2006-02-22
Rm my Mac
I saw this page http://rm-my-mac.wideopenbsd.org/ which hands out free ssh accounts on a mac mini, for the purpose of hacking it. Not my favorite pastime, for sure, but I'm sure there are others interested out there.
2006-02-08
Thesis: Opennlp and groovy..
Just wanted to write about what my thesis ended up being about: Question classification. No chatbot, no Loebner contest I'm afraid. Seems I will use Opennlp and java, but the problem is I hate Java, I find it way too slow to prototype in. So I decided to use groovy. This did not turn out well, it took me about a day to figure out that groovys error-messages are far from perfect, leaving me to believe that class loading was all broken in groovy.
Anyway, both groovy and opennlp seems like great projects. Ive also downloaded the Stanford parser, might be useful.
Anyway, both groovy and opennlp seems like great projects. Ive also downloaded the Stanford parser, might be useful.
2006-01-02
Piratpartiet
Piratpartiet:
Mycket intressant, och det kan bli så att jag röstar på detta parti men är inte helt övertygad ännu.
Filed in: politik, p2p, filesharing
Piratpartiet siktar på att ta en vågmästarroll efter valet 2006. Det finns mellan 800 000 och 1 100 000 aktiva fildelare i Sverige, och de är alla trötta på att kallas kriminella. Vi behöver ha 225 000 av dessa med oss för att komma förbi fyraprocentspärren och hamna i vågmästarroll. Den rollen tänker vi sedan använda till att avskaffa upphovsrätten.
Mycket intressant, och det kan bli så att jag röstar på detta parti men är inte helt övertygad ännu.
Filed in: politik, p2p, filesharing
2005-12-15
Thesis subject: winning the Loebner contest
The Open Mind project, together with ThoughtTreasure and Learner are all very interesting projects in and of their own, where Learner and Open Mind try to build up a common sense ontology from voluntary user input on webpages, and TT trying to understand texts. The one thing in common to all these is that some version of their knowledgebase is available for download. There is also data from SUMO and OpenCYC available.
Why all this is interesting to me right now is that I am trying to choose my thesis topic, and I am very much in favor of my idea about entering a chatbot into the Loebner contest right now. The problem is I understand that this is a huge, enourmous, even mind-bogglingly hard task. Firstly there is the three main parts of a chatbot: Input recognition, inference engine/reasoning/knowledge store, and generating output. Now each of these are hard parts, and I will try to make them all in less than 20 weeks, with no deep knowledge about inferencing, knowledge representation or linguistics. Yeah, I would say it is looking dark. But it is so damn fun to atleast try. I might have to restrict myself though.
Filed in: ai,ontology,science,research,cyc
Why all this is interesting to me right now is that I am trying to choose my thesis topic, and I am very much in favor of my idea about entering a chatbot into the Loebner contest right now. The problem is I understand that this is a huge, enourmous, even mind-bogglingly hard task. Firstly there is the three main parts of a chatbot: Input recognition, inference engine/reasoning/knowledge store, and generating output. Now each of these are hard parts, and I will try to make them all in less than 20 weeks, with no deep knowledge about inferencing, knowledge representation or linguistics. Yeah, I would say it is looking dark. But it is so damn fun to atleast try. I might have to restrict myself though.
Filed in: ai,ontology,science,research,cyc
2005-11-28
Det kontantlösa samhället
Det kontantlösa samhället:
En ekonomi utan gråa pengar vore lika svår att skapa som ett internet utan darknets
Varför inte ett tor för elektroniska transaktioner? Där användare från flera olika banker skickar vidare elektroniska överföringar för att dölja mottagare och avsändare. Vet att åtminstone en bank har möjlighet till inloggning med personlig kod, vilket väl är ett krav då varken dosa eller engångs-skrapkoder blir särskilt enkelt för ett script att använda sig av. Jag tror inte på att systemet skulle fungera om det var manuellt. Ett problem är att bankerna säkerligen skulle blockera dessa överföringar ganska snabbt genom att upptäcka typiska mönster.
Dock har väl polisen fortfarande möjlighet att plocka fram uppgifter från vilken bank som helst, så det handlar egentligen mest om att en bank inte ska sitta på för mycket information, och inte om att undkomma lagen.
Filed in: p2p, anonp2p, economy, cash
2005-11-27
Freenet Alphatest
Soo, freenet is alphatesting their next version 0.7. If you want in, go to #freenet-alphatest on the freenode irc network. This version is still far from being usable or anything, but I think they need more testers still. Basically, you can insert files and download them from a single-threaded CLI interface.
Instructions for installation of the node is here.
Filed in: freenet, p2p, filesharing
Instructions for installation of the node is here.
Filed in: freenet, p2p, filesharing
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