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She was the eldest of 3 daughters Natasha, and Nora have been her more youthful sisters. At an early age she shaped an curiosity in European literature and shifting pictures of the period of time.

Ayn was twelve in 1917 when the Russian Revolution occurred. Her father misplaced his pharmacy since the Soviets confiscated all companies as a way of enforcing the concepts of Communism. The family members moved to the Crimea in the hopes of continuing the enterprise exterior the attain of the Soviet process. Crimea became a Soviet state in 1921. Ayn burned her diary since it contained references to her hatred of collectivism as enforced by the Soviet Union.

In 1921, Ayn returned to St. In her spare time she worked challenging attempting to produce a prepared get the job done that she could ultimately offer.

In 1931 Ayn grew to become a naturalized citizen of the United States. She was very proud to be an American. In 1979 she informed the graduating course of West Point: “The United States of The usa is the best, the noblest and, in its original founding rules, the only moral nation in the history of the entire world.” I normally wonder, in watch of recent events, if she would sense the same way now?

During her career, apart from the functions of fiction talked about over, she wrote various papers that covered her philosophical beliefs. Lots of of her articles have been blended as non-fiction guides obtainable from the Ayn Rand Institute or the Objectivism Shop.

Her philosophy is identified as Objectivism. 1 can sum it up with the pursuing quote from the appendix of “Atlas Shrugged:”

“My philosophy, in essence, is the principle of guy as a heroic getting, with his own happiness as the moral goal of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and explanation as his only absolute.”

Since of her experiences in the Soviet Union, she hated the communist regime there. She believed that every person should really continually feel for on their own and not generally rely on the will of some others. The government of the Soviet Union tried using to control all features of an individual’s life for the great of the state. Nazi Germany tried to exert a equivalent influence on its population. Most men and women make a living undertaking do the job for others, and, as far as I’m worried, adapting what I do to match the requirements of my employer, even if I personally don’t like it, in no way threatens my individuality.

Altruism is one’s assistance and problem for some others. Giving dollars or volunteering your time to help the significantly less fortunate, is what Ayn regarded as altruism. She regarded as altruism as irrational and strictly opposed it. Just about every single sector in the planet makes use of computers. Extremely several people know the basics of data technology. Heads of state and CEOs are just end users, who are deeply reliant on the proper operation of this technological innovation. What if there was no a single to defend the world’s enormous pc networks from hacker attacks or normal disasters? What if all the true laptop specialists all the way through the world just resolved to go on vacation?

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We think of supercomputers as being super-powerful. But they can be overwhelmed by the floods of information now produced in science, commerce, government, meteorology, social media, and other areas. And compared with the human brain, they gobble up lots of energy and take up lots of space.

But the human brain may provide some answers in the shape of an “SP machine”, based on the “SP theory of intelligence”, which is itself based on research into the workings of brains and nervous systems. This new thinking about “Big data and the SP theory of intelligence”— developed by Dr Gerry Wolff of CognitionResearch.org — has now been published in the journal “IEEE Access” [Note 1].

“We can save a lot of energy by using probabilities,” said Dr Wolff. “Instead of doing computations mechanically, we can concentrate our efforts where answers are most likely to be found. We don’t need some special process for gathering information about probabilities because, as a by-product of how the SP system works, it creates a statistical model of its environment.”

Big savings may also be possible in transmitting things like TV programmes. With some further development, the SP system may learn general rules and patterns from that kind of information. If the transmitter of a TV programme, and TV sets, all know those rules and patterns, then a TV programme can be transmitted economically by sending only the parts that are different from the general rules and patterns.

The SP system may help to bring some order into the chaos of different ways in which knowledge is represented in computer systems. In just one area—the representation of images—there are many different formats—JPEG, TIFF, WMF, BMP, GIF, EPS, PDF, PNG, PBM, and more—and each one has its own special mode of processing. “This jumble of different formalisms and formats for knowledge is a great complication in the processing of big data, especially in processes for the discovery or learning of structures and associations in big data.” said Dr Wolff. The SP system may help to simplify things by serving as a “universal framework for the representation and processing of diverse kinds of knowledge” (UFK).

The SP system may also help in such things as recognising patterns in big data, reasoning about big data, and in presenting structures and processes in visual forms that would help people undersand big data.

“A useful step forward in developing these ideas would be the creation of a high-parallel version of the SP machine” said Dr Wolff. “This would be based directly on the existing SP computer model, it would be hosted on an existing high-performance computer, and it would provide a means for researchers everywhere to see what can be done with the system and to create new versions of it.”

NOTES

[1] “Big data and the SP theory of intelligence”, J Gerard Wolff, IEEE Access, volume 2, pages 301-315, 2014, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2014.2315297, bit.ly/1jGWXDH. This is an open-access article that may be downloaded without charge. Further information about the SP research may be found via http://www.cognitionresearch.org/sp.htm.

[2] Contact: Dr Gerry Wolff PhD CEng, CognitionResearch.org, jgw(at)cognitionresearch(dot)org, +44 (0) 1248 712962, +44 (0) 7746 290775, Skype: gerry.wolff, http://www.cognitionresearch.org, 18 Penlon, Menai Bridge, Anglesey, LL59 5LR, UK.

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