Re: [agi] The Smushaby of Flatway.

2009-01-08 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
On Jan 8, 2009, at 10:29 AM, Ronald C. Blue wrote: ...Noise is not noise... Speaking of noise, was that ghastly HTML formatting really necessary? It made the email nearly unreadable. J. Andrew Rogers --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com

Re: [agi] Hypercomputation and AGI

2009-01-01 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
they realize it or not), which are a form of hypercomputer. If it was possible to build such a computer, it would have some strange consequences for physics that are not in evidence. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers --- agi Archives: https

Re: [agi] Hypercomputation and AGI

2009-01-01 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
On Jan 1, 2009, at 2:35 PM, J. Andrew Rogers wrote: Since digital and analog are the same thing computationally (digital is a subset of analog), and non-digital computers have been generally superior for several decades, this is not relevant. Gah, that should be *digital* computers have

Re: [agi] Hypercomputation and AGI

2008-12-30 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
of hypercomputation captures some very specific mathematical concepts that are not captured in other conceptual terms. I do not see what is being evaded, since it is more like pointing out the obvious with respect to certain limits implied by the conventional Turing model. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers

Re: [agi] Hypercomputation and AGI

2008-12-29 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
magic from the error bars in any case. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member

Re: [agi] Hypercomputation and AGI

2008-12-29 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
, since there seems to be a similar concept at work there. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https

Re: [agi] Universal intelligence test benchmark

2008-12-27 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
at this general problem, that it's better to characterize AGI systems An interesting question is which pattern subset if ignored would make the problem tractable. J. Andrew Rogers --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS

Re: [agi] Universal intelligence test benchmark

2008-12-27 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
On Dec 26, 2008, at 7:24 PM, Philip Hunt wrote: 2008/12/27 J. Andrew Rogers and...@ceruleansystems.com: I think many people greatly underestimate how many gaping algorithm holes there are in computer science for even the most important and mundane tasks. The algorithm coverage

Re: [agi] Indexing

2008-12-27 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
the indexes alone. In an ideal system, the database relation *is* the index. External indexes are largely a software engineering artifact of only being able to represent one dimension per relation in a scalable manner. J. Andrew Rogers --- agi

Re: [agi] Introducing Steve's Theory of Everything in cognition.

2008-12-24 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
are not being electronically differentiated, then sampling must proceed at least twice as fast as the NN/AGI cycles. Or... you could be using something like compressive sampling, which safely ignores silly things like the Nyquist limit. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers

Re: [agi] Building a machine that can learn from experience

2008-12-19 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
know this then you can very easily add them to the software-modeled system. You have not explained why this is not possible, merely asserted it. J. Andrew Rogers --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https

Re: [agi] Building a machine that can learn from experience

2008-12-19 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
. It is not so much that I understand everything you are talking about, but that the parts are I *do* understand are quite wrong on their own. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https

Re: [agi] Building a machine that can learn from experience

2008-12-19 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
explanatory memes of woo-ness of which humans are fond. Like the old man once said, entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https

Re: [agi] AGI Preschool: sketch of an evaluation framework for early stage AGI systems aimed at human-level, roughly humanlike AGI

2008-12-19 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
cooking does not. Which is why I am merely an adequate baker instead of a great one. :-) Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your

Re: [agi] Building a machine that can learn from experience

2008-12-19 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
happily entertain it. I just am not aware of one though that may reflect my limited experience. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify

Re: [agi] Building a machine that can learn from experience

2008-12-18 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
to implement it virtually, why would there be any reason at all to believe that it will do anything interesting? The hallmark of a viable AGI theory/design is that you can explain why it *must* work in sufficient detail to be implementable in any medium. J. Andrew Rogers

Re: RE: FW: [agi] A paper that actually does solve the problem of consciousness

2008-12-02 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
of digital and analog is one of those hard-to-kill memes that needs to die, along with the fundamental non- equivalence of parallel and serial computation. Persistent buggers, even among people who should know better. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers --- agi

Re: [agi] Mushed Up Decision Processes

2008-11-30 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244id_secret=120640061-aded06

Re: [agi] Approximations of Knowledge

2008-06-23 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
either very small projects or you are older than Methuselah. I've worked on a lot of projects, but nowhere near 100 and I was a consultant for many years. J. Andrew Rogers --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http

Re: [agi] Approximations of Knowledge

2008-06-22 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
mailing list ...the project had hit a serious snag, and so the investors brought in a consultant that would explain why the project was broken by defectively reasoning about dubious generalizations he pulled out of his ass... J. Andrew Rogers

Re: [agi] More brain scanning and language

2008-06-12 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
, but there will be some types of functions that are not very efficient using them. Evolution optimized the architecture for a specific use case given the materials and processes at hand. J. Andrew Rogers --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member

Re: [agi] More brain scanning and language

2008-06-11 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
. We have a model, but our poorly calibrated interactions with it are constantly moderated by real-world feedback. It is an open question as to whether or not mathematics will arrive at an elegant solution that out-performs the sub-optimal wetware algorithm. J. Andrew Rogers

Re: [agi] More brain scanning and language

2008-06-11 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
(or particularly) when thinking about interactions with 3-dimensional spaces that are not directly tractably decidable. J. Andrew Rogers --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303

Re: [agi] More brain scanning and language

2008-06-11 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
has anything to do with AI, except to the extent AI may involve efficiently manipulating models of spaces. Sloppy thinking and hidden assumptions as usual . . . . The irony is rich. J. Andrew Rogers --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member

Re: [agi] Ideological Interactions Need to be Studied

2008-06-08 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
of that, let's get to the meat of it: Are you arguing that the function that is a neuron is not an elementary operator for whatever computational model describes the brain? J. Andrew Rogers --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now

Re: [agi] Ideological Interactions Need to be Studied

2008-06-07 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
the futility of my attempting to close that particular comprehension gap. J. Andrew Rogers --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http

Re: [agi] Ideological Interactions Need to be Studied

2008-06-07 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
computational model it is that describes the brain? J. Andrew Rogers --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member

Re: [agi] news bit: Is this a unified theory of the brain? Do Bayesian statistics rule the brain?

2008-06-01 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
to say the computer scientists do not pay enough attention to neuroanatomy research. :-) Silly monkeys. J. Andrew Rogers --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303

Re: [agi] Ideological Interactions Need to be Studied

2008-06-01 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
and all that. J. Andrew Rogers --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244id_secret=103754539-40ed26

Re: [agi] Ideological Interactions Need to be Studied

2008-06-01 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
an article about how simple an effective computational description is that a lot of neuroscientists subscribe to. If that model is simple, then neurons are ipso facto simple. The description *is* the complexity from a computational standpoint. J. Andrew Rogers

Re: [agi] Ideological Interactions Need to be Studied

2008-06-01 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
substantive. J. Andrew Rogers --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244id_secret=103754539-40ed26

Re: [agi] Ideological Interactions Need to be Studied

2008-06-01 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
and relevant definition. The digits of pi look complex to the naive observer, but they are most assuredly the product of a simple function. J. Andrew Rogers --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com

Re: [agi] More Info Please

2008-05-27 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
sites use reverse proxies or other shenanigans that run many servers through a single IP, which would have the opposite bias. Accurately counting server boxes is difficult. J. Andrew Rogers --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now

Re: [agi] More Info Please

2008-05-26 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
might as well bind it to a super-productive language like Python. Is Microsoft porting Visual Studio to Unix/ Linux in the near future? I already get a really fancy Unix development environment from Apple for free, though it does not support .NET. J. Andrew Rogers

Re: Competitive message routing protocol (was Re: [agi] Deliberative vs Spatial intelligence)

2008-05-26 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
On May 1, 2008, at 10:06 AM, Matt Mahoney wrote: --- J. Andrew Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your model above tacitly predicates its optimality on a naive MCP strategy, but is not particularly well-suited for it. In short, this means that you are assuming that the aggregate latency

Re: [agi] More Info Please

2008-05-25 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
deluded about the distribution of developer talent on the wild and wooly Internet. The right tool for the job, and all that. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com

Re: [agi] Deliberative vs Spatial intelligence

2008-04-30 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
in this area surrounds the problem of massive distributed and decentralized spatial structures, though not for the purposes you are thinking about. J. Andrew Rogers --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com

Re: [agi] Deliberative vs Spatial intelligence

2008-04-29 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
be correctly viewed as a narrow instance of the latter. J. Andrew Rogers --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member

Re: [agi] Re: Language learning

2008-04-23 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
the false impression that adults learn languages more slowly. I am too lazy to dig up cites at the moment, but I definitely remember discussions of this research in the not too distant past. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com

Re: [agi] Re: Language learning

2008-04-22 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
the possible bits that English speakers do not. However, having delved fairly deeply in one such language myself, it is easier than it seems at first once you figure it out. J. Andrew Rogers --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now

Re: [agi] Re: Language learning

2008-04-21 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
of a few people who came to the US from Asia in the mid-teens who speak perfect accent-free American English that was learned when they moved to the US. Quite a phoneme change from tonal East Asian languages, and you would never know they were not born here. J. Andrew Rogers

Re: [agi] WHAT ARE THE MISSING CONCEPTUAL PIECES IN AGI? --- recent input and responses

2008-04-21 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
complexity are fundamentally about the strict definition of the term, or the complete absence thereof. The arguments tend to evaporate if everyone is forced to unambiguously define such terms, but where is the fun in that. J. Andrew Rogers --- agi

Re: [agi] database access fast enough?

2008-04-17 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
are if scalable performance is a criteria. J. Andrew Rogers --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id

Re: [agi] database access fast enough?

2008-04-17 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
is simple enough you can gain some significant speed for modest effort by writing your own engine that is purpose-built to be optimized for your needs. J. Andrew Rogers --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http

Re: [agi] database access fast enough?

2008-04-17 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
do a lot of really cool software implementation tricks with it that Oracle and SQL Server do not do. J. Andrew Rogers --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your

Re: [agi] database access fast enough?

2008-04-17 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
of exists. Inevitably people use non-standard platform features that expose the specific capabilities of the engine being used to maximize performance. As a practical matter, you pick a database platform and stick with it as long as is reasonably possible. J. Andrew Rogers

Re: [agi] database access fast enough?

2008-04-17 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
poorly. In a sense, a design choice that has traditionally put some limits on scaling PostgreSQL for OLAP put it in exactly the right place to make implementation of next-generation architectures as natural of an evolution as can be expected in this case. J. Andrew Rogers

Re: [agi] database access fast enough?

2008-04-17 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
support will not be core in PostgreSQL until the next release. J. Andrew Rogers --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com

Re: [agi] database access fast enough?

2008-04-17 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
of millisecond over the Internet connection (not hypothetical, actually measured at ~400 microseconds). I wish disk access was even remotely that good. And this was with inexpensive Gigabit Ethernet. J. Andrew Rogers --- agi Archives: http

[agi] META: email format (was Why Hugo de Garis is WRONG!)

2008-03-26 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
than most, and most HTML email is *still* generally rendered as far uglier and less readable than plaintext email. Given that HTML email does not add anything substantive could we please stick to plaintext for the sake of communication? Thanks, J. Andrew Rogers On Mar 26, 2008, at 11:37

Re: [agi] RE:P2P and/or communal AGI development [WAS Hacker intelligence level...]

2007-12-03 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
on their interconnect than their compute nodes. J. Andrew Rogers - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244id_secret=71602529-7ec12e

Re: [agi] Where are the women?

2007-11-28 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
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Re: Re[6]: [agi] Danger of getting what we want [from AGI]

2007-11-27 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
, this evolution fellow would whip up another batch of humans posthaste? Lotto balls must be brilliant economists; they make multi-millionaires with impressive regularity. J. Andrew Rogers - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please

Re: [agi] Funding AGI research

2007-11-18 Thread J . Andrew Rogers
to the AI research per se and the inability of these ventures to minimize all that unnecessary risk is a giant mark against them. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com

Re: [agi] Funding AGI research

2007-11-18 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
are implicitly saying just trust me to investors and do not realize it. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244id_secret=66353418-b25d1e

Re: [agi] Funding AGI research

2007-11-18 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
it. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244id_secret=66371996-f0ab47

Re: Bogus Neuroscience [WAS Re: [agi] Human memory and number of synapses]

2007-10-21 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
On Oct 21, 2007, at 6:37 PM, Richard Loosemore wrote: It took me at least five years of struggle to get to the point where I could start to have the confidence to call a spade a spade It still looks like a shovel to me. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers - This list is sponsored by AGIRI

Re: [agi] More public awarenesss that AGI is coming fast

2007-10-19 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
it is an uphill battle to find people willing to make such investments. A track record is huge; proving that you have delivered on insanity in the past will have VCs lining up to invest in your insanity in the future. But you have to have delivered at some point. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers

Re: [agi] More public awarenesss that AGI is coming fast

2007-10-18 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
has serious consequences on performance and reputation. It is a Catch-22, though perhaps well- deserved. In short, traditional venture capital is a poor finance model for AGI. Which does not suggest other finance models. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http

Re: Economic libertarianism [was Re: The first-to-market effect [WAS Re: [agi] Religion-free technical content]

2007-10-10 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
. You are improperly conflating intelligence and rationality. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244id_secret=51970341-6a9d1c

Re: Economic libertarianism [was Re: The first-to-market effect [WAS Re: [agi] Religion-free technical content]

2007-10-09 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
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Re: [agi] Open AGI Consortium

2007-06-05 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
for the AGI. That sounds like a contributor lawsuit waiting to happen outside of the contributors contractually agreeing to have zero rights, and who would want to sign such a contract? Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe

Re: [agi] Open AGI Consortium

2007-06-04 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
to be irritatingly inflexible. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415user_secret=e9e40a7e

Re: [agi] Open AGI Consortium

2007-06-04 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
. Blue sky ventures and maintaining control are pretty much in opposition to each other if you do not want to marginalize your funding opportunities. The lack of intrinsic capital is going to make things tough, because the only real currency you have *is* control. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers

Re: [agi] Open AGI Consortium

2007-06-03 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
, reputation, or cold hard cash -- the stuff ventures are built on. And capital begets capital, so there is a virtuous cycle. That does not mean your project is impossible, but it is implausible. You need to spend more time working on accumulating the necessary capital. Cheers, J. Andrew

Re: [agi] Open AGI Consortium

2007-06-03 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
guess you can worry about that later... Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415user_secret=e9e40a7e

Re: [agi] Open AGI Consortium

2007-06-03 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
. The closest *decent* way to do what you want to do is to contract options upfront with modifying conditions and qualifications based on future performance. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go

Re: [agi] Opensource Business Model

2007-06-02 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
missed and was often too head down to see. I would pay a lot for comp sci papers from a few years from now much less fifty years out! Someone after my own heart. :-) Regards, J. Andrew Rogers - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your

Re: [agi] Opensource Business Model

2007-06-02 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
not experienced before. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415user_secret=e9e40a7e

Re: [agi] Opensource Business Model

2007-06-02 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
, is a small integer factor discrepancy and usually less. The really hairy problems are those that have been spec-ed with no obvious solution. That's when most consulting firms pray that the brains in their outfit will deliver them. Which was me, at one time. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers

Re: [agi] Open AGI Consortium

2007-06-02 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
organization for years in order to do something about perceived business malfeasance. The result is that there are complex rules and hoops you have to jump through that get worse every year, some highly restrictive, if you want to legally organize and operate a venture. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers

Re: [agi] Opensource Business Model

2007-06-01 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
-- chump change -- and is therefore obviously not the gating factor in building another Google. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id

Re: [agi] Opensource Business Model

2007-06-01 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
of the reasons I left it was *because* it was boringly predictable. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415user_secret=e9e40a7e

Re: [agi] Opensource Business Model

2007-06-01 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
that they should actively managed in the same way the Federal Reserve manages the money supply. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415user_secret

Re: [agi] Opensource Business Model

2007-06-01 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
it... It would be a lot cheaper just to publish it. Patents, done correctly, are pretty expensive. J. Andrew Rogers - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id

Re: [agi] Opensource Business Model

2007-06-01 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
userlands and relatively tiny kernels). Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415user_secret=e9e40a7e

Re: [agi] Opensource Business Model

2007-05-31 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
On May 30, 2007, at 11:57 PM, Samantha Atkins wrote: J. Andrew Rogers wrote: All patents are ideas and algorithms. Not quite. Would you patent the quadratic equation? How about Newtonian approximation? Means of computing logarithms? The nice thing about algorithms

Re: [agi] Opensource Business Model

2007-05-31 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
by me. #3 is probably best, but it has nothing to do with software patents. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415user_secret=e9e40a7e

Re: [agi] Opensource Business Model

2007-05-31 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
your copyright will be good for. It will not prevent other companies from producing expensive knock-offs of your AI, and expensive is actually pretty paltry here. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your

Re: [agi] Opensource Business Model

2007-05-31 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
On May 31, 2007, at 9:49 AM, Russell Wallace wrote: On 5/31/07, J. Andrew Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Huh? Maybe if you are a writer. Copyright only protects the implementation, not any design innovations; the latter has a lot of value, the former only marginal value. *blink* Er, it's

Re: [agi] Opensource Business Model

2007-05-31 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
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Re: [agi] Opensource Business Model

2007-05-31 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
is involved in creating them. It is still a very active space because there are still many things we cannot do in software as a practical with the extant set of algorithms computer science literature provides no matter how hard you try. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers - This list is sponsored

Re: [agi] Opensource Business Model

2007-05-31 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
are pretty fundamental things. It is analogous to not having B-Trees for dimensionless data. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id

Re: [agi] NARS: definition of intelligence

2007-05-23 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
from every STM publisher for a given topic area. Program quality rather than price is the deciding factor, as is in evidence here. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2

Re: [agi] The Advantages of a Conscious Mind

2007-05-06 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
a *long* time, his argument is more of a me too one AFAICT. Perhaps he put his own flavor to it, but the underlying principle is not particularly new. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go

Re: [agi] The Advantages of a Conscious Mind

2007-05-06 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
On May 6, 2007, at 4:08 PM, J. Storrs Hall, PhD. wrote: On Sunday 06 May 2007 17:59, J. Andrew Rogers wrote: On May 6, 2007, at 2:27 PM, J. Storrs Hall, PhD. wrote: The only person, for my money, who has really seen through it is Drew McDermott, Yale CS prof (former student of Minsky

Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-04-19 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
and other applications. A related problem is geospatial routing (a space I've been doing some important work in on the side), which is semi-dependent on the solution to that problem. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe

Re: [agi] Why C++ ?

2007-04-01 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
to the bare metal through Java if you need to. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303

Re: [agi] Using object oriented databases for mapping structures

2007-02-25 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
giving up the performance and flexibility of the basic relational engine. This battle has already been fought in the market place, and there was little compelling about OODBs either in theory or practice. J. Andrew Rogers - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email

Re: [agi] SOTA

2007-01-11 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
and a couple places since I didn't live in a place with this type of thermostat. Apparently, the future has arrived and just is not evenly distributed. J. Andrew Rogers - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http

Re: [agi] Lossy ** lossless compression

2006-08-21 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
is not to say that I think the rules should be changed, just that this is quite relevant to the bigger question. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers --- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [agi] Marcus Hutter's lossless compression of human knowledge prize

2006-08-12 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
set an order of magnitude or so might make a more practical case for the intended purpose in that it would make more creative modeling algorithms plausible. J. Andrew Rogers --- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2

Re: [agi] fuzzy logic necessary?

2006-08-07 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
On Aug 7, 2006, at 3:30 AM, Yan King Yin wrote: On 8/7/06, J. Andrew Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or even more likely that his definition is a memorized sequence of digits. C'mon, the brain is not so dumb. Which is precisely why it does not retain patterns more complex than

Re: [agi] fuzzy logic necessary?

2006-08-06 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
, rather than 22/7. Or even more likely that his definition is a memorized sequence of digits. J. Andrew Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [agi] How the Brain Represents Abstract Knowledge

2006-06-14 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
that have to be dealt with if one chooses to do things this way that are not immediately obvious to most people that do it, having seen several (naive) incarnations of this over the years. J. Andrew Rogers --- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your

Re: [agi] Timing of Human-Level AGI [was: Joint Stewardship of Earth]

2006-05-11 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
worked with many self- styled programmers and software engineers who never really grokked the field after decades of experience, try though they might. Make sure you are doing something that comes naturally to you. J. Andrew Rogers --- To unsubscribe, change your address

Re: [agi] Logic and Knowledge Representation

2006-05-08 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
of this is arguably dull slog material -- tedious, unsexy, and useful. None of which prevents memory-attached FPGAs from being very useful for the broader task. I look forward to evaluating such systems. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers --- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate

Re: [agi] Logic and Knowledge Representation

2006-05-08 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
of correlations mattered, Cyc would be real AI. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers --- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [agi] Logic and Knowledge Representation

2006-05-07 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
? In any sufficiently rich environment, the type of compression you appear to be describing above is naive and would have adverse consequences on efficacy. Or at least, I cannot think of a construct that can do this efficiently while being some facsimile of fully general. Cheers, J. Andrew

Re: [agi] /. [Unleashing the Power of the Cell Broadband Engine]

2005-11-27 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
a single core on the chip and turned the rest of the silicon into very fast local memory with plenty of I/O to other processors. Sun obviously has different needs. J. Andrew Rogers --- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http

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