... That's not the reason why computer programs are buggy. It is because program-writing does not always require one to simulate the program in advance,...
... No, because in the halting problem we are already given a perfect simulator just like that, and it doesn't help solve the halting problem. The catch is...
I am always a bit confused about the terms simulation and emulation. As John pointed out if a 100% accuracy, i.e. instance equivalence is of concern, it is...
Hello. I'm fairly new to AI. sorry if i make some errors :) [1] An architecture of diversity for commonsense reasoning (McCarthy, Minsky, ...) [2] Building...
... You might have the sign inverted on this. The fact is that I have yet to meet a brain-scientist who was familiar even with the concepts of k-lines and...
... I think this would amount to characterizing the kind of computation that goes on there, which is massive. Currently, I think they are at the stage of...
... difference. ... Of course it doesn't. Humans are slower , more expensive, and less reliable. As an engineering solution to "what shall we use to simulate...
... It is just space. -- Eray Ozkural (exa), PhD candidate. Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo Malfunct:...
... No, it isn't because you can just use paper. It is just slower. Anyway, you don't get this theory stuff too well. Your PC has limited space, too. So what?...
Hey Ray. In my meanderings, I ran across info which might be of interest to you .... http://www.google.com/custom?q=cognitive+pattern+generators Also, basal...
... (McCarthy, ... about ... choices ... ........... I think you will find that many many people have already considered choice A, and that there are many many...
... This seems interesting. Everyone, take a look at this, wow :) -- Eray Ozkural (exa), PhD candidate. Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara ...
... I have just read that he has left us on 28th February, 2006. I am verry sorry to hear this, I did not know. :( He was a member of our list. He has made...
... limited space, ... computer, Nobody would use a human to do the job when a machine was available. You are not thinking in terms of engineering -- finding...
... Resource efficiency is not a big concern. I can simulate any other machine in polynomial time. All I need is pen, paper, time. ... You're not doing bad....
What do you think about this?: Hawking rewrites history... backwards by Philip Ball (Nature) 21 June 2006 How did the Universe begin? Many scientists would...
... ....... Instead, they argue, it began in just about every way imaginable (and maybe some that aren't). ... away without leaving any real imprint on the...
Hi Peter, Hawking was "high" on this sum of histories approach, as he re-iterated these views in his recent admission that there is no information loss in...
... the 'constants of nature' seem finely tuned to a value that allows life to evolve. If we start from where we are now, it is obvious that the current...
... Well, the anthropic explanation certainly doesn't explain WHY we are here :) So, it's kind of throwing the book back at evolution. Now, umm, that's not one...
... life ... the ... if it ... Hawking is certainly aware of the A_p, and being an astrophysicist, he needs to explain how it can be so. One way is for the big...
... (cleaned up some stuff in quotations) It may be too ambitious to explain "how", it would be marvelous to get some insight into "what that implies", not...
It seems to me that we are covered or secured by an invisible ball of net (filter,membrane) which enables us to view the "outside" from the perspective of...
... allows life ... the ... if it ... are here :) ... that's not ... I believe the catholic church has accepted the idea of evolution, but the process of...
[Summary: micro-synthetic is an algorithm that given a database of bitstrings, synthesizes "abstract patterns" which occur frequently in the database, the...
I was just reading a Reuters article which says that the way monkeys, and presumably humans, recognize faces is not by remembering the whole face, but by just...
... It's not a shortcut because it actually takes a lot of computational resources to calculate such model faces I think. Eigenfaces can be likened to such a...
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/krauss06/krauss06.2_index.html The paragraph below caught my attention, it seems to be consistent with the "many directions of...
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