{"id":1452,"date":"2020-09-13T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T00:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=1452"},"modified":"2020-09-13T19:35:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T00:35:00","slug":"weeknote-for-9-13-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/13\/weeknote-for-9-13-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeknote for 9\/13\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Life maintenance<\/h2>\n

\ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n

I spent last week getting through regular and freelance work.<\/strong> Somehow that seemed to take up all my time, other than naps and miscellaneous tasks.<\/p>\n

I have a new Remicade schedule.<\/strong> After my upcoming infusion, I’ll do 6-week intervals (down from 8 weeks) for about three cycles and see how that affects my symptoms.<\/p>\n

Memory<\/h2>\n

\ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n

I didn’t work on the mnemonic dictionary.<\/strong> My plan this week is the same as last week’s.<\/p>\n

AI<\/h2>\n

\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I got to my first stopping point in The Lex Fridman Podcast.<\/strong> I listened to his interview with Kai-Fu Lee, the author of AI Superpowers<\/em>, and now I’m listening to the book. This first batch of interviews gave me some people to look into further, especially Vladimir Vapnik<\/a> with his mathematician’s approach to machine learning, Juergen Schmidhuber<\/a> and his interesting ideas on meta-learning, and Jeff Hawkins<\/a>, who is making progress on a general theory of neuroscience.<\/p>\n

Video<\/h2>\n

\ud83e\udd14<\/p>\n

Watch Dan Olson’s quietly stunning demonstration of the earth’s curvature<\/a>.<\/strong> Stay for the chilling gaze into the abyss of our bizarre politics. I’ve been trying to identify why the feeling evoked by this demo was so familiar, and I just realized it’s the feeling I got during the solar eclipse, when I was at the right place and time to see the natural world being totally itself and totally real, yet totally strange. For this and other reasons, I suspect it’s a video I’ll be pondering for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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