November 2, 2008
Following good security practice I recently went through the process of changing my passwords. I started off this exercise by changing my ISP account password. So I went through the process, entered my strong password, and logged out to try out the new password.
Next, I tried to log on with my new password but I got an invalid account or password message. As happens to common mortals I thought, oh I must have entered the new password wrongly. So I tried again carefully typing in every symbol. Same result same frustration.
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April 18, 2008
Jeff Hawkins, the guy behind Palm Computing and mobiles such as PalmPilot and Treo, argues in his book, On Intelligence, that the current way of thinking about intelligence and how the brain works is flawed and therefore we cannot create intelligent machines based on this knowledge. He is so convinced of this that he founded his own research institute, the Redwood Neuroscience Institute (RNI), now permanently relocated to the UC Berkeley campus as Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience.
In his book, Jeff Hawkins states that we currently have a lot of data about the brain but not much as regards theories of how it really works. In fact, the Redwood institute task is to ”to use mathematical and physical principles to understand the nature of coding, dynamics, circuitry and plasticity in nervous systems.”
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