Author Archives: Raelifin

Recursive Escapades

By Raelifin | Published: February 11, 2011

Fair warning: I don’t know if I like this post. It may be because I’m tired of looking at the math, but it might also be due to incoherence, or a terribly weak ending. I’d rather post it than work on it more, so heads-up. Let’s say there are two doors. Behind the left door [...]

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Tic-Tac-Oh What’s The Point…

By Raelifin | Published: February 9, 2011

I’m right now working on building a reasoning agent. Given a model of the environment and a set of goals, it will attempt to take the best action. As a basic test, I have a model of a game of Tic-Tac-Toe for it to play against itself. For a long time my agent was picking [...]

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Morning Scribbles

By Raelifin | Published: February 2, 2011

I woke up at 5:30 this morning, and as I lay in bed, I was struck by some inspiration which caused me to run out into the living room in my underwear and start jotting down cognitive science notes on my whiteboards. Yeah, apparently I do that. Now, just because I was inspired doesn’t mean [...]

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Questiondump Jan 2011

By Raelifin | Published: January 22, 2011

Just because I felt like I wasn’t alienating enough people on the internet, I posted 10 times in a row to Twitter. The following is a list of questions that I am currently working on to varying degrees. Many of them have answers in textbooks, others are on the cutting edge, and others probably will [...]

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Becoming Mortal

By Raelifin | Published: January 10, 2011

As I’ve mentioned previously, I have a hard time with most science fiction. The only kind of the genre I can really respect is day-after-tomorrow sci-fi; the kind that explores the ramifications of a specific technology on our world as it exists now (Dollhouse is a good example). Most of my interest nowadays hovers around [...]

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