Results for “The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work”

Turing’s Machine 213 Thanks to Turing’s insight into coding schemes and the machines he designed, the British were soon able to read almost every coded message the Germans sent during the war, giving the Allies an enormous advantage. The D-Day invasion involved convincing Hitler...

…nding at least 2 more hours per day with his family. From 40 hours per week, he was down to 18 and producing four times the results. Was it from mountaintop retreats and secret kung fu training? Nope. Was it a new Japanese management secret or better software? Nein. I just asked...

If I offered you $10,000,000 to work 24 hours a day for 15 years and then retire, would you do it? Of course not—you couldn’t. It is unsustainable, just as what most define as a career: doing the same thing for 8+ hours per day until you break down or have enough cash to permanen...

while calmly and quickly surveying the routes of several potential receivers. The pattern found in his handwriting features, however, resembled those Johnnie Unitas, the Hall of Fame quarterback of the Baltimore (then) Colts who, in spite of his small size, famously played with g...

I saw a familiar pattern that had had gotten

gives rise to an attractor pattern maximally similar to A.

prediction consists of temporal pattern recognition

no sexual activity would occur at all. There was no pattern

and increased activity in a reward area— the nucleus accumbens. This pattern fits well

but the AI pattern finders arrayed against it have the side effect of

the rising disorder on their borders fit a pattern of

what he was referring to was the habitual pattern of fabrication.

we may be reverting to that cyclical pattern

a pattern of phone calls) where there is no

174 9 General Intelligence in the Everyday Human World The Second Brain . The gastrointestinal neural net contains millions of neurons and is capable of operating inde- pendently of the brain. It modulates stress response and other aspects of emotion and motivation based on exp...