Simian Cybernetics

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Simian helpers get first U.S. monkey
college (Reuters)

Simian helpers get first U.S. monkey
college (Reuters) 05/19/2004 07:34 AM
Reuters - Becky Thompson calls herself a monkey mom.

Cybernetics and Systems Analysis

Cybernetics and Systems Analysis 04/06/2005 06:45 AM
Cybernetics and Systems Analysis
http://www.sprin gerlink.com/link.asp?id=106467

Cybernetics and System Analysis, a translation of Kibernetica, publishes articles on: software and hardware; algorithm theory and languages; programming and programming theory; optimization; operations research; digital and analog methods; hybrid systems; machine-machine and man-machine interfacing. Simulation, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, finite automata, switching theory, and computer logic are also covered. The journal focuses on fresh formulations of problems and new methods of investigation. Publisher: Consultants Bureau, An Imprint of Springer Verlag New York LLC. This has been added to Artificial Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Alexander Lerner, Cybernetics Expert,
Dies at 90

Alexander Lerner, Cybernetics Expert,
Dies at 90 07/05/2004 09:03 PM
Alexander Yakob Lerner was a star of Soviet Russian cybernetics and patriarch of the Jewish "refusenik" colony in Moscow.

"World Multi-Conference on Systemics,
Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI)"

"World Multi-Conference on Systemics,
Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI)" 04/16/2005 02:47 PM

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Windows types and universal types

Windows types and universal types 11/03/2003 08:59 AM
Dare Obasanjo differentiates the WinFS data model from the structures definable in W3C XML Schema as follows:

The WinFS schema language and W3C XML Schema do two fundamentally different things; W3C XML Schema is a way for describing the structure and contents of an XML document while a WinFS schema describes types and relationships of items stored in WinFS. [Dare Obasanjo]

As I see it, there are two major classes of XSD-governed XML documents. Both are well-supported by Microsoft and by other players. First, in the realm of Web services, we have SOAP messages wrapped in WSDL interfaces. Over the past two years, thanks in large part to Microsoft efforts which I've lauded, there's been a shift from an RPC-oriented style of SOAP messaging to the document-oriented style that better suits the coarse-grained, asynchronous, message-driven architectural pattern. XSD is how we define the datatypes and structures in those messages. ...

"How two mathematicians came to the aid
of the Met."

"How two mathematicians came to the aid
of the Met." 04/07/2005 10:37 PM

When Even Mathematicians Don't
Understand the Math

When Even Mathematicians Don't
Understand the Math 05/24/2004 08:17 PM
What does it mean when mainstream explanations of our physical reality are based on stuff that even scientists cannot comprehend?

Mathematicians sceptical over claimed
breakthrough

Mathematicians sceptical over claimed
breakthrough 06/13/2004 04:51 PM

RB minds the mind

RB minds the mind 01/18/2004 02:45 PM
RageBoy talks a quick trot through AI, cognitive psychology and philosophy, proving once again that autodidacts are the best educated people on the planet. Since RB ties me into the piece — I am not worthy, I am not worthy — let me answer the question he ends with: "I don't know quite how I got here from Fodor's funny take on Dasein." Here's how you got there, muh friend. In a few pithy — and NC-17 — paragraphs you raise the notion of Dasein, and then take us through the clumsy way AI has tried to reincorporate the baby...

they changed their minds again, or
un-changed their minds

they changed their minds again, or
un-changed their minds 01/05/2005 11:34 AM
reverse themselves on a revision to an ethics rule .. reversed their position on a pending rule change .. NY Times

nytimes.com/2005/01/04/politics/04cong.html
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3G still to win hearts and minds?

3G still to win hearts and minds? 05/27/2004 12:14 AM
ZDNet Australia May 27 2004 4:28AM GMT

Why We Keep Open Minds

Why We Keep Open Minds 09/07/2004 06:37 AM
Gravity Monuments were erected on several college campuses in the 1960's and 1970's by the Gravit y Research Foundation "to remind students of the blessings forthcoming when science determines what gravity is, how it works, and how it may be controlled." I regularly visited the one at Colby College, in Maine. Emory had one, and apparently SMU did as well. Anyone know of others?

Blowing our minds

Blowing our minds 06/14/2004 08:25 AM
Martin Torgoff, author of "Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000," talks about America's complicated and schizophrenic history with drugs.

What Makes Beautiful Minds

What Makes Beautiful Minds 12/27/2004 06:59 AM

Deliver us from small minds and PC gone
mad

Deliver us from small minds and PC gone
mad 07/28/2004 08:07 AM
thecanucks.com Jul 28 2004 12:36PM GMT

How to win hearts and minds by losing.

How to win hearts and minds by losing. 07/16/2004 01:34 PM
Failure is not an option, it's mandatory. "For more than three decades, the Republican Party has relied on the "culture war" to rescue their chances every four years, from Richard Nixon's campaign against the liberal news media to George H. W. Bush's campaign against the liberal flag-burners. In this culture war, the real divide is between "regular people" and an endlessly scheming "liberal elite." This strategy allows them to depict themselves as friends of the common people even as they gut workplace safety rules and lay plans to turn Social Security over to Wall Street. Most important, it has allowed Republicans to speak the language of populism."

An opinion about how the surety of losing wins votes for the Republican party.

CommUnity of Minds : Working Together

CommUnity of Minds : Working Together 12/24/2004 01:00 PM

PC use boosts young minds

PC use boosts young minds 06/12/2004 02:20 PM
Electric New Paper Jun 12 2004 5:36PM GMT

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little
minds

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little
minds 06/01/2004 06:56 PM
The times, Signs of, general purpose, three: 1. Playing Games While Not Ruining Your Relationship? Perhaps the most depressing Slashdot thread ever written. Just think of your woman as a game (Score:5, Insightful) by utexaspunk (527541) on 11:48 PM June...

MOM FAQ: Alert Types

MOM FAQ: Alert Types 05/09/2004 06:32 PM

Look, no fingers... this PC types what
you see

Look, no fingers... this PC types what
you see 09/03/2004 07:59 PM
Straits Times Sep 4 2004 0:20AM GMT

MIME-Types-1.10

MIME-Types-1.10 12/17/2003 10:42 AM

Two types of features

Two types of features 07/03/2004 03:24 PM

At every WWDC, with each OS upgrade, Apple offers two new types of features to developers.

I’ll use last year’s WWDC as an example (since I can’t talk about this year’s WWDC).

One one hand there are features like SearchKit, which make it easy to add searching to your application. This is an example of an on-the-side feature. You can add it to your application, but it doesn’t affect much of the main body of your code. It doesn’t fundamentally change how you write Cocoa apps.

The best thing about features like this is that I can use them and just have them not show up if you’re using an older OS (Jaguar).

On the other hand there are new features that change how you write apps. Cocoa bindings is an example. This technology allows you to do delete a bunch of user interface code: it makes it easier to bind your user interface to your data and preferences. But this technology goes to the heart of your application. There’s no putting it on the side (as with searching).

So at WWDC I found myself looking at each feature and figuring out if it’s an on-the-side or in-the-heart-of-the-app feature. While I’m grateful for all the cool on-the-side features I can use, I look at the in-the-heart features and dream about them. Someday...

The common wisdom is that you support the current operating system minus one. Right now that means Panther and Jaguar. When Tiger ships, it will be Tiger and Panther.

But what that means is that two years after learning about Cocoa bindings I’d finally be able to use the technology.

So what I wonder is, is the common wisdom wrong? Given all the major new technologies in each OS release, would another rule—a six-month rule, perhaps—make more sense? (Support the current OS plus whatever was current six months ago.)

The obvious benefit is better software. The drawback is that there are people still using operating systems more than six months old.

I’m just thinking out loud here. Feedback is welcome.

Types of Insurance

Types of Insurance 06/21/2004 03:46 PM
There are probably some vital kinds of insurance you need and don't have -- learn more.

Body types

Body types 08/16/2004 08:19 PM

Back when I used to compete in some bike events as a teen, I remember that the sport tended to favor shorter than average men, and even at the local level, the majority of top guys fell into a pretty small range of body size and type. At the state and national level, the distribution was even smaller, with almost every competitor being about 5' 6".

It's kind of fun to watch the olympics and notice that on a global stage, the distributions seem to fall the same way, with each sport favoring a certain body type and seemingly 90% or more of the contestants looking just about the same. The women's beach volleyball is where it seems most obvious. You see tall, thin, tan women that look as if they all just stepped off a beach in Southern California. Then you see that they're from China, or Japan, or Switzerland, as well as the US. Men's and Women's gymnastics, swimming, and diving all seem to favor a pretty narrow body type as well. Anyone that's ever watched college women's softball knows there's a body type for that sport as well, and it's also easy to see the teams around the world fall into it.

Every sport favors genetics to some extent, but I've always discounted them and held that anyone of any shape could rise towards the top if they trained hard enough. But at the absolute upper reaches of a sport, falling outside the norm becomes a liability and when the margin of error grows thin, you're going to fall behind the best.

I've always been an idealist that believed anyone could become president of the US, a pro baseball player, or the next Bill Gates, but when it comes to global competitve sports, it seems like winning the genetic lottery is almost always required if you really want to be the absolute best.

MIME-Types-1.09

MIME-Types-1.09 11/05/2003 10:52 AM

(Non)Nullable Types in C# 2.0

(Non)Nullable Types in C# 2.0 06/02/2004 09:39 PM
Eric Gunnerson blogged last week about Nullable types in C# 2.0. This new C# feature will allow one to specify a Type like int? which will act just like a regular int, with the exception that it can now also be null. The "?" syntax comes from this Microsoft Research paper, which introduces the following Regex-inspired Type-modifiers: Type*Zero or more... (482 words)

MIME-Types-1.15

MIME-Types-1.15 03/31/2005 08:58 AM

MIME-Types-1.13

MIME-Types-1.13 04/24/2004 12:36 AM

Computers boost young minds

Computers boost young minds 06/07/2004 01:08 AM
Melbourne Age Jun 7 2004 5:54AM GMT

Minds boggle at Google's flotation

Minds boggle at Google's flotation 08/22/2004 02:26 AM
Sunday Business Post Aug 22 2004 6:43AM GMT

ERP Vendors Battle for Hearts and Minds

ERP Vendors Battle for Hearts and Minds 05/24/2004 02:18 PM
SAP, PeopleSoft trade jabs as the market for their software grows slowly.

Telepathy-enabled Quantum Minds

Telepathy-enabled Quantum Minds 08/31/2004 06:40 PM
Ben Goertzel of the Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute (AGIRI) has released a new essay titled, Kinds of Minds . In it he expounds on different types of minds, which he defines as "patterns associated with intelligent systems". Beyond defining the term, he proposes a number of mind types including singly embodied (one mind per brain like humans have) vs multiply embodied (one mind spread across the brains of multiple robots). His mind ontology expands from there to include ideas seemingly drawn from Science Fiction. He suggests telepathy-enabled minds and a "mindplex" which is a sort of meta-mind composed of many smaller, individual minds. He also touches briefly on the issue of whether or not consciousness is quantum-based and therefore not possible for machine intelligence. Ben concludes with the claim that he's building a telepathy-enabled mind of his own called the Novamente AI Engine. Sorry, no details on how the telepathy works but you can read a general overview of the system's architecture in this IJCAI paper (PDF format).

Microsoft relying on its own bright
minds

Microsoft relying on its own bright
minds 07/22/2004 06:47 PM
Seattle Post Intelligencer Jul 22 2004 11:37PM GMT

Simian Cybernetics

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