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How To Build An Artificial Intelligence

Friday, February 27, 2009

Ever wanted to build a fully artificially intelligent robot as a kid? I did.
So now that you’re older, why not use the OpenCourseWare materials at MIT? They have a complete Artificial Intelligence course online. Not only that, but they also have an online tutor that’s available for anyone to use.
That means you. Go! Go forth [...]

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Numbers Are Written The Wrong Way Around

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Why do we write tha largest units in numbers first? It doesn’t make sense. Instead of writing one hundred as 100, we should be writing it as 001.
English, and most other western languages are written from left to right. But let’s say I want to add 14235 and 31322. I have to start at the [...]

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Blasphemous Entertainment!

Thursday, February 12, 2009

You can now see yours truly as one of the judges on a Youtube show called God Idols. It makes fun of funny religions. That means you, Scientology!
Rotten tomatoes and criticism to /dev/null.

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Amsterdam Adventure

Monday, February 2, 2009

A couple of months ago, I got a strange phone call from someone in the Netherlands. Apparently they had seen my (crappy) Open Academia website, and were impressed enough that they wanted to fly me over for a job interview.
I agreed, and in January I spent a week in Amsterdam. It was… interesting.
My first impression [...]

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