Author: grant

CB750F: Day 10

Back to class again. This time it is only twice a week but for 4.5 hours. The majority of the evening was spent taking the rack of carbs apart. Not much to screw up here, but I always find a way. Most of the screws were stuck and/or stripped out, so Brian helped me with the last one using just a pliers. Arriving late to class, that is all I got done.
Most of these photos are for my reference later. In particular the spring locations are important.
For directions I’m using the Honda service manual, Mike Nixon’s guide, MacGregor Carb Cleaning Services guide, and Randakk’s rebuild kit.
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IntelliFest Favorite Presentations: 2010-2012

Part of my path to knowledge engineering mastering has been to read everything available out there today about the modern knowledge engineering landscape. IntelliFest graciously posted all of their presentations from 2010-2012, and all of them are helpful. The following, though, were particularly helpful to me, and I wanted to share which ones and why, they follow:
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Flow Control in Selenium IDE Scripting

Adding to the Selenium IDE’s already awesome “save your behind in every kind of situation possible” behavior, here is a plugin that adds the flow control constructs that are so sorely missed from the base language. This is a powerful, powerful addition that makes some horrible tasks… bearable.

On Computing

Computing is very poorly understood. Case in point here is the litmus test I would argue to you that:
In North America you can pull any 18 year old randomly off the street and ask them to do something and it would go like this:
1. Can you build a basic bridge between a 3ft span given some materials?
2. Can you build a basic drainage system given some materials?
3. Can you organize a group of 5 people to perform a non trivial but paralleled task?
4. Can you prepare a soup like chili given materials?
5. Can you write down the computational logic to show the fibonacci sequence (given an explanation of the sequence itself)?
What percentage would you say that we pull 1000 people and given them this test? What percentage could successfully do each?
You know where I am going with this.
100% can do 1-4 and 0.01% could do 5.
There is a deep, deep lack of awareness about computation.
The problem with computation and titles around it are that very people ever think about what it is that we truly do, and often times the ones that do are relegated to the backroom. Case in point. SICP is no longer part of MIT entry program because it is too far “out there”. Kind of sad, that is part of the mystery, and the fun, what we are doing and what we can do specifically on computers, is, something that no one in history has been able to do before. We can execute things now that people have only dreamed of, computers are truly without limit. I found this special:
https://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/979/computers-are-a-metamedium