October 28, 2026 a thought for today, A lazy shepherd is the wolf's friend. Welsh Proverb

Photos in my life yesterday

The first challenge was “your name or nickname”. I have had these three pieces of the alphabet for several years and have used them before in my photography. 

The next assignment was “my choice” and one of my series of “texture
overlay”. This is my father’s fire department hats with a cloth overlay. 

The last upload was “moon”. This is one from my archives when I stayed up late some nights. Those nights are long gone. 

Life today. This has been one of those days moving quickly and with interesting side bars. I got the letter started and worked on a Fine Art image then side tracked my self to work for a bit on the calendar, the bills, finished church mails for tomorrow printing. I got back to the letter for a few minutes until I moved to another bit of work on something else, the food pantry cards I am trying to make along with a few minutes on the new newsletter template. 

Today was the second food pantry day of the week. It was slow but it ended with over the number we had yesterday. 

They are still working on our street. I think it will go to the end of the week. The weather is perfect, a perfect fall day. 

I am running late on my “schedule” so I will stop for now, I have a couple more things to get done before fixing my supper. 

The word to ponder today is everyone. Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. Oscar Wilde. Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse. Miguel de Cervantes. Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it. James A. Garfield. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Plato. Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are. Niccolo Machiavelli. Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force. Flavius Josephus. Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him. Cicero. Everyone is the age of their heart. Guatemalan Proverb. Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. Jean de La Fontaine. Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. Yiddish proverb. Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. Arthur Schopenhauer. When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion. Voltaire. Everyone is wise until he speaks. Irish Proverb. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy. Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. Rumi. Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. Robert Louis Stevenson. Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Article summary I was looking for an article about using AI for fact checking and came across this one. I wanted to see the explanation for this idea. The title is AI behaves more like a brain than a database – cognitive science’s role in its origin story helps explain why. Michael Hout, Associate Dean of Research and Professor of Psychology, New Mexico State University. Arryn Robbins, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Richmond. At theconversation.com. The opening paragraph explains a bit about ChatGPT, one of the forms AI. It goes on to say one may think of it as a database or “logical series of steps” to “provide a response to your query” like responding to a computer finding and presenting a “sensible line of thinking”. As I moved on it explains that understanding the “central” point in the science of AI is that it was “brought about by people whose goal was to understand the human mind”, not necessarily to help with homework or travel arrangements. So it went back too about the time that “artificial intelligence” began. In 1956 there was a workshop at Dartmouth College that considered a thought that a “machine could be made intelligent” if it were constructed with rules. Later in 1958 a machine was built that learned from examples. The man who built this one wanted a machine that was “intelligent” in more a “human way”. It was built to use computer algorithms that were “loosely” modeled on the “architecture of the brain”.  I am a bit lost in the technology here so I’ll do my best. There were more advances in this field in the 1980's when psychologists attempted to “explain how people perform complex cognitive tasks” like learning words and forming memories. Persons, “cognitive and computer scientists”, named Rumelhart, Hinton and Williams found ways to “train” artificial neural networks” called “deep learning”. These new “machines” and technology kept growing. These are the “tools” and ideas and “fundamental insights”, coming from study of the mind, that are allowing AI to become more and more able to possibly grow to “hold realistic conversations in natural language”. The thinking is that it would be seen as an architecture that “should be based on the human brain”. In the human memory it doesn’t “look up” answers. In AI’s growth at this point there is a question of “false memories” and responding to “a finite set of questions”. The article says that “human minds don’t work that way, and neither does AI”. The article progressed to mention  that “reconciling that AI systems are more akin to brains than databases” will help AI be more accurate. In coming to an end it is said that computer science “draws on cognitive science’s questions” and “cognitive science draws on the accessibility of AI models” to refine “theories of the mind”. It is mind boggling and a bit scary, in my personal opinion it is like fire. Fire is necessary for warmth and cooking and more but can also destroy, it has to be used with intelligence and common sense.

Noodles in beef gravy sounds good for dinner with corn on the cob. 

Photos in my life today

The first assignment is “a sentence”. I looked around for any greeting cards I may have kept but couldn’t find one. So I chose this “sentence” in a book I have on the table.

The next challenges is “my choice” and yet another of my series of “texture overlays”. This is my current store bought bouquet with a fine texte overlay. 

The last upload is “boo”. I found this little guy in a neighbors yard as I was
coming home from church. 

Joy

my Fine Art America upload for today 

want to shop? Visit: fineartamerica.com search for joy rector click on “view shop”  and redbubble.com search for jarector (and take a look at flickr.com search for rectorjoyce)