That’s some distributed temperature right there, Dude!

I’ve been thinking about massively parallel FARG, distributed temperature, and distributed coderacks:
Now, whenever a codelet is about to change something up, why add it to the global, central, unique, coderack? I don’t see a good reason here, besides the “that’s what we’ve always done” one. If a codelet is about to change some structures in [...]

Relativity in words of four letters or less

Now, see, this is FARG-tastic.

Language Log: X is the Y of Z

Language Log looks at the old X-is-the-Y-of-Z meme, with a great deal of focus on Switzerland. Harry, what is the Switzerland of Athens? You could be the first person in the world to answer that burning question!
Also today: The fractal theory of Canada. The Canada of the electron is the neutrino.

Syntactic analogy example

So Charlie Stross’s blog today had a very strange syntactic construction. Charlie was the guest of honor at an SF convention. Next year, he’s looking forward to attending, while not being a guest of honor.
Well, next year the eastercon is going to be held in Bradford, a city with which I am [...]

This is NOT an animal. It is NOT alive. But is it like your toaster?

Recently in our internal mailing lists we have discussed hyperbole in cognitive science; and all the fantastic claims that numerous cognitive scientists make. Every would-be Dr. Frankenstein out there seems to claim to have grasped the fundamental theory of the mind, and in next year we will finally have the glorious semantic web, we [...]

The State of Seqsee

I am relieved to have reached a stage where Seqsee sees all the sequences that I wanted it to see in the initial release. This does not mean that the work is done. It is still a long way home.

So what sequences can it see? If you allow me to include sequences that it sometimes [...]

On massively parallel coderacks

Here’s a question: how to make FARG massively parallel? I’ve written about parallel temperature, and here I’d like to ask readers to consider parallel coderacks.
Like temperature, the coderack is another global, central, structure. While it only models what would happen in a massively parallel minds, it does constrain us from a more natural, [...]

Interesting Numbers

About an year ago, my Ph.D. advisor (Douglas Hofstadter) showed me a graph he had been drawing by hand. The x-axis consisted of the natural numbers: 1, 2, 3… There was a stack of dots above each, forming the y-axis. There was a red dot above all the squares (1, 4, 9…), a blue dot [...]

Temperature

This is sort of a silly note to talk about another kind of temperature — I have a fever due to this cold that’s been going around. So my body cranked up the temperature to kill it off. It’s interesting though — my mind races when I have a fever. Does anyone know why this [...]

My 2008 Agenda

Or, more likely, my upcoming frustrations:
* Domain-neutral codelets
* Dynamic fluid (& domain-neutral) chunks (the only good idea I’ve ever had.  Explains everything in the known universe. More as story unfolds.)
* Distributed Temperature
* Distributed (Parallel) Coderack(s)
* Self-forming codelets
* Slipnets without IS-A or different types of links
All implemented in Numbo & Copycat variations; perhaps even a port [...]