Thanks Nil and Linas. Yes Nil, I am willing to work semi-autonomously and I am almost sure that it is mostly about a name..I will get it clarified in the coming days. As for my interest, I thought about it and I realized that I do have a keen interest in bio informatics related projects.
Now because linas talked about obsessiveness in his reply, I would like to elaborate on it a little. One of the serious problems I face with my obsession is that I wash my hands excessively using soap and takes longer time to bath after using public transport or being in public places. I believe this particular habit began sometime back, when Kerala, the state in India where I live witnessed an outbreak of the deadly Nipah Virus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Nipah_virus_outbreak_in_Kerala . I am pretty sure that I developed a phobia of viruses and germs after that. Ever since I started my journey into AI, I have often blindly believed that a lot of huge problems faced by mankind such as the one mentioned above can be solved through AI.While I am not certain about my belief being proved correct in near future when AI powered technologies will keep viruses from harming humans, I always had a desire to work on such problems. I was not sure about opencog actively pursuing any bio informatics related project right now, until linas mentioned it in his reply. I would definitely like to give it a shot.Thanks Linas and I will try to do the installation and testing asap. On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 9:02 PM Linas Vepstas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 12:37 AM sree hari <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Therefore I will try to sell myself by declaring that I am possibly >> suffering from Obsessive Disorder. While this is having a bad effect on my >> life, >> > > Obsessiveness is only a disorder if you let it be one. Certainly, if you > obsessively smoke cigarettes and video-game, that will result in unhappy > life outcomes. Equally certainly, the finest software artisans are > obsessive about their work (the highest achievers in any field tend to be > obsessive). It can be controlled and channeled. > > Nil asked you to talk more about your interests. There's a menu of > possibilities: if you are interested in bio or genomics, there is an > opencog project to datamine genetic and proteomic data. If you have access > to robotics gear, there could be some utility to provide/improve access to > motors and sensory equipment, (via ROS). If you like pure > mathematics/logic/reasoning, there's perhaps something to be done there, as > well. There are other possibilities I'm not mentioning. Depends on your > abilities and interests. > > Before you get too excited, you might want to make sure that you are able > to download, compile, install all the code and run the unit tests. > > --linas > > -- > cassette tapes - analog TV - film cameras - you > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/CAHrUA36xmg11F3KhiyMubCPp16NNOmZm%2BV6QNdjhT3O%3DZqYnCw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/CAHrUA36xmg11F3KhiyMubCPp16NNOmZm%2BV6QNdjhT3O%3DZqYnCw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/CADoRrWdcTMN9Koq%3DkGzQ6TKsz_OGR-kaYMZvVwFzzxVcxKniew%40mail.gmail.com.
