Ian Stallings: web logofficial chickenâ„¢Teaching computers common sense- November 29, 2005 MIT has created an interesting project called OpenMind. The goal is to teach a computer things that we apes take for granted. For instance if I was to say "Colby wanted to be a fireman when he grew up" you would have to know what a fireman was, what colby was, and what growing up is. Everything you know is dependent on something else. Every word in the dictionary is defined by another word. This type of relationship creation is the backbone of human understanding. So go sign up and teach the...http://weblogs.asp.net/jmoon/archive/2005/11/29/431784.aspx Spy Drones Over the City! -- a retort- November 23, 2005 For some odd reason when drudge posted this article on spy drones that will be used by civilian law enforcement it caused a huge stir among people. But I don't see the big deal. People tend to have this aversion to UAVs in general equating the technology with danger. I see this a lot inside the hobbiest UAV culture where some remote-contol hobbiest call them dangerous (apparently more dangerous than an ape with a remote control.. but I digress). But allow me to focus on the article from drudge..http://weblogs.asp.net/jmoon/archive/2005/11/23/431378.aspx Office Prank 248576- November 12, 2005 Want to mess with a coworker Come to work early and replace his usual keyboard with this. You might be doing a bit too much gaming when you need a "spellbook" key on your keyboard..http://weblogs.asp.net/jmoon/archive/2005/11/12/430411.aspx My Slashdot Replacement- November 11, 2005 I have put slashdot on a LIFE BAN for various reasons, mainly to keep my sanity. This is my replacement: http:www.digg.comAll the stories geeks love, minus bullshit.I got kind of tired of slashdot not for the stories but a few reasons: Lack of profressionalism - duplicate stories everyday, same format since 1997, lack of caring by the staff, etc. I always knew the comments were, to quote Linus, a "geek circle jerk" but it seems to be a bit too many college greenhorns and not enough pros. I...http://weblogs.asp.net/jmoon/archive/2005/11/11/430330.aspx Evolutionary Programming- November 3, 2005 Here is a paper (via robots.net) on evolutionary programming that gives a good overview of genetic algs vs. evolutionary strategies vs. evolutionary programming. One of my mentors in this industry once told me that he thought evolutionary programming in some form would be needed to tackle the complexity of future applications. These applications would determine the best solution to a problem using evolution and fitness tests that the programmer would create. Would this ease the burden on the..http://weblogs.asp.net/jmoon/archive/2005/11/03/429358.aspx |