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Machine Learning.

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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

Transitions.

As living organisms, humans, among millions of species on Earth, are directed by constant stages of changes. From the early fetal stages of  our mother's womb, to adolescence, to the end stages of senescence on our deathbed; we are by our very nature constrained to a renewal and end of things. These are cycles that never end. We transition from one thing of sorts to the next. Thus, the laws of nature apply not just to our biological nature, but to our psychological / spiritual state of being. The soul changes over time. This continual transition happens throughout our life, challenges faced, battles fought, epiphanies realized, all contribute to the development and ultimately perfection of the soul. We change according to different stages in life. Soul in tow. To what end does change move toward? Generally speaking, changes taking place on Earth. This could mean evolution through specieation or the rate of technological progress, I have my theories, backed by a history of both