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Done with academia...for the moment

posted Thursday, December 01, 2005 10:16 AM by andy
Well, I'm back.  School is over and I should officially have my undergraduate degree in Network Technologies with a concentration in Telecommunications in a few weeks.  w00t!!!!!  I was thinking of going for a technical masters but also Read More
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Computing Machinery and Intelligence...a nice printable version

posted Friday, May 27, 2005 12:43 PM by andy
It took me a while to find a printable (IE: w/o graphics, black foreground and white background, etc.) version of Turing's paper  "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" in which he sets forth his famous Turing Test.  So for anyone else out Read More
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OSI: Phrases to help with memorization

posted Monday, May 16, 2005 4:36 PM by andy
Here is a great site that is full of succint quick reference information on the OSI Model. My favorite are the phrases designed to help you memorize the layers in the model: "Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away" another good one is "All People Seem Read More
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Citing Wikipedia

posted Monday, April 04, 2005 9:29 PM by andy
I ran into a problem while writing a paper for an AI class tonight: How do I cite Wikipedia? Normally I use EasyBib for my bibliographies but they only listed "Mailing List" "Online Database" "Web Site" "Scholarly Project" to name a few....what is wikipedia?!Luckily Read More
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Awesome CSMA/CD Analogy

posted Friday, July 09, 2004 10:17 AM by andy
CSMA/CD (Carrier Sense and Multiple Access with Collision Detection) is the protocol(s) that run your network...well, unless your still on broken ring...err....token ring. I've been doing reading through some of the RFC's again and realized that Theodore Read More
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More downfalls of academia

posted Friday, June 25, 2004 2:38 PM by andy
As of today I've currently taken and passed 3 computer networking classes at the undergraduate level and one at the graduate level and never have I seen or heard mention of CIDR.  I've learned about how to specify blocks of IP's but Read More
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Triathlete's Pslam

posted Monday, November 03, 2003 11:31 AM by andy
I'm in an introduction to the Bible class right now and we had to write our own Pslams.  A lot of people wrote about the Cubs (this was assigned when we all had our hopes up*sniffle* ) but I figured I might as well write a prayer that I could actually Read More
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A new idea....

posted Monday, October 13, 2003 10:57 PM by andy
Since I’m in school and like to torture myself with philosophy I write A LOT of papers....I’m going to start putting them on my blog just so I have a backup of them (our database(s) are now being backed up religiously..sorry, again, about that guys :( Read More
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Summary of what I have understood in Aristotle's Metaphysics up to this point

posted Wednesday, October 08, 2003 10:16 PM by andy
Aristotle believes that all men have a desire to know and that it is our telos (the goal towards which something tends) to know.  Aristotle recognizes that all previous attempts to discuss “being qua being” have failed because they did not establish or Read More
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Aristotle: Metaphysics: Book Alpha i

posted Monday, September 29, 2003 10:03 PM by andy
I'll also give credit for the copy of Metahpysics I am currently studying.   An awesome summary is provided for the reader of this first section of Book Alpha in the last paragraph.  'all men take what is called "wisdom" to be concerned Read More
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Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics vi.7 . . . clarification of vi.3 - vi.6

posted Monday, September 29, 2003 9:29 PM by andy
"Wisdom is scientific knowledge, combined with intellect" A wise person knows "what follows from the first principles of a science" and has a true understanding of those first principles. Practical wisdom is more specific. Practical wisdom is, Read More
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Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics vi.6 . . . First Principles

posted Monday, September 29, 2003 9:07 PM by andy
Aristotle lays out an almost mathematical proof in this chapter detailing why intellect is "the state concerned with first principles". First principles can not be an object of scientific knowledge because scientific knowledge is concerned with what Read More
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Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics vi.5 . . . Practical Wisdom

posted Monday, September 29, 2003 8:50 PM by andy
This chapter was very difficult to read. It would probably help if I understood, let alone read, the first 5 books and 2 chapters of The Ethics but I'm reading just excerpts of the book right now so that I can have a better grasp of what Aristotle is Read More
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Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics vi.4 . . . Skill

posted Monday, September 29, 2003 8:17 PM by andy
Skill is concerned with production. It is concerned with the process in which something might come into being when the first principle of that something lies in the producer not in the product. "Skill . . . is a productive state involving true reason." Read More
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Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics vi.3 . . . Scientific Knowledge

posted Monday, September 29, 2003 7:50 PM by andy
I better cite this so as not to end up in jail or anything. I will explicitly state that all of the information on this blog pertaining to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics can be attributed to Aristotle and the editor of the edition I am reading, Roger Read More
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