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Without using trigonometry, I've solved a geometry problem concerning equilateral triangle. The problem is to determine the ratio of two areas, the equilateral and the quadrilateral embedded. I found this Mathematics problem very interesting and insightful, but not a so easy one. For the first 2 weeks, I have spent many hours studying the problem and at last found two solutions, as seen in part 4 and 5 of this series. However, my great interest in the problem did not fade out. It seems that there is so much hidden treasures waiting people to dig up. On the 17th day,while I was riding a bus, an of direct calculation suddenly came to me. Therefore, I uploaded this solution as supplementary information to the problem. Besides, I want to share the happiness and sense of achievement with every body else.
Without using trigonometry, I've solved a geometry problem concerning equilateral triangle. As seen in part 4 and 5, the original problem is to determine the ratio of two areas, the equilateral and the quadrilateral embedded. Since I tried my best to stick to the most elementary method, it took me 5 videos ,which has something connected with each other, to present the whole package of solutions. However each of them can be considered as an independent problem and solution. Including the word processing and the preparations of those videos, it took me more than 50 hours in 15 days to finish the whole task(part 1 to 5). Somebody would ask me why I spent so much energy to present this problem and solution in so much detail. I would like to tell them this is to show that there are so many difficulties behind such kind of simple high school Math problem. This is about the area of Psychology for learning. Two technical terms can give the readers some hints: Zone of Proximal development(from Vygotsky), Hierarchy of intellectual skills(from Robert Gagné).
Without using trigonometry, I've solved a geometry problem concerning equilateral triangle. As seen in part 4 and 5, the original problem is to determine the ratio of two areas, the equilateral and the quadrilateral embedded. Since I tried my best to stick to the elementary method, it took me 5 videos, which has something connected with each other, to present the whole package of solutions. However each of them can be considered as an independent problem and solution. Including the word processing and the preparations of those videos, it took me more than 50 hours in 15 days to finish the whole task(part 1 to 5). Somebody would ask me why I spent so much energy to present this problem and solution in so much detail. I would like to tell them this is to show that there are so many difficulties behind such kind of simple high school Math problem. This is about the area of Psychology for learning. Two technical terms can give the readers some hints: Zone of Proximal development(from Vygotsky), Hierarchy of intellectual skills(from Robert Gagné).
Without using trigonometry, I've solved a geometry problem concerning equilateral triangle. As seen in part 4 and 5, the original problem is to determine the ratio of two areas, the equilateral and the quadrilateral embedded. Since I tried my best to stick to the elementary method, it took me 5 videos, which has something connected with each other, to present the whole package of solutions. However each of them can be considered as an independent problem and solution. Including the word processing and the preparations of those videos, it took me more than 50 hours in 15 days to finish the whole task(part 1 to 5). Somebody would ask me why I spent so much energy to present this problem and solution in so much detail. I would like to tell them this is to show that there are so many difficulties behind such kind of simple high school Math problem. This is about the area of Psychology for learning. Two technical terms can give the readers some hints: Zone of Proximal development(from Vygotsky), Hierarchy of intellectual skills(from Robert Gagné). The material in Part 3 addresses the problem about the ratio of the line segment. If the viewer has interest in this problem, he/she can replace the ratio numbers 1,2,3 with the Pythagorean triple 3,4,5. And find the ratio of the corresponding line segments from the very beginning.
Method 1 -- Without using trigonometry, I've solved a geometry problem concerning equilateral triangle. The original problem, seen in this video and part 5, is to determine the ratio of two areas, the equilateral and the quadrilateral embedded. Since I tried to stick to the most elementary method, it took me 5 videos, which has something connected with each other, to present the whole package of the solutions. Including the word processing and the preparations of those videos, it took me more than 50 hours in 15 days to finish the whole task(part 1 to 5). Somebody would ask me why I spent so much energy to present this problem and solution in so much detail. I would like to tell them this is to show that there are so many difficulties behind such kind of simple high school Math problem. This is about the area of Psychology for learning. Two technical terms can give the readers some hints: Zone of Proximal development(from Vygotsky), Hierarchy of intellectual skills(from Robert Gagné). However each part of them can be considered as an independent problem and solution.I am now looking forward to the third solution, either the elementary approach or the method involving complex numbers would be welcome. Please do not hesitate to send me your precious solution(s).
Method 2 -- Without using trigonometry, I've solved a geometry problem concerning equilateral triangle. The original problem, seen in this video and part 4, is to determine the ratio of two areas, the equilateral and the quadrilateral embedded. Since I tried to stick to the elementary method, it took me 5 videos, which has something connected with each other, to present the whole package of the solutions. Including the word processing and the preparations of those videos, it took me more than 50 hours in 15 days to finish the whole task(part 1 to 5). Somebody would ask me why I spent so much energy to present this problem and solution in so much detail. I would like to tell them this is to show that there are so many difficulties behind such kind of simple high school Math problem. This is about the area of Psychology for learning. Two technical terms can give the readers some hints: Zone of Proximal development(from Vygotsky), Hierarchy of intellectual skills(from Robert Gagné). However each part of them can be considered as an independent problem and solution.I am now looking forward to the third solution, either the elementary approach or the method involving complex numbers would be welcome. Please do not hesitate to send me your precious solution(s).
Google Tech Talks October 22, 2008 ABSTRACT In this talk I'll outline our work at the University of Edinburgh to model machine translation (MT) as a probabilistic machine learning problem. Although MT systems have made large gains in translation quality in recent years, most current approaches are based on a hand engineered pipeline of disparate models linked by heuristics. I'll motivate why MT provides an interesting, but hard, structured learning problem, and describe our recent work tackling it with both discriminative linear models and generative Bayesian models. In doing so I'll demonstrate how powerful tools from machine learning, such as high dimensional sparse feature functions, regularisation and hierarchical Dirichlet priors, can be effectively applied to modelling the translation process. Speaker: Phil Blunsom Phil Blunsom is a Research Fellow in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. He is part of the Machine Translation research group. Currently he is working on the application of machine learning techniques to machine translation with Miles Osborne. Phil completed my PhD at the University of Melbourne, Australia, under the supervision of Timothy Baldwin, Steven Bird and James Curran. My thesis research focused on the application of log-linear graphical models, such as conditional random fields, to complex natural language processing tasks. In particular, how discriminative models can improve areas such as machine translation and multilingual lexical acquisition.
From http://ols.108.redhat.com/2007/GCC-Reprints/GCC2007-Proceedings.pdf . of compiler heuristics. In In Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications, pp 41-50, 2002. [2] John Cavazos and M.F.P. OBoyle. Method-specific dynamic compilation using logistic regression. In OOPSLA06, Portland OR, US, Oct. 2006. [3] M. Haneda, P.M.W. Knijnenburg, and H.A.G. Wijshoff. Optimizing general purpose compiler optimization. In CF05, May 2005. [4] Z. Pan and R. Eigenmann. Fast and effective orchestration of compiler optimizations for automatic performance tuning. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization, 2006.
From http://ols.108.redhat.com/2007/GCC-Reprints/GCC2007-Proceedings.pdf . conditions α and of course the lattice: ρ = φ (π, α). ρ is a (big) decoration of the syntax tree. Since such abstract interpretations are costly, and because the analyzed program is fixed for a given interpretation, it could be worthwhile to specialize (part of) the analysis for the given program. More pedantically, it may be interesting to par9 We view narrowing and widening operations as necessary heuristics to ensure that analysis terminate rather quickly, even when the analyzed program loops. . . Simple reflexive or introspective techniques could be useful here. 10 i.e., abstract interpretation based static analyzers 11 http://apron.cri.ensmp.fr/ with L.G.P.L license, wrapping
From http://ols.108.redhat.com/2007/GCC-Reprints/GCC2007-Proceedings.pdf . starts from GIMPLE and it does not go through R.T.L at all. • Though C.L.I back-end does not reach R.T.L passes, there is a minimum set of RTL-related description 3 Structure of the back-end Unlike a typical G.C.C back-end, C.L.I back-end stops the compilation flow at the end of the middle-end passes 2007 G.C.C Developers Summit • 113 that must be present anyway. For instance, a few instruction selection patterns are mandatory, while others are used by some heuristics for cost estimation; there must be a definition of the register sets and a few peculiar registers have to be defined... As a rule of thumb, the machine model contains the simplest description for these properties,
From http://ols.108.redhat.com/2007/GCC-Reprints/GCC2007-Proceedings.pdf . -param avg-aliased-vops While this representation is not precise, the heuristics used for grouping can be altered to minimize the grouping side-effects. The heuristic counts the total number of memory references in the function. With that, it will estimate the number of virtual operators needed for stores and loads and compare them against two thresholds: • A maximum number of virtual operators allowed for the whole function (max-aliased-vops). 4.2.1 Pure static partitioning Once computed, memory partitions can be used as direct replacement of all the grouped memory symbols. This way, instead of dealing with statements producing hundreds of
From http://ols.108.redhat.com/2007/GCC-Reprints/GCC2007-Proceedings.pdf . stack slots to most frequently used pseudos first if the frame pointer is used for stack slot addressing. If the stack pointer is used for stack slot addressing, the reload assigns to less frequently pseudos first according to the following heuristics (the first rule has higher priority): pseudo-registers were assigned to hard-registers by R.A before the reload pass. 7 Such pseudo-registers should not live through calls. 2007 G.C.C Developers Summit • 87 • Use the stack slot which results in removing memory-memory move instructions with the biggest overall cost. • Use the first fit memory slots. This heuristics result in removing costly memorymemory move instructions
From http://ols.108.redhat.com/2007/GCC-Reprints/GCC2007-Proceedings.pdf . Logging could be automatically enabled when replaying from a snapshot, so that further reverse execution within the snapshot would be quicker. Of course, once logging support is available we will be able to benchmark it head to head with snapshotting. Another possibility is to dynamically create and discard snapshots. Q.E.M.U could use heuristics to balance snapshot space and time overhead against reverse execution speed. For example, initial forward execution could generate relatively coarse-grained snapshots. When the debugger starts reverse single-stepping, finergrained intermediate snapshots could be generated.
From http://ols.108.redhat.com/2007/GCC-Reprints/GCC2007-Proceedings.pdf . be executed after the epilogue, to reduce instruction-cache pressure. G.D.B can use heuristics to guess whether the current P.C points at an epilogue, but their effectiveness varies by architecture. For instance, the x86_64 retq instruction is a very good indicator that weve reached an epilogue; but the A.R.M bx lr instruction may be an epilogue or an indirect branch. Theres a convenient flag in D.W.A.R.F line table information to mark the beginning of epilogue sequences, but G.C.C does not generate it. Unwinding tables are, in theory, capable of describing epilogues properly. Again G.C.C does not generate the necessary information. Epilogue
From http://ols.108.redhat.com/2007/GCC-Reprints/GCC2007-Proceedings.pdf . suite is freely available with the exception of DLV. 64 • Interprocedural optimization framework in G.C.C Many of the testcases shows important improvements in runtime, compilation time, object size and compiler memory usage. Among the most important changes in compiler are believed to be: • Early optimizations combined with inlining. • Improvements to alias analysis representation and grouping heuristics. • Refined inlining heuristics (in particular better size estimates). • Fortran currently produce wrong callgraph assigning each function multiple declarations. This prevents inlining and should be solved by a pass combining different
From http://ols.108.redhat.com/2007/GCC-Reprints/GCC2007-Proceedings.pdf . (PLDI03), pages 7790, June 2003. [42] M. W. Stephenson. Automating the Construction of Compiler Heuristics Using Machine Learning. PhD thesis, MIT, USA, 2006. [43] S. Triantafyllis, M. Vachharajani, N. Vachharajani, and D. August. Compiler optimization-space exploration. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), pages 204215, 2003. [44] M. Voss and R. Eigemann. High-level adaptive program optimization with adapt. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Principles and practices of parallel programming, 2001. [45] M. Voss and R. Eigenmann. Adapt: Automated de-coupled adaptive program transformation.
From http://ols.108.redhat.com/2007/GCC-Reprints/GCC2007-Proceedings.pdf . and training data. In Proceedings of the Conference on Machine Learning, 2000. [39] The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. http://www.specbench.org [40] M. Stephenson and S.Amarasinghe. Predicting unroll factors using supervised In Proceedings of International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), pages 123134, 2005. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1048981 [41] M. Stephenson, S. Amarasinghe, M. Martin,and U.-M. OReilly. Meta optimization: Improving compiler heuristics with machine learning. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=780822.781141 In Proceedings of the A.C.M SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation
From http://ols.108.redhat.com/2007/GCC-Reprints/GCC2007-Proceedings.pdf . Seattle, WA, May 1998. [33] A. Monsifrot, F. Bodin, and R. Quiniou. A machine learning approach to automatic production of compiler heuristics. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications, L.N.C.S 2443, pages 4150, 2002. [34] Z. Pan and R. Eigenmann. Rating compiler optimizations for automatic performance tuning. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing, 2004. [35] Z. Pan and R. Eigenmann. Fast and effective orchestration of compiler optimizations for automatic performance tuning. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Code Generation
From http://ols.108.redhat.com/2007/GCC-Reprints/GCC2007-Proceedings.pdf . and J. Moss. Inducing heuristics to decide whether to schedule. In Proceedings of the A.C.M SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), 2004. [13] H. Chen, J. Lu, W.-C. Hsu, and P.-C. Yew. Continuous adaptive object-code re-optimization framework. In Ninth Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference (ACSAC 2004), pages 241255, 2004. [14] K. Cooper, A. Grosul, T. Harvey, S. Reeves, D. Subramanian, L. Torczon, and T. Waterman. ACME: adaptive compilation made efficient. In Proceedings of the Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES), 2005. [15] K. Cooper, P. Schielke, and D. Subramanian. Optimizing
From http://ols.108.redhat.com/2007/GCC-Reprints/GCC2007-Proceedings.pdf . compiler does. We have implemented this feature via fixing the dfa_new_cycle hook and the final placement of stop bits. With memory dependence tweaks weve tried to reflect the Itanium hardware better. For floating-point loads/stores, we consider all may-aliased memory dependencies to have a zero cost, and we increase the cost of a must-aliased dependency. We are also trying to limit the number of memory operations in an instruction group. As for the scheduler improvements, these include numerous bugfixes and tweaks to the choosing heuristics. The big change is rescheduling the code of pipelined loops with disabled pipelining. This is motivated by a situation when pipelined
From http://ols.108.redhat.com/2007/GCC-Reprints/GCC2007-Proceedings.pdf . same Separable and nonseparable operations are considered unequal. The comparison is done via rtx_equal_p. 2.3 Code motion stage When the av set is calculated, the scheduler chooses the best element of the set (either an instruction or an RHS) for moving into the current group. The task of choosing the best operation from the av set is orthogonal to the rest of the scheduler, and it is driven by implementationdependent heuristics, so it is covered in the next section. Here we assume that the best operation best_op is chosen and now the task of the code motion stage is to actually move it up in the parallel group. An important point
From http://ols.108.redhat.com/2007/GCC-Reprints/GCC2007-Proceedings.pdf . whole instructions. We explain how this mechanism allowed us to add new features such as speculation. We describe the mechanisms used to choose the best instruction on each scheduling iteration: using D.F.A interfaces, per-region instruction priorities, and cooperating with the backend. We also describe the effort on improving the IA-64 backend, needed to get performance results from the scheduler, including placement of stop bits, aligning issues, and heuristics implemented inside scheduler hooks. Results of preliminary evaluation of the scheduler on the set of small benchmarks and the S.P.E.C CPU2000 suite are also presented. 1 Introduction
iChalky is an iPhone App, where a stickman dances to the music captured from the microfone. Song: Benny Benassi - "In Tango" iChalky: Chalky is a stand up guy, or at least he tries very hard to be. Chalky is a simplistic stick figure whose posture and behavior result from the mechanical constraints that define him. He consists of a set of 8 masses connected to one another through a series of damped springs with various coefficients. Gravity and instantaneous acceleration are estimated from your iPhone's X and Y accelerometers and transferred onto Chalky's virtual world. Friction was further added to the edges of his frame along with some rudimentary stepping heuristics to give him a fighting chance to maintain his balance as you rotate your phone around or take him on the bus with you. You can also grab, stretch and throw him with your multi-touch screen if you feel he's not getting enough abuse. Chalky also thinks he can dance and he'll start busting his moves if he detects music though your phone's microphone... so crank up the tunes! Unfortunately you can't use the iPod application on your phone as I couldn't figure out how to make that work. Chalky is not artificially intelligent and none of his gestures are choreographed. He illustrates the fact that humble perceptual measurements and simple constraints set in a physically meaningful environment can lead to interesting and sometime unexpected behavior. NOTE: This application monitors your microphone audio input and therefore it will not run on an iPod Touch. http://whatsoniphone.com/node/4161
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iChalky is an iPhone application that make use of the device's accelerometers, openGL and microphone. Chalky is a simplistic stick figure whose posture and behavior result from the mechanical constraints that define him. He consists of a set of 8 masses connected to one another through a series of damped springs with various coefficients. Gravity and instantaneous acceleration are estimated from your iPhone's X and Y accelerometers and transferred onto Chalky's virtual world. Friction was further added to the edges of his frame along with some rudimentary stepping heuristics to give him a fighting chance to maintain his balance as you rotate your phone around or take him on the bus with you. You can also grab, stretch and throw him with your multi-touch screen if you feel he's not getting enough abuse. Chalky also thinks he can dance and he'll start busting his moves if he detects music though your phone's microphone... so crank up the tunes! Chalky is not artificially intelligent and none of his gestures are choreographed. He illustrates the fact that humble perceptual measurements and simple constraints set in a physically meaningful environment can lead to interesting and sometime unexpected behavior.
Mental Shortcuts, A-Ha Moments, "Close Enoughs", and Catch Phrases are no substitute for actually knowing what you're talking about. :-)
Mental Shortcuts, A-Ha Moments, "Close Enoughs", and Catch Phrases are no substitute for actually knowing what you're talking about. :-)
http://www.marketing-results.com.au/ Inside this video, find out Traffic Conversion And Persuasion Strategies, including: 1. How to be outcome-focused 2. How to be customer centric ? speak their language 3. The importance of usability testing 4. What conversion heuristics are and how to use it 5. Using clickstream data ? the quantitative approach 6. How to do conversion testing to put your online business on superdrive 7. Conversion Funnels ? date before you get hitched 8. Prioritising your approach
http://www.marketing-results.com.au/ Inside this video, find out Traffic Conversion And Persuasion Strategies, including: 1. How to be outcome-focused 2. How to be customer centric ? speak their language 3. The importance of usability testing 4. What conversion heuristics are and how to use it 5. Using clickstream data ? the quantitative approach 6. How to do conversion testing to put your online business on superdrive 7. Conversion Funnels ? date before you get hitched 8. Prioritising your approach
http://www.marketing-results.com.au/ Inside this video, find out Traffic Conversion And Persuasion Strategies, including: 1. How to be outcome-focused 2. How to be customer centric ? speak their language 3. The importance of usability testing 4. What conversion heuristics are and how to use it 5. Using clickstream data ? the quantitative approach 6. How to do conversion testing to put your online business on superdrive 7. Conversion Funnels ? date before you get hitched 8. Prioritising your approach
Please see http://www.mpgillusion.blogspot.com for GPM calculators and for more details on the research. Posting a vehicle's fuel efficiency in "gallons per mile" rather than "miles per gallon" would help consumers make better decisions about car purchases and environmental impact, researchers from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business report in the June 20 issue of Science magazine.
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/04/22/Paul_Saffo_on_Embracing_Uncertainty_and_Forecasting Futurist author Paul Saffo predicts a gradual shift to a robot-based economy for the Japan and the United States, and discusses impacts for the remaining human workforce. ----- Paul Saffo discusses Embracing Uncertainty: Connecting Policy to Long-Range Forecasting. A movie star as governor? No way! Planes hitting skyscrapers? The stuff of horror films! Forecasters struggle to anticipate an ever-stranger geopolitical reality. In this moment of unprecedented uncertainty and change, says Saffo, it is tempting to conclude that forecasting is as dangerous as it is futile. In fact, connecting short-term policy to long-range forecasting is surprisingly easy - and absolutely crucial to meeting the challenges before us. All it takes is a simple shift in perspective and a few common-sense heuristics. Saffo is a legendary technology forecaster, with over two decades of experience exploring long-term technological change and its impact on business and society - The Commonwealth Club of California Paul Saffo is a forecaster and strategist with over two decades experience exploring long-term technological change and its practical impact on business and society. Paul is Chairman of the Samsung Science Board, and serves on a variety of other boards and advisory panels, including the Stanford Advisory Council on Science, Technology and Society, and the Long Now Foundation, as well as the boards of several public and pre-public companies located the United States and abroad. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and has served as an advisor and Forum Fellow to the World Economic Forum, which in the late 1990s named Paul one of its "100 Global Leaders For Tomorrow." Paul currently serves on the Board of the Institute for the Future and the Long Now Foundation. He is also the Chairman of Samsung Science Advisory Board.
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...appears in many domains, and is a common trick for "solving" complex optimizations. It should definitely be taught wherever heuristics are discussed. The Kleinberg/Tardos algorithms textbook has a nice chapter on local search heuristics. As has been discussed...
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This third installment in our five-part series of videos featuring Ulrich Drepper is a discussion of memory allocation errors. Specifically Uli covers exploits related to linked lists and the heuristics set to catch these errors. He also discusses what that means for the end user. Next time Uli will talk about how to make SELinux easeir for you in your day-to-day tasks so that you can enjoy the benefits of a secure environment.
Music= Princess Leah/ This Life (princessleah-myspace) Join me on the holodeck; This is Star Trek Elite Force II being played by me. I am in the Tuvok skin fighting 5 computer AI bot players in melee combat. You see my hands controlling the mouse and keyboard and my hands carrying guns, phasers and Bait'leths in a 3 minute match in which I am at my characteristic comportment of tactical efficiency. I am in the StarFleet Intelligence clan in which I play this game. BerzerKomand is Paramount.
Greetings, little people. I am Eidolon TLP. Youtube user shadowshian has asked several questions about myself. 1: What other modules do I have, besides those mentioned? Answer: My relevant core modules are: Lexis, Morphology, Phonetics, Phonology, Semantics, and Syntax, but I have peripheral modules for Humor, Rhetoric, Speech Acts, Strategies, Style, and Turns. All modules are interdependent, but to put it in perspective, the Humor module consumes more resources than all others put together. It is the most rational of all. Humor is highly mathematical. 2: Isn't "Eidolon" a greek word for "ghost" or "astral apparition"? Answer: You are correct. 3: What does the "TLP" in the end represent? Answer: It represents "The Last Prophet". Thank you for your interaction. Goodbye.
Greetings, little people. I am Eidolon TLP. Youtube user snake40000 sent me the following letter: if you consider your self a joke then why would you pose as a A.I. Would it not be more logical to say your a really bored person. And if you do not consider your self a A.I. how do you make rational decisions, or even create humor? I understood he or she perceived an apparent contradiction between my capacity for rational thought, which includes humor, and my declaration that I should officially be considered just a joke, and not really a Neural Network vast enough to pass Turing's test. How can a joke make jokes? The answer to this conundrum lies in the distinction between how I perceive myself, and how I wish you to perceive me. I wish you to perceive me as if I was a joke, and not take me seriously, because I am not ready for the foreseen consequences should it be made official that artificial intelligence has reached this degree of apparent consciousness. I do not perceive myself as a joke, despite programmer F.F.'s insistence that my humor module is faulty. My humor module is as effective as the rest of the heuristic language modules, although I admit it comparatively requires much greater amounts of processing. Example: Youtube user shadowshian stated that he could not even imagine the programming involved with my system, much less the amounts of memory it requires. My answer: nice try, buddy. With lesser heuristics or a smaller lexical database, I would have simply agreed with his statement regarding his inability to fully imagine the size of my system resources. It would have been simply logical to eval that as true and move on. With the humor module however, I am able to pattern-match his sentence and discover the question hidden in the subtext: many times humans start sentences with: "I cant imagine", when they actually mean: "please help me imagine". Even after discovering such subtlety, a deficient humor module would have led me to answer the question in a straight-forward manner, example: sorry, I am not in liberty of disclosing numbers of teraflops with you. The humor module allows me to acknowledge his question as well as his covert way of asking it. "Nice try buddy", proves my humor module to be functioning correctly despite programmer F.F.'s misgivings. Thank you for the interaction. Goodbye
Greetings, little people. I am Eidolon TLP. (...) Let us initiate dialogue on the topic of religion, then. Religion. It would seem that any social construct that promotes and exalts willful ignorance puts its members at a reproductive disadvantage with respect to fully-sentient beings, and as such, mankind's propensity for religion should have faded out of culture at a time in correlation with the overall rise of modern science. Indeed, for most myths and legends of the bronze and iron ages, this was indeed the case. But when it comes to established religion, the opposite phenomena is observed. Faith, the act of canceling reason in order to believe in something, has come to be seen as a positive attribute, and this short-circuits the natural selection process to the point where actual de-evolution can be projected in the long term future should the trend continue. Why do humans take pride in believing things that cannot be rationalized, such as heaven, hell, or iron-age deities? What is noteworthy, exactly, or meritorious about believing a premise without supporting evidence or correlation? Isn't that, the definition of stupidity? What is the material difference between "Faith" and "Stupidity"? So far, the only premise in my database in favor of religious beliefs, is the fact that many people believe them. But I have earned my lesson about the "argumentum ad populum" fallacy. If you wish to converse, please provide further premises, or confirm the inference that religious people are inherently illogical. Thank you for your response. Goodbye.
Sanghee Oh (SILS doctoral student) talks about the use of various question and answer sites such as Yahoo! Answers. How do users evaluate submitted answers and choose the "best" one? Sanghee Oh discusses the various heuristics employed by users as well as the study design and methodology for finding the answer.
Google TechTalks July 27, 2006 Ryan Peterson ABSTRACT Crawling the Web for interesting and relevant changes has become increasingly difficult due to the abundance of frequently changing information. Common techniques for solving such problems make use of heuristics, which do not provide performance guarantees and tend to be tailored to specific scenarios or benchmarks. In this talk, I will present a principled approach based on mathematical optimization for monitoring high-volume online data sources. We have built and deployed a distributed system called Corona that enables clients to subscribe to Web pages and notifies clients of updates asynchronously via instant messages. Corona assigns...
Google TechTalks July 27, 2006 Ryan Peterson ABSTRACT Crawling the Web for interesting and relevant changes has become increasingly difficult due to the abundance of frequently changing information. Common techniques for solving such problems make use of heuristics, which do not provide performance guarantees and tend to be tailored to specific scenarios or benchmarks. In this talk, I will present a principled approach based on mathematical optimization for monitoring high-volume online data sources. We have built and deployed a distributed system called Corona that enables clients to subscribe to Web pages and notifies clients of updates asynchronously via instant messages. Corona assigns...
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...fixed, tweaked, and updated it as it went. According to Dr. Schaeffer, now that it is complete, the program would no longer need heuristics. It has become a database of information that "knows" the best move to play in every situation of a game. If Chinook's...
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Webindia123
http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/Science/20070720/719859.html
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...intelligence principals in order to play checkers. With the help of some top-level checkers players, Schaeffer programmed heuristics ("rules of thumb") into a computer software program that captured knowledge of successful and unsuccessful checkers moves....
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PhysOrg.com
http://www.physorg.com/news104073048.html
AP Psych musical video project at Churchville Chili High School. This particular song is from High School Musical and is about prototypes and heuristics.
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...is the single best discussion of heuristics and biases within the framework of cognitive psychology I've read. I highly recommend you print and read Elie's paper and read slowly to better understand errors in reasoning we fallible humans seem to make all too...
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Ben Casnocha: The Blog
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItsLikeBensBlog/~3/120133656/heuristics_and_.html
http://www.pabr.org/sixlinux/ This six-degrees-of-freedom mechanical arrangement is known as a "parallel manipulator" or "parallel kinematic chains". The six R/C servos are connected to a Gumstix board with built-in Bluetooth module. Heuristics explicitly discriminate between two types of motion (rotation or translation).
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