My personal blog about emerging technologies and their impact on the human condition. I like genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics. I'm a software developer by profession.
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Here are a few slogans I've found for big tech companies
IBM: Let's build a smarter planet.
Motorola: Intelligence everywhere.
Google: Don't be evil.
Earlier this year, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla Motor's Elon Musk, and several other high profile investors capitalized on a secretive artificial intelligence lab named " Vicarious ". As a private company, details of its business remained appropriately classified, but sources noted that they were in the artificial neural networks arena with research focused on software emulating the human neocortex. They were a machine learning company. What is Machine Learning ? A quick drop in on Wikipedia will tell you that it is defined as "a branch of artificial intelligence, [concerned] with the construction and study of systems that can learn from data". Artificial intelligence has, at large, remained in the realm of science fiction novels and movies, the general public often scoffing its premise as nonsense and a study without realistic scientific substance. This has been true in the past, but academics and private enterprises alike are now realizing the i...
It had been about 15 years since I last stepped foot in the land of adobo and tinikling (and Moros). When I booked our family tickets, Yulia and I had very different ideas of what this vacation was going to be about. Yulia wanted a week long R&R on a beach, tanning and paddleboarding. I wanted something more, I wanted to reconnect and reinvigorate the Filipino inside me. I wanted to reconcile my Filipino identity with my Canadian identity. Instead of continually trying to suppress my genetic and cultural roots, I wanted to give it a voice this time. Give it power. Day One. We landed at Terminal 1 at NAIA (Manila International Airport). After a quick and smooth deplaning and baggage pickup, we exited the area only to find dad missing. Frantically, we activated our SIM cards and called dad over and over again until we finally got a hold of him. He was at the wrong terminal, but he quickly made his way to us and we drove to our new generational house in Las Pinas accessing...
So, I Googled the meaning of my name which - for the last decade - I assumed meant some sort of reddish color on a horse. Which it is, but that's not the entire story. The word Roan is derived from a proto-Germanic (Frisian) word Hraban meaing "Raven". And as for the symbolic meaning of the word, well ravens were usually associated with the Frisian (and or Norse) god Woden (Odin). The word Roan is also Gaelic which means "little red head", and is sometimes spelled Rowan as per the British, or Rouen as per the city in Normany. A city originally inhabited by Gaelics.
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