WHAT’S UP ON THE CREEK

I recently wrote about the wisdom of trees and talked about the story of Larry the Leaf.  Unfortunately, I got the wrong story.  The book I was actually talking about

I’ve recently been fascinated by the idea of emergent intelligence. I know, not a subject that we would generally associate with increased work capacity across broad times and modal domains,

…and I agree with them.  Let's look at some of the specifics of my obsession. If given the choice, I would rather drive than fly when taking extended trips so

In the summer of 1995, I stood outside my room in Bancroft Hall at the United States Naval Academy at 0510 in the morning listening to my upperclassmen explain the

As I was trying to deal with an ammunition issue in Iraq in mid-2006, I found myself just outside Baghdad in some Army Colonel’s office.  The details of the issue,

I am fascinated by machine learning, perhaps because I don’t know much about it. I assume that my obvious ignorance concerning the subject allows my fascination to persist and thus