I was thinking today about how a web crawler works, what it actually does and why. It occurred to me that during sleep, among other things, the mind must be re-indexing in a manner similar to that of a web crawler.
Think of the mind as having a sort of “state”, a vast set of […]

The other day while driving along the river on my lunch break, all hopped up on a Starbucks Quad-Grande-Vanilla-Peppermint-Soy-Latte, I was thinking about how annoying it is to have to maintain things. For instance, a car. A car needs gas all the time, oil every now and then, other fluids, lights, all kinds […]

What is the meaning of a word? There’s always talk about how computers lack to ability to associate meaning with a word, but is meaning really being defined anywhere? I read an article about new software tools that create parse trees of essays and compare them with previous parse trees in an attempt […]