Training Day 21st century computer programers may soon go the way of 20th century punch card programers. Computers are now being trained more than programed by next generation computer scientists. Think of training a new puppy. You train it how to sit, how to roll over, how to walk on a leash. For sure, you…
The ‘Writing on the wall’ idiom is one of many phrases in the English language taken from the Bible. There are at least 85 such phrases, most of them are still commonly used today. Writing on the wall occurs in the book of Daniel. There was a king in Babylon named Belshazzar. Belshazzar, that’s a…
I’ve seen the movie EX Machina, I don’t care how cute robots are, I don’t trust them. So I was surprised when I started feeling sorry for a robot on Youtube. This bot was being beaten mercilessly. This video has 85 million views. About the third or fourth time I had watched it, my sorrow…
I grew up in Kansas. It’s neighbor to the east is Missouri, the ‘Show Me’ state. Don’t just tell me, show me. The ‘Show Me’ slogan was coined near the turn of the 20th century. We are now approaching the quarter marker of the 21st century. It seems we all need to question practically everything,…
Revival? The Jesus Movement was a spiritual revolution in the late 60’s, early 1970’s. Many young people in America became Jesus freaks. I was not one of them, but I was curious. Today, the ‘Ashbury Revival’ is the talk of the town in Christendom. There have been plenty of videos, blog posts and blah, blah,…
Nations and corporations are competing to develop and dominate artificial intelligence: Ai. Ai: More Than a Game Modern AI goes back to the 1950’s. That’s when John McCarthy, a computer scientist coined the term artificial intelligence. But the world at large didn’t to take notice until 1997. That’s when world chess champion Garry Kasparov was…
A spy balloon floated across the United States gathering intelligence until it was shot down by an F-22 over the Atlantic. Additional Objects in the Sky Only days later, unknown objects in the skies over Alaska, Canada and Lake Huron were shot down by sidewinder missiles. We’ve learned that one missile missed its target and…
Escape the Coming Tribulation If you live in California, you’ve probably heard the phrase ‘the big one’. This is common in light of a major earthquake somewhere on our planet. Undoubtably, you’ve seen heartbreaking images and videos of the loss of life and property damage in the quakes in Turkey and Syria. The Big One…