Just came across this neat video of Novamente playing fetch in AGISIM.
A few years back I started the AGISIM project (the environment in which the Novamente AI is learning) under guidance from Ben Goertzel, but my PhD quickly took over most of my time, so it’s since passed on to Ari Heljakka and others. I’m […]

Next week I’ll be speaking at the unconference Bar Camp Christchurch, on not one, but two things. First my PhD work and second about the Singularity. Seth, the founder of Interclue, invited me along, since he’s interested in tech/singularity stuff and thought it’d be a nice opportunity to spread the idea to those that hadn’t […]

This made me laugh like hell.

I promise I won’t do this often, but this poem from this book sums up the first half of this year for me.

My life has fallen down
around me before
–lots of times,
for […]

You can ask Panda_pitt or Mundens, I had an idea about making a meme where people video themselves catching and then throwing a ball (or something) in a youtube video. It has no purpose, but it’d be fun to watch. And you could make a web-app mashup with google maps to show where the ball […]

Fallout 3. Screenshots.
I think that’s all I need to say.
There IS location based attacks, and combat uses Action Points, but is a mixture between turn-based an real-time. Still haven’t heard anything about groin shots though, and the one targeting screenshot is only for the upper torso.
I’m excited, but I have to say that the graphics […]