I was talking about Artificial Intelligence last week: here. I will be expanding on my key points this week, but first one more foundational note. AI must have an environment if it […]
Artificial Intelligence in the Wetlands
Harold Rhenisch
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The Kings and Queens and Queens and Queens and Queens of Vernon Go On Parade
Welcome to the Vernon Winter Carnival. It all started around these parts with a stagecoach some 150 years back. We have evolved since then, I tell ya. Wonderland, we call it […]
Vernon Winter Carnival Parade 2018
Everyone gets to put on a show. Blocks the street, though. Rush hour.
A Midwinter Day’s Dream
Today, the Vernon Winter Carnival Parade. We are celebrating colonial culture today, with gas. As you can see, Shakespeare was at work in the costume shop, updating all those old scripts for […]
Gravity and Wind
So, this is cool. Snow falls, and that’s gravity. It stores the gravity as mass, and crushes the poor old mustard to the ground, the poor dear, sob, but, ta da! The […]
What Saskatoons, Elms and Ashes Can Teach Us About Global Warming
The buds of saskatoons opened on February 1 this year. We can expect the cold to keep them in this expectant state for many weeks yet. Look at the tiny blossoms touching the […]
A Short Grammar of Body, Mind and Earth in the Winter Woods
Distance is light, but darkness warms and invites. More specifically, the middle distance, deep within the complexity of nerves, within the body itself, comforts and invites with shelter. And not just shelter, […]
Artificial Intelligence and You: Part 2
So, artificial intelligence, eh. On Monday, I introduced some thoughts about it, here: https://okanaganokanogan.com/2018/01/29/artificial-intel…e-and-you-part-1/ Today, an exploration of the language surrounding artificial intelligence. If it sounds like a language game, and as […]
Ancient Yew Among the Cedars
Deep in the Interior rainforest along Kootenay Lake grows an ancient yew. She is a beautiful one as the snow melts around her, that’s for sure. Yews are incredibly slow growing, but, […]
Artificial Intelligence and You, Part 1
Last week, I spoke in favour of enhancing human intelligence by extending it in consort with the earth and her processes… This Could Be You Wait, it is already! …rather than the […]
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