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Michael Will 🍁

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computation from first principles 0101 FORTH PROLOG GOFAI RISC-V Spaceflight Astronomy Zebrafish SciFi CitSci Archaeology Anthropology Psychohistory Website: www.scidata.ca Discussion: worthdefending.blogspot.com GOFAI Forum: gofai.discourse.group

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Michael Will 🍁 @scidata.ca · 13h

AI is as Canadian as tree sauce. The theory behind the Field Effect Transistor (FET) was first patented on October 22, 1925.

Michael Will 🍁 @scidata.ca · 13h

Or tulips.

Michael Will 🍁 @scidata.ca · 23h

I think there's a leftover bit of Moon Cake around here somewhere...

Michael Will 🍁 @scidata.ca · 1d

And it uses only 50W.

Michael Will 🍁 @scidata.ca · 1d

then YYZ-LAX

Michael Will 🍁 @scidata.ca · 1d

In public school, I once gave a speech on Canadian innovation and inventions. Gosh I wish I still had a copy of it.

Michael Will 🍁 @scidata.ca · 1d

"The only reason psychology students don’t have to do more and harder mathematics than physics students is because the mathematicians haven’t yet discovered ways of dealing with problems as hard as those in psychology."
- John G. Kemeny

#ComputationalThinking #Psychohistory

Michael Will 🍁 @scidata.ca · 1d

I don't like taking too many meds. Is there a way to get some of whatever helps these folks sleep at night?

Michael Will 🍁 @scidata.ca · 1d

If Forth had caught on, we'd be on Titan by now.
#ComputationalThinking would be ubiquitous. #AIslop would never have happened. Instead we spent the last half-century mindlessly sifting eye candy. Alas.

Everyone's scared of #NineteenEighty-four, but the real danger turned out to be #BraveNewWorld.

Michael Will 🍁 @scidata.ca · 1d

Beautiful fusion of old and new.

#Architecture

Michael Will 🍁 @scidata.ca · 1d

If we ever discover advanced life on (in) one of these ice-covered water moons (like Europa), I expect it will have tentacles.

Michael Will 🍁 @scidata.ca · 1d

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products
- Thomas Huxley

Michael Will 🍁 @scidata.ca · 1d

When this AI Slop wave finally recedes, the world will belong to textual learners who absorb and grasp knowledge via reading and writing.

Text offers the best balance between 'knowledge velocity' and friction, in an analog to how complexity lives at the twilight between order and chaos.

#GOFAI

Michael Will 🍁 @scidata.ca · 2d

It's perhaps too early in the game to speak of one's 'only regret'.

Michael Will 🍁 @scidata.ca · 2d

There are lies, damn lies, statistics,
and Generative AI.

Michael Will 🍁 @scidata.ca · 3d

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NUMBER GO UP | Balatro Song!

YouTube video by The Stupendium

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Reposted by Michael Will 🍁

Anita Anand @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social · 3d

Headed to Washington with my colleagues to support the Prime Minister.

This working visit will focus on shared priorities in a new economic and security relationship between Canada and the U.S.

Reposted by Michael Will 🍁

Ken Shirriff @righto.com · Sep 6

Celebrated Navajo (Diné) artist Marilou Schultz recently completed a striking weaving. Although this rug may appear abstract, it is a representation of the wiring inside an integrated circuit. It shows the 555 timer, said at one point to be the world's most popular IC. Let's take a closer look...

A Navajo weaving hanging on a wall. The pattern appears abstract: thick white lines in varying directions on a black background. There are some reddish-orange diamonds near the edges, as well as a few thin outlined rectangles. There are three larger squares with a double-H pattern inside. Overall, the pattern looks a bit like an aerial view of roads in a strange ancient city. Thanks to First American Art Magazine for this photo.

Michael Will 🍁 @scidata.ca · 3d

Nobody asked for it, so here's my prediction. Peer review will learn from the rampant circular financing and self-dealing in BigAI. Soon we will see transactional, circular peer reviews.

Michael Will 🍁 @scidata.ca · 4d

This circular financing thing is really catching on.

Michael Will 🍁 @scidata.ca · 4d

"Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue"
- Chang from Lost Horizon (1933) by James Hilton

or, more sarcastically,
A thousand lemmings can't be wrong.

#GenAI vs #GOFAI

Michael Will 🍁 @scidata.ca · 4d

Did any AI predict the 2025 Blue Jays? Because statistics sure didn't.

Michael Will 🍁 @scidata.ca · 4d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGLK...

Joe vs The Volcano - Joe Quits

YouTube video by R. D. Holland

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Michael Will 🍁 @scidata.ca · 4d

These are key factors in building a cohesive society. No ideology, dogma, or even doctrine required - just civics. This morning, I said the same thing to an astronomer in Scotland about my class trip to the Dunlap Observatory circa 1966.

#CitizenScience

Michael Will 🍁 @scidata.ca · 5d

The Dunlap Observatory just north of Toronto is also 90 (it was well north of Toronto in 1935). My class trip to Dunlap when I was wee made a huge impression on me.

Congratulations to us both.

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David Dunlap Observatory - Wikipedia

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