Artificial Intelligence A Turing test is a human computer simulation named after Alan Turing, the character from the movie Imitation Game, about the British mathematician who broke the Nazi Enigma code. A turning test is when you have a computer program that simulates a human, based on the conversation. Every year they have […]
Gaslighting Hallucination Instinct
TV Show A friend of mine and I had just returned from a local bar and we’d decided to watch TV. The Simpsons came on, and I thought I recognized the episode. I told my friend all the funny things that were about to happen. He looked at me and said, this […]
Pancakes and Fractals
Old Woman There was this old woman sitting outside of her shop. She was sitting on the ground, not quite on the ground on a very low seat, and she had this big plastic pitcher of pancake batter. She would pour enough pancake batter onto a small electric griddle that was in front of […]
Hidden Box Of Pain
3D Vision The other day I was watching this really cool documentary on how our eyeballs and our brains work together to create this illusion of depth perception. I used to think that it was because only because we had two eyeballs kind of like a 3-D movie where you put on these glasses […]
Mind Illusions
Young Magician I have a neighbor and her son is in fifth grade. Lately he’s been practicing these card tricks, these magic tricks, and he’s getting pretty good. He’s got a very good little magician’s pattern going on. So far most of the tricks he’s been doing are called self-working card tricks. These are […]
Remembering Lost Memories
Sudden Illness Once upon a time I had a family member that had an unexpected medical situation. This unexpected medical situation required an unexpected medical procedure that would have this person in ICU for a couple days in the hospital for another week after that. Myself and a few other family members want to […]
How To More Easily Enjoy The Playground Of Life
I used to date this girl a few years ago, and we used to “hang out” in this family fun center. It was cool because on the week nights it was only ten bucks, and it was pretty much “all you can play,” meaning that all the different activities they had, like the laser tag, […]
Einstein’s Unsolved Paradox
Most people in the world know about Einstein, and how he was a supergenius that most people couldn’t understand. But there was one problem he was never able to solve. It was the “gravity-acceleration” paradox, and it goes like this. Imagine you’re in some room, similar to your room at home. There’s no windows, so […]
Who Defines YOUR Reality?
One of my favorite lines from the TV show “Breaking Bad” is also a fun pattern from NLP. It’s based on the idea of ambiguity, where you’ve got a bunch of words together in a sentence, and it’s unclear, since there’s more than one meaning, which words apply to which other words. Like for example, […]
Wisdom From Dumbledore
There’s a cool line from the Harry Potter movies (and books if you’ve read them) regarding the difference between imagination and reality. (spoiler alert lol) There’s a scene where Harry is supposedly “dead” and while he’s dead, he’s talking to another character (Dumbledore) who’s also “dead.” Dumbledore gives Harry a bunch of wizard wisdom, and […]