Steve Richfield responded to Mike Archbold: > >Mike, > >On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Mike Archbold <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Steve Richfield < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Mike >>> >>> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Mike Archbold <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> John.... the Wallingford Food Giant turned into a QFC.... it's a good >>>> place to get out of the rain, upstairs a starbucks... >>>> >>> >>> Hey, my Seattlite detector just went off!!! Where are you located? Are >>> there any others here from Seattle area besides Mentaflex? Maybe we should >>> have a meetup? >>> >> >> I worked for a long time for Seafirst/BofA as a programmer, also had a >> stint at the UW seismology lab... yeah, I'm around Seattle. There used to >> be a "Northwest AI Forum" but it has seemingly disappeared. >> > >You mean the one at the UW HUB, that he started charging serious MONEY to >attend? I suspect that he killed his own group, without collecting much of >anything. Sad. > >There are so few people around who really are interested in general AI. >> Maybe we could set up some kind of NW chapter. I'm more open minded and I >> don't fancy arguments so much of the form "my scheme X is better than your >> scheme Y".... >> > >2 * 0 = 0 > > >> I'm just trying to understand the various fields related to AGI, learn >> from people, and yeah, I've got my own scheme I'm working on.... ;) >> > >As do we all. > >I am down south in Edgewood, near Sumner, just north of Puyallup. This is >off the beaten track, but I often journey into the Seattle area, so I would >adjust my ventures to coincide with a meeting. > >I suggest signing up with meetup.com and seeing who else you might attract. >If you do, be sure to send me an email so I know to sign up. I'm suspect >that Arthur Murray (Mentflex) would also attend, though I've heard that his >schedule is tight. > >Steve
I think meetup.com charges money. About five years ago, meetup went from free to charge-costing, and soon thereafter the New York Times had an article about the founder of MeetUp getting married. It made sense to me, that impending embourgeoisement makes a guy want money. On Saturdays (and other days) I have been coding my http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/Dushka.html Russian AI at the north Seattle coffee shop called Jewel Box Cafe http://www.jewelboxcafe.net 321 NE Thornton Place Seattle WA 98125 Tel. 206-432-9341 which is in a little court yard (with giant chess figurines) near UW Medicne and Regal Cinema, adjacent to the Northgate Mall and the Northgate Seattle Metro Bus Transit Center. I am often at the "JB" on Saturdays between noon and four p.m., sipping coffee and OJ and using my Acer Aspire One netbook to code the JavaScript Russian artificial intelligence. The netbook lets me toggle between Russian Cyrillic typing and English by hitting Alt-Shift. Then I use the Jewel Box Wi-Fi (current password "banana") to upload my Daily Miracle of AI coding to Google Code. They even have a little conference room there at the Jewel Box Cafe. Anybody from this list is welcome to show up there and commence an immediate de-facto AGI Seattle Meeter-Upper. (Just ask one of the beauties on duty if "Arthur" is there :-) C.U. Mentifex (Arthur) -- http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/AiMind.html ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
