mindpixel's Journal: Does Mountain Dew look like antifreeze on the ground?

Now you have got to be human or a VERY good model to know that Mountain Dew looks like antifreeze on the ground. GAC knows. And so does Alicebot, silver edition, because GAC told her.

Today I am very excited. One major thing is a big fat secret and I am squirming to tell everyone, but I can't...so I will talk about something else--self organizing maps!

I have been wanting to do a SOM of my mindpixel data long before I even called them mindpixels...I proposed it first in comp.ai in 1996...today I found someone who built a SOM on 100K english words. The map is beautiful. Looks coincidently [I hope] like a map of the world with a very obvious South America, right where you would expect it.

You can see it on the last page of this lovely paper: http://www.cis.hut.fi/panus/papers/online_ssom.pdf

I emailed the author, Panu Somervuo, and proposed we colaborate on a SOM of Human Semantic Coherence using his software and my data...the map if we make would be an excellent candiate for a Nature cover...it would be like the Cosmic Microwave Background of the mind! Oh, very sexy. Yep.

Hmm.

[turg]

And I was just working on a plan for how to make some of those miraculous grilled-cheese sandwiches that sell for $80,000 on eBay.

I think I've figured it out too.

It's not going to benefit humankind or anything, though.

80K Grilled Cheese

[mindpixel]

A nice connection to googlism programmer Chris Morton: 80K Grilled Cheese [goldenpalace.com] Is that you or a coincidence?