November 10, 2004
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The Brain Bandwagon
Brain Lateralization Test Results
Right Brain (38%) The right hemisphere is the visual, figurative, artistic, and intuitive side of the brain.
Left Brain (44%) The left hemisphere is the logical, articulate, assertive, and practical side of the brain
Hey, where did my other 18% go? Are those the brain cells I killed in college?
One of the funnier scenes in The Matrix is when Neo gets a martial arts “download.” He spasms around a bit, opens his eyes, and says in his inimitable way, “I know Kung Fu.”
Real life is becoming more like that. Over the past few days I have been voraciously learning about neural networks. I just googled it and kept following links. Now I feel like I have enough book larnin’ to begin trying some experiments for work. Ten years ago – before the Internet was this big – it would have taken months to track down all this information. Or taking a semester-long course. Taking a class is like eating a 13-course meal, one week at a time. Learning stuff yourself is like going into a jungle with your machete, hacking things apart and swallowing stuff whole. Rar!
Comments (2)
Hahahahahhaha… mine came back as:
<TABLE cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=0 bgColor=#dddddd border=0>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD>Right Brain
<TD width=50>||||||||||||
<TD width=30>48%
<TR>
<TD>Left Brain
<TD width=50>||||||||||||||
<TD width=30>54%
Which means I need to dump memory?
I guess I have no space to learn kung-fu. =b
Neural networks are awesome! I took a neural network course from a professor named “Michael Jordan” :-b.