Re: [agi] Priors and indefinite probabilities

2007-02-17 Thread Aki Iskandar
Hello - I'm new on this email list. I'm very interested in AI / AGI - but do not have any formal background at all. I do have a degree in Finance, and have been a professional consultant / developer for the last 9 years (including having worked at Microsoft for almost 3 of those

Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] Priors and indefinite probabilities]

2007-02-17 Thread Richard Loosemore
Aki Iskandar wrote: Hello - I'm new on this email list. I'm very interested in AI / AGI - but do not have any formal background at all. I do have a degree in Finance, and have been a professional consultant / developer for the last 9 years (including having worked at Microsoft for almost

Re: Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] Priors and indefinite probabilities]

2007-02-17 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 2/17/07, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is not always true that C++ is used (I am building my own language and development environment to do it, for example), but if C++ is most common in projects overall, that probably reflects the facts that: ... Back in the old days, it

Re: Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] Priors and indefinite probabilities]

2007-02-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 08:46:17AM -0800, Peter Voss wrote: We use .net/ c#, and are very happy with our choice. Very productive. I don't know much about those. Bytecode, JIT at runtime? Might be not too slow. If you use code generation, do you do it at source or at bytecode level? Eugen(Of

RE: Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] Priors and indefinite probabilities]

2007-02-17 Thread Peter Voss
Dynamic code generation is not a major aspect of our AGI. To clarify: While I agree that many AI apps require massively parallel number-crunching, in our AGI approach neither are major requirements. 'Number crunching' is of course part of any serious AI/AGI implementation, but we find that

Re: Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] Priors and indefinite probabilities]

2007-02-17 Thread Aki Iskandar
I completely agree with you Pei. Language choice is all over the place, and for differing reasons / views. I didn't intend on having people spend so many cycles in offering their input. But it sure is a testament to how friendly, and passionate about AI, the people on this list are :-)

Re: Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] Priors and indefinite probabilities]

2007-02-17 Thread Pei Wang
On 2/17/07, Aki Iskandar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I can ask two quick questions, I'll get busy with following the suggestions :-) They are even more controversial than your previous question. ;-) 1 - Of the many branches of mathematics, which is best as a starting point? Calculus?

Re: Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] Priors and indefinite probabilities]

2007-02-17 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 2/17/07, Aki Iskandar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard, Danny, Pei, Chuck, Eugen, Peter ... thanks all for answering my question. ... C# is definitely a productive language, mainly due to the IDE, and it is faster than Java - however, it is strongly typed. Perhaps the disadvantage to C#,

[agi] Languages for AGI

2007-02-17 Thread A. T. Murray
http://modularai.corecoding.com is the Modular AI Project. http://modularai.messageforums.net/general-discussion_f3.html is where AI enthusiasts may pick a language to code Modular AI. http://modularai.messageforums.net/c-for-modular-ai_t37.html