algorithms Short Intro to Scott Aaronson's 'Why Philosophers should care about Computational Complexity" One of the benefits of not being in school and not being employed should have been that I had a lot of time to work on my blog. Indeed this could have been
Blog Three Steps back into the World Apparently I am a lying liar who lies when it comes to bringing back my blog. I've been having some health issues, and that compounded with a whole lot of school and work
Blog I'm coming back! It was probably starting to look like I had quit this blogging game, I think we're looking like over a month since my last post. It's just last semester had been the work
Incoherent Consciousness Threshold Stub I know this is a week late. It's just this semester has been the work equivalent of being beaten very soundly by attack sparrows. Nothing particularly heavy has come along but there's enough,
ai Creativity extends Information Integration to revise AI Specs. For today's entry, rather than just flounder about for a topic and end up writing some tangent I'm unprepared for I decided to look at some of my more popular (by the numbers
artificial intelligence Why not stats? Hey guys, I goofed again, and this time I let my hosting expire and didn't have the cash ability to bring it back for a week -- this time, however, we're good at
apophenia My computer doesn't believe in ghosts. I think in my writing I hint quite a bit at the pervasiveness of pattern recognition in the human ability to "fill in the blanks" when interpreting the world, tonight is
Computer Science Project outline because I'm boring. First of all -- to anyone who cared/noticed sorry about missing last week! My domains expired at the end of last week I took the poor man's approach and ignored the problem
biconditionals Implication, Entailment, and Honours Projects I don't know how anyone at all read the last post given the volume and quality of the typos, I've gone through now and fixed most of them so I can at least
aaron Machine seeks Creativity. An interesting idea was presented to me in a paper I was reading about artificial intelligence and creativity, which was that the computer may not have trouble creating the idea, the programming challenge
art Short musing on Creativity I do a bit of tangential lurking at Carleton University's Science of Imagination lab[1], a lab generally dedicated to machine generation of sensical images given text input and a database, also see
artificial intelligence Do we even have a Philosophy of Mistakes? Most of the formal literature that I've found on making mistakes focuses mainly on business and applied ethical scenarios -- also included were mistakes in education, nursing and other very down to earth
Computer Science Drawing a Blank & Short PCG Followup This seems to be another week where I'm blanking on a blog post topic because I'm in the middle of a few projects right now, and because my brain was pureed on Tuesday
error Monty Hall & Getting it Right the First Time Let's talk a little about the Philosophy of Probability, maybe we'll stumble more into Decision Theory, just for giggles[1], specifically, I'd like to think about the Monty Hall problem. The Monty Hall
artificial intelligence Information Integration, Consciousness, and AI Today's entry is a brief outline of Giulio Tononi's Information Integration Theory of Consciousness. And an attempt to understand what this means, and its implications for synthetic intelligences that he briefly touches upon
artificial intelligence Notes on Computational Complexity I didn't really have a topic prepared today, so I'm just going to jot some notes instead of writing anything grandiose. I've been focusing on code and fiction these past few weeks and
artificial intelligence Rethinking AI Specifications Sorry about how bad the last entry was, sometimes the writing bug isn't biting. Or it is, but only in the context of surreal fiction, or bad poetry, or self satisfied navel gazing.
android Paragraph on Android SDK and not really much else. My brain is not feeling creative enough to blog this week, so I'll write something short and pithy and really develop the one I wanted to write for tonight to be released in
a series Studying and Revised B-Theory of Time Little did I remember, when planning to start blogging, and to set a regular schedule that none other than my third return post would be required right at the commencement of exam season.
arbitrary Sketch of Procedural Story Generating Yes, I am going to try and update the blog bi-weekly, or fortnightly if you're British and used to the ambiguous use of bi-weekly.[1] A few weeks ago on Twitter I posted
ad hoc Ad hoc thought in computing Let's talk a little about our ad hoc understanding of the world as it relates to machines. Something that has kept me interested for a few months, and ideas about which are just
Phone Oh, technology. I am writing this post on my phone, whilst sitting hunched over said device in the beautiful scalding sun here on campus. I don't even really have much I wanted to say, I'm
blog The First Post I’d appreciate it if you’d stop making that face. I know what you’re going to say, and let’s face it, you can remind me of every single blog I’