The Evolution of Cybernetics
A Journal

by Simon Funk


My mind stops on the top of a grassy hill, standing in a strong, warm wind, coming from nowhere, and returning there, under a twilight with no horizon. There once was someone standing there with me, in my mind, but that image has faded and now I stand alone for the brief eternity that is my life. The world is a mall of giftwrapped empty boxes, and my jaded heart no longer takes notice. I stand with open hands, waiting for substance. But it's all a facade, or so it seems. And with a blink, I am out.

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Wednesday, November 13, 2024Some Ideas
Thursday, July 18, 2024$30 Homebrew Automated Blinds Opener (7)
Wednesday, July 03, 2024The Hitchiker's Guide to... AI?
Friday, April 12, 2024Home Sweat Home (8)
Friday, March 08, 2024Apes of Paradise: A Young Lady's Guide to Men
Friday, September 29, 2023Paper Review: Relative gradient optimization of the Jacobian term in unsupervised deep learning
Wednesday, September 13, 2023Orthonormalizing PDM (1)
Monday, June 05, 2023Sleepdisk (Idle Disk Sleeper)
Sunday, May 21, 2023AI: Hello World
Saturday, May 06, 2023Trax (network activity tracker) (1)
Monday, July 25, 2022Covid Update: Another Year of Perspective (1)
Thursday, July 07, 2022Covid Update: Public Survey
Friday, February 04, 2022Covid Update: Vitamin D (1)
Tuesday, January 25, 2022Derationalizing, Part 2: Check your Blind Spot
Tuesday, January 25, 2022Derationalizing, Part 1: Question the Obvious
Friday, November 19, 2021Covid Update: VFR (3)
Thursday, October 28, 2021Time and Space (6)
Saturday, July 24, 2021Covid Update: Perspective (6)
Friday, July 02, 2021Telegram Channel
Sunday, June 27, 2021Gamebox (1)
Friday, June 04, 2021Changing an UltraStik 360 ID in linux
Monday, May 31, 2021$20 Homebrew Wifi Thermostat with Remote Sensor (1)
Sunday, February 14, 2021Thermo-Static (1)
Sunday, January 31, 20212020: The Year Science Died
Friday, January 29, 2021Covid Update: Herd Immunity or Seasonality? (4)
Friday, January 29, 2021Modeling Modelers
Sunday, January 17, 2021The Thinking Programmer
Sunday, January 03, 2021Time-o-saurus (1)
Saturday, December 19, 2020The Pioneers Get The Arrows
Wednesday, December 16, 2020Censorship and Section 230
Monday, December 07, 2020Covid Update: Media Still Failing (2)
Thursday, November 05, 2020High Time (1)
Thursday, October 15, 2020Covid Update: Media Fail
Friday, September 04, 2020Covid Update: Vitamin D, Herd Immunity
Tuesday, August 25, 2020Voting by Mail by Country (2)
Wednesday, August 12, 2020Covid: Correlations (1)
Saturday, August 08, 2020Covid: Winning Strategy
Friday, August 07, 2020Covid Update: Sweden's Eden (2)
Saturday, August 01, 202050 Grit Chocolate Ice Cream (1)
Monday, July 06, 2020$33 Homebrew Dishwasher Controller (2)
Monday, June 15, 2020FIRE!
Thursday, June 11, 2020Real Science
Thursday, June 11, 2020Removing Labels from Jars With No Residue (1)
Saturday, May 30, 2020Rememory
Wednesday, April 29, 2020Covid Update: The Cure Worsens the Disease (1)
Monday, April 27, 2020Covid Ramblings: Ignore (1)
Friday, April 24, 2020Covid Update: New York; Momentum (2)
Wednesday, April 22, 2020Covid Update: Herd Immunity (10)
Sunday, April 12, 2020Reality Cheque
Thursday, March 19, 2020COVID-19 vs The Flu (4)
Saturday, February 15, 2020Utility of Liberty
Friday, February 07, 2020Health Insurance Bullshit Squared
Sunday, February 02, 2020Monetary Homeopathy
Wednesday, January 08, 2020Health Insurance Bullshit
Monday, January 06, 2020Python API for wireless bluetooth thermometer (CVS/SmartTemp/Various..)
Tuesday, December 10, 2019Bluetooth LE library for Python3
Tuesday, December 10, 2019Airthings Wave+ Defacto API With History
Tuesday, December 03, 2019Science and The Argument from Lack of Imagination
Monday, October 21, 2019Antihero Fatigue
Friday, September 06, 2019The Common Descendant
Thursday, August 22, 2019Walking Away From the Media Bubble
Sunday, November 04, 2018UEFI Boot Process / Making a Bootable Hot Backup
Tuesday, October 23, 2018Cynic Duty 7 (1)
Saturday, October 20, 2018Sane about Politics
Wednesday, October 17, 2018Cynic Duty 6 (1)
Wednesday, October 10, 2018Cynic Duty 5 (1)
Saturday, October 06, 2018Sanma (1)
Wednesday, October 03, 2018Cynic Duty 4 (1)
Thursday, September 27, 2018Cynic Duty 3 (1)
Friday, September 14, 2018Slow Boat to ... Japan (21)
Saturday, September 01, 2018Simple PDM Test on Mnist Patches (2)
Thursday, August 23, 2018PDM Unchained
Tuesday, August 14, 2018Probability Density Magic
Friday, July 06, 2018Candid (2)
Sunday, June 03, 2018Nagnostic
Saturday, October 28, 2017Smorms3, Softmax, and Mnist (2)
Saturday, October 14, 2017Probability Density Mapping
Friday, September 01, 2017Engineering the News
Sunday, June 04, 2017Some Time
Saturday, January 28, 2017Down Under Going Down
Tuesday, January 10, 2017The Power of Suggestion
Thursday, January 05, 2017Down Under Minimum Wage
Wednesday, January 04, 2017In the News
Wednesday, November 30, 2016Dysautopia
Thursday, November 24, 2016E-Voting Made Simple (Take 3)
Saturday, October 08, 2016Welcome to AI (1)
Thursday, October 06, 2016Video Learning
Thursday, October 06, 2016Weighing Medicine
Monday, July 04, 2016The Automation Paradox
Friday, July 01, 2016Foresigh
Tuesday, June 21, 2016Be Careful What You Wish For
Friday, June 17, 2016Migraines, Sunlight, and CGRP
Sunday, May 29, 2016Top This (1)
Friday, May 20, 2016Strap-on Waldo
Sunday, May 01, 2016Simon Funk's AI... Gym?
Sunday, December 20, 2015Biased Confirmation
Tuesday, September 29, 2015Python Gets Yarn
Sunday, September 27, 2015Furf2 on Mnist (6)
Friday, July 31, 2015Robots Don't Kill People, People Kill People
Friday, June 26, 2015Weighing Samples
Sunday, June 07, 2015Self-Supervised Learning in Bayesian Trees (and Maybe DAGs) (4)
Wednesday, June 03, 2015Gradient of Auto-Normalized Probability Distributions
Friday, May 22, 2015Cheap, Deep Learning with Fusion-Reflection (2)
Monday, April 20, 2015RMSprop loses to SMORMS3 - Beware the Epsilon! (1)
Wednesday, April 15, 2015CHF loses to RMSprop (2)
Sunday, April 12, 2015Henry Darton
Wednesday, April 08, 2015The Neo-Industrial rEvolution
Thursday, January 22, 2015Quaker's Dozen
Sunday, December 21, 2014Self-Monitoring Sleep Apnea
Thursday, August 07, 2014Cynic Duty 2 (1)
Thursday, July 24, 2014Refactoring the Internet: Taking Down the Walls
Wednesday, July 16, 2014Three Islands
Sunday, March 30, 2014OKR 3 - Type Theory Weary (1)
Saturday, March 08, 2014Tentacle Math
Thursday, September 05, 2013An Open Letter to Friendly AI Proponents
Thursday, September 05, 2013Health and Life insurance
Sunday, September 01, 2013Idiopath
Friday, August 02, 2013OKR 2 - Examples of Intuitive Reasoning
Thursday, August 01, 2013The Future of Programming
Sunday, July 14, 2013Drawn Song (1) (1)
Saturday, July 13, 2013On Knowledge Representation
Friday, January 25, 2013Vax Datapoint
Wednesday, December 19, 2012Writing Stylez
Tuesday, December 18, 2012Free Market Sketch
Friday, November 23, 2012Do No Harm - on Problem Solving and Design (1)
Saturday, November 17, 2012Election Results Map (2)
Friday, May 25, 2012Getting Away With It
Friday, September 16, 2011Left of Center
Tuesday, August 23, 2011Getting Google Talk (VOIP) to Work in Firefox on Ubuntu Lucid
Sunday, July 31, 2011Pre-internet Chatlog (7)
Wednesday, July 13, 2011Painteresque for Android
Thursday, January 27, 2011News Scientist
Monday, December 13, 2010Not GTD
Sunday, November 07, 2010Faster Than The Wind (3)
Tuesday, November 02, 2010Idiocracy
Monday, November 01, 2010Mental Benchmarks
Wednesday, September 29, 2010Cynic Duty (1)
Tuesday, August 24, 2010Index Shares
Wednesday, July 28, 2010Happy Shredding
Sunday, July 25, 2010Gamed Show
Monday, July 19, 2010Meow
Sunday, July 18, 2010Behind the Power Curve (1)
Saturday, May 08, 2010Default or Inflation (choose your poison)
Wednesday, May 05, 2010Start with Why
Friday, April 02, 2010Recent Developments in Deep Learning
Monday, March 15, 2010Sex ID (39)
Saturday, December 26, 2009Sci Foo Slacker
Wednesday, November 25, 2009Jumpin' Willybeans!
Sunday, November 08, 2009Health Care Bill Overview
Saturday, November 07, 2009This is what you want, this is what you get...
Wednesday, November 04, 2009Peter Schiff for Senate
Sunday, October 18, 2009Turning on Water (1)
Monday, October 05, 2009AI Challenge: Compete, or Cooperate?
Tuesday, September 29, 2009Health Care - Act Now or Suffer
Tuesday, September 22, 2009Simon Funk's AI Challenge #1: Ball Passing
Tuesday, June 30, 2009SciFoo
Monday, June 15, 2009Wake, Walk, Work (4)
Monday, April 06, 2009Bits of Europe (29)
Monday, April 06, 2009Bits of History (4)
Wednesday, February 11, 2009Mock Spam
Saturday, January 03, 2009Observationalism
Wednesday, December 24, 2008Religion as Firmware
Saturday, December 06, 2008Early Memories
Saturday, December 06, 2008Color Test
Thursday, December 04, 2008Googlepation
Wednesday, November 12, 2008Thought for the Day - Majority Tyranny
Monday, November 10, 2008Generational Dynamics Summary (2)
Thursday, October 30, 2008The Devil in the Omitted Details
Wednesday, October 22, 2008Lectins vs Paleo
Thursday, October 09, 2008E-Voting Made Simple, Take 2
Tuesday, October 07, 2008Gold Standard Sigh
Friday, August 01, 2008Linear Pet Peeve (2)
Thursday, July 31, 2008Yarn (Cooperative Python Threads)
Sunday, June 29, 2008Fusion-Reflection - Self-Supervised Learning (4)
Friday, May 09, 2008Foresight in Hindsight (2)
Friday, May 09, 2008Tragedy of the Commoners
Friday, April 25, 2008GTD with Mutt
Friday, April 25, 2008I Found God
Thursday, April 10, 2008Science Entrepreneurs
Wednesday, April 09, 2008Jobs on Life
Sunday, March 30, 2008Snippet (3)
Tuesday, March 18, 2008Lahaina Lizard (2)
Thursday, March 06, 2008Young Patriots of California
Tuesday, March 04, 2008Krugman on the Economy
Tuesday, March 04, 2008Generational Dynamics--Hedge for the Edge
Wednesday, February 27, 2008Universal Self-Supervising Hierarchical Learning
Tuesday, February 26, 2008Removing Gooey Labels with Time (1)
Tuesday, February 26, 2008Wet Maui Monkey (6)
Wednesday, February 20, 2008Leaving the Matrix
Saturday, February 09, 2008Ministry of Truth
Sunday, January 27, 2008After Life Kindling, A Million SNiPs, Wester Yet, Drool... (2)
Saturday, January 12, 2008Painteresque (12)
Monday, January 07, 2008Fun with CafePress (6)
Thursday, December 20, 2007Turing Test
Sunday, December 09, 2007American Airlines Spam
Thursday, December 06, 2007Porn God
Friday, November 16, 2007An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything
Thursday, November 08, 2007Energizer Monkey
Thursday, November 08, 2007Reading is Believing
Sunday, November 04, 2007Random Goings On (3)
Thursday, November 01, 2007the American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007
Tuesday, October 30, 2007Tipping Point
Sunday, September 09, 2007Bunnies Vision (5)
Tuesday, August 28, 2007Lessons Never Learned
Sunday, August 26, 2007Cult of the Bound Variable
Friday, August 17, 2007Netflix Reprize
Wednesday, August 15, 2007Netflix SVD Derivation
Wednesday, August 08, 2007Still Art (1)
Saturday, August 04, 2007Life Imitating Art (2)
Friday, August 03, 2007Bunny Art (1)
Monday, July 30, 2007Bunny Vision (4)
Sunday, July 22, 2007Dr. Dunning-Kruger
Sunday, July 08, 2007Hanover Stream (4) (1)
Thursday, July 05, 2007Bright Eyes (4)
Tuesday, July 03, 2007Hanover (3)
Tuesday, May 15, 2007Southwest (11)
Tuesday, May 08, 2007More Nuggets
Monday, April 30, 2007South Island's West Coast (10)
Friday, April 27, 2007Nuggets
Monday, March 19, 2007This and That (2)
Sunday, December 24, 2006Plum Struck! (3)
Monday, December 18, 2006Shave and a Haircut (9)
Monday, December 11, 2006Netflix Update: Try This at Home (7)
Friday, December 01, 2006WWW: May Contain Gluten
Wednesday, November 29, 2006Two by Two
Tuesday, November 14, 2006Into the Night (4)
Saturday, November 04, 2006Kauri Camera Kaput (2)
Thursday, November 02, 2006Kitty Kitty (3)
Thursday, November 02, 2006Netflix Update: Don't Try This at Home
Tuesday, October 31, 2006Tree House Life (7)
Sunday, October 29, 2006Good Night, Ahipara (5)
Friday, October 27, 2006Netflix Challenge (1)
Friday, October 27, 2006Ahipara (4)
Saturday, October 21, 2006Offline
Thursday, October 19, 2006Backyard Stroll (6)
Tuesday, October 17, 2006Burningman 2006 (1)
Saturday, October 14, 2006Kerikeri (4)
Tuesday, October 03, 2006Credit Dew (1)
Thursday, September 07, 2006Summary Update
Wednesday, July 26, 2006Stim City
Monday, July 17, 2006After Life (Lulu Rocks) (3)
Saturday, July 08, 2006Dog's Eye View (3)
Friday, July 07, 2006Fun Toy - Wireless Video (2)
Wednesday, June 28, 2006A Fast, Quiet, Affordable machine for Ubuntu Dapper Linux (1)
Thursday, May 18, 2006There is no Moo
Tuesday, May 16, 2006Consciousness Is
Wednesday, May 03, 2006Captcha the Grand Prize (1)
Friday, April 28, 2006On Debating
Friday, April 21, 2006Pivotal Moments for the Turing Test
Thursday, April 20, 2006Boston Microbes
Wednesday, April 19, 2006Meta Connections on Flow
Thursday, April 13, 2006Joy Touch - P1120 Touchscreen on 2.6 Kernel in Ubuntu
Wednesday, April 12, 2006The Great Purge
Sunday, April 09, 2006Night Out (1)
Sunday, April 09, 2006Cute Weetew Centipede! (1)
Thursday, March 16, 2006Esrapy
Friday, March 03, 2006The Rest are Androids
Wednesday, March 01, 2006Symbolic Without Referents
Tuesday, February 21, 2006Rational Cynicism
Tuesday, January 31, 2006After Life
Friday, January 27, 2006What Do You Need from Linux?
Wednesday, January 25, 2006The Simon Treaty
Wednesday, January 25, 2006Bullshit Detector
Tuesday, January 24, 2006Email Sigs
Tuesday, January 24, 2006How to Do What You Love
Wednesday, January 04, 2006Inside the Machine (2)
Monday, December 26, 2005Procrastination
Saturday, December 24, 2005Walking Boston (4)
Thursday, December 22, 2005House of Cards (1)
Tuesday, December 13, 2005E-Voting Made Simple
Monday, December 05, 2005Beyond the Singularity
Monday, November 14, 2005Funkenstein (2)
Tuesday, November 01, 2005U.S. Health Care
Friday, October 07, 2005My New Look (1)
Thursday, October 06, 2005Tee Minus-Five (6)
Monday, October 03, 2005Fuse This (1)
Friday, September 30, 2005Ouch (1)
Saturday, September 17, 2005Pivot in Time (1)
Sunday, July 17, 2005European IQ Test
Tuesday, June 07, 2005Party Animal (2)
Saturday, June 04, 200542
Monday, May 30, 2005Sleeping With the Enemy (6)
Monday, May 09, 2005Sleepless in Vitro
Monday, May 09, 2005Maui: random photos/videos (10)
Friday, May 06, 2005Seeing Stars (1)
Saturday, April 16, 2005Catching Up. Moving Forward (1)
Tuesday, March 22, 2005Photo Log - Hamilton, Taupo, Wellington (13)
Sunday, March 20, 2005Offline
Thursday, March 17, 2005Navas Cafe
Friday, March 11, 2005Sonic (2)
Thursday, March 10, 2005Email -> Gmail
Tuesday, March 01, 2005The Future Begins Today... in theory (1)
Friday, February 11, 2005Where I've Lived (meme alert)
Friday, January 21, 2005Robonz Guy (3)
Saturday, January 15, 2005Lowest Tide Yet (7)
Thursday, January 13, 2005Steven Wright
Thursday, January 13, 2005Non-conformist Blues (1)
Tuesday, January 11, 2005Another Low Tide in St Heliers (9)
Wednesday, December 29, 2004San Diego Real Estate Chrono-Collapsometer (1)
Friday, December 24, 2004Mathemajician* (7)
Wednesday, December 22, 2004This Land is Joe's Land
Tuesday, December 14, 2004Low Tide in St Heliers (3)
Tuesday, December 14, 2004Northland Weekend (13)
Tuesday, December 14, 2004Image Wavelets: Summed or Multiplied? (technical)
Thursday, November 25, 2004Salt Liquorice (1)
Saturday, November 20, 2004Patently Ridiculous
Friday, November 12, 2004Bethell's and Muriwai (6)
Friday, November 05, 2004NZ Celebrates (3)
Tuesday, November 02, 2004The World According to CNN
Thursday, October 28, 2004Tipping Trees (2)
Sunday, October 24, 2004Imagine This
Thursday, October 21, 2004Programming in Syn
Friday, October 15, 2004How to Make Sand (2)
Thursday, October 14, 2004St Heliers - Quick Pics 2 (6)
Tuesday, October 05, 2004Why We Rationalize
Wednesday, September 29, 2004A Glass is a Glass
Sunday, September 26, 2004St Heliers - Quick Pics (4)
Friday, September 24, 2004Ponsonby to St Heliers (7)
Tuesday, September 21, 2004(Offline)
Monday, September 20, 2004Half Empty, or Half Full?
Tuesday, August 17, 2004RGBCY
Monday, August 16, 2004Sad
Thursday, July 29, 2004Great Hackers
Wednesday, July 28, 2004Chaotic Flow, Focus, and Interrupts
Wednesday, July 28, 2004Ponsonby Road
Friday, July 23, 2004Eat Me, Drink Me, Read Me
Wednesday, July 21, 2004Rolling Back Government: Lessons from New Zealand
Monday, July 05, 2004Tuning My Peripherals (3)
Tuesday, June 22, 2004So, where is Old Zealand? (8)
Saturday, May 22, 2004Today's Magic is Today's Science
Thursday, May 06, 2004Supported to Death
Thursday, May 06, 2004Early Experiments in Human Transportation
Wednesday, May 05, 2004If She Only Had a Brain (1)
Tuesday, May 04, 2004Tolerating Hypocrites
Thursday, April 29, 2004Trebuchet (1)
Tuesday, April 27, 2004Today's Physics Demonstration
Monday, April 26, 2004Big Cheese, Big Box (1)
Saturday, April 24, 2004Size Doesn't Matter
Friday, April 23, 2004Squiggly and Green (3)
Saturday, April 03, 2004Odd One More
Wednesday, March 24, 2004Doublethink is Doubleplusungood!
Tuesday, March 23, 2004Marginally Predictive Pleasures and Pains
Thursday, March 04, 2004Corporate Batter
Wednesday, February 18, 2004The Science of Love
Saturday, February 07, 2004Airport Karma, continued... (boring)
Thursday, February 05, 2004Airport Karma
Sunday, February 01, 2004Eharmony
Saturday, January 31, 2004Hell Frozen Over
Sunday, January 25, 2004Snow in Praha (10)
Sunday, January 25, 2004Look at the Bones! (9)
Thursday, January 22, 2004Cau to Cesky Krumlov (1)
Tuesday, January 20, 2004A Moment of Sunlight (2)
Sunday, January 18, 2004The Boars and the Beeves (4)
Friday, January 16, 2004Food and Money (2)
Thursday, January 15, 2004Cesky Krumlov (9)
Wednesday, January 14, 2004Prague to Cesky Krumlov (11)
Tuesday, January 13, 2004Beats, Eats, and Cheats of Prague (5)
Monday, January 12, 2004A little more Prague (9)
Sunday, January 11, 2004Preston to Prague (8)
Friday, January 09, 2004Offline
Tuesday, January 06, 2004A Family Outing in Lancashire (17)
Tuesday, January 06, 2004Preston, U.K. (7)
Wednesday, December 31, 2003Presto! We're in Preston (1)
Friday, December 26, 2003I'm in the Fine Print (1)
Sunday, December 21, 2003Democracy is Tyranny Without Revolutions (3)
Saturday, December 13, 2003Lucia, and Early Winter Images (2)
Thursday, December 04, 2003In My Head (1)
Monday, December 01, 2003Chicken in Walnut-Pomegranate Sauce
Sunday, November 30, 2003Arachibutyrophobia II
Wednesday, November 26, 2003Gender Unbender
Sunday, November 23, 2003(LJ Administrivia)
Saturday, November 22, 2003Killer Quiz
Wednesday, November 19, 2003Justified (1)
Monday, November 17, 2003More Taxing Thoughts
Monday, November 17, 2003Is ectomorphism an evolved specialization?
Saturday, November 15, 2003Some Things Best Remain a Mystery (1)
Friday, November 14, 2003Where the Future Went (1)
Wednesday, November 05, 2003Health Care, Here and There
Sunday, November 02, 2003Tragedy of the Social Commons
Sunday, November 02, 2003Linköping Moments (2)
Thursday, October 23, 2003I Can Quit Any Time I Want (1)
Wednesday, October 22, 2003Corporate Mouser (1)
Monday, October 20, 2003A little more Linköping (6)
Saturday, October 18, 2003Offline, Hej!
Tuesday, October 14, 2003Of Food and Trees and Shopping Malls (14)
Wednesday, October 01, 2003London for Lunch (5)
Thursday, September 25, 2003Cannon PowerShot S400 (8)
Saturday, September 20, 2003Hurricane Day (3)
Wednesday, September 17, 2003Laptop Day (4)
Thursday, September 11, 2003Linux (Mandrake 9.1/Ubuntu Breezy 5.10) on a Fujitsu P1120 (1)
Wednesday, September 03, 2003Random Update (6)
Tuesday, August 26, 2003Simon's Hierarchy of Consciousness
Tuesday, August 26, 2003Tax and Invest
Tuesday, August 26, 2003Robot Economics
Sunday, August 10, 2003Brownian Emotion (4)
Saturday, August 02, 2003Sleep Around the World (1)
Friday, August 01, 2003Trip Report Trivia (2)
Friday, August 01, 2003Portland, OR (1)
Sunday, July 13, 2003Things To Do With One Hand
Tuesday, July 08, 2003Ectomorphs
Thursday, June 26, 2003I am not a Spam
Wednesday, June 25, 2003ICFP 2003
Tuesday, June 24, 2003Metacarpal Mitosis (6)
Sunday, June 15, 2003George W. Bush Flag (1)
Thursday, June 12, 2003Brain Usage Profile
Friday, June 06, 2003Rant. Ignore.
Friday, June 06, 2003A Tincture of P*
Monday, June 02, 2003Thinking
Thursday, May 29, 2003Translations for the Gothically Challenged (1)
Wednesday, May 28, 2003Thus Quoteth the Humble Misanthrope (1)
Thursday, May 22, 2003Friendster
Wednesday, May 21, 2003Focus on Infinity
Tuesday, May 20, 2003Welcome to the Future (7)
Tuesday, May 13, 2003Astray Cat
Friday, May 09, 2003Twilight Connoisseur (6)
Sunday, April 20, 2003Fish and Gaim (3)
Sunday, April 13, 2003So, How's the Weather? (3)
Saturday, April 12, 2003March of the Earthly Possessions
Saturday, April 05, 2003E-Life
Wednesday, April 02, 2003New Zealand Report
Monday, March 31, 2003New Zealand Wrap-up (1)
Sunday, March 30, 2003Raglan (5)
Saturday, March 29, 2003Wanganui (3)
Thursday, March 27, 2003From Punakaiki to Takaka (4)
Wednesday, March 26, 2003to Punakaiki via Hokitika and Greymouth (10)
Tuesday, March 25, 2003Drive to Franz Josef Glacier (10)
Monday, March 24, 2003to Wanaka (7)
Sunday, March 23, 2003to Queenstown (Booking??) (9)
Saturday, March 22, 2003Around Dunedin (12)
Friday, March 21, 2003Le Bons Bay to Akaroa to Dunedin (13)
Thursday, March 20, 2003Kaikoura to Le Bons Bay (6)
Wednesday, March 19, 2003To Kaikoura (8)
Tuesday, March 18, 2003From Takaka back to Nelson (5)
Monday, March 17, 2003More Golden Bay (13)
Sunday, March 16, 2003Over the Hills to Takaka (18)
Saturday, March 15, 2003Ferry to Picton, Road to Nelson (11)
Friday, March 14, 2003The Road to Wellington (10)
Thursday, March 13, 2003Drive to Palmerston North (12)
Wednesday, March 12, 2003Taupo to Napier (11)
Tuesday, March 11, 2003To Taupo (8)
Monday, March 10, 2003The Road to Tauranga, Mt Maunganui (18)
Sunday, March 09, 2003Waitekeri and Piha (11)
Saturday, March 08, 2003Auckland, Devonport, and Ponsonby (12)
Friday, March 07, 2003Russell to Muriwai (13)
Thursday, March 06, 2003Bay of Islands (16)
Wednesday, March 05, 2003Auckland to Russell (14)
Tuesday, March 04, 2003Auckland and Waitakere (5)
Saturday, March 01, 2003Lick and Stick Starch Peanuts!
Friday, February 21, 2003Umn, where was I?
Tuesday, February 18, 2003Eek!
Thursday, February 13, 2003Tahome (3)
Tuesday, February 04, 2003The Ants go Marching; Blue Subaru; Olivurky
Monday, January 27, 2003Choice over Destiny
Monday, January 27, 2003Willy
Saturday, January 25, 2003The Unusual Routine (2)
Monday, January 20, 2003Apples and Oranges (2)
Saturday, January 18, 2003Excerpts From a Cat's Diary
Tuesday, January 14, 2003Hacking la Femme
Sunday, January 05, 2003Bearly Legal (2)
Wednesday, January 01, 2003Hung Over; Things Can Only Get Better
Sunday, December 29, 2002I'm a Moron (shoulda gone around the world...)
Friday, December 27, 2002P is for Pain
Monday, December 23, 2002Forgotten Thoughts
Friday, December 20, 2002Growing Up (19)
Thursday, December 19, 2002Why Journal?
Thursday, December 19, 2002Penny Patrons (3)
Thursday, December 12, 2002It Is Time
Wednesday, December 11, 2002Life for Sale -- Hurry while supplies last!
Monday, December 09, 2002Life is Now. What are you waiting for?
Sunday, December 08, 2002Stripping a Pomegranate
Thursday, November 28, 2002Censored
Saturday, November 23, 2002Privacy, or Sanity?
Saturday, November 23, 2002Shoe-out
Saturday, November 16, 2002Cynicism
Tuesday, November 12, 2002Life Goes On.. And so does this entry. (3)
Saturday, November 02, 2002Feedback
Wednesday, October 30, 2002The Elements of Statistical Learning
Monday, October 28, 2002Meta Skepticism
Sunday, October 27, 2002Catalyst (3)
Saturday, October 19, 2002The Flow
Friday, October 18, 2002Empty Glass
Friday, October 18, 2002Live Journal (1)
Wednesday, October 09, 2002The "Freethinking" Dogma
Wednesday, October 09, 2002Better Than I Thought
Sunday, October 06, 2002Sight of Sound (2)
Friday, October 04, 2002Efficient Market Hypothesis
Monday, September 30, 2002Self (1)
Monday, September 30, 2002Don't Try This at Home (1)
Sunday, September 29, 2002A Life in the Day of Simon Funk
Friday, September 27, 2002Red Skies at Night
Wednesday, September 25, 2002Hibernation, Migration, Prozac, or.. What?
Saturday, September 21, 2002Planet Misanthropia
Friday, September 20, 2002The Land of Mysanthropia
Thursday, September 19, 2002Memento (1)
Thursday, September 12, 2002Chillin
Wednesday, September 11, 2002Ding!
Wednesday, September 04, 2002Shredding
Tuesday, September 03, 2002ICFP Programming Contest
Tuesday, September 03, 2002Passion Fruit Envy (2)
Monday, September 02, 2002Free Science
Thursday, August 29, 2002Never Hurts to Ask
Wednesday, August 28, 2002Woodpecker Pics (2)
Tuesday, August 27, 2002Exponent Junkie
Sunday, August 18, 2002State of the Art (and World)
Thursday, August 15, 2002Just Another Notch in the Wheels of Time
Wednesday, August 07, 2002Waterflow in the Abysmal Gardens (2)
Tuesday, July 30, 2002Multiplexing (1)
Monday, July 29, 2002XEmailX
Friday, July 26, 2002Waves and Wavelets (1)
Tuesday, July 23, 2002Caution: Mad Scientist at Work
Monday, July 22, 2002The Watcher (3)
Friday, July 19, 2002The Center of the Spiral
Friday, July 12, 2002Frankenphone (3) (1)
Monday, July 08, 2002How Many Sheeple Must Die?
Sunday, July 07, 2002Geek Log (15)
Tuesday, July 02, 2002Feeling Down, Ladies?
Tuesday, July 02, 2002Why I Love Linux
Monday, July 01, 2002The Will to Live; Denied
Saturday, June 22, 2002The Ants Win
Thursday, June 20, 2002Ping
Tuesday, June 18, 2002Doctors Make Me Sick
Thursday, June 13, 2002More Handywork
Tuesday, June 11, 2002Handywork (3)
Sunday, June 09, 2002Running from the Homunculus
Wednesday, June 05, 2002Gnomes (1)
Sunday, June 02, 2002Ravioli Net
Wednesday, May 29, 2002Private Showing
Monday, May 27, 2002Planted Seeds and Faces (5)
Saturday, May 25, 2002I'm Cool!
Friday, May 24, 2002Garden Robot
Friday, May 24, 2002Cirque du Soleil
Thursday, May 23, 2002Multihop Bandaids
Tuesday, May 21, 2002Just to Clarify
Friday, May 17, 2002Vanilla Sky Kit
Sunday, April 14, 2002Home Movies
Sunday, April 07, 2002Pineapple Resurrection (5)
Saturday, March 30, 2002Social Vice
Sunday, March 24, 2002"All Restaurants are Taco Bell" (1)
Wednesday, March 20, 2002I, Mac (2)
Sunday, March 17, 2002Daymares
Tuesday, March 12, 2002Swinging Bridges (6)
Sunday, March 10, 2002Ack
Friday, March 08, 2002Portraits (2)
Thursday, March 07, 2002Profiled
Monday, March 04, 2002Ectomorph Circus (11)
Saturday, March 02, 2002Wandering Heart (2)
Saturday, March 02, 2002Whiteboard 4 (5)
Friday, March 01, 2002Crater
Friday, February 22, 2002The Hair and the Turtle
Thursday, February 21, 2002Bug Attack (7)
Sunday, February 10, 2002Good Judgment
Friday, February 08, 2002The Sun of Iao (5)
Tuesday, February 05, 2002Judgment and the Placebo of Love
Monday, February 04, 2002Sun Contacts
Thursday, January 31, 2002Moody Skies (5)
Wednesday, January 30, 2002Whiteboard 3 (4)
Wednesday, January 30, 2002Jackson Skies (8)
Wednesday, January 23, 2002Picture Window (10)
Wednesday, January 23, 2002Nothing Ever Changes
Tuesday, January 22, 2002I Dream
Saturday, January 12, 2002Twilight (2)
Saturday, January 12, 2002Whiteboard 2 (2)
Friday, January 11, 2002Touch
Monday, January 07, 2002Strange Weather; Jaws (11)
Saturday, January 05, 2002Work of Art
Saturday, January 05, 2002Fingerprint of a Soul
Wednesday, January 02, 2002Funnier Moments; NYE
Sunday, December 30, 2001Bugs in my Eyes (1)
Friday, December 28, 2001Whiteboard 1 (1)
Thursday, December 27, 2001Giant Bathtubbies (1)
Thursday, December 27, 2001Waves. No, Really. (3)
Wednesday, December 26, 2001Alien Truck Stop
Wednesday, December 26, 2001Truth and Beauty
Friday, December 21, 2001Gecko, Hunting (4)
Tuesday, December 18, 2001The Impossible
Monday, December 17, 2001Shrimpydinks (2)
Sunday, December 16, 2001Beans Away (1)
Friday, December 14, 2001More Land (19)
Friday, December 14, 2001Taking my House for a Drive
Thursday, December 13, 2001Everything
Thursday, December 13, 2001Suing the Dead
Wednesday, December 12, 2001The Track
Monday, December 10, 2001Land (20)
Saturday, December 08, 2001Look Closer
Tuesday, December 04, 2001Me (2)
Monday, December 03, 2001Anonymity vs. the Transparent Society
Monday, December 03, 2001Peter (4)
Monday, December 03, 2001Our New View (1)
Saturday, December 01, 2001Jibes, Tacos, and Squid (1)
Friday, November 30, 2001Urban Disclosure
Friday, November 30, 2001Urban Enclosure (5)
Thursday, November 29, 2001Parasitic Drag (6)
Sunday, November 25, 2001Zerogamy
Friday, November 09, 2001Now Maui (1)
Thursday, November 01, 2001Shaving (1)
Friday, October 26, 2001More History (4)
Friday, October 26, 2001Digitizing my Heritage (2)
Friday, October 12, 2001ADHD
Saturday, October 06, 2001Open Lockers, Open Source, Open Space
Tuesday, October 02, 2001Insults and Injuries
Saturday, September 29, 2001Small Things (4)
Tuesday, September 25, 2001Now and Then
Sunday, September 23, 2001Up Late
Saturday, September 22, 2001Adaptive Religion
Friday, September 21, 2001Academia Nut
Monday, September 17, 2001Motivations
Wednesday, September 12, 2001Egoist Ethics - A New Look
Wednesday, September 12, 2001Rise of the Nazis
Tuesday, September 11, 2001There Is No Sanctuary
Tuesday, September 11, 2001Brazil (1984)
Thursday, August 30, 2001IP^2: Intellectual Property Purgatory
Thursday, August 30, 2001Just Remove Water (1)
Sunday, August 26, 2001See Life
Friday, August 24, 2001How Not to Handle an INTP
Thursday, August 23, 2001Where There's a Way, There's a Will
Wednesday, August 22, 2001Cast Away Envy
Sunday, August 19, 2001Identity, Depression, Obsession
Thursday, August 16, 2001Cop Magnet; Century Tree; Motor Head (1)
Thursday, August 09, 2001The Paranoid Personals Pawn
Thursday, August 09, 2001Heritage
Monday, August 06, 2001Customized Personality Sorter
Sunday, July 22, 2001Aren't Atheists Closed-Minded?
Friday, July 20, 2001Awallists
Tuesday, July 10, 2001Phantoms in the Brain
Tuesday, July 10, 2001Fragment of my Imagination
Wednesday, June 20, 2001Boston
Wednesday, June 20, 2001Open Travelers
Sunday, June 10, 2001de France (2)
Saturday, June 09, 2001The Lizard Dance (5)
Tuesday, June 05, 2001Chain of Thought
Monday, June 04, 2001Rings a Bell
Saturday, June 02, 2001Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
Friday, June 01, 2001Body Whomping Baja; Euro 1974 (3)
Sunday, May 27, 2001Profits; Stupidity; Leaping Lizards
Saturday, May 12, 2001Hungarian Fire Cherries
Wednesday, May 09, 2001Flashback: Europe 1986, Part II
Monday, May 07, 2001The Inverted Cave
Sunday, May 06, 2001Flashback: Europe 1986, Part I
Sunday, May 06, 2001Obsessing (2)
Sunday, May 06, 2001Dirt (4)
Sunday, April 29, 2001The Mechanical Self
Wednesday, April 18, 2001Happiness is a Dandelion Futon
Thursday, March 22, 2001Weighing In (1)
Wednesday, March 21, 2001Claws, S.
Tuesday, March 20, 2001Surviving (Reboot)
Monday, January 22, 2001Humming Along (Interlude) (3)
Monday, December 11, 2000Settling Dust
Monday, December 11, 2000Ruby Slippers
Saturday, December 09, 2000Ruby Death March
Tuesday, December 05, 2000Eliza After Death
Tuesday, November 28, 2000Collected Thoughts
Tuesday, November 28, 2000Zero-Sum Economics
Thursday, November 23, 2000Hate and Evil
Monday, November 20, 2000Last Night, I Had a Dream
Saturday, November 18, 2000Presupposition; Lolita; Maui Women (2)
Saturday, November 18, 2000Faux Pas; When I was Jung
Wednesday, November 08, 2000Ouch
Monday, November 06, 2000Nature
Sunday, November 05, 2000Neurillogic
Sunday, October 29, 2000Growing Up...
Friday, October 27, 2000Jaffo's Idealism Survey
Sunday, October 22, 2000Visuals: Land and Sea (7)
Saturday, October 21, 2000Visuals: Wind and Sea (5)
Wednesday, October 18, 2000Visuals: Sky and Sea (3)
Wednesday, October 18, 2000Ahi Poke'
Tuesday, October 17, 2000Beyond American Beauty
Monday, October 16, 2000Migraine
Monday, October 16, 2000The End is Here, Always
Saturday, October 14, 2000Life Imitating Life (2)
Tuesday, October 03, 2000Hic!
Tuesday, October 03, 2000Woosh!
Sunday, October 01, 2000Qualified to Care
Saturday, September 30, 2000I'm an Optimist?
Saturday, September 30, 2000Time Capsule (4)
Saturday, September 30, 2000Holy Mother of God
Tuesday, September 26, 2000On the Interactions Between Emotions and Awareness
Tuesday, September 26, 2000Reading; Megacorp QA
Saturday, September 23, 2000BurningJoe; Burning Cane; Burning Skies (3)
Sunday, September 17, 2000Man-o-War (4)
Saturday, September 16, 2000Club 23
Friday, September 15, 2000Born of Silence
Wednesday, September 13, 2000A Kula Place to Live (4)
Tuesday, September 12, 2000I, Cyrano
Monday, September 11, 2000Chasing the Sun (1)
Saturday, September 09, 2000The Journal Effect
Thursday, September 07, 2000Stop, Non-Stop (1)
Sunday, September 03, 2000Fast Food--Simon Style (2)
Tuesday, August 29, 2000The Cognitive Role of Dreaming
Sunday, August 27, 2000Superhero: Will Work for Food (1)
Sunday, August 27, 2000Atonal Tantrums (1)
Friday, August 25, 2000Jaffo
Tuesday, August 22, 2000Life's Too Short to be Afraid of Dying
Monday, August 21, 2000Another Dream
Saturday, August 19, 2000Last Night, I Had a Dream
Friday, August 18, 2000Belief
Friday, August 18, 2000Rating Places; Compactified Rodents (1)
Wednesday, August 16, 2000High Thaim
Monday, August 14, 2000Rhythm
Saturday, August 12, 2000Flashback '96: Claim Jumper and The Day of the Helicopters
Wednesday, August 09, 2000Late Last Night
Tuesday, August 08, 2000Dialects and Dialogs
Sunday, August 06, 2000Leisure Time
Thursday, August 03, 2000Resilience
Tuesday, August 01, 2000Louisiana Kitchen Sink (8)
Saturday, July 22, 2000United Delays; Flaming Cheese; American Women
Friday, July 21, 2000Too Good Days' Harvest (1)
Wednesday, July 19, 2000I'm a Retro Telebaby
Friday, July 14, 2000Guinevere
Thursday, July 13, 2000Seventh Dimensional State of Consciousness
Tuesday, July 11, 2000A Good Day's Harvest (1)
Monday, July 10, 2000Meta Vicarious; Mega Todo
Sunday, July 09, 2000Re-balanced Diet; Into Intp
Wednesday, July 05, 2000And The Coin Flipped Me; Timeless Companions
Monday, July 03, 2000Our Own Little World (1)
Wednesday, June 28, 2000The End; The Unending; The Beginning?
Saturday, June 24, 2000INTP
Thursday, June 22, 2000Subdury Meltdown (News from "Home")
Wednesday, June 21, 2000A Strange Illusion
Tuesday, June 20, 2000United Sucks; Muddy without a Shower
Friday, June 16, 2000BBQ'd Entropy Cherubs
Tuesday, June 13, 2000There's a Train on my Lawn; It's a Shallow World After All (2)
Monday, June 12, 2000Another Perspective
Saturday, June 10, 2000Interlude (1)
Tuesday, June 06, 2000The State of Computers (2)
Saturday, June 03, 2000Pluses and Minuses
Tuesday, May 30, 2000Law and Disorder
Saturday, May 27, 2000You Loser!
Friday, May 19, 2000Living by Default
Thursday, May 18, 2000Panorama (1)
Tuesday, May 16, 2000The Day Of Transitions (1)
Sunday, May 14, 2000Defaulting, Wireless, and the Giant Papaya Tree (1)
Saturday, May 13, 2000Patent Pended
Friday, May 12, 2000Burning Out, Patent Pending
Thursday, May 11, 2000Listening
Wednesday, May 10, 2000Mauiland
Sunday, May 07, 2000Welcome Home?
Saturday, May 06, 2000High Thai'm (1)
Friday, May 05, 2000Realty is not Reality
Thursday, May 04, 2000Kona Day One -- the Island Without Hope (4)
Tuesday, April 25, 2000Life at Sudbury Maui; House of Twos; Wireless
Friday, April 21, 2000Quatlus
Tuesday, April 18, 2000Get Your Shoulder out of my Face
Monday, April 17, 2000Two Threads End, Many Tangle
Tuesday, April 11, 2000Simon's Log, Stardate whatever whatever...
Wednesday, March 15, 2000Insertion by Helicopter
Monday, March 13, 2000Companionship Is...
Sunday, March 12, 2000Music as Thought Avoidance
Monday, March 06, 2000The Story of Mom (1)
Thursday, March 02, 2000A brief and brutal experiment in anarchy.
Wednesday, March 01, 2000Sudbury Coup and Critical Me
Wednesday, February 23, 2000The Man Who Would Be King
Tuesday, February 22, 2000The Garrett* and Simon Show, and Open Relationship Propriety
Monday, February 21, 2000Syncronous Failure
Sunday, February 20, 2000Synthetic Foreskin
Wednesday, February 16, 2000Walking on Water, and The Piano
Monday, February 14, 2000Fouga! (1)
Saturday, February 12, 2000A Synopsis by Daydream
Friday, February 11, 2000Administrivia Gripe and the Pono Tease
Monday, February 07, 2000Scripting the Journal - A Meta Entry
Sunday, January 23, 2000Poolside Ponos, Powerbook Prowess, and Girlfriends from God
Tuesday, January 18, 2000Head Work
Friday, January 14, 2000More Sudbury Ponderrings
Monday, January 10, 2000Terminal Mom and a Staff Blurb Draft
Wednesday, January 05, 2000Sudbury Homeopathy, and Megacorp Hell
Friday, December 24, 1999Flip-Side Flier
Wednesday, December 08, 1999Sudbury Assimilation
Tuesday, December 07, 1999Legacy of Trust
Saturday, December 04, 1999Mauitian Slurprise
Friday, December 03, 1999A Ride with the Sudbury Kids
Wednesday, December 01, 1999Megacorp and The Road to Computer Hell
Thursday, November 18, 1999Free at Last
Sunday, November 14, 1999The Wanted Unwanted Guests -- Life at Sudbury Maui
Thursday, November 11, 1999Kaira, Checkers, and Bugs
Wednesday, November 10, 1999Synchronous Success
Tuesday, November 09, 1999I Spy...
Monday, November 08, 1999Ewok City, First Sudbury Visit, and the Tantra Teacher
Sunday, November 07, 1999Sailing Out to Sea, Ooblik, and Eric
Friday, November 05, 1999Mauitian Pastimes, Eric Nid, the Sleeping Phone Rep, and Sudbury
Saturday, October 30, 1999More Stationary Windsurfing
Friday, October 29, 1999Five Star Credit and the Stationary Windsurfer
Thursday, October 28, 1999Critical Bananamass and the Legal Machine
Wednesday, October 27, 1999Banana Overflow, Through the Worm Hole, and The End of Go
Tuesday, October 26, 1999Humans as Pets, and Casanova's Unremarkable Pizza
Monday, October 25, 1999Paul, Rick, No-Fault Insurance, and the Propane Gang
Sunday, October 24, 1999The Propane Wiz, Birthing Bananas, and the Un-Hierachy of Goals
Saturday, October 23, 1999A Swarm of Rain, a Pheasant, and Circle Code
Friday, October 22, 1999Maui Pick-up Lines, Feeding the Locals, and Garrett*'s Reflections
Thursday, October 21, 1999Reichart*, Kafka, and Garrett*-berries
Wednesday, October 20, 1999Ho'okipa, Shanti, and the House of Twos
Tuesday, October 19, 1999Guri Guri and the Shipping Strike
Monday, October 18, 1999Beyond Kula Lodge, Kafka, and the Cops
Sunday, October 17, 1999Jay's Place and the MTBF (Mean Time Between Fruit [Falling])
Saturday, October 16, 1999Maui's Wormhole to Costco
Friday, October 15, 1999Aloha! Please Check Your Brain at the Airport
Thursday, October 14, 1999Hotel LAX -- The Maui Journey Begins
Friday, October 08, 1999Tiles, Ticos, and Strippers, Oh My! Also: Maui News, the Un-Dead Dad, and Storms
Saturday, October 02, 1999Meta Procrastenation and the Neural Revolution
Friday, October 01, 1999Un-Sex and Cool Logic
Wednesday, September 29, 1999Home Depot, Open Relationships, and American Beauty
Tuesday, September 28, 1999Measuring tiles, and Concept Representation
Monday, September 27, 1999Hello World

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