Well, we've had a little mini-boom of subscriptions to this list... just a friendly reminder, that you are expected to at the very least post an introduction...
Christopher McKinstry
cmckinst@xxx.xxxx
Oct 4, 1999 12:35 am
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Alright, here's my intro... I go by Esperandi online and I'm currently a college student. My life is computers (well, mostly) and AI is related to that, so...
Esperandi
esperan@xxx.xxxx
Oct 4, 1999 1:00 am
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please ignore this message, i'm just testing that all the email address on the list do not bounce. Chris McKinstry Arcondev Moderator...
Christopher McKinstry
cmckinst@xxx.xxxx
Oct 4, 1999 2:13 am
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Hi, My history is with more 'traditional' AI at the undergraduate level, and a current particular interest of mine is with neural networks. I'm interested in...
Tom Reader
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Oct 4, 1999 8:11 am
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... From: Christopher McKinstry <cmckinst@...> To: <arcondev@onelist.com> Sent: Sunday, October 03, 1999 8:35 PM Subject: [arcondev] Introductions... ... ...
Stephen Kraig
tchnomge@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 4, 1999 1:33 pm
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Hmmm...my name is Jamie and my interest in AI is strictly personal - though I work in the computer industry, I do not work with AI nor do I have any formal...
Wilson, Jamie (J.R.)
jwilso37@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 4, 1999 1:38 pm
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hi everyone, my name's civ. i'm a high school student with more than a passing interest in ai, having done some minor investigations into neural nets and...
Ouyang Yingzhao
vi_civ@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 4, 1999 2:05 pm
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This is a self-introduction. Sorry to bore everyone, but Christopher was insistent. My interests are both marginal and boring, and so I'll take this...
Haines Brown
brownh@xxxxxx.xxxxxxx...
Oct 4, 1999 2:29 pm
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Having lurked for quite a while, I suppose that I should provide some kind of introduction: My name is Fred Kroon, and I am currently a Master's student in...
fkroon@xxx.xx
Oct 4, 1999 9:52 pm
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... Interesting, instinct Haines. Mine are similar. I'll take a moment now to point everyone not familiar with Jeff Elman's 1990 paper 'Finding structure in...
Christopher McKinstry
cmckinst@...
Oct 5, 1999 1:14 am
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... civ, When the MindPixel corpus is constructed, we will be collecting detailed demographics with each item entered. We will thus be able to extract subsets...
Christopher McKinstry
cmckinst@...
Oct 5, 1999 1:22 am
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... Fred, As for your first interest, I am of the very strong opinion that the Turing Test is critical to the future of AI, in concept. The are some valid...
Christopher McKinstry
cmckinst@...
Oct 5, 1999 1:43 am
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Hello all, Having read what you have in mind with the "mindpixel" idea here - I can't say that I am nearly as confident you will find what you are looking for....
Frederick William Kroon
fkroon@...
Oct 5, 1999 2:12 am
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... I don't agree that this will have nearly the power of the Turing test in its original formulation. The test's strength lies in that the system is ...
Frederick William Kroon
fkroon@...
Oct 5, 1999 2:24 am
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... Chistopher, A rather bold assumption ;-) But I've downloaded about four papers and will get to work on them. Haines...
Haines Brown
brownh@...
Oct 5, 1999 2:57 am
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it's a quite night at the observatory, it's actually raining here in the atacama, the driest place on earth, and thus i have some time. the fact that i'm not...
Christopher McKinstry
cmckinst@...
Oct 5, 1999 3:14 am
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... so would i. however i would still be very impressed. it would be a start, the first entity statisticlly indistinguishable from a human being in a task that...
Christopher McKinstry
cmckinst@...
Oct 5, 1999 3:53 am
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... From: Christopher McKinstry <cmckinst@...> To: <arcondev@onelist.com> Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 9:14 PM Subject: [arcondev] randomness and...
Esperandi
esperan@...
Oct 5, 1999 4:19 am
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... Actually I have indeed read quite a lot of Elman's work - I have been working with Elman-style networks to achieve systematicity for approximately a year....
Frederick William Kroon
fkroon@...
Oct 5, 1999 4:40 am
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... i am a verificationist. if i can't measure a difference between two systems, they are the same to me. this is a matter of personal taste, and philosophy....
Christopher McKinstry
cmckinst@...
Oct 5, 1999 4:51 am
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... Granted - but apes have (at least) one other medium at their disposal to extract the semantics of a word or sentence. This is plainly *not* the case for...
Frederick William Kroon
fkroon@...
Oct 5, 1999 5:07 am
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... sorry fred, but you must understand it was a strange question. what do you mean by sizable? if i represent words as binary vectors as did elman, et al., i...
Christopher McKinstry
cmckinst@...
Oct 5, 1999 5:47 am
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... From: Christopher McKinstry <cmckinst@...> To: <arcondev@onelist.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 12:51 AM Subject: Re: [arcondev] randomness and...
Esperandi
esperan@...
Oct 5, 1999 5:03 am
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first, let me say i am very pleased to see this list active. thanks. second, i have some pending responses to some of you, but unfortunately, it has stopped...
Christopher McKinstry
cmckinst@...
Oct 5, 1999 6:00 am
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The generator simply combines words and letters to form random strings. ... i should have been more specific here. see: Generalization, simple recurrent...
Christopher McKinstry
cmckinst@...
Oct 5, 1999 6:52 am
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... okay, looks like i've got a little explain to do... 1) MindPixel: is a large scale project to collect human consensus fact from millions of people over the...
Christopher McKinstry
cmckinst@...
Oct 5, 1999 8:25 am
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... i think all of your concerns all we addressed in elman's work, see his language as a dynamical system, it's on the web in html format so you don't have to...
Christopher McKinstry
cmckinst@...
Oct 5, 1999 8:33 am
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... I have read most of his work actually - however I am not familiar with this particular paper you mentioned.. I'll check it out. ... I've already read it -...
Frederick William Kroon
fkroon@...
Oct 5, 1999 9:06 am
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Hello! This is my first real post to this group... so bear with me.... MindPixels... small bits of fact that when combined can make other bits of fact... I...
Eric Gerlach
e_gerlach@...
Oct 5, 1999 7:32 pm
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Hi everybody! My name is Rodrigo Serafim. I am starting out in the subjects of AI. I have recently done some very rudimentary algorithms on neural nets, just...