[Sep  9, 2003]
Everest is raising...

[Sep 11, 2003]
Einstein's reference letters

a letter grading systems that has right level of skill estimation

[Sep 16, 2003]
Climbing Everest; Climbing Mt. Whitney; Climbing cinder cone..

getting lost on the way to north rim (and resetting yourself to
flagstaff). 

[Sep 18, 2003]

The rank inefficiency of evolution in getting to you and me.. 

[Sep 23, 2003]
Portfolio management advice as a finite-horizon MDP

the troubles of the priests/preachers in getting people to take
terminal states (heaven/hell) seriously when the non-terminal states (life)
have possible positive rewards

[Sep 25, 2003]

You the rational maximal expected value oriented agent compared
to your friend the paranoid min-max agent  and your other friend the 
reckless max-max agent

On the insanity of you using a high-ply min-max search while playing
chess with your 2-year old niece (which sort of makes the assumption
that the tot is out to get you in chess). You may win, but your
extended family may start thinking of you as a sort of wierdo..

[Sep 26, 2006]
The connection between publisher clearing house "you may already have
won one of these four prizes" and min-max vs. expectimax. 

[Oct  2, 2003]

Comfort level with Alpha-beta as a turing test... 


[Oct 30, 2003]
Calling Bill Gates and Rao for a party..

[Nov 20, 2003]
Lack of demand for doctors who can tell if the patient has runny nose, 
if the patient knows whether he or she has flu. 

[Dec  2, 2003]
Your son telling you, on being shown a Bus, that the sample size is
too low and he doesn't want to jump to biased conclusions, and that he 
can wait to master the concept of bus (say by the time he becomes
60). 

[Dec  9, 2003]
The point about neural networks being powerful enough to learn a lot
of different concepts, but because they are so expressive, they are
often ignoned in favor of simpler alogirthms that work in specific
classes.