Re-skilling Has To Be MUCH WIDER With A STRONG FOUNDATION.

A Huge AMOUNT Of Our Everyday Thinking - Powerful, CREATIVE, And Resonant STUFF - Is Done Socially: Talking To Other PEOPLE, ARGUING With Them, Relying On Them To Recall Information For Us.

But In My Imagination This Whole THING DEVELOPED And I Started MIXING Up Old FOLK Songs With The Beatles Beat And TAKING Them Down To Greenwich Village And Playing Them For The People There.

We Now Think Of INTERNAL Representation As Great Big Vectors, And We Do Not Think Of Logic As The Paradigm For How To Get Things To Work. We Just Think You Can Have These Great Big Neural Nets That LEARN, And So, INSTEAD Of Programming, You Are Just Going To Get Them To Learn EVERYTHING.

I BECAME A PROFESSIONAL Musician And Played All Kinds Of Music. I Played Bluegrass, I Played CLASSICAL Music, And For MANY YEARS, I Played Jazz.

I Like To SAY That A 'Times' Editorial PRESENTS A STRONG Opinion BASED On REALITY.

You Can Get Anything ONLINE, Including Things That Don't Even EXIST. We've Invented Our Own Collective Unconscious. The NORMAL Rules Of Time And Space Don't Apply. It's Held Together By Some Other Force Than Gravity. It's ENDLESS. It's Like Some Unimaginably Huge, Messy Novel That's Writing Itself Both With And Without Us.

My Role In The BUSINESS Is To Use My Judgment. All These Years Of Experience Have GIVEN Me A Clear Head, And I Can Give A Nonpartisan View With A SENSE Of Distance.

Our ECONOMICS Are Not Baseball's Economics. Our GAME Is Not Baseball's Game. Our Owners Are Not Baseball's Owners, With One Or Two Exceptions. Our UNION Is Not Baseball's Union. What We Do Has To Be Crafted And Suited To ADDRESS Hockey, To Address The NHL, To Address Our 30 Teams And Our 700-plus PLAYERS.