Re: [agi] The resource allocation problem

2008-04-05 Thread Richard Loosemore
William Pearson wrote: On 01/04/2008, Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 6:30 PM, William Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The resource allocation problem and why it needs to be solved first How much memory and processing power should you apply to the

Re: [agi] The resource allocation problem

2008-04-05 Thread Vladimir Nesov
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 12:24 AM, William Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/04/2008, Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This question supposes a specific kind of architecture, where these things are in some sense separate from each other. I am agnostic to how much things are

Re: [agi] The resource allocation problem

2008-04-05 Thread William Pearson
On 05/04/2008, Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 12:24 AM, William Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/04/2008, Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This question supposes a specific kind of architecture, where these things are in some sense

Re: [agi] The resource allocation problem

2008-04-05 Thread J Storrs Hall, PhD
Note that in the brain, there is a fair extent to which functions are mapped to physical areas -- this is why you can find out anything using fMRI, for example, and is the source of the famous sensory and motor homunculi (e.g. http://faculty.etsu.edu/currie/images/homunculus1.JPG). There's

Re: [agi] The resource allocation problem

2008-04-05 Thread Richard Loosemore
J Storrs Hall, PhD wrote: Note that in the brain, there is a fair extent to which functions are mapped to physical areas -- this is why you can find out anything using fMRI, for example, This is not correct. fMRI gives the illusion that functions are mapped to specific areas, whereas in

[agi] Suggested Education for Future AGI Researchers

2008-04-05 Thread Pei Wang
Hi, Triggered by Ben's Instead of an AGI Textbook, I put together a list of suggested topics and materials, which ends up not as the TOC of a book, but as a partial curriculum. See http://nars.wang.googlepages.com/wang.AGI-Curriculum.html Though it is not a wiki (for reasons I explained in the

Re: [agi] Suggested Education for Future AGI Researchers

2008-04-05 Thread Aki Iskandar
Hi Pei - Thanks very much for this list. I have a lot of reading to do. Luckily, I already own a couple of these books :-) ~Aki On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Pei Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Triggered by Ben's Instead of an AGI Textbook, I put together a list of suggested topics

[agi] Unsupervised grammar mining from text [was GSoC: Learning Simple Grammars]

2008-04-05 Thread Ben Goertzel
I looked through the ADIOS papers... It's interesting work, and it reminds me of a number of other things, including -- Borzenko's work, http://proto-mind.com/SAHIN.pdf -- Denis Yuret's work on mutual information based grammar learning, from the late 90's -- Robert Hecht-Nielsen's