This morning’s New York Times had an op-ed piece by David Brooks titled “The Biggest Issue” which talked about education in the U.S. and how the biggest problem facing us is the education slowdown.  Brooks makes the point that the United States education rate has slowed drastically, causing a gap between the rich and poor and stagnating growth as a society.  I agree with Brooks completely:  education is the key to our success as a country, but how do we get back on track?  How do we get more people to get higher educations?  How do we interest people to train and do better?   Read the rest of this entry »

This morning’s Editorial Notebook in the NY Times had a piece by Lawrence Downes titled A Disappointing Truth.  It seems I am not the only one thinking about the effects of marketing on worldly matters.  In my post last, I referred to Al Gore’s work and marketing efforts as positive and helpful to the cause.  Downes takes a more critical look and says that they are doing a poor job at marketing the cause.  Downes makes a good point, saying that we need new ideas and need to bring more of the best faces and thinkers together in a room to help.  He even made reference to the Axe body spray marketers, hoping they would run the campaign.  

For the climate issues, I think we should have the people who created the Truth campaigns do it.  They have been successfully riding a very fine line with their campaigns.  They are all witty, educational and make people aware of the hazards of smoking cigarettes, marijuana and doing drugs.  

On the other hand, for AI I would love the Axe or even the Mac marketers working on our cause.  They could make it sexy and cool and then all the kids would want to be working on it!

This post is kind of a followup to my last post on marketing AI.  I have been thinking of other causes that have been expedited or have benefited from good marketing and global warming came to mind.   Read the rest of this entry »

Here are some pictures of the chocolate mousse cakes I have made.  They were all non-dairy using non-dairy ingredients, but the recipe was adapted from Chef Rand Eastman’s chocolate hazelnut mousse cake.  I substituted buttermilk for sour cream and also cut the amount of sugar from his recipe.

In this month’s AI Magazine there is an article titled “The voice of the Turtle: Whatever Happened to AI?” by Doug Lenat.  Doug lists what he calls the top 12 reasons why AI hasn’t taken off to its fullest potential and where many already expected it to be by now.  I am not going to address all his 12 points, I am going to focus on one:  The Media and the Arts.

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Despite the overused title, Hello!  Over the next few days I hope to start posting about some of the things that interest me.  Just to name a few:  ai, machine learning, pastry, web 2.0, online privacy.  To start, I am going to post all the images that used to occupy my homepage and maybe give a short description.