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Anarchaia: A tumblelog by Christian Neukirchen: rixxon: that's good though - it means you now know the code is right!The Minsky Machine, explained by Mark Chu-Carroll. He also has an implementation. (via Cosmos)
Rockstars' Ramblings: His hypothesis won't achieve the success of the Time Cube without it. I have fury! Without it, his idea is a cartoon of a caricature drawn by a kid who is stupid! (via Cosmos)
Science and Politics: . US high-school student performance ranks behind every European and Asian country, according to the 2003 Trends in International Math and Science Study conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics. Given that over half of high-school graduates don't go on to get college degrees, that's something to be concerned about. But Miller takes heart from the fact that, unlike any other country in the world, the United States requires the 47% of kids who do go to college to take a year of science””a distinction that may help the United States recover its flagging scientific standing. College professors would do well to remember that today's undergraduates are apt to be functioning 40 to 50 years from now, he says. “ (via Cosmos)
[AN INCOMPLETE HISTORY OF PERSONAL COMPUTING Ver. 6.3] AN INCOMPLETE HISTORY OF PERSONAL COMPUTING Ver.... : 1936 - The British mathematician, logician and cryptographer Alan Turing describes the very idea of a universal machine, the "Turing Machine," in a paper "On Computable Numbers with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem." A universal machine is a device capable of emulating any kind of mechanical process, including the mechanical solution of complex mathematical problems. The Turing Machine is so simple it can be described on a single sheet of paper, yet it is capable of achieving the complexity of a modern computer (see Byte magazine, November, 1987, Vol.
[mutato nomine] Key 23 | Metamagical Grafitti #3: Perhaps this other civilization is running an evolutionary algorithm on our universe (that is, the evolution we're witnessing) to create an explosion of knowledge from a technological Singularity. If that is true, then the civilization watching our universe might shut down the simulation if it appeared that a knowledge Singularity had gone awry and it did not look like it was going to occur."
[AN INCOMPLETE HISTORY OF PERSONAL COMPUTING Ver. 6.3] AN INCOMPLETE HISTORY OF PERSONAL COMPUTING Ver.... : Ver 6.3 "The purpose of technology is to free us up to be and do our best."The Industrial Revolution freed up our bodies, the Computer Revolution frees up our minds.by Rory DonaldsonHeart of the Beast Software! Bit = the basis of the binary number system, on/off, zero/one, signifiers of
[Featherly.com] Kevin Featherly: He has written many books, including a science fiction novel with Jack Williamson, "The Turing Option," that explores the possibilities of successful machine intelligence (and which places the birth of genuine AI in the year 2023). Perhaps most famously, he worked as a science consultant to late film director Stanley Kubrick to devise the AI-driven HAL 2000 computer, which ended up killing an astronaut and getting summarily unplugged in the 1969 film, "2001: A Space Odyssey."
[Greythumb.org] Marvin Minsky misunderstands genetic/evolutionary computing ...: Genetic algorithms are very popular, and I can't figure out why, because in almost all respects they are worse than the traditional artificial intelligence heuristic search. What genetic algorithms do is use the computers 10,000 times faster to make lots of things to try and then you have a competition so that the ones that succeed better in solving some problem or faster replace the ones that took longer.
[Blogs.ocregister.com] Sciencedude: UC Irvine biologist Francisco Ayala, winner of the National Medal of Science, will discuss "Darwin's Greatest Discovery: Design Without Designer," at 7 p.m tonight, Titan Student Union, Cal State Fullerton. Ayala, who was once a Franciscan priest, has been speaking widely, taking on proponents of intelligent design.
[Delong.typepad.com] Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal: Moving the Goal Posts and ...: Minsky made the same point about moving the goalposts at a speech in about 1985, at one of the international conferences in the heyday of AI. There he made the more succinct analysis that "intelligence is what we admire but do not (yet) understand how to program." There's really no question that each bit of ostensibly intelligent behavior, from chess to medical diagnosis to logistal planning to image recognition to language translation, becomes "oh, that doesn't really require intelligence" as soon as somebody figures out how to make a machine do it.
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