Joel Pitt on AI, AGI, The Singularity and Computing Power

NNW1 – Consciousness, AGI, and the Singularity from nerdnite wellington on Vimeo.

Below is from wikipedia about the increasing rate of processing power.

Posted on July 7, 2011 at 1:07 pm by Jordan Carter · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Released my first RubyGem ‘BabyNames’

I often find myself always writing seed data and repeating myself.  Trying to make it as ‘real’ as possible instead of just “test1″, “test2″, “test3″ etc.

So here is a gem that will simplify all of that! See babynames on github for more details or find it on rubygems.org

require ‘rubygems’
require ‘babynames’

person = BabyNames.person
person.first_name
=> Ilene
person.last_name
=> Brennan
person.male?
=> false
person.email
=> [email protected]

person = BabyNames.person
User.create(:first_name => person.first_name, :last_name => person.last_name, :email => person.email, :male => person.male?)

For more examples see the github readme

Posted on June 12, 2011 at 2:28 pm by Jordan Carter · Permalink · 2 Comments
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Sweet F-35B STOVL Vertical Takeoff and Landing

Can I have one please? This would make a sweet FPV platform for RC :)

Posted on May 16, 2011 at 11:17 am by Jordan Carter · Permalink · 2 Comments
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Karl Sims – Evolved Virtual Creatures, Evolution Simulation, 1994

Posted on May 6, 2011 at 1:14 pm by Jordan Carter · Permalink · Leave a comment
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ASIMO Walking and Dynamically Avoiding Objects

Posted on May 6, 2011 at 1:12 pm by Jordan Carter · Permalink · One Comment
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ASIMO Intelligent Humaniod

Very Clever :)

Posted on May 6, 2011 at 11:28 am by Jordan Carter · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Very Good AI Clip about Naturally Evolving Artificial Intelligence

Posted on May 6, 2011 at 11:18 am by Jordan Carter · Permalink · One Comment
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Error with passenger-install-nginx-module – Could not find RubyGem passenger (>= 0) (Gem::LoadError)

If you are troubled with

passenger-install-nginx-module /home/web90seconds/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems.rb:900:in `report_activate_error’: Could not find RubyGem passenger (>= 0) (Gem::LoadError)

Then try

sudo env GEM_HOME=$GEM_HOME /home/me/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/bin/passenger-install-nginx-module

Obviously change the location of your passenger-install-nginx-module binary.

Posted on March 28, 2011 at 12:53 pm by Jordan Carter · Permalink · 2 Comments
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