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Monthly Archives: March 2007
Turing testing in the uncanny valley
Monday, March 12, 2007
As I have mentioned before, I am not happy with the current state of artificial intelligence research. I think it’s going off on a tangent straight for perfection higher than that observable in human beings, or things entirely unrelated to the practical applications, pushing back results which could be useful right now. What are the [...]
О страхе
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
— Она тебя боится… ну до чего мы бабы дуры, а? — Ну что делать, не она одна меня боится… Я бы даже сказал, что это популярная идея. — Ты — страшный… — Угу. А чем именно? — А я откуда знаю? По мне — милый и пушистый… Спросить? — Спроси. — “Он в глаза [...]
Velleman K8000
Sunday, March 4, 2007
Boy, assembling this thing was a pain. No wonder I’ve been putting it off for months — I didn’t really expect it to have 30 jumper wires alone. It’s easy, even trivial to build, and instructions are quite obvious most of the time, but the work is very, very tedious — at least five hundred [...]
On social memory
Thursday, March 1, 2007
I’ve been reading up on 9/11 attacks and a quote crossed my search: “…and FBI didn’t know what it did know.” — that was in a treatise on social epistemology. That led to an interesting observation. Let’s assume that “FBI knows that X is a terrorist.” is true. What does this expression actually mean? Most [...]