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LaTeX and lulu.com

Posted on 10 July, 2008 by Shane

So you’ve finished writing your thesis, 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 … Continue reading →

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Machine Super Intelligence

Posted on 10 July, 2008 by Shane

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 … Continue reading →

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Kolmogorov, Solomonoff, AIXI etc. questions

Posted on 25 June, 2008 by Shane

Many people seem to have questions about Kolmogorov complexity, Solomonoff induction, algorithmic probability theory, AIXI, the universal intelligence measure and so on.  I don’t always have time to watch all the email lists where these things get discussed, but if … Continue reading →

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SIAI Canada Academic Prize for 2008

Posted on 23 June, 2008 by Shane

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 … Continue reading →

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Neural networks with Nvidia CUDA

Posted on 9 June, 2008 by Shane

If Roadrunner is a bit beyond your budget, simulating neural networks with GPUs might be an option: The next generation of Nvidia GPUs will support enhancements such as double precision floating point in order to make them more suitable for … Continue reading →

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Roadrunner reaches a Petaflop

Posted on 9 June, 2008 by Shane

According to this article the Roadrunner supercomputer has now reached a Petaflop.  Although it doesn’t sound like an official benchmark result yet, given that the International Supercomputing Conference starts in a week I guess the timing of the article is … Continue reading →

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Thinking about ethical AGI, part 2

Posted on 1 June, 2008 by Shane

Currently the foremost thinker on the ethics and safety of artificial general intelligence is Eliezer Yudkowsky of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence.  On a few occasions I have tried to read some of his writings on this topic.  Every … Continue reading →

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Thinking about ethical AGI

Posted on 22 May, 2008 by Shane

I don’t trust philosophical arguments all that much. I think this comes from studying mathematics. To start with I try to see or feel a result and I then use this to either understand the essence of an existing proof, … Continue reading →

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SciPy – some more thoughts

Posted on 9 May, 2008 by Shane

With over 20,000 visitors in 2 days I discovered what my poor web server’s maximum capacity is: about 70 visitors a minute.  It doesn’t sound like that much to me, but a number of times I had to ask my … Continue reading →

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SciPy – the embarrassing way to code

Posted on 6 May, 2008 by Shane

I’ve programmed in many languages before, indeed I’ve spent at least a year working in Basic, C, C++, C#, java, assembler, modula-2, powerhouse and prolog.  One thing I’ve never done before is Matlab, well except a few basic exercises for … Continue reading →

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