In order to properly understand even what we’re talking about when we talk about artificial intelligence, we need to know, in the first place, what the terms mean. If we don’t, we […]
Artificial Intelligence 3: What is Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence in the Wetlands
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
The Dry Dry Earth of Home
It would be nice to think of water soaking into the soil, and all that ground below us being recharged with rain and draining down to the lake and cycling around. The […]
Responsive Design Change on the Fly
Air and lift create out of the body of raven a nearly flat plane. Raven, Unfolded Earth, however, demands a rounder form, using feathers and legs to form a balancing pivot. […]
Big Sage At the Centre of the Universe
Big sage does her thing in the winter. It would be wrong, though, to call her a survivor.She makes stuff happen here. She provides shelter for flies in mid-January. The flare out […]
