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kurosawa | 8 years ago | on: A candy man revolutionized the sushi industry

somebody had to say his name thrice

kurosawa | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you deal with loss of motivation?

Spend a good bit of time thinking about what the ideal way would be for you to spend 8+ hours a day (i.e. work), and how this would fit into your overall goals in life - beyond work/career.

Do this by testing out all of the above hypothesis, e.g. speak to people (through linkedin for example) that have done that MS from an ivy-league mid-career (or whenever): get lots of experience data to give weight to these potential next steps.

Ask lots of basic questions, why do you want money, what are you going to do with it. How much does reputation matter to you, and what does reputation mean.

From the little info above, it appears that good company, is something important: (a) people that are at your level (and you need to think about what that means exactly), (b) people with whom you want to do projects that make a difference (and again, what does this mean)

Could you have this out-with a work context?

kurosawa | 9 years ago | on: Brain Computation Is Organized via Power-of-Two-Based Permutation Logic

The following suggestion is not about tackling AI from neuroscience/biological perspective, but one that critiques the computational view of mind/brain - which provides only a limited picture.

See the work of prof. Walter Freeman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Jackson_Freeman_III

Esp: Reclaiming Cognition - Ed. Nunez and Freeman.

Also see the work of Hubert Dreyfus.

These works will help you figure out what 'tackling AI from a neuroscience' perspective could actually mean.

kurosawa | 9 years ago | on: Brain Computation Is Organized via Power-of-Two-Based Permutation Logic

I use my perception to do much more, most of the time. All evidence points to humans being a good few steps above other animals for whom those three activities are not only necessary but almost sufficient.