After my Knowledge Engineering meetup with Caltrop City (nick), I moved my operation down valley. Ryan was ready to rejoin his clan, having been initiated into our reading programs, involving Amy’s classic, a book on Markov chains, other Active Inference relevant readings.
We talked about the three minds model during the car trip, and the potential role of dreams, and journaling them. “It’s OK to engage in a discipline habitually, religiously, and then suddenly go cold turkey, if that’s what works for you” I recall saying.
A three tier model of the mind also featured in the KE meetup: perception, attention, meta-awareness being the namespaces there. Golden Spike GNN.
Ryan got the tour of the Flextegrity Museum after which I dropped him off at Lorax Manor in Eugene, which to my mind sounds like something out of Dr. Seuss.
Before we left, Dr. D. had sent the output of his program to solve the Snake Cube, like one of Rubic’s in being 3x3x3, but presenting a different challenge. A string of 3-long and 2-long cubes folds up in a specific way. He later shared his C source code with us, taking me take to my days at Sunshine Elite Education, and its focus on dynamic programming techniques for solving just such puzzles.
What I noticed right away with Atlas Shrugged Part III (its original name) was it used different actors for so many key roles.
I’m thinking of a science fiction movie in which Ayn Rand tunes in Bucky big time and becomes a fan, altering her philosophy accordingly, not in the direction of Marxism, which was never a Russian ideology to begin with, but in the direction of Ouspensky.
Man cannot do.
Some get lucky though, like “Bob” Dobbs, and/or John Galt.
