The brain has functions analogous to a computer –writing (communicating), storing, recalling via a formal syntax. For decades, human programmers have been coding behavior using languages such as machine-command Assembly Language, and higher-level Basic, C#, Java, HTML/XML, IOS, etc. These language programs consist of step-by-step instructions that instruct a machine to create, manipulate, store and recall […]
Neural Networks
Your brain consists of a network of neural cells that transport and combine charges or message fragments. The network configures new paths to accommodate learning (new information or perceptions). Per Wired Magazine, July 2016 issue, “Neural networks are changing the Internet. Inspired by the networks of neurons inside the human brain, these deep mathematical models can […]
google it
When I first entered the micro-computer world, I was the only one of my friends who purchased an assembled PC. All the guys in the NYC Amateur Computer Club built theirs. I bought Apple #3, a small white case with a keyboard and a cable to connect my TV as the screen. I loved that machine, carried it around […]
Thank goodness for search engine power
I lived in Santa Clara, CA at the end of the 20th century (late 1990s). Yahoo, created by Stanford college students, provided the default search engine. You searched by category, honing down your query from broad to narrower criteria. Yahoo, of course, was primarily a web site like it is today, with a home page that […]