Dear Dr. Bob
Harbort,
Please pass the rock salt.
In the Star Trek TV series, the kobayashi maru was a test that was a
test designed to assess how cadets react to impossible situations.
For my senior project at Southern Tech, I wrote a program in C that
would use the mouse to draw shapes and lines.
Why I chose to create a mouse driven program was to defeat your
elbow test. You told the class that one of your tests was to move
your elbow over the keys on the keyboard.
My solution was to not code a function that read the keyboard
buffer. If your elbow test crashed the computer, you crashed
windows, not my program.
My proudest moment at Southern Tech was getting my last schedule for
my final classes.
My pride was not that I was receiving my final schedule, my elation
was watching my LiSp program generate my final schedule along with
the room full of other people being presented with an Ai driven
scheduling system that I had painstakingly written to handle every
possible scheduling option and provide the optimal course load to
facilitate the quickest path to graduation.
When I was hired at Lotus Development, I fell deep into Lotus Notes.
At the time, all the software problem reports were entered into a
Superbase database, and each day our manager sent us an email to
exit the system so he could pull his reports.
Over a weekend, I created a software problem reporting system in
Lotus Notes that I called QaSpr like the ghost.
I presented QaSpr to my manager, and he requested a meeting with Said
Mohammadioun the man behind Samna Word that became Word Pro.
Siad turned down the meeting saying that Lotus Notes could not be
used as a real database.
My manager went to Siad, and showed him QaSpr.
Within a week, QaSpr was our new reporting system. No longer did
testers have to exit out of the software reporting system for him to
make the daily bug report.
Actually, I wrote my manager a script. Not longer did he have to
make the report, QaSpr email the reports to him.
At that time, I was assigned to test the Word Pro connection to
Lotus Notes, and I was assigned to test Ray Ozzie’s code.
I continued to see applications for Lotus Notes, and I created an
automated testing facility named Sigmund, a play on Freud.
QA testers could submit scripts to Sigmund, and the system would
execute their scripts of four operating systems.
If a machine crashed or locked up, Sigmund has a time field set by
the script. If in the allotted time, the script did not put a screen
shot and attached to document, Sigmund would power cycle the test
machine.
My manager had Sigmund send out emails to beta testers giving
instructions on how to use the automated test facility.
With in months, the testing department became the scripting
department giving Sigmund nearly 100,000 scripts to cycle through.
A few times, the main switchboard operator called me to ask what
extension is Sigmund’s. She said that beta testers had been calling
in to speak with Sigmund.
In a way, I patted myself on the back giving myself some creds that
I had created a computer system that human thought was a real
person. Passing a Turing test in 1998.
When the
Novell NLM Lotus Notes server crashed. Ray Ozzie contacted me asking what I was doing
with Notes.
He stated that Sigmund’s 4 billion plus transactions on the Notes
server was a record number, and he asked me to be part of the Lotus
Notes development team.
At the end of a build cycle, Sigmund was relied upon to test last
minute bug fixes, and Sigmund actually stopped the shipment of one
build that had broken printing.
A word processor that could not print. Pure irony.
After I left IBM, I was not longer under an agreement that owned my
thoughts and dreams.
I put all my energy into creating something that was my own.
Little did I know that I would stumble into abstract photography and
begin to write my thoughts out on the images.
Out of two terabytes of abstract artwork emerged the foundation for
the KnoWell Equation.
After a couple years, I refined the KnoWell Equation into its
current form and I saw the KnoWellian Axiom -c>∞<c+
From the KnoWellian Axiom, -c>∞<c+, I saw the KnoWellian
Universe, “The emergence of the Universe is the precipitation of
Control through the evaporation of Chaos.” ~3K
After nearly two decades, I began to work with ChatGPT 3.5 Turbo
trying to teach the KnoWellian Universe Theory.
The neural network based Ai is light years ahead of the LiSp based
Ai.
Early on, I nearly quit trying to teach ChatGPT until I figured out
how to present a third state to any debate.
I used the clear glass is half full or half empty topic. I
introduced a shimmer on the surface of the water that was induced by
the two debaters voices rippling the surface.
After ChatGPT had a third state of reference, the introduction of
ternary time was easy.
The next major hurdle was the infinite number of infinities on the
number line. I leveraged logic on Aleph Null.
I challenged ChatGPT to prove an infinite set of real numbers is
equal to an infinite set of odd numbers with out using
Cardinality.
Stating clearly that Cardinality strips the context off of the real
number and odd numbers leaving only elements, and that stripping the
context is what results in Cantor’s conclusion.
I pointed out that 2 apples will never be 3 oranges, thus the use of
Cardinality is an improper use.
ChatGPT switched to the hotel with an infinite number of rooms, and
if the last room is filled, a new room can be generated, thus there
is more infinities than one.
I contested that if the hotel actually contains an infinite number
of rooms, then the hotel will never be full.
