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7 John McCarthy Papers in 7 weeks – #1 How My Thermostat has Beliefs and Goals
http://www.flickr.com/photos/midnightcomm/447335691/ Ascribing Mental Qualities to Machines or How My Thermostat has Beliefs and Goals After reading John McCarthy’s paper this week Ascribing Mental...
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Well, life threw me for a bit of a loop and delayed my post on my second paper. So I am going to consider this a “weekish” period of time and just continue on. I read Towards a Mathematical Science of...
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In which I realize that John McCarthy is the father of the Semantic Web I have realized that it generally takes me more than a week to read a paper, reflect on it, experiment, and finally blog about...
View Article7 McCarthy Papers in 7ish Weeks – #4
Reading Artificial Intelligence, Logic, and Formalizing Common Sense, led me surprisingly to reflect on, not only logic and philosophy, but also the history and present state of AI. Fist let’s look at...
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7 McCarthy Papers in 7ish Weeks #5 & #6 – SDFW Tic-Tac-Toe
This holiday edition blog post covers two McCarthy papers instead of just one. We will be talking about Free Will – Even for Robots and the companion paper Simple Deterministic Free Will. In which we...
View ArticleHobby Languages for Clojurists
I spend most of my work day in Ruby and CoffeeScript. However, my true love belongs to Clojure, which I consider my “hobby” language right now. I started to wonder, what are the “hobby” languages for...
View Article7 McCarthy Papers in 7ish weeks #7 – Elephant 2000
Saving the best for last. Elephant 2000 To be continued….
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The Joy of Flying AR Drones with Clojure
Clojure is fun. Flying AR Parrot Drones are fun. Put them together and there is pure joy. Ever since I found out that you could program and control your drone over UDP, I couldn’t wait to try it out...
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Why Open a Coworking Space?
So I am in the midst of doing something a bit crazy and a bit wonderful at the same time. I am opening a coworking space in Loveland, OH called Locolo. It is a bit crazy because it has very little...
View ArticleGrowing a Language with Clojure and Instaparse
Creating your own programming language with Clojure and Instaparse is like building rainbows with s-expressions. The Instaparse library is an elegant way of building executable parsers trees with...
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Babar – A Little Language with Speech Acts for Machines
Preface: A Gentle Obsession About a year ago, I picked up John McCarthy’s paper on Elephant 2000. I have to admit that I only understood about 10% of it. But I was so intrigued by the ideas that it...
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