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I thought I would include a picture painted by my dad � Harry Fox. He was showing me how to paint a winter scene. This watercolor was produced in under a few minutes. I named the painting �snowy morning.�

What's in a name? Well, I use the name Tony Fox to sign my artwork and use my full name Anthony Fox as an author. I am currently working on my latest novel and hope to publish later this year. In the meantime, you can buy my first two novels on Amazon.

A Space Time Apocalypse
Two CIA agents, two scientists, and a New York Times reporter are unexpectedly united as a group to try to convince the world and the President of the United States of a coming space time apocalypse. An extinction event that threatens Earth not seen since the demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. The group of unlikely heroes and heroines have to avoid some powerful people in government that have a different agenda and are willing to kill to silence the truth.

Babylon: The Gateway to the Gods
Pharrell Anderson has had one quest for most of his adult life to be an adventurer and scour the world for rare ancient artifacts. The story starts in ancient Babylon and is the story of the 'Lost Treasure of Babylon'. The quest has many twists and turns and a surprising end.

Anthony Fox (Tony Fox)

And here is another watercolor painted by my dad Harry Fox. This watercolor is of the Johanna shipwreck on the coast of Hartland, Devon. The painting is titled �Johanna.� Both these watercolors I have kept to remind me how my dad produced these within a few minutes, while I watched on.

This film should be screened in every school, college, and university especially to those less privileged students around the world in places such as India, China, Russia, and Africa in fact universally made available to all students rich and poor. I cannot stress enough the significance of this film for inspiring confidence in students and understanding the importance of debate. The film is called �The Great Debaters� and is a true story.

Debate is fundamental and it is the basis of democracy, and how laws are formed by a consensus of members provided they are given a free vote without the doctrine of a political party to adhere to. The same applies to law courts when a case is argued adversarial on both sides in front of a jury. The jury is there to understand what the truth is, and to find a consensus.

Above all the film will inspire confidence in students and to learn respect for others. It is a thought-provoking film that I believe will help negate bigotry or bias from our reasoning as human beings.

This is a watercolor of Woolacombe, North Devon. I painted two watercolors that afternoon as a watched the busy shore. I like to get out as much as possible and will often paint outdoors. I remember the first time I painted outdoors; I purposely chose a busy area with lots of people. Why? Because I wanted to test how I would react to strangers milling around and sometimes expressing their views on my work. The more I did this the more I found myself feeling comfortable with what I was doing. Today, it�s not a problem I love en plein air.

The inherent problem with algorithms whether they are based on neural networks, genetic algorithms, knowledge discovery systems, or any other type of pattern recognition software is the paradox in automated pattern discovery systems in extracting random data sets and the association of interestingness as a measure of the usefulness of the data patterns revealed because there is no prior knowledge of the likely interesting data associations to be found before automation. �If you do not expect it, you will not find the unexpected, for it is hard to find and difficult.� (Padmanabhan & Tuzhilin, 1999)

So, you see the dilemma for artificial intelligence is the probability, that a rule exists, that maps one association to another with the subjective attributes of unexpectedness is present in the fact that the unexpected is expected in the probability of chance relationships existing in any given time frame.

Many algorithms exist in determining patterns of interestingness, these then can be used as a measure of the expected quality of the data retrieval, the main problem with this approach would seem the probability of randomness in any given set of data. The random nature of data aggregation assumes that while some methods would filter interesting patterns, it would also be conceivable that many more one-dimensional patterns would not be recovered without techniques that would isolate odd patterns.

Clearly, only understandable patterns can qualify as new knowledge, hence, the importance of interestingness measures in finding and tuning search heuristics in this quest for artificial intelligence.


By Anthony Fox MSc BSc Hons

This is a true story, which happened to me several years ago now. In a way it�s a bit like one of those stories you would expect under �the tales of the unexpected� the TV series. But, with one thing missing, it�s not a creepy or a frightening story. Anyhow, it was one of those days when I would hop into my car with a couple of my paintings and drive to search out some art galleries. This was something I did quite frequently back then. I would wander off into the unknown and see what happened. It was mid-summer, the height of the holiday season as I parked up and took a stroll into the seaside town looking for art galleries. I felt sure I was in the right place. The watercolors I had tucked under my arm were a couple of seascapes, which would sell well in this seaside town, I thought. The watercolors were quite modern but tighter than I usually paint especially these days.

I took a deep breath and entered the art gallery right on the seafront. My first impression was of an art gallery with very little white space. Floor to ceiling the walls were plastered with art of all shapes and sizes.

I walked over and introduced myself to the owner of the gallery. I began by explaining why I was there. Then I propped my two watercolors below her desk so she could take a look. The lady began by saying she thought my paintings were too modern. I listened to what she had to say about my work. But, just then a customer came into the gallery and walked around as the gallery owner continued talking about my work. The gallery owner said, �I don't think your work would sell well in here, it�s too modern.� I tried to persuade her otherwise, but then the customer who had just come in came over to where I was standing and stood looking at my paintings. Whereupon she asked me how much would these paintings of mine cost. I explained how much for the pair and she agreed to buy them there and then. I even had to ask the gallery owner who was listening to this conversation if I could borrow a pen as the customer was writing me a cheque.

The strangest part was after the customer had gone the gallery owner still wouldn't consider selling my artwork in her gallery even after she had to eat her words. I don't know if she was still embarrassed or what, but when I breathed fresh air the buzz was fantastic. I guess sometimes it�s difficult to convince some people even when they have had to eat their own words.

I walked over and introduced myself to the owner of the gallery. I began by explaining why I was there. Then I propped my two watercolors below her desk so she could take a look. The lady began by saying she thought my paintings were too modern. I listened to what she had to say about my work. But, just then a customer came into the gallery and walked around as the gallery owner continued talking about my work. The gallery owner said, �I don't think your work would sell well in here, it�s too modern.� I tried to persuade her otherwise, but then the customer who had just come in came over to where I was standing and stood looking at my paintings. Whereupon she asked me how much would these paintings of mine cost. I explained how much for the pair and she agreed to buy them there and then. I even had to ask the gallery owner who was listening to this conversation if I could borrow a pen as the customer was writing me a cheque.

The strangest part was after the customer had gone the gallery owner still wouldn't consider selling my artwork in her gallery even after she had to eat her words. I don't know if she was still embarrassed or what, but when I breathed fresh air the buzz was fantastic. I guess sometimes it�s difficult to convince some people even when they have had to eat their own words.

Sometimes it’s hard to keep the momentum going when you live with being bipolar. But that said, I still enjoy my creative moments. The hardest thing sometimes is keeping that momentum which inspires you to create new art. Being an author I find writing just another creative challenge. Check my press release for more information about my book. And one which we never stop learning. Even if you think you are smart you still need to learn. It comes down to the grind. And that’s it, hard work and grind. But also fun.
Anthony Fox

The picture is of a collage I created called “Eyes” which took me about 2 years to complete.