Yup, some gap years in there to travel, live and work in Banff and explore the world! Might sneak an old photo of me in there somewhere too! LOL!Īnd how boring – a book on. The next 4 textbooks are all from when I attended the University of Calgary from 1975-1982. This may be the FIRST and ONLY blog post on the internet about … Favourite Textbooks! Textbooks are usually the bane of most students! LOL!īut I really enjoyed getting new textbooks, especially in Grade 12! For the first time, we had to venture to DOWNTOWN CALGARY to actually BUY AND OWN our textbooks! Previously, we were issued them, had to guard them throughout the semester and RETURN THEM at the end! But now, we could OWN THEM!Īnd what a great textbook for Grade 12 Math – ‘ Modern Intermediate Algebra‘! And the trick was, to buy the book that had the ANSWERS IN THE BACK! Only a few of them DID have the answers, and I was lucky enough to get one of those! Quite an adventure for me at the time!Īnd if you haven’t figured it out by now, I still have these textbooks! Yup, weird, but … I collect books of all kinds! A future post will be on REALLY OLD TEXTBOOKS that I have! What You Need to Know Before Using a Cartoon in Your PresentationĪs long as there are words out there, there will be Terrific Tuesdays! E N J OY !.Some funny cartoons, websites and truly miscellaneous items for a quick post today. But I quickly found a far more interesting topic for today … Working From Home! I am forever the optimist (I hope!) and try to find the humour in most things (I try!) and quickly changed topics!Īnd today is a fairly busy day with some creative work in Teams for a Poll (Thanks to Kelly, Gary, Tomoyo and Heather!) and trying to be creative, relevant, funny, factual and learn a few new things every so often! Maybe this old dog CAN learn a few new tricks! I had started off with a theme of MS:Office and my long history with Excel, Word and PowerPoint. So today, a plethora (I like !) of comics, cartoons, YouTube and other appurtenances (I like too!) Working from home is like reading ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ by Charles Dickens …… 21 of the Greatest Computer Quotes EverĪs long as there are words out there, there will be interesting topics!.The single best quote, ever, and ever so true even now, came from John F. I want to change the world but they don’t give me root access.Īnd these are just a few of my favourite ones! There are literally hundreds of amazing quotes out there, and I as usual, have put a bunch of links below for you to search, should you need that perfect quote about computers! So the sooner you learn BASIC, the sooner you will understand the microcomputer revolution.” BASIC is the language that all of them use. Simply put, his argument for why AGI is possible is this: Since our brains are made of matter, it must be possible, in principle at least, to recreate the functionality of our brains using another type of matter - specifically circuits.“Microcomputers are the tool of the 80’s. He calls it AGI to emphasize that he's talking about a mind like ours, that can think and feel and reason about anything, as opposed to a complex computer program that's very good at one or a few human-like tasks. In an excellent article in Aeon, Deutsch explores why artificial general intelligence (AGI) must be possible, but hasn't yet been achieved. Before becoming self-aware, Skynet is a powerful tool for the US military to coordinate the national defense after becoming self-aware, Skynet decides, for some reason, to coordinate the destruction of the human species instead.īut how important is self-awareness, really, in creating an artificial mind on par with ours? According to quantum computing pioneer and Oxford physicist David Deutsch, not very. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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