It’s hard to doubt a grown man’s sincerity when you see tears running down his cheeks. These men were hardened criminals, most of them serving life sentences for murder, who rediscovered perspective and humanity simply by spending focused time with themselves.
Meditation is a powerful tool. There are two types of knowledge: intellectual and visceral. You [...]
Entries Tagged as 'science'
On Meditation
July 3rd, 2008 ·
Numenta HTM Workshop
June 26th, 2008 ·
At the HTM workshop earlier this week, Numenta demoed their nupic 1.6 release and showed some pretty impressive advancements in the learning algorithms they have been developing. Their prototype HTM is a vision system that does recognition on objects like cows, ducks, and cell phones–they’ve trained it extensively and it can recognize these objects [...]
Found a Great New Blog, Great Essay on Energy
June 3rd, 2008 ·
Nav just introduced me to an excellent blog by Mike Speiser of Sutter Hill Ventures. After reading a few posts, I quickly added it to my Google Reader, cause this guy is clearly pretty smart.
In an essay explaining why battery innovation is one of the most important fields of scientific research for the US [...]
Design and The Elastic Mind Symposium
April 5th, 2008 ·
This symposium by SEED Magazine, the MOMA, and Parsons School was amazing and inspirational. Saw presentations by people figuring out models of the universe, building robotic limbs, pioneering genetic engineering, and building computers modeled on the brain.
Below are some of the notes I took.
Official site:
http://mind08.com/
There’s a bunch of related material in this month’s SEED:
http://seedmagazine.com/
If [...]
