I first heard the concept of Exploration vs. Exploitation in the 2016 book by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths called Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions. Briefly, exploration involves the discovery of something new. Exploitation involves mining a previously discovered pleasure to extract more pleasure. Both have their uses. Both are …
Make America Great Again The political slogan above, shortened to MAGA, which adorns red hats and flags, is a rallying cry for a large segment of the American population. It is both a declarative, and more importantly, a comparative statement. It is comparing America of today, to some bygone era deemed to be ”Great”. And …
A few months ago, my soon to be 23 year old son asked me, ”Dad, what can I do to be rich?” This led to a more thorough conversation about what constitutes riches and wealth. I shared one of my favorite Henry David Thoreau quotes, ”That man is richest, whose pleasures are the cheapest.” I …
I’ve always been curious about reality. I can accept that I am sitting in my office chair, my own hands stretched in front of me, touching hard plastic keys on a bluetooth keyboard, each touch producing a change that adds or removes squiggly marks on the screen in front of me, carefully engineered to look …
“Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done; on earth as it is in heaven…“ I wonder how many stop to think how the will of God is done in heaven. Some pray these words as if they are inviting God to impose His Will on the citizens of earth…even upon those who don’t want it. …
My mind was blown and my soul touched by Amanda Gorman’s recitation of her poem, The Hill We Climb during yesterday’s inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th President of The United States. Her words were inspired and inspiring. Her tone, honest and hopeful. The text of Miss Gorman’s poem can be found at a …
As I write this, there are only 22 hours left of the Trump administration. Joe Biden will be sworn in as the forty-sixth President of the United States, and the country will immediately return to tranquility. If only… In reality, Biden will be sworn in under circumstances eerily similar to those facing Lincoln at his …
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. ~ James 1:19,20 I beg those of my readers who don’t consider themselves to be adherents to the Christian traditions, or see themselves as convinced …
Be careful how you Brand This past Tuesday, Twitter banned me for a week. I was scrolling along when I came across a tweet expressing outrage over Lauren Boebert. The freshman Congressperson from CO set off an alarm when passing through the newly installed magnetometer on her way to the House Chamber. She then refused …
If you want to share the things you create; art, music, writing, crafts; you will reach a dilemma that involves dividing your time between creating, and learning how to effectively share what you’ve created. You will have to think about, research, compare, decide upon, engage with, manipulate, conduct trials, learn from errors, and finally, implement …
