Introduction This is a repost of something I posted on xenofem.me here on September 13, 2022. I now feel like I have more perspective on the topics I brought up, so I’ve written some commentary for it. Serial Experiments Lain: Machine Learning Edition a sociable girl stumbles across an ai art generator on the internet and is mystified by it. she picks out the outputs she likes the best, sets her desktop background to one of them, prints out two more and puts them on the wall of her room.

Status Report I was hoping to speed up my rate of completion on projects, but this has proven to be a harder task than it looks. In this case, the actual programming process is only a small part of it–the real difficulty lies in logically defining the problem, so that I can actually start on the programming. This post will show off the progress I’ve made so far on that front.

Introduction What follows is a series of notes on the book A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence, written by Jeff Hawkins, henceforth abbreviated as ATB. I read this book because some random person in YouTube comments recommended it, and because it was actually readily available at my local library, unlike Neuromancer, which I’m still waiting for. ATB’s concepts can be taken in many different directions, and the other parts of this post are dedicated to just that: exploring potential implications and synthesizing ATB with other texts.

Mini Progress Update Before I get into the post for today, I want to share how things have been going since the conclusion of my first project: I’ve been working with Common Lisp and it’s been good to me so far. When I said I wanted a language that encouraged me to get groundwork in place, my only frame of reference was object-oriented stuff like Java. I still think OOP is neat, but Lisp’s interactive REPL is great as well to help me work through bugs.