(identity 'myron)

Fri, 17 Oct 2003

DPRK vs Japan [/Japan]

The ping-pong game that is diplomatic relations in Asia....

To be fair, if the DPRK really wants to take the moral high-ground here, they'd submit to the request to return the abducted, then point out the sex slaves issue and the lack of settling for past crimes. I wonder what exactly the reaction was of other countries in the UN though?

On the other hand, Japan is still in negotiations with China over reparations for lives lost to Japanese mustard gas weapons left in China.

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Science [/misc]

I love science, but I love it even more when it can't answer a given question. You can practically here the Nelson Muntz-like Ha-ha when the best science can come up with is a big "I don't know". What am I talking about? The brain.

Can software engineers hope to create a digital brain? Not before understanding how the brain works, and that's one of the biggest mysteries left in science. Brains are hugely intricate circuits of billions of elements. We each have one very close by, but cant open it up: it's the ultimate Black Box.

The most famous engineering brain models are "Neural Networks" and "Parallel Distributed Processing." Unfortunately both have failed as engineering models and as brain models, because they make certain assumptions about what a brain should look like.

Read the rest in the article.

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