Monthly Archive: November 2019

It’s that time of the year again.  Football, turkey, and shopping.  We at Blog Wyrm hope that each of you will find time to be really thankful.  Thankful for friends and family; thankful for the modern standard of living; and thankful for the freedom afforded us by living in the finest country in the world.

Now onto the columns.

To make an AI that behaves like a human one must first understand the human.  Specifically, one must understand the structure of the human mind.  And here, old fashioned philosophy leaps to our rescue.  Out from days gone by, Aristotle To Digital shows the three acts of the mind and how they play out in producing what is characteristically human thought.

Hardly a year goes by without Common Cents looking at the origins of Thanksgiving in the need for human beings to be free.  Unfortunately, there are many people who look at the origins of our most unique national holiday look only at the ‘dark side’ of colonization without perspective or sense.  This month’s Common Cents takes one such individual to task.

One of the most interesting concepts in fluid dynamics is the idea of vorticity.  This month’s Under The Hood takes up this concept and examines some of the subtleties using a plain bucket full of water..

Well, we are back.  It’s been quite a struggle and we are still not completely recovered, so this month’s columns are a bit shorter than usual.  Nonetheless, we trust that  nobody will object as we ease our way back into the saddle.  Suffice to say, the last several months have been rough and, in the spirit of wishing everyone well, we extend a hearty, Happy Halloween.

Now onto the columns.

Hardly a day goes by without some article, commercial, or advertisement pushing the glories of AI or arguing to us how upping our skills in ML will put us on the fast track for a fat salary.  What isn’t discussed is that AI/ML is only one facet of the real vision.  What exactly is the real vision and what pieces are missing?  Well, read this month’s Aristotle To Digital to find out.

In the last two columns, Common Cents looked at the downsides that accompany the presence of a monopoly in an economy.  Nonetheless, there are good reasons to consider having monopolies in limited circumstances.  This month’s column considers these specialized cases and considers the associated pros and cons.

With the survey of fluids now complete, Under The Hood starts looking at explicit cases that help sharpen the applications of the theory and develop the intuition.  This month’s theoretical laboratory focuses on Bernoulli’s Principle..