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Marcel Gagné

Writer and Free Thinker at Large: Musings on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Linux, FOSS, Science & Technology, Religion, Politics, Consciousness, Philosophy, VR, Gaming, and Whatever Else Comes to Mind!

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Meet The Emacs Doctor

Posted onDecember 20, 2011Leave a comment

In my last article on the subject of artificial intelligence (or AI, if you prefer), I introduced you to Eliza, a computerized psychiatrist. Eliza may be simple, but she is patient and she's happy to let you talk. Speaking of Read More …

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On Disagreement

Posted onDecember 16, 2011Leave a comment

People often say, "while I disagreed with you on this topic or that", as a prelude to explaining why they find themselves in agreement or in support of another's point of view. You'll see plenty of it today as people Read More …

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Need A Psychiatrist? Meet Eliza

Posted onDecember 14, 2011Leave a comment

For some of us, our original exposure to AI, or artificial intelligence, goes back to an old program called Eliza. Eliza was a kind of computerized psychiatrist written in the 1960s by Professor Joseph Weizenbaum at the Massachusetts Institute of Read More …

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Ann Coulter says Bill Clinton is gay. Clinton responds.

Posted onDecember 5, 2011Leave a comment

Right-wing socio-political pundit Ann Coulter apparently went on television claiming that former U.S. President Bill Clinton is gay. Clinton's purported response is in the video clip below and yes, it's okay to laugh. I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that Read More …

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Intelligent Design’s Inferiority Complex

Posted onDecember 2, 2011Leave a comment

Bad ideas never die. Not without a fight. Like a disease causing bacteria or virus, they are occasionally defeated by Herculean measures, sometimes requiring that the host suffer extensive (but hopefully not fatal) damage or pain in an effort to Read More …

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My Car Is Pure Concentrated Evil

Posted onNovember 30, 2011Leave a comment

Can a car be evil? Or posessed? Or just plain prone to bad luck? Because I own that car. It's not Christine-evil (as in the Stephen King story). More of a junior kindergarten Christine. A Chrissy perhaps. I bought my Read More …

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Creating an eBook : An Evolutionary Approach

Posted onNovember 21, 2011Leave a comment

For anyone interested in self-publishing on the various eBook platforms (e.g. Kindle, Kobo, Nook, etc), creating books e-Reader ready is a skill that is becoming as important as the writing itself. At YouWordMe, we have created tools that automatically create machine-ready eBook Read More …

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Who cares about your dang Desktop Environment?!

Posted onNovember 21, 2011Leave a comment

Well, actually . . . I do. If you are into such things, and you place your faith on those distro popularity numbers over on DistroWatch, you'll see that Ubuntu has dropped from its number one position, a position now Read More …

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Has Linux dropped off the face of the Earth?

Posted onNovember 15, 2011Leave a comment

Over on my mailing list, the WFTL-LUG, a "whatever happened to" discussion has emerged in part because question traffic has gone down dramatically. Fewer people are coming out to LUG meetings. It's as if Linux is fading away. "Has Linux Read More …

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Remembrance Day at the John McCrae House (birthplace, museum, & memorial) in Guelph, Ontario Canada. A detail shot of the "altar" of the memorial, with the complete poem "In Flander's Fields" & the line "LEST WE FORGET" inscribed on it. 2 Canadian remembrance day poppy pins & part of a wreath are visible. Image source: Wikipedia

Rememberance Day, 2011 – A Taste of Armageddon

Posted onNovember 11, 2011Leave a comment

Lest we forget . . . I've published a variation of this post for the last few years. If it sounds familiar, you'll understand why. But remembering the past is what this post is about and on this November 11, Read More …

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