold up an object and ask you what it is, you don't calculate some canonicalization of it as a key into an indexed database. You compare it simultaneously to everything you've ever seen (and still remember). Oh, yeah, that's that potted aspidistra that Aunt Suzie keeps in her front hallway, with the burn mark from the time she ... The processing power necessary to to that kind of parallel matching is high, but not higher than the kind of processing power that we already know the brain has. It's also not higher than the processing power we expect to be able to throw at the problem by 2020 or so. Suppose it takes a million ops to compare a sensed object to a memory. 10 MIPS to do it in a tenth of a second. A modern workstation with 10 gigaops could handle 1000 concepts. A GPGPU with a teraops could handle 100K, which is still probably in the hypohuman range. By 2020, a same priced GPGPU could do 10M concepts, which is right smack in the human range by my best estimate.

Connie Smith is clearly one of the most beautiful women of country music.  She was discovered by Bill Anderson, and soon was recording music with a distinctive sound.  Today she is married to the colorful and dynamic Marty Stuart.  In this version of “The Storms Are On The Ocean” Smith is joined by Stuart and the highly talented and much-loved Earl Scruggs.  This [...]

The University of Wisconsin-Madison sent out a special campus e-mail about meningitis late Friday.

Teabaggers display true colors.  I have long asserted that teabaggers, at the core, are racists.  I have long argued the fact President Obama is black is perhaps the main driving force behind the hate and rhetoric that drives teabaggers.  And now there is more proof of their racism as the Tea Bag Convention gets underway in Nashville. The opening night [...]

Late Friday chuckle. There are 3,00o pages of emails from Sarah and Todd Palin to read, and as we know there is nothing better to snicker at than white trash from Wasilla. In another e-mail, the couple discussed a rare opportunity to enjoy a date night out without the kids; they saw “Juno,” the film about a teenager with [...]

This is going to be fun.  There was never any doubt among most people first getting to know Sarah Palin in late summer 2008 that she was not running the Alaska Governor’s office all alone.  Many felt that Todd Palin was a major power player, though he was unelected.  ‘Two for the price of one’ has its [...]

Some laid off workers in Stoughton are returning to their jobs as a mixed national labor report is released.

JUST COFFEE together with Global Awareness Adventures is traveling to Africa...and you are invited!

 

We'll be visiting coffee producing partners in Ethiopia, Uganda, and Tanzania.  Read the attachment below for exact dates and travel information.  For more information or to sign-up for a delegation, please contact Just Coffee's Delegation Coordinator Colleen Coy at: colleen (at) justcoffee (dot) coop. Thank you for your continued interest and support!

 

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On display at the Pinney Branch Library, 204 Cottage Grove Rd., in February and March 2010. "I spent a large part of my life living in Europe, …

Rogue's Alphabet celebrates the speed bumps of the English language; from akimbo to zealot. Thousands of words that have earned their keep in our …

The inspiration for Viking Brewing Company's Hot Chocolate came one February when brewery owners Robin and Ann Lee were hosting brewery tours on an exceptionally cold Saturday. Ann asked her husband, "Why can't you make something that would warm me up?"

On the Edgewater project for Monday's meeting. This is getting exhausting! This just came out about an hour ago . . . Attached is the updated schedule for the consideration of the Edgewater Hotel related items. The second attachment is the list of approvals needed. The third attachment is our staff report on the project. You can access all of the plans and submittals and comments received

Fitchburg police said they arrested a teen in connection with a vehicle theft Friday morning and said they might have identified those responsible for a rash of vehicle thefts in the city over the last few months.

by bertIt just so happens that I was reading the Graham Greene novel The Quiet American this past week when the news broke about this case of well-meaning Americans wreaking havoc in the Third World with the best of intentions.Ten members of a Boise-area Baptist church led by a self-described missionary Laura Silsby were arrested trying to cross from Haiti into the Dominican Republic with 33