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About Moshe Sipper
Moshe Sipper is a professor of artificial intelligence, an author, and a cartoonist. He has published 200+ scientific articles and 7 books.
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Blog postA short story. Excerpt from my book Fredric.
In a realm of science and merit, a professor once received tenure. Whereupon she began to think — an action, I might add, which had garnered her the prized academic station.
“Do I really need all that I possess?” she said out loud, for why should she not speak her mind. After all, she had tenure.
“No,” she immediately replied respectfully. One need always converse respectfully with oneself, is what one’s mo8 months ago Read more -
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Blog postSuccess = talent + luck
Great success = a little more talent + a lot of luck
-- Daniel Kahneman, Winner of Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2002) If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance.
The most successful people are not the most talented, just the luckiest, a new computer model of wealth creation confirms.
Granted
A short story. Excerpt from my book Fredric.
Twenty-one minutes and thirty-two sec4 years ago Read more -
Blog postThe practice of evolutionary algorithms involves a mundane yet inescapable phase, namely, finding parameters that work well. How big should the population be? How many generations should the algorithm run? What is the (tournament selection) tournament size? What probabilities should one assign to crossover and mutation? All these nagging questions need good answers if one is to embrace success. Through an extensive series of experiments over multiple evolutionary algorithm implementations and pr5 years ago Read more
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Blog postExcerpt from my book Machine Nature
“He wanted to dream a man: he wanted to dream him with minute integrity and insert him into reality.” This was the goal of the silent man who came from the South, in Jorge Luis Borges’s short story, “The Circular Ruins.” From Pygmalion, Frankenstein, and the Golem to Star Trek’s Lieutenant Commander Data, the dream of administering the breath of life has fascinated humankind since antiquity.
We’ve seen how human-made systems can6 years ago Read more -
Blog postExcerpt from my book Machine Nature
Science and engineering have traditionally proceeded along separate tracks. The scientist is a detective who’s up against the mysteries of Nature: He analyzes natural processes, wishing to explain their workings, ultimately seeking to predict their future behavior. Scientists ask questions such as: What goes on inside the Sun? And how long will it keep on burning? How does the weather system work? And how can we predict whether it will rain6 years ago Read more -
Blog postExcerpt from my book Machine Nature
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
Who indeed framed the tyger? Two hundred years after William Blake wrote the beautiful opening stanza of The Tyger, we have a bet6 years ago Read more -
Blog postby Moshe Sipper We can plainly see why nature is prodigal in variety, though niggard in innovation. This beautiful statement was written by Charles Darwin in Origin of Species. As a corollary, I might add that, given nature’s prodigal resources, she needn’t be too smart, and — to paraphrase a famed Darwinist — can be seen to trudge along quite blindly.
Yet, in the field of Evolutionary Computation we practice the opposite of this Darwinian tenet, demonstrating at every conference, j7 years ago Read more -
Blog postAdapted from Hamlet's soliloquy by Moshe Sipper To run, or not to run — that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The boils and carbuncles of outrageous shoes
Or to take arms against a sea of shoe manufacturers
And by opposing run barefoot. To lie down, to sleep —
No more — and by a sleep to say we end
The heart’s race, and the thousand unnatural shocks
That running flesh is heir to. 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to7 years ago Read more -
Blog postby Moshe Sipper Accept: We’re a shitty journal and we’ll accept anything. Even your pathetic rubbish.
Accept with Minor Changes: The referees haven’t read your piece of crap. All they ask is that you add every single one of their own papers to your bibliography section.
Accept with Major Changes: Your paper is worthless. However, if you change the Introduction, Previous Work, Methodologies, Setup, Results, and Conclusion sections, we might change our mind. (Or not.)
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Blog postA short story by Moshe Sipper The thing I hated most was when people told me I wasn’t to blame, because, after all, I was only seven years old when the 'unpleasantness' began.
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Blog postExcerpt from my book Machine Nature An eagle flaps its wings; a Boeing 747 doesn’t. A dolphin wiggles its body and jiggles its fins — a submarine just has a motor in the back. A dog walks on legs; a Mercedes-Benz rolls on wheels. A rose runs on water and light; a flashlight runs on batteries. A tiger develops in a womb from a single cell to a magnificent multicellular beast — a toy tiger is constructed full blown in a factory. A piano player goes through years of intensive training, learning to7 years ago Read more
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Blog postby Moshe Sipper We were watching TV,
My friend Billy and I,
When Mommy came in
With a hot apple pie.
She said, “Boys have a piece
Of this hot apple pie,
I’ve made it just now,
Go ahead, don’t be shy.”
I ate one big piece,
And Billy had two,
My mommy makes pies
Like no one we knew!
Then Mommy said, “Boys,
Why sit in the dark?
It’s so sunny outside,
Go play in the park.”
So I7 years ago Read more
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Fredric: A Collection of Flash Fiction
Jul 13, 2017
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Moshe Sipper
$2.99
“I’d like to buy a body,” said the man, his voice mingling with the chimes of several doorbells ...
Bob was a dragon. No, no, please don’t run away to seek cover. Bob was a very nice dragon ...
Fredric shouted gleefully as he was finally shot out of the cannon ...
The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door ...
A collection of short-short science fiction and fantasy, in the spirit of the master, Fredric Brown.
Bob was a dragon. No, no, please don’t run away to seek cover. Bob was a very nice dragon ...
Fredric shouted gleefully as he was finally shot out of the cannon ...
The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door ...
A collection of short-short science fiction and fantasy, in the spirit of the master, Fredric Brown.
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Daniel Max and the King in the Tower
Jan 29, 2014
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Moshe Sipper
$4.99
Can Daniel Max find the way home and, if he does, will his mom punish him for being late?
A year after his father was taken by a mysterious smoke figure, eleven-year-old Daniel Max and his best friend Jake discover a secret gateway in their school’s back yard. The two, accompanied by Daniel’s annoying kid sister Dana, venture into an unknown land where they vow to help the swan king recover his beloved pet poodle. As they face many dangers — and make surprising new friends — they come to realize that their quest to help the king may also lead them to a goal far closer to their hearts: Daniel and Dana’s vanished father.
A year after his father was taken by a mysterious smoke figure, eleven-year-old Daniel Max and his best friend Jake discover a secret gateway in their school’s back yard. The two, accompanied by Daniel’s annoying kid sister Dana, venture into an unknown land where they vow to help the swan king recover his beloved pet poodle. As they face many dangers — and make surprising new friends — they come to realize that their quest to help the king may also lead them to a goal far closer to their hearts: Daniel and Dana’s vanished father.
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The Peaceful Affair
Sep 1, 2013
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Moshe Sipper
$4.99
"Moshe Sipper ... has probably crafted the best book in the entire history of bookism." (Portland Book Review)
"The Peaceful Affair is an utterly mad book, yet in a most
delightful way." (Sacramento Book Review)
Renowned detective Noro Myx is called in by the President of the United States to search for the missing War Treaties, whose disappearance could wreak worldwide havoc. Along with his trusted assistants -- Miss Lipps, the small giant, and the tall dwarf -- Myx eagerly delves into the affair, to quickly discover the treaties are but the tip of the iceberg. The investigation twists and turns, leading the gallant operatives to open Pandora's Box - despite her vociferous protestations - and leap into the depths of a far more nefarious scheme.
As the battles rage and the plots thicken Myx plunges forward intrepidly in a gallant effort to save the country, the world, and the day (Tuesday, to be precise) from the most horrific nightmare of all: nuclear peace.
"The Peaceful Affair is an utterly mad book, yet in a most
delightful way." (Sacramento Book Review)
Renowned detective Noro Myx is called in by the President of the United States to search for the missing War Treaties, whose disappearance could wreak worldwide havoc. Along with his trusted assistants -- Miss Lipps, the small giant, and the tall dwarf -- Myx eagerly delves into the affair, to quickly discover the treaties are but the tip of the iceberg. The investigation twists and turns, leading the gallant operatives to open Pandora's Box - despite her vociferous protestations - and leap into the depths of a far more nefarious scheme.
As the battles rage and the plots thicken Myx plunges forward intrepidly in a gallant effort to save the country, the world, and the day (Tuesday, to be precise) from the most horrific nightmare of all: nuclear peace.
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Xor: The Shape of Darkness
Mar 5, 2012
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Moshe Sipper
$4.99
Can Lewis Nash become the powerful Shaper he was destined to be and save Xor?
On his twelfth birthday Lewis Nash comes home from school to find that his house has blown up to smithereens, killing his father. Having lost his mother in an accident four years earlier, Lewis realizes he is now an orphan — but he has no time to dwell on it. The moment he gets off the school bus a fearsome wolf-man tries to grab him. The boy is saved in the nick of time by Master Long, who reveals to him that he’s a Shaper from a place called Xor, which is being devoured by the Realm Pirates. Lewis learns that he must do his utmost to become the powerful Shaper he was destined to be.
Because, it would seem, he’s the one and only chance Xor has.
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