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Fuzzy Logic and Neural Nets: Still
Viable?

Fuzzy Logic and Neural Nets: Still
Viable? 06/12/2004 11:27 PM
A new EDN article discusses whether or not Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks are still useful engineering tools after all these years, even though their 15 minutes of fame seems to have passed. The article talks about several companies that still use or sell products based on each technology.

Through Finland in Packets

Through Finland in Packets 06/17/2005 04:27 PM

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Ever since the Washington Post started doing their 'Finland Journal' blog I've been thinking about saying something, but wanted to wait until they had finished the series and until I had enough time to think about what I wanted to say without sounding like one of the many wackjobs, both Finnish and American, whose comments ranged from explaining how to pronounce SOW-na to ranting about the Swedish Fascist oppression in Finland to bickering about nothing. Mostly I just found the commentary deeply depressing as monoculture was praised as the reason for all the good things in Finland and the reason for all the bad things in the US a bit more often than I found comfortable. I come from one of the most fucked up nations on the planet, but I'm awfully glad for the variety of people there since it is the greatest asset the US has in terms of creativity and innovation. Being a threat to this vaunted Finnish monoculture is not a fun place to be at times. Some expats just complain, some never do and the rest of us try to get on with life as best as we can and occasionally, cautiously, commiserate over beer and try to focus on the positive things as much as possible. One of the reasons I like my 'cookery' is that it's fun to explore the differences in cuisine, I'm reasonably good at it, it's something positive, and nobody hates the person who brings tasty treats for afternoon coffee. :)

There has been a lot of criticism among the foreigners, and even a Phinn, here about the series since visiting somewhere as a journalist on an official junket likely sponsored by the state vs. living here are two very different experiences and given the inevitable superficiality of the WP coverage, a lot of us were disappointed. One of the reasons that Finland is supposedly the "country that Americans know least about" is that aside from the usual Santa, sauna and sisu stories, very little else gets written in English about this country. I've taken to collecting books on travel to Finland, some more than 100 years old, and I could match the topics nearly 1:1 with the old travelogues to the Finland Journal coverage. In fact, I think I liked the bitchy and less fawning Mrs. Tweedie's Through Finland in Carts from 1898 much better as, in spite of her unsavoury British imperialism, she was a far more snarky and entertaining writer. But, again, same shit, different century. Surely, even the Finns must bore of this though the clichés are what keep the tourists coming. It's like the hackneyed 'pahk ya cah in Havahd Yahd' and Paul Revere legends of Boston. The Boston strangler, townies and Southie don't get a lot of press since they aren't exactly attractive to locals much less to tourists.

For the expats, there's precisely dick to prepare them for what awaits them making a life here. Trying to explain how Finland differs for residents as opposed to tourists to the newly arrived is a chore since you either sound bitter or are constantly doubting your own experience of everything in a miasma of cultural relativism and personal baggage. A lot of us come to live here because we have a spouse/SO, a spouse/SO who very likely does not have an objective view or an understanding of the difference between being Finnish and being not Finnish in Finland. I was in quite a sulk for a few weeks after I met an Aus-Fin couple who had moved here and, after two months, the Australian was escaping in defeat after being told repeatedly in interviews that her education credentials were worthless in Finland, the downside of an educational system regarded, and which regards itself, so highly. Her boyfriend seemed completely surprised by this and felt badly for not being a better judge of his own country. With the dearth of realistic information for those wanting to move here, many have no other choice than to trust their Finnish loved one which may or may not prove to be the best option. This seems to happen more often than not as expats don't often stay for more than a few years before giving up and heading back home, with or without the spouse/SO. I don't know if immigration actually keeps track of those who leave and why, but it would be interesting to see the average length of stay for expats as I expect it is generally very short. How many of the foreigners work for Nokia would also be an interesting statistic.

The question this raises is why do people leave? Finland is, in many ways, a lovely country, but why do expats frequently only stay for a short while? It's an important question, one few seem curious about or willing to discuss. The most frequent rebuttals to any criticism or merely mentioning that life here can be a challenge is that it's "the same everywhere" or that we can always just pack up and go home. Ironically, I would expect this sort of chiding from red state Americans. I think that this might be at the heart of much of our nebulous reasons for struggle here; that Finland is a young country, even by American standards, and with a long history of fighting off invading outsiders, Finland has developed a very, very strong streak of nationalism. What's wrong with nationalism? Well, after 9/11, I saw neighbours wanting to beat the shit out of the grocers down the street who had been there for over 20 years because suddenly they were those dark towel heads, "them", who flew into the WTC instead of the two brothers who had been selling them their groceries for decades. Nationalism separates as much as it binds and mostly it just makes people blind and monumentally stupid.

One of the first memorable experiences was while walking HB down Bulevardi about a week after arriving here and running into a smiling little old lady who wanted to pet him and started chatting me up. As soon as I started to say something the smile fell off her face which was replaced by a scowl full of scorn whereupon she screeched something, waved me off and stalked away in a huff. I was like, what the fuck just happened? This would be repeated quite a few times and, in spite of being able to rationalise the behaviour, first impressions tend to be difficult to change. I remain rather shy about being busted as a foreigner and still have a very difficult time daring to say anything to strangers. In the dog park, I'll stand around understanding everything the other dog owners are saying but don't join the conversation which has, on occasion, marked me as a foreigner just as much as saying something would have. :)

Generally, it's the small things, the day to day things, the very difficult to define things, that make life as an outsider here a daily struggle. Learning the language is the single largest hurdle in bridging the gap and becoming less of an alien, but after two years I'm still cautious, still shy, still neurotic about speaking it to the point of avoiding situations where I might have to say something to someone because I'm scared of being busted as an outsider. We all have little defensive tactics like this, depending on our individual hang-ups and struggles. One of my friends visited home a while back and she remarked in an email that she was in awe of how suddenly aware she was of how the little daily things in Finland make life so much more work than back in the realm of the friendly familiarity of home.

Some things, however, aren't so vague, but these are the things we don't talk about or quietly discuss amongst ourselves because they're either too depressing to dwell upon or tend to be met with vituperative attacks. There are things endemic to being an expat, a foreigner in a strange land, that often make you wonder if it's you, if you're not trying hard enough or if it's the culture that is responsible for the discontent and many things often do have simple explanations, if not simple solutions. I have lived elsewhere and, given the culture and the language barrier, Finland is a very challenging place to find a happy niche whether or not any Finns want to hear or acknowledge that. It's not a destination for the easily discouraged or the impatient.

Recently, I had the pleasure of talking to a couple with two adorable basset hounds who had just returned to Finland after 7 years abroad who remarked at how "international" Helsinki seemed nowadays. There are many words I'd use to describe Helsinki, most of them nice even, but international wouldn't be one of them. Being part of the EU while rejecting or reluctantly accepting some of the things that come with being part of the EU, like foreigners, doesn't make a place international any more than dining out at a Nepalese restaurant makes you a world traveller. This doesn't mean Finland should aspire to the problems of the Netherlands, but acknowledging the problems that exist here for foreigners might be something to consider since people do generally tend to stay in places that they feel welcome in and Finland, either intentionally or not, often gives outsiders the impression that we are either not welcome or just merely tolerated. If Finland doesn't want foreigners, it should really just pull out of the EU and close the borders.

So, I suppose the point of my rambling is that there are at least a few of us around who like it here and are trying with sincerity to learn the language, fit in and get along like everyone else but there are so many conflicting messages between what we read in the paper or hear from our spouses and what we actually experience at times that it makes it difficult to reconcile the disparity and still keep on trying. It's a struggle. It's like bloody musical chairs watching all the expats leave one by one.

SMS FAQ: Capturing Packets from Remote
Subnets

SMS FAQ: Capturing Packets from Remote
Subnets 08/30/2004 10:35 PM

Project Planning Guide: Stuffing Voices
Into Packets

Project Planning Guide: Stuffing Voices
Into Packets 07/13/2004 07:19 PM
IP telephony is not a magic bullet for everyone—the payback depends on the age of your existing system and how you deploy the new one.

Neural.it

Neural.it 12/17/2004 06:33 PM
To coincide with Italy's launch of their own Creative Commons licenses, I've gotten word that 5000 pages on neural.it will be licensed. More on the Italy launch event later.

New issue of Neural

New issue of Neural 05/11/2004 10:37 AM
The new issue of Italian tech/art/culture magazine Neura is out. It looks to be another dense collection of articles about edgy hacktivisim, electronic music, and digital art, including pieces on musician Ryoji Ikeda and anti-corporate activist Brian Holmes. Neural.it intervie wed Mark way back in 1994! Neural.it Neural 21

AI Neural Networks

AI Neural Networks 09/26/2004 02:57 PM
VC 8.x for free

Neural Network Teaching Aid

Neural Network Teaching Aid 05/25/2004 02:44 PM
Initiation

Neural Network Utility

Neural Network Utility 10/30/2003 01:42 PM
v1.8 Development

20Q.net - 20 Questions - The Neural-Net
on the Internet

20Q.net - 20 Questions - The Neural-Net
on the Internet 07/08/2004 05:18 AM
20Q.net - 20 Questions - The Neural-Net on the Internet
http://www.20q.net/

20Q.net is an experiment in artificial intelligence. The program is very simple but its behavior is complex. Everything that it knows and all questions that it asks were entered by people playing this game. 20Q.net is a learning system; the more it is played, the smarter it gets. This has been added to Artificial Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

The Internet Meets the Neural Net

The Internet Meets the Neural Net 07/26/2004 12:35 AM

Lightweight Neural Network ++ 0.995

Lightweight Neural Network ++ 0.995 05/09/2004 07:57 PM
A feed forward neural network C++ library.

Async Neural Network

Async Neural Network 11/11/2003 05:49 AM
ANNOUNCEMENT! Cells Side Project

Lightweight Neural Network++

Lightweight Neural Network++ 01/22/2004 11:42 AM
First version is out

Evolution of Artificial Neural Networks

Evolution of Artificial Neural Networks 11/14/2003 04:06 PM
Meet Annevolve's skydiving, mouseball collecting Unix Admin

Neural Net Framework 0.2 (Default
branch)

Neural Net Framework 0.2 (Default
branch) 04/18/2005 12:50 PM
NNF is a library written in plain C that implements multilayer feed-forward neural networks. It's fast and easy to incorporate in your own application. It includes different activation functions and the delta error back-propagation algorithm. Saving and loading routines are included. It is released under the Lesser General Public License.

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Changes:
The learning algorithms were completed for all the respective activation functions. Two minor bugs were fixed. More documentation was written.

Java Object Oriented Neural Engine

Java Object Oriented Neural Engine 02/18/2004 05:31 AM
Joone at FOSDEM 2004

Ideas Born from a Dieing Neural Network?

Ideas Born from a Dieing Neural Network? 02/10/2004 03:00 AM
The Washington Post has an extremely interesting article about Stephen Thaler's Creativity Machine. The Creativity Machine is a new kind of Neural Network from Imagination Engines, Inc. Basically, it's like you take a Neural Network and fully train it, then you go back and randomly kill off a few nodes until it starts to hallucinate causing it to have a sort of near death experience. Either it will go off on a really bad trip, or it might cause it to have an imagination and generate something new like the works of Shakespeare (as if that were a new thing). Apparently, by killing off a few neurons it causes some Neural Nets to go noisy and perhaps start thinking and figuring out new ideas? I'm not sure I believe it, but it seems Steven Thaler figured out that by doing this new technique and forcing anomolies, all sorts of new innovative ideas and dreams can be born like harder substances than diamonds and bad christmas carols, or perhaps even the recipe for mom's pudding and the answer to everything before they can shut it off. With all of these new deep thoughts being generated, one could wish that they could come up with the right questions for the answers it gives (hey, that's sort of like Jeopardy). For that matter what would a neural net's dieing wish be? (BTW, happy love your robot day - Feb 7th!)

Sf short story about upselling in neural
implants

Sf short story about upselling in neural
implants 01/04/2005 02:40 AM
Cory Doctorow: Jeremy sez, "I've posted January's story to Futurismic, called 'Consensus Building.' This is another entry from Tom Doyle (author of September's 'Art's Appreciation'. It's a mean-spirited story about naked ambition, greed and the fungibility of computer-assisted memory. We've also re-opened Futurismic for fiction submissions. We've increased our permissible word limit to 15,000 and we're going to stay open until we get a year's worth of stories. Our guidelines are here and our web form for submitting is here."

Futurismic's publishing some amazing science fiction and this story doesn't disappoint. It's a great 10 minute read, perfect for the Web.

As always, she examined herself in the mirror, searching for vulnerability. She was rewarded by the usual view: an attractively fit, Slavic cheek-boned thirty-something who could still pass for twenty-something.

"I could lose some weight," she thought. But no, she hadn't really thought that. It was a chip idea. She consciously interfaced with the AI to avoid further confusion. "What the fuck are you talking about? I look great."

"You could lose a few pounds." The voice was a more clinical version of her own. "And your skin could do with some work, too. I can assist."

"No, thank you. Resume normal." She concentrated on getting ready for work, but the ritual had been tainted. Despite herself, she felt larger, flabbier, distinctly less attractive. To compensate, she deliberately dressed sexier than her usual businesslike attire, with shorter skirt and flashier blouse, and forced her hair to have a good day. She refused to submit to moods as a matter of policy.

Another thought tugged at her mind. "You could really use a new outfit." The tone was that of an enthused continental fashion designer.

Link (Thanks, Jeremy!)

Digital Neural Axis: Evolutionary Leap

Digital Neural Axis: Evolutionary Leap 06/05/2005 10:47 PM

"We realized that we were going to need a very smooth pipeline to handle this much work." By Dustin Driver, Apple

Fast Artifical Neural Network Library
1.0.4

Fast Artifical Neural Network Library
1.0.4 12/11/2003 08:31 AM
A multi-layer feedforward neural network library implemented in ANSI C.

Fast Artifical Neural Network Library
1.0.3

Fast Artifical Neural Network Library
1.0.3 12/10/2003 06:41 PM
A multi-layer feedforward neural network library implemented in ANSI C.

Fast Artifical Neural Network Library

Fast Artifical Neural Network Library 11/03/2003 07:46 AM
(fann) - Minor bug, bugfix to be released soon.

Neural Launches First Malaysian PC Log
On Using Fingerprint Access

Neural Launches First Malaysian PC Log
On Using Fingerprint Access 04/05/2005 05:22 PM
Bernama Apr 5 2005 9:48PM GMT

KPhone STUN DoS (Malformed STUN Packets)

KPhone STUN DoS (Malformed STUN Packets) 04/20/2004 03:27 AM
Aviram Jenik (Apr 19 2004)

Smooth Player

Smooth Player 11/02/2003 05:25 AM
Public beta 0.52 released

Smooth Muppets

Smooth Muppets 02/10/2004 10:43 PM
Around Christmas this last year I saw a deck of Muppet-themed playing cards that had a picture of Kermit the Frog wearing a suit and trying to look smoothly into the distance. Immediately I launched into a rant on how...

I Can See Clearly Now, the Fonts Are
Smooth

I Can See Clearly Now, the Fonts Are
Smooth 01/22/2004 02:11 AM
How to get and install Xft for smoother, eye-friendly fonts.

Smooth Sale for Harrah's?

Smooth Sale for Harrah's? 09/02/2004 03:46 PM
In a potential $1.3 billion deal to sell four properties, Harrah's and Caesars may get premium value for subpremium assets.

For Those in the Fast Lane, MSN Tries to
Smooth the Way

For Those in the Fast Lane, MSN Tries to
Smooth the Way 01/22/2004 02:12 AM
Microsoft is betting that its new online-software package will be worth an extra $10 a month. What does MSN Premium actually deliver?

NBC Wants Smooth Transition for New
Anchor (AP)

NBC Wants Smooth Transition for New
Anchor (AP) 05/09/2004 01:02 PM
AP - Every week or so, a handful of NBC News executives meet to plot the schedule of a man who usually isn't in the room. They're planning for an epochal event in the world of television news, when Brian Williams takes over for Tom Brokaw on Dec. 2 as the anchor of NBC's "Nightly News." If only it were as simple as switching a nameplate over a door.

Smooth Handover between 3G UMTS and GSM

Smooth Handover between 3G UMTS and GSM 04/21/2004 04:57 AM
3G Apr 21 2004 8:02AM GMT

Smooth Music Suite 1.00

Smooth Music Suite 1.00 06/28/2004 07:00 AM

Roger L. Simon: Smooth Move

Roger L. Simon: Smooth Move 06/29/2004 07:34 AM
Roger L. Simon has a good take .. who hate

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Wind River's Smooth Sailing

Wind River's Smooth Sailing 08/18/2004 02:46 PM
It's a nice surprise for investors in Wind River.

Smooth As Silk on Square Wheels

Smooth As Silk on Square Wheels 04/09/2004 04:05 PM

Roland Piquepaille points to an inter esting article about how you can make a bike that rides completely smoothly on square wheels. The answer? Make the road bumpy. It strikes me as a good metaphor for finding a new way around an old problem.

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media drop interviews jay smooth

media drop interviews jay smooth 04/09/2004 04:06 PM
part of my continuing campaign to be jay's unofficial PR guy

New: Smooth/Interlace iMovie plug-in

New: Smooth/Interlace iMovie plug-in 06/09/2004 10:31 AM
Smooth/Interlace is an iMovie plug-in that provides ways to reduce jerkiness in clips.

New Creams Smooth Wrinkles, but They're
Not Botox

New Creams Smooth Wrinkles, but They're
Not Botox 06/21/2004 08:23 PM
Welcome to the world of anti-aging cosmetics, a vast and chaotic bazaar where hundreds of products vie for dollars.
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