Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
In one step it exposed the fallacy of all previous attempts to understand and engineer human behavior as diverse capabilities.
Sandra Blakeslee • On Intelligence
Over repetitive training sessions, our intelligent machine will build a model of its world as seen through its senses.
Sandra Blakeslee • On Intelligence
They create unexpected analogies as a means of teaching higher-level structure.
Sandra Blakeslee • On Intelligence
The second epoch began when nature invented modifiable nervous systems that could quickly form memories.
Sandra Blakeslee • On Intelligence
Jeff Hawkins, the Palm Pilot team leader, was determined that his product would avoid this fate. He wanted the Palm Pilot to be simple. It would handle four things: calendars, contacts, memos, and task lists. The Palm Pilot would do only four things, but it would do them well.
Dan Heath • Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Next, attach to these senses a hierarchical memory system that works on the same principles as the cortex.
Sandra Blakeslee • On Intelligence
These archetypes equally modeled themselves off of someone else that inspired them. Steve was obsessed with Edwin Land, the founder of Polaroid. He would even take the “intersection of t... See more