On 9/26/06, Russell Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 9/25/06, Josh Treadwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Is there anything we underlings can do for the Ph.D guys? Has anyone
written a "track" to follow for someone incredibly interested in AGI?
Now, Ben was saying awhile ago, IIRC, that he's doing simulated 3D worlds
as sort of a side project, relatively loosely coupled to the rest of
Novamente, that would be therefore relatively easy for someone else to
contribute to without requiring face to face meetings, full time etc.
Perhaps you could contribute to that, particularly since you know maths and
physics which are obviously relevant in that domain, if you'd be interested?
Ben, does that sound like a good plan to you?
Being the guy that helped start the the 3d world project for Novamente
I've stayed on the development list and I'm sure I can speak for Ben
when I say that volunteers would be welcome. It is already on
sourceforge (http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/agisim) so anyone can
download it and mess around.
Another route to try is: once you've got your degree and can start
choosing projects for masters/honours/phd then you could try and
wrangle it so that you can integrate some Novamente use into your
work. I did this for my honours year using Novamente with cancer gene
expression data (although I didn't really make use of
Novamente-specific technology, I just used it to carry out Genetic
Programming and Support Vector Machine classification ( see year 2003
on http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/research/reports/HonsReps/ for my
report ). I had to sign a non-disclosure degreement so I wouldn't run
off with Novamente's code, but it was great to see the inner workings
of it.
Unfortunately, for my PhD I diverged from Computer Science to Ecology
(Simulation of insects dispersal across countries and integrated with
GIS) mainly for monetary reasons (I was unsuccessful in gettin a
scholarship in CompSci, but got a sizeable one for my current work and
I already have a large student loan).
You should to speak to Ben privately about it though and discuss
whether he was happy to take on people doing external research
projects - it did take some oversight on his part while I was using
Novamente and he may have better things to be doing with his time! ;)
--
-Joel
"Wish not to seem, but to be, the best."
-- Aeschylus
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