My name is Nick Brown, I am a software engineer in North Carolina. I have Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from Virginia Tech and a Master’s in Computer Science and Data Science with the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. All opinions expressed on this blog belong to myself and not my employer.
Hi Nick,
Nice to meet a fellow North Carolinian. I’m a senior content curator at DZone.com (we’re based in Cary, NC). We’re a developer content network and I was really impressed by your blog. I’d like to ask about some possibilities for featuring your blog on our site. Shoot me an email if you’re interested.
I would be interested (I’m actually a reader of DZone), but I don’t see an email address to respond to.
Speaking of Chinese rooms, you should read “Memory Palace of Mateo Ricci”, by Jonathan Spence. The Jesuit priest stunned his Chinese scholars in 1596 by learning Chinese faster and better than they, using a mind game in which he built a huge palace, each room having one character. Perhaps this was an early but advanced form of artificial intelligence.