Berlin Brown and Software Development

http://www.drewconway.com/zia/ ----- "It must be borne in mind that all this time we have a Sperm Whale's prodigious head hanging to the Pequod's side. But we must let it continue hanging there a while till we can get a chance to attend to it. For the present other matters press, and the best we can do now for the head, is to pray heaven the tackles may hold." -- Ron Paul 2012

Here is a collection of *.tex scripts and makefile for creating article documents. Just an example. Supports output to PDF, ps, dvi, bibliography example, tested with cygwin. http://jvmnotebook.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/book/articles/example/

http://botnode.com/emacs.html - simple setup for running one instance of emacs on windows. Emacs is a powerful text editor. Some might consider Emacs one of the most powerful editors in computing history. It is highly configurable, ported to many different systems and once you get familiar with how to use it, you can be very productive. Emacs is also useful for working with many different programming languages. Emacs is built on top of a Lisp dialect called Emacs Lisp. Other Lisp dialects benefit from the the built-in Lisp syntax highlighting. That is just one example of a non-mainstream language that has support in Emacs. Emacs is especially popular in an Unix/Linux environment. Because Emacs is GNU and opensource, a free version is available for the Windows platform as well. One issue that new users to emacs may encounter is getting the editor to work like other Windows editors. This small document is how I configure emacs to only allow one instance to run on Windows. This funct...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m97_kL4ox0 "Polyworld: Using Evolution to Design Artificial Intelligence"

So, I signed up for match.com. I knew even before the get go that they were going to be a fraudulent company. I knew it. And I had no intention to use the service at all. Curiosity got the better of me. So, I signed up and paid for the ONE month service. Notice ONE month service. Let me say it again. ONE month service. You would think that a ONE month service would only charge you or keep you active for ONE month. No apparently, I have been charged month after month with the ONE month fee. It was my fault, I used an account that I explicitly use for online transactions like this one and didn't notice the charges. Well, I did happen to notice match.com and there it was. Ask yourself, why would I get charged several months, for a one month service. There is nothing explicit on the site at all about automatic renewals. It is so unfortunate that a company has to resort to these tactics. Here are the prices for the service. $34.99 -- 1 momth $19.99 -- 3 months $16.99 -- 6 ...

Well, I have time off. Normally what that means is, I spend many late nights studying constantly. Some people go to the beach. I like to research. This time I am going back to AI and Haskell. Maybe combining the two. I have a couple of themes in my AI research. I have followed the same theme since I was young. Biology, Physics and how it relates to AI. Essentially, you need to design AI from the ground up, create an environment, a virtual environment for this entity to exist and then let the intelligence flourish within that environment. Then make connections between the real environment and our environment. Interesting AI is difficult. It is too bad that researchers mix the field with informatics and machine learning and all things that seem to belong to the more generic field of Computer Science. Genetic life is the only interesting field that seems like true AI, maybe neural network research. So, it is my opinion, that to create the AI that we dream of. Not the CS AI yo...