Author Archives: Frank

“Winners make the effort, while losers make excuses.” Frank Sonnenberg) “You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.” (Lou Holtz) “The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting.” (Walt Disney) (Orrin Woodward) “Work smarter, not harder.” (Allen F.Continue reading “You Win Some, You Lose Some…”

“Error is the fundamental human condition.” (Kathryn Schultz, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error) “To be human is to be erratic.” (Frank Fasano) “fallor ergo sum” (“I err, therefore I am”) (Augustine, 300-400 AD) “Mistakes are a part of life; you can’t avoid them. Allyou can hope is that you don’t make theContinue reading “Please Correct Me If I’m Wrong…”

This artwork accompanied a technical review — “Stochastic Parrots:  How Natural Language Processing Research (NLPR) Has Gotten Too Big for Our Own Good.”E. Sanchez & M. Gasser (scienceforthepeople.org) “More recently, the law of unintended consequences has come to be used as an adage or idiomatic warning that an intervention in a complex system tends toContinue reading “Artificial Intelligence:  Have We Outsmarted Ourselves?”

“I think, therefore I am.” Descartes, Discourse on Method (1639) “In itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years. And curdles a long life into one hour. Byron, “The Dream,” (1816) “What was once thought can never be unthought.” Friedrich Durrenmatt, The Physicists (1962) “All thought is a feat of association: having what’sContinue reading “Random Thoughts, Deep and Otherwise…”

“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.” C.S. Lewis “It is chance that makes us brothers, but hearts that make friends.” Anonymous “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Friendship,” Essays:Continue reading “That’s What Friends Are For…”

“All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We — And every one else is They” Rudyard Kipling, “A Friend of the Family” “The underlying psychology of ‘us and them’ appears grounded in deep-rooted human tendencies to carve the world into groups and discriminate in favor of one’sContinue reading “Tribes and Tribulations: Us vs. Them”

“Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.” Martin Buber “Every man is more than just himself; he represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again.” HermannContinue reading “What Makes You Think You’re So Special?”