Saturday, April 11, 2009
Thailand- By Kevin(MARCO POLO) Roberts
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
DEA trouble
Gregory Campion, 38, now of Orlando, Fla., was also sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jack T. Camp to perform 100 hours of community service. The sentence was increased because Judge Camp found that a substantial portion of the unreported income came from illegal activity, which was not contested. Specifically, Campion did not contest the Government’s evidence that the funds were stolen from drug money seized in narcotics investigations.
Between 2003 and 2005 Campion was an assistant supervisor at a DEA task force office in Atlanta, where he had access to millions of dollars of cash seized from suspected drug traffickers. Several seizures conducted during this time were “short,” meaning the final amount counted by the bank was thousands of dollars less than the original amount seized.
During 2004, Campion deposited more than $200,000 in cash in his accounts, none of which was reported as income on his tax returns. He had been placed on administrative leave in 2005, and resigned his position at DEA when he pleaded guilty to the federal charge. Campion was indicted in March 2006, and pleaded guilty in March 2008 to tax evasion.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Don Coleman back on the SCENE: LEGENDS
He is back on the scene and it took Terry Thomas to do it! We also had James Williams, Betty, Marg, George Thomas, Carmouche, and a host of other Jazz fans, not to mention Dancing the Line. THERE WAS A LIVE VOCAL CLINIC TAUGHT BY HORACE YOUNG , HOSTED BY THE JAZZ INSTITUTE .
ALSO. COME BACK ON WEDNESDAY 7-12 FOR SIT-INS THURSDAY JULY 24,2008
6-11 AT
LEGEND JAZZ CAFE
1004 NORTH SAN JACINTO
In foreground is Valerie.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Intelligence?
Get a word list that allows me to reference the parts of speech for any english word.
Create a system which parses words, sentences, paragraphs, pages, chapters, and books (conceptual, just a large number of related chapters.)
Record the valid structures for each construct (sentences, paragraphs, etc.) Each type of sentence will be correlated to a particular Cyc microtheory. This will allow me to assign a meta-data tag to any given sentence that is known. A Microtheory is a concept in the Cyc ontology system that encapsulates particular ideas that may be factually or semantically different than other concepts. Think of inheritance and polymorphism, but utilized to create a heirarchical view of the world, using hundreds of thousands of basic common sense concepts and millions of assertions related to those concepts. It allows an AI system to use the proper granularity for arbitrary contexts, by drawing on inferences, hypotheses, and static data.The problem with most chatbots is lack of real intelligent flexibility. You can create a billion template/response structures and your bot will imitate intelligent conversation, but what you're really doing is an if/then routine over and over again. It takes only 3 degrees of separation between the original input and confusing the 'natural' train of thought before you hit the limitations of most chatbots based on this structure.However, training a bot over time on actual conversation has some serious drawbacks as well. You end up with rules being created on the fly that may be entirely wrong, with no way of preventing it unless you edit the data manually.My solution is to semantically tag valid english sentence structures, and assign a particular microtheory to each tag, or class of tags. By using those tags in Cyc microtheories, telling the system what questions it has to answer about particular sentences in order to 'understand' them, I can create an input parser that takes any given english sentences and store them as semantically valid data constructs.Once stored, I will again turn to Cyc and classify sentence types, and potential 'proper' responses for particular sentence classes. Statements, queries, imperatives, and so on will each have responses appropriate to their semantic data. I will program responses and link the response categories to each sentence class.So I have a concept for a chatbot system which can take arbitrary (syntactically valid) english sentences, understand them by linking them to an ontological database and creating new concepts as necessary, and return a response based on the actual content of the sentence.I've gotten a few Cyc microtheories drawn up. I have a 210,000 word 'parts of speech' database. What I need now is ideas for large quantities of text which I can parse to get as broad a range as possible for sentence, paragraph, page, chapter, and book structures.Does anyone know where I can find really large corpora?A potential offshoot of this is classification of corpora, and using each class as inputs in a neural net, in order to train patterns specific to styles of writing and genre... so you could create a microtheory that described a story, and have the chatbot output a novel. Given a large enough corpus, you could train on particular authors' styles of writing. I would of course market this software, make millions of dollars, and take over the world.Anyway, what I'm looking for is ideas as to where to look for parsable data. I'd need structured content, like news articles, books, and so on. The only hardcoding I'm going to do is for things like predictive spellchecking for unknown words, and dealing with broad classes of inputs and responses. I'm hoping that such a system would be able to handle specific inputs and outputs dynamically, and easily pass the Turing test.I'm also considering IRC logs, chatroom logs, and other "conversation" corpora, but those present problems such as slang, deliberate misspellings, horrible grammar, and extreme ambiguity. I think I should leap one hurdle at a time... so the first is a consistent, pre-edited, dry corpus.
Saturday, June 21, 2008
NB jazz in new york : Buy subscriptions. In NY selling Jazz
Welcome to Jazz in July 2008! For two weeks, swing with the sounds of George Shearing, Billy Strayhorn, Leonard Bernstein and Brazilian jazz, and the thrilling performances of the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Dr. Billy Taylor, Kurt Elling, Freddy Cole, Fred Hersch and many others. The cool sounds of jazz never sounded so red-hot!
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Concerts
Somewhere: The Songs of Leonard Bernstein
Bill Charlap, pianoKurt Elling, vocalsBrian Lynch, trumpetJimmy Greene, tenor saxophone
Jon Gordon, alto saxophone
Ted Rosenthal, pianoPeter Washington, bassKenny Washington, drums
Tue, Jul 22, 2008, 8:00pm, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
Piano Jam
Bill Charlap, pianoDr. Billy Taylor, piano
Cedar Walton, piano
Bill Mays, piano Warren Vaché, cornetSandy Stewart, vocalsPeter Washington, bassEddie Locke, drums
Wed, Jul 23, 2008, 8:00pm, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
Jazz Piano Master Class
Bill Charlap, pianoTed Rosenthal, pianoSean Smith, bassParticipants to be announced.
Mon, Jul 28, 2008, 8:15pm, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
Jazz Samba!
Bill Charlap, pianoVera Mara, vocalsClaudio Roditi, trumpetHarry Allen, tenor saxophoneDario Eskenazi, pianoDavid Finck, bassSandro Albert, guitarAdriano Santos, drumsMauro Refosco, percussion
Tue, Jul 29, 2008, 8:00pm, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
The Shearing Sound: A Tribute to George Shearing
Bill Charlap, pianoFred Hersch, pianoFreddy Cole, vocalsJoe Locke, vibesPeter Bernstein, guitarSean Smith, bass
Kenny Washington, drumsDaniel Sadownick, percussion
Wed, Jul 30, 2008, 8:00pm, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
Lush Life: Billy Strayhorn
Bill Charlap, pianoCarol Sloane, vocals
Frank Wess, tenor saxophone
Terell Stafford, trumpet
Mulgrew Miller, piano
Russell Malone, guitarPeter Washington, bassWillie Jones III, drumsThu, Jul 31, 2008, 8:00pm, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
The Jazz in July series at the Y is generously supported by The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation and is partially endowed by a generous gift from Simona and Jerome A. Chazen.
Take out the names that are highlighted and let Da Camera or someone sponsor the group.
None of us are getting younger go see Frank West, Billy Taylor,
Monday, May 12, 2008
Discernment?
Nevertheless, we do have certain cancer markers that can point one to a suspicion of growths that are not supposed to be there CEA, for GI, PSA and . The question is what do you do with the information? At this point would there be any benefit other than enrichment of HMO/ hospital CEOs to surgery , radiotherapy or chemotherapy ? Would there be any benefit to anything else.
Not if you did not know about it!
Immunotherapy with vaccines, receptor blockers, and cytokine manipulation does hold out much hope, especially for the leukemias, and for pancreatic and renal cancers.. There is hope on the way. Pray for the medical-industrial syndrome including the state medical boards and pro-consumer group participants and that we learn to avoid exposure to carcinogens similar to the best cure for HIV in avoiding the virus that causes disease.
Peters MD 5-12-08
Here from a recent article and in bold 3 new markers ( found including one dealing with glutathione.) TRIM 63 glutathione S-transferase A1 and alanyl aminopeptidase are the three enzymes. Such things as radio-tagging and MRI may give the answer quicker.
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(repeat verse 1
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