Who's the lead programmer?

How to player poker

Pre-Flop
1. Play your hand
2. Consider the # of players
3. Early/Late position
4. Chip count

Post-Flop
5. Analyze the flop
6. Re-analyze the field & bets
7. Redetermine risk at each bet

And sometimes alternate you play after you have all the patterns down to a tee.

People I'd like to know
Al Davis
Bill Gates
Larry Ellison
Arnold
Shaq
Beyonce
Dr. Dre
Eminem
Ralph Nadar
John Madden
John Gruden
Bill Walsh
Muhammad Ali
Eddie DiBartolo
John Malkovich
Jay-Z
Paris Hilton
John Cleese
Madonna
Donald Trump
Garry Kasparov
Phil Ivey
Howard Lederer
Al Pacino
Robert De Niro
Edward Norton
Joel Klein
Jim Brown

Jim Brown is an amazing person. He may have the most commanding personality I've ever seen.

New Word needed:
meaning: the phenemonon of how the largest systems mirror the smallest (ie: solar systems & atoms)

You can't define someone by the context in which you met them.

Everyone is pro-love..... everyone.

Dude...

Email I wrote to Age & Paul:

Age & Paul,

You want to, one friday afternoon, find a SPAM site and unleash a massive ping attack on it? See if we can bring it down?

-Dave

Is that wrong?

You can stop spam if we shut down the bulk domain registers. Maybe a list of domains by Time Alive is a good tell of quality of web traffic.

Ohh.. NEW CONCEPT
"Quality of Web Traffic" FILTER

Pride goeth before the fall!

Topic: Artificial Intelligence

I have an ongoing debate with a number of friend over whether of not artificial intelligence that can rival human intelligence is achievable in the near future. I think it is... many don't.

I think you can look at from two perspective. First, you can try and figure out how to build a computer program that can think and learn or second you can understand how human intelligence comes about and then try and model that in a computer program.

I tend to look at it from the second perspective. What makes up human intelligence? Is a human born intelligent? I believe we are born with the capability of intelligence, but not intelligence. Intelligence is what happens after we've collected a critical mass of information that enables us a base for decision making.

I think a key element of AI is that fact that humans almost always learn from mistakes.... over the course of YEARS. We hardly ever get anything right the first time... but the next time change what we do to not make that mistake.

It take years for people to mature into "intelligent" people.... becuase it take so much time to make all the mistakes that need to be made to understand what is "right".... and therefore intelligent.

Don't read this as too pessimistic, but human beings are essentially programmed by there environment and there experience to adapt to the world. We learn what's "good", what's "bad", what can hurt us, what can help us, who we can trust - we learn everything from the environment (people, events, etc) around us.

We have millions of micro-experience in our life that we adjust to. (ie: learn from). Key to creating AI, will be to give the AI a chance at millions of those micro-experiences to learn from as well.

We eventual learn that there aren't many (or any) absolutes... that everything is relative. Most intelligence doesn't have definite answers, it has relative answers.

Now to get crazy.....

Everything is relative.... and guess what the mathematical framework is for keeping relativity between objects.

A Matrix.....

ok.. giving up now... confusing myself.....

Basically, keep this in mind for what AI theory needs
1. Massive Matrix of relativity between "objects"
2. Exposure to millions of micro-experiences
3. an "ah ha" ability

#3 is tough.