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		<title>Becoming a Maker</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 18:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love creating things, and always have. But for most of my life, the things I made were very abstract and had little or no physical substance. Since I was a kid, it&#8217;s been in the world of software, and to a lesser extent, writing. I have also created visual art for years, on and off, [...]
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		<title>Mapping Your Connectome</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently encountered the research of the MIT neuroscientist Sebastian Seung, who is mapping brain connections into a connectome, analogous to a genome. FTA: While neuroscientists have long hypothesized that the key to our unique selves lies in those connections, this has proven impossible to test because the technology to map the connections did not exist. That [...]
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		<title>My BIL Talk: &#8220;Our Machines, Ourselves&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the talk I gave last weekend at BIL 2012 on the relationship we have with nature through our technology. Jason Wells &#8211; BIL 2012 Talk, &#8220;Our Machines, Ourselves&#8221; from Jason Wells. Related posts: I&#8217;m Speaking at BIL 2012 It&#8217;s official: I&#8217;m going to be giving a talk at BIL 2012. (For those of you who don&#8217;t [...]
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		<title>Changing Course</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Wells</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just got word this morning: UCSD has rejected my application for the Cognitive Science Ph.D. program. Am I disappointed? You bet. Is it devastating? Hardly. When I left Semantic Research, I had quite a variety of options to explore. The only one that had a hard deadline was applying to UCSD. So I focused [...]
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		<title>The Philosophy of Cleverbot</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Wells</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All the good philosophic questions are basically hopeless, resisting satisfactory answers despite millennia of inquiry. Human inquiry, that is. But what do our future machine overlords have to say? What pearls of wisdom can be found in those electronic circuits? No human being has ever resolved these questions, maybe we need a computer for this! [...]
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		<title>The Lesson of the Monkeys</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Wells</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was first told of this experiment by a former work colleague, and later discovered this illustration of it. It&#8217;s both illuminating and disturbing. There is a clunky word that describes this phenomenon: filiopietism, or the reverence of forebears or tradition carried to excess. But I prefer another term for it: the tragic circle. I believe many [...]
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		<title>I&#8217;m Speaking at BIL 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s official: I&#8217;m going to be giving a talk at BIL 2012. (For those of you who don&#8217;t know, BIL is an annual conference that complements TED, but with a different twist. This year it takes place March 2-4 in Long Beach.) My talk is still in the works, but it&#8217;s going to be about some [...]
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		<title>GEB: Class Begins Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s something I didn&#8217;t see coming. Remember the MIT Open Courseware class on Gödel, Escher, Bach I discovered and wrote about a month ago? Well, that day I submitted it to /r/cogsci on Reddit to bring it to the attention of some people I thought might appreciate it. I expected it to generate little interest, [...]
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		<title>Random Album Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Got a rockin&#8217; band&#8230; but you all suck at graphic design? Can&#8217;t even come up with your band name? Generally lacking any inspiration whatsoever? No worries. Generate your own album art the easy way! (Warning: this is addictive.) All you need are these three things and a photo editor: Cover: The third image in this [...]
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		<title>The New ARM Sweet Spot</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
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