Not much going on the past several weeks. Same old, same old.
Mom has been jobless for about three weeks and times are getting tough. It's odd to think that just a few years ago we were literally shopping for a new Cadillac for her and a new Tahoe for me (dodged a couple speeding bullets there!).
I've decided against 24 Solo. I just don't have time during the week to put in the miles necessary to safely put up a competitive ride. I'm putting together a 4-man team and still going for the top spot.
I'll conclude with another interesting perspective from "The Most Human Human."
"The term method itself is problematic because it suggests the notion of repetition and predictability--a method that anyone can apply. Method implies also mastery and closure, both of which are detrimental to invention."
-Josue Harari
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We are replacing people not with machines, nor with computers, so much as with method. And whether it's humans or computers carrying that method out feels secondary. (The earliest games of computer chess were played without computers. Alan Turing would play games of "paper chess" by calculating, by hand, with a pencil and pad, a move-selection algorithm he'd written. Programming this procedure into a computer merely makes the process go faster.) What we are fighting for, in the twenty-first century, is the continued existence of conclusions not already foregone--the continued relevance of judgment and discovery and figuring out, and the ability to continue to exercise them.
-Brian Christian, "The Most Human Human: What Talking With Computers Teaches Us About What It Means To Be Alive"
I highly recommend this book.
Ian
