What has recently been coined "AI Slop" is the endless churn of "heavily AI-assisted content" (my nice, Zen-appropriate term for AI Slop). I ran into the phenomenon of “AI Slop” while trying to figure out why the views on this site cut in half a few months ago (since July 2025). The concept isn't new. … Continue reading Zen and “AI Slop”
Author: Reverend Dukkha Hanamoku
I'm just a pair of typing hands for The Eternal Fishnu, the Buddha of the Devonian, the ith manifestation of Vishnu, and The Rubber Ducky Buddha of Joliet. My day job as a Business Intelligence Consultant is about modeling worlds. It is a wonderful Zen practice, which is guided by these two Teachers.
AI Judo: Focus, Edges, and Awareness
Judo and its cousins, Jiujitsu and Aikido, have made much headway into Western culture in terms of sport and philosophy. We've incorporated saying such as “if pushed, pull; if pulled, push” and "use your opponent's energy against them". Additionally, "xxx jiujitsu" is another form that's become cliche. For example: Marketing jiujitsu—Taking a competitor’s message and … Continue reading AI Judo: Focus, Edges, and Awareness
Merry Christmas 2024 from Rev. Dukkha Hanamoku
Merry Christmas! Many folks are surprised when I say that I consider myself a Christian ... even though I'm a Buddhist. They are sometimes offended because, for example, they don't like Christianity (or any religion) or one can't be Christian and something else at the same time. As an American, where Christian (Judeo-Christian) traditions, as … Continue reading Merry Christmas 2024 from Rev. Dukkha Hanamoku
Rev. Dukkha Hanamoku’s Bodhi Day 2024 Guidance
Happy Bodhi Day Eve!!! I thought I'd offer something to meditate upon for Bodhi Day tomorrow (Sunday, December 8, 2024). Scaling Beyond Comprehension Everything is easy at a small scale. I usually say that a few times during workshops on business intelligence and/or big data. You can solve problems with precision, maintain clarity of purpose, … Continue reading Rev. Dukkha Hanamoku’s Bodhi Day 2024 Guidance
Music Bodhi Day – Four-Year Update
I wrote a book this year. It's a fairly big book on artificial intelligence. All along, and even after it was published, people told me no one will read such a big book. I agree with them. I usually choose watching a 15 minute video over an hour video on the same subject. Better yet, … Continue reading Music Bodhi Day – Four-Year Update
End of the Maintained Trail
Don't worry. As you can see, the trail does continue on. When I met the Eternal Fishnu in 2017, he explained to me that he is the ith manifestation of Vishnu, the "Buddha of the Devonian", overseeing the transformation of fish to land vertebrates that eventually lead to us. I asked why he is here. … Continue reading End of the Maintained Trail
The Process of Intelligence
As we stand in an era defined by AI, the philosophical implications of AI tools from past eras become increasingly profound. For example, the old language, Prolog—the star of the 1980s/1990s era of Expert System. Today's AI, particularly large language models (LLMs such as ChatGPT), come as close as we've ever seen to something human … Continue reading The Process of Intelligence
The Yin and Yang of A.I.
Black implies white, life implies death, self implies other, fear implies courage, action implies time, and Yin implies Yang. In the world of artificial intelligence (AI), Large Language Models (LLMs) imply knowledge graphs (KG). (Paraphrasing Alan Watts.) This current "AI summer" is dominated by LLMs such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and LLama. But the dominant … Continue reading The Yin and Yang of A.I.
Cycles
There is a wise and well-known story often told in Zen circles informally titled, "Bad Luck? Good Luck?" It sort of goes like this: A farmer had a horse that ran away. His neighbors said, "Such bad luck!" The farmer replied, "Maybe." The next day, the horse returned with three wild horses. The neighbors exclaimed, … Continue reading Cycles
Five Aggregates of Machine Learning
In one of the foundational concepts of Buddhist philosophy, the Five Aggregates, we unsurprisingly (at least to me) find counterparts in the world of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). Genuine AI is currently beyond the large language models (LLM - ex. ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini) that have become very familiar to us over the … Continue reading Five Aggregates of Machine Learning
Bodhi Day 