Associative Engines

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1. mindcrimeDec 2025
   My goal for the year was 15 books. I've finished 14 so far and should finish #15 in the next couple of days if all goes well. Here's what I've read (it's a mix of fiction and non-fiction) in reverse order by completion date:

   Nash Falls - David Baldacci

   Exit Strategy - Lee Child & Andrew Child

   Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computational Geometry - Marvin Minsky & Seymour Papert

   We are Legion (We are Bob) - Dennis Taylor

   Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition: Volume 1: Foundations - David Rumelhart & Jay McClelland

   Semantic Information Processing - Marvin Minsky

   Associative Engines: Connectionism, Concepts, and Representational Change - Andy Clark

   Associative Networks: The Representation and Use of Knowledge of Computers - Nicholas Findler

   The Analogical Mind: Perspectives from Cognitive Science - Dedre Gentner, Keith J. Holyoak, Boicho N. Kokinov (eds)

   Similarity and Analogical Reasoning - Stella Vosniadou (ed)

   Never Flinch - Stephen King

   The Bad Weather Friend - Dean Koontz

   Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind - Gary Marcus

   After Death - Dean Koontz

   The 15th book that I hope to finish will be:

   Principles of Semantic Networks - John F. Sowa (ed)

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2. ambertchAug 2016
   Not necessarily Burning Man but that's just an upcoming relaxed event where there's lots of downtime plus a long drive to and from.

   So far I've been preparing Marvin Minsky's lectures on Society of Mind as well as the book, which seem like pretty cool and easy reading to go through. Andy Clark's Associative Engines as well.

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