vetta project

So you’ve finished writing your thesis, your pièce de résistance, your magnum opus. Next step, get it printed as a book for the world to admire. Of course, being the misunderstood genius that you are, no professional publisher will want to touch your great achievement.  Never fear, the internet age is here! [...]

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My thesis is now available at lulu.com.  As promised, it’s at cost, which works out at $18 plus shipping.  It’s all under a creative commons licence and in a few months I’ll put the pdf online for free.  I’ll also write a post shortly on all the tricks involved in publishing on lulu.com with LaTeX, [...]

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This morning I received the wonderful news that I’ve won the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence - Canada Academic Prize for 2008!
The award is in “recognition of [my] efforts to improve AI theory” and is worth CAD $10,000.  This will certainly help my budget over the next two years while I study at the Gatsby [...]

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This morning I passed my PhD defence… making me now Dr. Legg.  Soon I’ll upload my thesis “Machine Super Intelligence” to lulu.com where you will be able to pick up a printed copy at cost if you’re interested.
And in other news, I’ve been awarded a grant to study machine learning and theoretical neuroscience at the [...]

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My PhD thesis is now going through the final check by Marcus and should soon go to my committee. It took such a lot of time and effort to write; remind me never to write another book. When I put together a print version on lulu.com it will probably come out at around [...]

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2007 was quite a year. It started with two weeks vacation and a friend’s wedding in Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. That was an amazing experience. Two weeks with nothing to do except hang out with friends, soak in the sun, swim with all the tropical fish in the light blue waters [...]

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… you spend two hours trying to understand the correct usage of semi-colons verses colons, when to capitalise following a colon, and then fixing up your text.
For those who really must know: go here and then here.

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I’ve got a backlog of things in my brain that I’ve been wanting to blog, but I’ve been rather busy of late. So here’s a somewhat random brain dump of what’s going on around here…
PhD thesis on AIXI, intelligence and all that is mostly written. I’ve got about one and a half chapters [...]

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I’ve got 7 months to go on my PhD here in Switzerland and so I’m rather busy — too busy to keep up with blogging for the moment. Currently I’m going through about 20 pages of hand written learning theory equations that Marcus Hutter derived. These are just raw equations with the occasional word [...]

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