Turing and Post Machines: C++ Simulators

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A Turing Machine in Conway's Game of
Life, extendable to a Universal Turing
Machine

A Turing Machine in Conway's Game of
Life, extendable to a Universal Turing
Machine 08/04/2004 10:03 PM
A Turing Machine in Conway's Game of Life, extendable to a Universal Turing Machine

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Gambling Machines Much Safer Than
Electronic Voting Machines

Gambling Machines Much Safer Than
Electronic Voting Machines 06/14/2004 03:33 AM
It appears that making sure gambling is fair is much more important than making sure our elections are fair. One of the defenses pulled out by those who want to keep going with existing electronic voting machines is that no one seems to complain about electronic gambling machines. Perhaps that's because electronic gambling machines are held to a much higher standard than electronic voting machines. This NY Times editorial lists six different ways in which gambling machines in Nevada are under much more scrutiny than electronic voting machines. These include things like the fact that the state requires copies of the source code of all electronic gambling software, as well as their stringent licensing procedure for any company that wishes to sell electronic gambling machines. Employees of any such company have to go through background checks to make sure they have no criminal record. Considering that Diebold had convict ed felons involved with their electronic voting systems - you wonder if a similar licensing procedure might make sense for voting machines as well.

2 mln fax machines and combo machines
were sold in the US in 2004

2 mln fax machines and combo machines
were sold in the US in 2004 03/27/2005 05:50 AM
ZDNet Mar 27 2005 10:35AM GMT

Voting Machines Vs. Slot Machines

Voting Machines Vs. Slot Machines 12/04/2003 01:10 PM
Slashdot Dec 4 2003 12:50PM ET

Other: Turing Cluster

Other: Turing Cluster 02/05/2005 09:01 PM
Virginia Tech was first with a Mac-based supercomputer, but UIUC is getting into the game, too.

"Alan Turing"

"Alan Turing" 06/08/2004 08:54 AM

Medio siglo sin Turing

Medio siglo sin Turing 06/07/2004 09:56 PM

Turing Test for Sports

Turing Test for Sports 03/19/2003 10:24 PM
Steven Johnson points at EA's PlayStation(R)2simulation of the 2003 baseball season.

We simulated the season using the PlayStation(R)2 version of MVP Baseball 2003, which allows you to take control of one team for the entire campaign (or multiple seasons, in Franchise mode) and try to guide them to the World Series. Since we wanted the console to do all the work, we took control of the defending champion Anaheim Angels but let the computer run each game on its own, so we could get as objective of a result as possible.

Rethinking the Turing Test

Rethinking the Turing Test 07/11/2004 10:47 PM
In the 1950s, Alan Turing had proposed a metric for machine intelligence. This metric is currently known as "the Turing Test" and much work in the field of Aritificial Intelligence (or AI) has been influenced by this metric. In short, Turing suggested that a machine that could behave in a manner indistinguishable from a human could be considered to be "thinking." For many researchers, the goal is simply to pass the Turing Test. In 1990, the first formal instantiation of the Turing Test, the Loebner Prize, was introduced. The Grand Prize, awarded to the first computer able to provide responses indistinguisable from a human, is a gold medal and $100,000 and has never been awarded. However, each year $2000 is awarded to the entry that fares the best. This is ostensibly designed to stimulate research in the area. I propose that not only does this metric exclude much in the way of actual thought, it also fails to encourage much in the way of machine intelligence. I also propose that the Loebner Prize, for adhering to this metric, puts an incentive on an aspect of AI that does little to advance machine thought or intelligence, in practice. Thus a reconsidered and reformed version should be introduced.

Alan Turing Honoured

Alan Turing Honoured 06/07/2004 11:52 PM
Free Internet Press Jun 8 2004 3:51AM GMT

Church-Turing thesis

Church-Turing thesis 06/17/2004 10:14 AM
Be thankful you are not my student. You would not get a high grade for such a design. Tanenba um and Torvalds discuss the future of kernel design.

Happy 92nd, Turing!

Happy 92nd, Turing! 06/23/2004 12:19 PM
Today would have been Alan Turing's 92nd bithday (if he hadn't been hounded to death by the British authorities who forced hormone treatments on him to "cure" his gayness). Turing invented modern computer science and is one of my all-time heros. Link (Thanks, Pat!)

Viebrock.ca: Turing, Now With Audio

Viebrock.ca: Turing, Now With Audio 05/17/2004 09:12 AM
Just a quick note from Colin Viebrock's weblog this morning:

Alan Kay Receives ACM Turing Award

Alan Kay Receives ACM Turing Award 04/22/2004 10:43 AM

a fitting tribute to alan turing

a fitting tribute to alan turing 06/24/2004 02:49 PM
no good mind goes unpunished

Is the Brain Equivalent to a Turing
Machine?

Is the Brain Equivalent to a Turing
Machine? 03/19/2003 10:25 PM
From the NewScientist.com: "The world's first brain prosthesis - an artificial hippocampus - is about to be tested in California. Unlike devices like cochlear implants, which merely stimulate brain activity, this silicon chip implant will perform the same processes as the damaged part of the brain it is replacing. The prosthesis will first be tested on tissue from rats' brains, and then on live animals. If all goes well, it will then be tested as a way to help people who have suffered brain damage due to stroke, epilepsy or Alzheimer's disease."

Alan Turing, the Inventor of Software

Alan Turing, the Inventor of Software 05/11/2004 09:16 AM

Alan Turing: Thinking Up Computers

Alan Turing: Thinking Up Computers 05/02/2004 02:07 PM
Business Week May 2 2004 6:24PM GMT

Manchester honours Alan Turing

Manchester honours Alan Turing 06/07/2004 08:58 AM
The Register Jun 7 2004 12:46PM GMT

Alan Kay wins Turing Award

Alan Kay wins Turing Award 04/26/2004 02:43 PM
One of my heroes wins computer science's top award.

Turing Test For News Services

Turing Test For News Services 05/27/2004 03:21 AM
Google News automatically assembles news articles and has about a million monthly visitors. And everyone already knows that its automated. But if no one knew that, would Google News still have lost to WashingtonPost.com for a 'best internet news service' award? Apparently, news editors may have to pass a Turing test soon before they can be deemed worthy of awards or avoid the criticisms of arranging news stories without the efforts of hard-working human beings.

Alan Turing - Thinking Up Computers

Alan Turing - Thinking Up Computers 05/16/2004 06:36 AM
Alan Turing - Thinking Up Computers By Andy Reinhardt
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_19/b3882029_mz0 72.htm

Alan Turing - Thinking Up Computers - The Cambridge University mathematician laid the foundation for the invention of software. As part of its anniversary celebration, BusinessWeek is presenting a series of weekly profiles for the greatest innovators of the past 75 years.

Blind Man's Bluff and the Turing Test

Blind Man's Bluff and the Turing Test 04/09/2004 04:01 PM
A recently released paper by Andrew Clifton proposes that the Turing test does not provide a valid criterion for the presence of consciousness. Imagine a "Turing Test" in which the interrogators must be convinced that the participant is a normally sighted individual. A blind person might pass by successfully lying about the visual sensations experienced by sighted persons. According to Clifton, this means an intelligent enough computer could pass a Turing test by lying about being conscious. He then goes on to attempt to define consciousness and propose a test for it that he calls the "Introspection Game".

Good-Turing method finally improved-upon

Good-Turing method finally improved-upon 11/16/2003 04:44 AM
Sixty-or-so years since Alan Turing and IJ Good invented the Good-Turing method for modeling of probability distributions behind data streams as part of the Allied code-breaking effort, researches have discovered the limit of its usefulness, and produced a replacement method that transcends them:

The German Enigma encryption machine used a huge number of decryption keys, making it almost impossible to crack the code. British intelligence had gained possession of Enigma machines, had determined how they worked and had even obtained a copy of the full book of keys. Some messages had been decrypted and the keys used recorded, so that the code breakers had a small sample from a very large set of keys. But it was unlikely the Germans would continue to use the same keys, so some method of assigning a probability distribution to the keys not yet used was needed...

Orlitsky was able to discover this limit by quantifying the problem in terms of the positive integers. The nature of the sample set is actually irrelevant to the probabilistic algorithm. What matters is the order in which outcomes appear and how often they appear. So a sample sequence such as giraffe, giraffe, elephant, giraffe, zebra would be encoded in numbers as 1,1,2,1,3. Every time a new item appears, it is assigned the next-highest number, so that this mathematical model, according to its creators, can capture the worst possible problem-one in which there is an infinite number of hidden data items.

Link (via Smart Patrol)

Colin Viebrock: Turing Protection with
an Image

Colin Viebrock: Turing Protection with
an Image 04/13/2004 08:43 AM
By now, I'm sure you've see the "turing test" images that sites have in an effort to bypass the usual form. They are the ones with the image beside them, forcing the user to actually be able to understand the letters in the image to make it past the form. Well, Colin Viebrock's weblog has a new posting that can help you create and use this powerful tool on your own site.

Visual Turing Machine 1.0 (Default
branch)

Visual Turing Machine 1.0 (Default
branch) 06/22/2005 02:27 AM
Visual Turing Machine (VTM) is a program that lets you create Turing machines with a point and click interface instead of using esoteric languages. You can pack your complex machines into small boxes, and then reuse them as part of a bigger machine. VTM also features an infinite length tape.

Elizabot passes sex-chat Turing test

Elizabot passes sex-chat Turing test 07/27/2004 05:51 AM
A bored hacker modified an Eliza programme to act as an IRC sex-chat bot that impersonated an eighteen year old girl (or, rather, impersonated a sex-chat afficianodo of indeterminate gender impersonating an eighteen year old girl). He assumed that people would try to have cyber-sex with his bot and get bored, but in fact a surprising number were convinced and even got off with it.

This is a plot element in Bruce Sterling's brilliant "RU486?" a short story collected in Globalhead -- feminist hackers finance their RU486-running operation with a phone-sex line staffed by automated chatterbots.

It turns out that pornbots are among the class of Eliza-derivatives that can pass a Turing Test (or rather, horny sex-chat boys are among the class of human beings that can't tell a chatterbot from a person -- other groups include psychotherapists, who, in one experiment, couldn't distinguish actual transcripts of therapy sessions with schizophrenics from simulated therapy with schizophrenic chatterbots; and the university student who mistook a chatterbot for his prof in the middle of the night when he IMed same for permission to extend deadline on a late paper).

'eliza' is a program that talks to you, pretending to be a psychologist. its script of possible responses is super tiny, so it doesn't fool anyone. or so i thought.

IRC is a network full of chat rooms (or "channels") where a lot of scary internet people (or "perverts") hang out. my friend reduz found a version of 'eliza' that could go on IRC. he put it on IRC. a lot of people from other countries thought it was a real woman, so naturally they tried to have sex with it. they got frustrated quickly. reduz is a bad man...

so i replaced eliza's tiny, boring script with a massive dumb blonde script that has like 3,800 responses on all sorts of topics, but mostly sex. jenny18 is very horny and she loves talking to horny guys. and everyone knows the best place to talk to horny guys is on dalnet irc sex channels.

Link (Warning, contains links to transcripts of IM-based sex, NSFW) (via Waxy)

Blowback: The Cost And Consequences of
American Empire plus War And Conflict In
The Post-Cold War, Post-9/11 Era

Blowback: The Cost And Consequences of
American Empire plus War And Conflict In
The Post-Cold War, Post-9/11 Era 03/13/2003 10:25 AM
Chalmers Johnson is an provocative proponent of the American Empire theory, indeed. Here are excerpts from his Blow Back: The Cost And Consequences of American Empire

I heard Johnson interviewed on Episode II, War And Conflict In The Post-Cold War, Post-9/11 Era of The Whole Wide World

The Cold War and its central conflict - the physical and ideological battles between the United States, the Soviet Union and their proxy states - imposed a certain logic and consistency on the world. Take that away and add the bloody wars in the Balkans, Africa and the Middle East in the ‘90s as well as the terror attacks and warnings of more recent times and you get a very confused picture of a world at war. Is this breaking storm in Iraq about oil, democracy, freedom, empire, culture, water, diamonds, modernizing Islam or nation building in the Middle East? Some, one or all of these things?

It was an excellent program and well worth your listen, either by RA now or mp3 later. (From listening to the radio)

Antispam "Turing Tests" can't
distinguish between the blind and
software

Antispam "Turing Tests" can't
distinguish between the blind and
software 11/06/2003 06:14 PM
The W3C has singled out "captchas" -- the pseudo-Turing-Tests intended to keep spammers form using automated tools to create freemail accounts in bulk -- as disastrous for the blind and other disabled users of the Internet, since they rely on sight and reading comprehension to work. IOW, it's not a good Turing Test if the blind fail it as often as a computer does. Link

Belarus post to install public internet
access terminals in village post offices

Belarus post to install public internet
access terminals in village post offices 04/09/2005 05:19 AM
DMeurope.com Apr 9 2005 9:28AM GMT

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about the content of this post or the
character of its author and his
intellect.

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At Long Last, a True Space Opera. Turing
Opera Workshop releases teaser trailer
for new 3d sci-fi opera, Kai, Death of
Dreams.

At Long Last, a True Space Opera. Turing
Opera Workshop releases teaser trailer
for new 3d sci-fi opera, Kai, Death of
Dreams. 05/31/2004 02:13 PM
Scarborough, ME -- January 12, 2004 Turing Opera Workshop releases the first teaser trailer for their production of Richard deCostas 3d sci-fi opera, K'ai, Death of Dreams. The trailer, available on the production website, http://www.RicharddeCosta.com/KaiOpera, is a preview of the opera scheduled for release in February. The opera is being produced entirely in 3d computer graphics. [PRWEB Jan 13, 2004]

this post at Command Post

this post at Command Post 12/14/2003 01:41 PM
excellent news roundup .. Saddam .. CP

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Mean machines

Mean machines 07/29/2004 11:32 AM
With "I, Robot," Hollywood has returned to Asimov's three laws to keep robots in their place. But what would it really take to stop robots from hurting humans?

Speaking machines!

Speaking machines! 01/04/2004 01:14 PM
A brief history of speech synthesis : an interesting read, with photos and sound samples!

Sex Machines At Work

Sex Machines At Work 08/29/2004 03:57 PM
Xeni Jardin: Online photo gallery with portraits of garage-geek inventors of "sex machines" -- and the people who use them -- shot by photographer Timothy Archibold. I hatehatehate the site's 1.5MB gorilla Flash interface, and I hate that I can't copy and paste some of the project notes for you here in text. But the images and the subject matter they detail (online communities that connect people who imagine, build, and use these machines) are fascinating. At left: "Scott at his kitchen table, Sex Machines Unlimited." Link (NSFW). (Thanks, alfie)

Rise of the Machines

Rise of the Machines 04/09/2004 04:01 PM
Conn Hallinan, an "analyst" for Foreign Policy in Focus, a liberal/left-wing think tank, has written a strange agitprop piece on military robotics. In it he explains that the DARPA Grand Challenge and military robots in general are a "coldly calculated" conservative plot masterminded by Bush, a "powerful circle of arms manufactures", and an "empire-minded group of politicians" to develop "Frankenstein killing machines" that target civilians. His article also appears in the Asia Times online with an amusing illustration that adds to the humor.

Getting Misty Over Old Machines

Getting Misty Over Old Machines 08/19/2004 03:21 PM

You ever get sentimental over an old computer? One that you just can't throw away?

Back in 1998, I worked part-time at Best Buy so Annie and I could pay cash for our wedding the next summer. That Christmas season was the year a complete PC system (computer, monitor, printer) broke the $1,000 barrier.

I still remember the doors opening on Sunday mornings to a throng people nearly drooling at the prospect of a system for $999. You used to have to hold up the weekly flier, point to a package, and say, "Everyone who wants this, go over there, and, " — pointing at a different one — "everyone who wants this, come over here." It was crazy.

Anyway, sometime during that job, someone returned a Compaq Presario 4508 mini-tower, and I persuaded the inventory guy to let me buy it as-is for $200. The box said it was 200 MHz, but BIOS told me 233. It had 24MB of RAM, but only 1MB of video memory, so I dropped $20 on a used 4MB video card, taking up one of the two PCI slots in the process. The hard drive was a monstrous 4.3GB.

That computer served me well for almost four years. I managed to cram 48MB of memory in it — the most it would take (the case design was so poor that adding memory was a 30-minute operation). It ran Windows 95 for all those years until I got a new machine (a 1 GHz Athlon, which I still use today) and I put Linux on it briefly. I remember installing Office 2000, then having to uninstall it because it was just too slow.

About three years ago, I passed the computer on to my mother-in-law. She's one of those folks who does two things: surfs the Web and sends email. In that capacity, the little machine has worked great, until now.

I think it's finally started to die. The hard drive cycles endlessly, and every once in a while it reboots to Safe Mode, a phenomenon I can only attribute to some obscure bit of hardware going to pieces so that it doesn't respond correctly on reboot. I have it running Windows 98 SE, stripped down to virtually nothing. Everything that can be removed has been, but it's still using 10MB more memory than it has immediately after rebooting.

I'm going to start looking for another machine for my mother-in-law, but I just can't bear to throw the old Presario away. It's chugged along for seven years now, and enabled the sending and receiving of countless baby pictures. I'm a little sentimental about the old bird, and I think I'll just store it away in the basement for a while in the hopes that my wife never finds it and sells it at a garage sale one day.

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Inferior machines

Inferior machines 11/12/2003 10:24 PM

Les Orchard: I see that Mark Pilgrim has posted a picture of himself as a kid, working at an Apple //e. Based on what I wrote this past Summer about being Newly Digital in 1983, I would guess that around the same time I was working on a Commodore 64, and I would have teased him in a relentlessly geeky way about his clearly inferior machine.

Bah.  In 1983, I was working on a 3033.  (16 MB RAM, 4.7 MIPs).

Of course, this probably could have been replaced with a Palm Pilot Tungsten W...

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