Do you have any test cases? On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Jim Bromer <[email protected]> wrote: > At the end of December 2012 I said that I felt that I had figured out > a way to write an AGI program. I then said that if someone really did > have it all figured out that he should be able to write the program in > a year. I then changed that to two years. For one thing we should > give a researcher, even an amateur researcher - especially an amateur > researcher - some leeway. And for another, it should be clear that > writing an AGI program that could actually work must be pretty > difficult. I also added that other contingencies, like health, could > intervene on the schedule. But I then pointed out that there are some > indicators that should make it clear that the programmer really did > not have it all figured out. Like if he worked on it for 5 months and > still had not started in on experimenting with some actual AGI > situations then that would be an indicator that he wasn't working at > as advanced a level as he might think. Expanding that to twice that > length is 10 months and I am there. However, I did have a worrisome > health problem that really did cost me about a month's time of work. > So this means that if I am not working on the AGI experiments within > the next month, after 11 months have passed, then I believe that will > be a strong indicator that I really did not have it all figured out - > as I felt that I had last December. > > One of the hang-ups that I got into was that I wanted to write my own > data management system. It has been an interesting project but I > probably should have used a simple data management system in a very > direct way so that I could get to work on the AGI prototype. If I > actually got the prototype to a promising stage I could then have > worked on the data management system. That is a reasonable point of > view. However, there is an alternative view. A conceptual management > system, in my opinion, is going to be complicated. If I can't write a > simple foundational data management system then I probably would not > be able to manage a conceptual management system. So from this > alternative point of view, all the time I have been spending on trying > to write my own very basic data management system may turn out to have > been a reasonable investment, given my goal. > > I just started thinking about a problem that I would have if I shared > my program. My program is converting the various arrays it has into > byte arrays to save them to disk using a fundamental strategy that I > found in the .net help files. However, that means that most of the > data will be saved according to the Little-Endian implementation of my > computer and I just started wondering how I would make the files > available to other kinds of implementations. I guess I could write a > simple conditional algorithm for the file accesses so it doesn't seem > like it would be a big deal. > > But even worse than that, the files would be such a security risk I am > not even sure that they should be casually shared. So how should I > deal with this problem? I'm not going to worry about it now. This is > exactly the sort of thing that I shouldn't be worrying about because I > should be more focused on developing a prototype. If the prototype > actually worked then I probably will be able to find a way to deal > with these side issues. Or at least the Little-Big-Endian problem > looks simple. > > But the shared file security problem is not that important to me right > now because I have to try to avoid the pitfalls of additional > complications. I have to focus on getting the project to the next > stage and just see what happens then. > > Jim Bromer > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/3701026-786a0853 > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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