English translation by Stuart Gilbert published by Vintage Books, New York in 1946 — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays, English translation from the French by Justin O’Brien published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York in 1967 Kamil Daoud, The Mersault Investigation, originally published in French in 2013, English translation by John Cullen published by Other Press, New York in 2015 …

Part 4: A Clinical Psychology Diagnosis This is my fourth, and final, article about Christopher Nolan’s 2000 neo-noir psychological thriller film, Memento. Links to my three earlier posts can be found by scrolling to the bottom of this article. My personal copy of the two disc Special Edition DVD of…

Ratios instead of summations — In a previous post, I discussed Trichromatic Theories of Color Vision that were originally formulated by Young and Helmholtz in the 1800s. https://www.cantorsparadise.com/trichromatic-color-theory-33f1eefbaa68 These theories explain color matches based on linear summations of photon absorptions in three different kinds of cone photoreceptors. In this post, I am going to describe…

Personal Reflections Tom Harbin, Waking up Blind, Langdon Street Press, 2009. Shortly before 6 pm on September 12, 1983, I found myself sitting in the surgery suite at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. What I did not know at the time, but learned later, was that a horrible mistake…

Part 4. Neural Plasticity and ANN Training — This is the fourth, and last, in my series of posts about biological and artificial neural network (ANN) solutions to driving an automobile. Part 1 summarized some of the early history of attempts to use Formal Neurons to build models called Perceptrons. Part 2 discussed issues related to the architecture…

Part 3. Partial Completion and Dynamics — This is the third in my series of posts about attempts to apply artificial neural networks (ANNs) to machine vision. Part 1 summarized some of the early history of attempts to use Formal Neurons to build models called Perceptrons. Part 2 discussed issues related to the architecture that is needed…

Part 2. Architecture — In Part 1 of this series of posts, I summarized some of the early history of attempts to apply artificial neural networks (ANNs) to machine vision. One of the earliest models, called the Perceptron, was proposed by Rosenblatt in the 1950s.¹ …

Part 1. An Origin Story — Tesla recently announced that the next version of its Tesla Vision (Formerly Full Self Driving)” package, Version 12, will no longer be a rule based system designed by human computer programmers, but will instead be based entirely on an Artificial Neural Network (ANN). https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-full-self-driving-12-rules-based/ Before retiring, I worked as an…

A slipstream depiction of sexual predation — Anna Kavan, Ice, (originally published in 1967), ‎ 50th Anniversary Edition, Peter Owen Publishers, 2017, Forward by Jonathan Lethem, Afterward by Kate Zambreno. Ice is a novel that is amenable to multiple interpretations. And it is not likely to be very productive to argue that any one interpretation is the…