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Wolfram|Alpha? – Computing we were promised 50 years ago?

Posted in Statistics, automata, behavior, data mining, decision theory, economics, mathematica, mathematics, product development, programming, software, web 2.0, tagged , , , , , , on March 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »

An interesting approach to knowledge mentioned in Stephen Wolfram’s blog:
But what about all the actual knowledge that we as humans have accumulated?
A lot of it is now on the web—in billions of pages of text. And with search engines, we can very efficiently search for specific terms and phrases in that text.
But we can’t compute [...]

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NKS Summer School Summary

Posted in analysis of behavior, data mining, information theory, intelligent agent, new kind of science, philosophy, software, tagged , , , on August 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The NKS summer school archive site is live.  I figured it would be best for me to wait until that was done before I attempted to post my project or write too much about other’s projects.
You can check out a summary of what I did personally on the Wolfram site.
Project Title 
Perturbing Turing Machines
Project
Perturbations to elementary [...]

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NKS Summer School – The Follow Up Post 1

Posted in automata, business strategy, information theory, media, research, tagged , , on July 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Rather than expend energy writing my own general overview of what the heck just happened at summer school I’ll just link to this wrap up from the Wolfram team.
Sure, I’ll have far more details in upcoming posts, though most of those details will involve actual math, code, projects and implications and less about the school [...]

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My Only MetaPhysical Question I Ask Legitimately

Posted in analysis of behavior, philosophy, science, social science, tagged , , , on July 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »

If the universe (our experience, our lives, our physical reality) weren’t complex (unpredictable, undecidable) what would it be?
This is not rhetorical question.
It is not easy either.
Can you imagine an alternative?
It would be useful if we could so we can go look for evidence of the thing you imagine.  Why would we do this?  The growing [...]

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NKS and Behavior

Posted in analysis of behavior, cellular automata, economics, information theory, tagged , , , , , on May 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

As I prep for a summer in Vermont to study NKS and automata, I’m starting to build research and project concepts.  My focus, as it stands now, is to some how take concepts from behaviorism (schedules of reinforcement, operants, rewards and punishers) and use automata to study them computationally.  This is not trivial nor is [...]

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Anatomy of A Decision in Life – Applying to NKS Summer School

Posted in analysis of behavior, decision theory, tagged , , , , , , on March 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »

After a prodding from a pal, I decided to apply to the Wolfram Science NKS Summer School. NKS is a fun and exciting research area and Mathematica rocks. I have done some preliminary research in trying to merge automata to experimental analysis of behavior. Three solid weeks of study and interaction with others [...]

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