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Location: Texas, United States
Birthday: 11/5/1983
Gender: Male
Interests: a lil bit of guitar, a lil bit of singin, and consumin large quantities of bulgolgi
Occupation: Artist
Industry: Hospitality
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Member Since:
8/5/2003
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| This is something I've always wondered about since I was a lil boy.
Every wonder what goes through the
minds of historical greats like the Einsteins, the Freuds and the Da Vincis?
So I'm sitting in Athena working on a
final project with Leo. I'm reading a book written by the Marvin
Minsky, the Founder of MIT AI Lab, and I came across something pretty
interesting:
We admire our Einsteins, Shakespeares, and Beethovens—and many people insist that
their accomplishments are inspired by "gifts" that no one could ever explain. If so,
then machines could never do such things because (at least, in the popular view) no
machine could hold any mysteries.
However, when one has the fortune to meet one of those persons that we portray as
“great,” one finds no single, unusual trait that seems to account for their
excellence. Instead (at least it seems to me) what we find are unusual combinations
of otherwise common ingredients.
They are highly proficient in their fields.
(But by itself we just call this expertise.)
They have more than usual self-confidence. (Hence better withstand the scorn of peers.)
They often persist where others would quit. (But others may just call this stubbornness.)
They
accumulate more ways to
think. (But
then they’ll need better ways to switch.)
They
habitually think in novel
ways (But
so do others, albeit less frequently.)
They often reflect on their goals and ideals. (Or are less reluctant to modify them.)
They
have better systems for self-control.
(So they waste less time on irrelevant goals.)
They reject many popular myths and beliefs. (Especially about what cannot be achieved.)
They tend to keep thinking more of the time. (They spend less effort at wasting their minds.)
They excel at explaining what they've done. (So their work is less likely to fade from neglect.)
They tend to make better credit-assignments. (So they learn more from less experience.)
Everyone has some share of each such trait, but few develop so many of them to such unusually great extents.
Hm...
interesting yeah?
The book is called
the Emotion Machine and the class is The Society of Mind. Go
google it. It's actually been slashdoted before.
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| This weekend, check out the Annual Phi Delts CPW Noize Party:
Cooked up a poster for it:
On another note: ATTENTION ALL SENIORS:
I'm running for Alumni Class President! Check my platform out:
http://seniors-vote.mit.edu
and
go vote at http://web.mit.edu/seniorelect
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| Just made this today:
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| To start it off:
The weather this weekend was absolutely GORGEOUS. To show you the comparison
This is what Boston normally looks like:
Now this was Boston this weekend:
Beautiful yeah? I know. Unbelievable.
Man, this weekend was soo fun! Haven't gone out in a while in
such a long time. Spent some quality time with close friends (got
a quick tan along the way).
Friday, ACF was awesome - got to see King Cong give her story and had a
good time catching up with some people from the fellowhsip. Then,
I went to the 07's club night with some of my favorite 07's (as a
parent chaperone, of course. haha). Saturday, saw the
amazing a cappella people of Boston at Break It Down Boston. Ahhhh..
brings back great memories! Then, went down the river and partied
it up Ivy-League style with the Harvard peeps. Sunday, got to
meet all the lovely people of BCEC and heard Jeanette gave her
testimony, was very blessed by it. Then at night, Trevor and Taso got us a HUGE boat for the Phi Delts
semi. Fun fun times, I got to chll with my orientation
buddy - Fawnie, the Mongolian Princess. Marathon day was a blast,
got to see my boys Eugene, Chris Tsai, and p-mont run in the
friggin Boston Marathon. That was hott. Dang man,.props to you guys. Then we
took Walter out for a good birthday dinner at Koreana's. Good
times. Tonight, Phantom of the Opera with some more awesome
people. including my athena buddy tiffy, my bro walter and jason,
and the Ugly Girl. caliente. And here's something to
top it all off:
Ladies and Gentlemen, *drum roll*
I present to you, the MIT 2006 Senior Class President:
Kimberley Wu
HAHAHA
What a FOB!
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