Hello and thank you for the reply. I will start reading the book as you suggest, Could you please send me the electronic draft? Also, based on my current Github repo, which part do you think is appropriate for me to contribute to?
Regards, Pranav On Friday, May 5, 2017 at 10:07:41 PM UTC+5:30, Nil wrote: > > Hi, > > On 05/05/2017 05:14 PM, Pranav Deshpande wrote: > > I would like to contribute to OpenCog. What aspects of AI and ML do I > > need to know to contribute; or can I just get started? I wanted some > > guidance. > > it all depends on what you'd like to do, if you desire to go to the > bottom of it I think knowing probability and logic (say predicate logic) > is very good. Having a broad culture about AI helps too, including > theoretical stuff like Solomonoff induction. Ben and Linas would > probably tell you that category theory is helpful :-) (I know too little > about it and I've started reading "Category Theory for the Siences"). > More directly linked to the OpenCog design you may want to read > > https://www.amazon.com/Engineering-General-Intelligence-Part-Cognitive/dp/9462390266/ > > if you'd rather not spend money on it we can provide you an electronic > draft that is essentially like the book. The wiki itself is full of > information, browse it at will. > > Regarding programming languages, the core is in C++ and it supports > Scheme, Python and Haskell as binding languages. > > You don't necessarily need to know all that to contribute though, > reading the wiki and giving your feedback, correcting when you can is > very helpful. > > Nil > > > > > Regards, > > Pranav > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "opencog" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > > an email to opencog+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > > <mailto:opencog+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>>. > > To post to this group, send email to ope...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:> > > <mailto:ope...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>>. > > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/opencog. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/8f8a1f5f-1415-4ac1-9bf6-2c45829b8bd2%40googlegroups.com > > > < > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/8f8a1f5f-1415-4ac1-9bf6-2c45829b8bd2%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "opencog" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to opencog+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to opencog@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/opencog. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/f8c5d7e8-a68e-4db6-a859-526be6001bff%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
