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The Haunted Mansion: Basic Christianity for Modern People

In these pages I have a less traditional and more nuts and bolts description of the Biblical view of the world that is especially designed to MAKE SENSE to the modern world. It includes a little known argument based on modern physics that proves the existence of God.

Spanish Language Instruction

My wife is from Peru and she has been teaching Spanish, here is some information about her and her teaching program. She can teach you in person in the Chicago area or via the internet if the time difference is not a problem.

Windy City Community Church

This is just my little old homemade ad for my church. Pastor Steve is a really funny guy and many of his sermons are online as mp3 files, so listen in, OK? I maintain the Missionary Pages.

The Pattern Recognition Basis of Artificial Intelligence

My textbook on Artificial Intelligence published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Here is an outline and commentary plus additional online only chapters on More Neural Networking, More Prolog and Lisp.

The Pattern Recognition Basis of AI NN Software

GUI based versions of backprop for Unix and Windows plus non-GUI versions of backprop, k-nearest-neighbor, LVQ1, DSM, simple clustering, ART I, feed-forward counter propagation, interactive activation network, a simple BAM, Hopfield and Boltzman networks and the linear pattern classifier. Includes an updated binary and source for the backprop program for Ubuntu 9.04, gcc 4.3.3 and Tcl/Tk 8.4.

The Professional Version of Backprop

Expanded versions of backprop, $30/copy for academics, the general public and non-commercial and non-governmental users, $200/copy for business and government, includes C++ source. There is a now a non-GUI version and by using its source code you can incorporate backprop routines into a program of your own.

Backpropagator's Review

Tips on using backprop aimed at the general user including references to worthwhile online and offline papers.

The Quantum Basis of Natural Intelligence?

There are hints that the brain is a quantum computer, a computer far more sophisticated and powerful than our ordinary digital computers. Here I summarize some of the physics and point to serious research papers that are available online and offline.

Mountains and Rivers Without End

If you want a break from the usual grind take a look at these photos of mine from Kauai, Southeast Alaska, Yellowstone National Park, Grand Tetons National Park and Glacier National Park. Now includes photos of Chicago.

The How to Grow It Project

I'm into gardening and here are my tips on growing certain plants.

Don's Classical Picks

Now that we know that classical music increases your natural intelligence I'm sure many of you are eager to do so but you just don't know your way around yet, so here are my classical picks to help get you started.

Fixing Slow Laptops

In my case the answer was to clean the dust away from the heat sink. Since this is not commonly cited as the reason for a slow system I think it deserves this page.

If you have any questions or comments

I appreciate email, here are some details and possible problems.