Types of intelligence

Had an interesting day today - a combination of listening to a podcast of Digital Planet about using graphics cards for alternative types of calculations and thinking about how that translates into human brain processing and a subsequent meeting. OK - that wasn't how the day was likely to pan out, and the thought about brain power came from a later meeting with someone who has lots, and is employed to think...

The long and the short of it is that I reckon good creative thinkers have a 'graphics card' like capacity to do multiple calculations at the same time - hence the 'eureka' experience of coming to an understanding of a complex situation without understanding the thought process that generated it. That's the multiple calculations bit.

Most people do the CPU thing - processing sequentially and understanding how they come to their conclusions.

Some people do the parallel processing thing, not understanding how they get there, but doing it faster and making seemingly creative leaps. Not. Just multiple/parallel processing. Like a graphics processor.

Interesting...

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In-between post

I thought I would add a copy of Kathryn Greenhill's presentation at the Libraries, Web 2.0 and other Internet stuff seminar at the State Library of Victoria on 23 July 2007.

The presentation is on Second Life and Libarians - but what I thought was interesting was the way in which she has linked her presentation in Slideshare with an MP3 of her talk. She blogs about how to do it in a recent post on her own blog, Librarians Matter. Very interesting...

This is a link to her talk.

#12 - Rollyo

I had also played with Rollyo a while ago (2005?) and set up a search to look at a the State Library of Victoria, other state library and National Library sites. Try it if you like, the search is public, and is called NASLA...

#11 - LibraryThing

I had had a bit of a play with LibraryThing before, but never bothered to add books. But I've added some now - just a few and those which are within my view from where I am sitting at the computer - Jill Dupleix's excellent cookery books, and Henning Mankell, since I have read all of the Kurt Wallander books. You're welcome to have a look...

I also had a look at Lili's book list.

The other great things on LibraryThing are the BookSuggester and, even better since it is such a quirky idea, the UnSuggester! UnSuggester takes "people who like this also like that" and turns it on its head. It analyzes the sixteen million books LibraryThing members have recorded as owned or read, and comes back with books least likely to share a library with the book you suggest.

#10 - online image generators

Well, I was ahead on this one, having already played with them in the past, and then constructing an image for a friend's 60th birthday party on Saturday. And, of course, it turned out to be the same image generator used on the SLV Learning Services blog.

I thought it was rather good...

#8 & #9 - Blogs

Well, I've created my own Bloglines account. Have to say that - although I've been using the Google blog feed thing on my personalised Google homepage, and that I subscribe to a few blogs through AvantGo on my PDA, including Stephen's Lighthouse, Connecting Librarian, Information Wants To Be Free and Derek's ALIA Blog - Bloglines organises the information in a nice, clear and easily sortable way. So I might use it some more...

I've also re-subscribed to Derek's blog on Bloglines - especially since he blogged on the Millenials professional development session we hosted at the State Library of Victoria the other week. Is this a shade of hubris??