tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78400057374283161462012-02-16T00:54:42.411-08:00Spiritus Mundihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12566300712839346494noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7840005737428316146.post-46106270887145071372008-10-10T07:16:00.000-07:002008-10-10T07:30:21.738-07:00Yesterday I remembered that I have this blog (or SLOG) and hopped over to the blogger page to remind myself what I wrote...and Google has locked my blog! The notice merely said that it was locked "for possible terms of use violations". Since the only thing in my blog was a lame chicken metaphor, I wondered what the problem could possibly be.<br /><br />So I drilled down to an explanatory link, and discovered that Google's robots had decided that my blog had the characteristics of a spam blog! Now, I know that Google has a parsing algorithm that scans the contents of gmail messages, and attempts to match appropriate advertising to keywords in the messages.<br /><br />So for now, I can only conclude that Google's AI is not only artificial, but also cognitively challenged.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7840005737428316146-4610627088714507137?l=isthisbyzantiumyet.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Spiritus Mundihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12566300712839346494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7840005737428316146.post-34822470293309162242008-09-27T13:22:00.000-07:002008-09-27T13:33:40.101-07:00This is the third week of the course, and I just poked my head out from under my new stack of very expensive texts, and noticed that this SLOG is a course requirement! And in the course of making this discovery, I also discovered that I have this thing called a 'cdf account' which clearly needed some attention as well. That was a bit of an adventure. Luckily I've had quite a bit of Linux experience, so installing cygwin and ssh'ing into my account wasn't too onerous...<br /><br />But I digress. This weekend is the weekend that my chickens have decided that my home is their home, and that they are going to take up roosting until they get a better offer. I'm working on a CSC318 group project for which I'm the designated writer, a STA247 problem set and, of course, assignment 1 for CSC236. I'm up to the third question now, so I'm feeling a bit more in control of things, but clearly my lack of CSC165 is going to be a challenge (or roosting chicken). My goal this weekend will be to evict some poultry.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7840005737428316146-3482247029330916224?l=isthisbyzantiumyet.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Spiritus Mundihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12566300712839346494noreply@blogger.com1