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New WOWIO book on applied computer graphics' future in moviemaking 0 70 (9/6/2007 8:42:59 AM) comp.graphics.misc I've got no idea if this book internally has the phrase "computer graphics" anywhere in it, but it looks to be a good speculation on where future employment in the applied aspects of our discipline may be occur... Kent

FAQ ought-to-be: Statistical Image Replication 4 22 (5/10/2007 4:10:09 AM) comp.theory After a quick check here: http://cgafaq.info/wiki/Images_and_image_processing came up dry, I'll throw this out to the Usenet-iverse. The task/need: Given some image with a useful texture, but with parts cut... Kent

Is a simulated brain, a brain? 120 98 (1/5/2007 10:02:28 AM) comp.ai.philosophy Found over in a bunch of other newsgroups, as seen here: http://groups.google.com/group/talk.bizarre/msg/4ce50b4202d89118 Luminoso wrote: : Also correct. Simulations have now reached the : sophistication r... Kent

Using algorithmic complexity to define the intelligence of a machine #2 0 63 (1/2/2007 7:30:56 AM) comp.ai.philosophy I'm not claiming I can read this with intelligence, just putting it in view in case some here can. It seems in my naive view to relate to Curt Welsh's work. Abstract In this paper I will discuss t... Kent

Using algorithmic complexity to define the intelligence of a machine 0 71 (1/2/2007 7:23:24 AM) comp.ai.philosophy I'm not claiming I can read this with intelligence, just putting it in view in case some here can. It seems in my naive view to relate to Curt Welsh's work. Abstract In this paper I will discuss t... Kent

noticing hobbies you didn't know you had 0 43 (12/31/2006 10:02:08 AM) comp.graphics.apps.gimp Cleaning up my downloaded image directories a bit, I decided to open a new directory and shove over there all the monitor desktop wallpaper images I'd made with GIMP. I have a wide-screen monitor, on a la... Kent

Binding memory despite co-located synapse traffic 62 62 (11/22/2006 5:46:11 PM) comp.ai.philosophy Here's an interesting writeup on a new understanding of the details of how biological memory works in a noisy synaptic communications environment: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0C7E0D9C-E7F2-99DF-... Kent

robot with a self image 68 84 (11/18/2006 4:57:36 PM) comp.ai.philosophy This is a fairly cute read, and might kick off some discussion. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061116/ap_on_sc/resilient_robots The URL is probably volitile and won't work forever. Inchwise progress is still p... Kent

maintaining population diversity in genetic algorithms 5 75 (8/29/2006 11:34:50 AM) comp.ai.genetic It is a constant source of complaint here in comp.ai.genetic, especially from new participants in creating and using genetic algorithms, that diversity in GA populations collapses rather easily and rapidly. I ... Kent

Strange way to measure Linux market penetration -- NetHack Hearse 19 17 (8/2/2006 9:29:56 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy There aren't a lot of really splendid ways to measure Linux penetration into the personal computer market, and this one isn't splendid either, but I trust it quite a bit. The very popular 19 year old free comp... kent

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Creating a low-power machine 42 48 (5/16/2006 5:59:54 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Hi, I think unlike most modders I'm trying to do something relatively contrarian. I'd like to build a -- low-power -- fanless (heatsinks, prefer to avoid water cooling) -- linux -- two Ethernet ports, one f... finitedev (9)

Software Needs Philosophers 234 135 (5/21/2006 9:15:31 AM) comp.lang.perl.misc Software Needs Philosophers by Steve Yegge, 2006-04-15. Software needs philosophers. This thought has been nagging at me for a year now, and recently it's been growing like a tumor. One that plenty of folks ... xah (463)

what does marshalling means ? 8 16 (5/23/2006 1:45:12 AM) comp.lang.java.programmer what does marshalling means ? here is a question "....:Is is possible for an EJB client to marshal an object of class java.lang.Class to an EJB? - Technically..." what does marshalling means in the ab... srcjnu (381)

Subversion to ClearCase migration 4 37 (5/23/2006 7:17:42 AM) comp.os.linux.misc Hi, Is there're a tool to migrate from subversion to ClearCase. Indirect migration path is accaptable too (subversion->....->ClearCase). Dima ... dimsar (1)

Firefox-only sites - bad policy? 44 19 (5/25/2006 4:04:45 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Some sites are firefox only sites (a javascript redirects IE-users to Firefox main page). Because of this, a link to one site in Wikipedia was pulled, although no such rule against it seems to be in their polic... kalim1998 (280)

Can I make a class file self destruct? 24 19 (5/31/2006 2:25:27 PM) comp.lang.java.programmer I would like to be able to access a class file remotely, and send it a command to self-destruct if it is unlicensed. (We have thieves distributing our class files without license.) Can I put some code in the ... 0360com (1)

Strange way to measure Linux market penetration -- NetHack Hearse 19 17 (8/2/2006 9:29:56 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy There aren't a lot of really splendid ways to measure Linux penetration into the personal computer market, and this one isn't splendid either, but I trust it quite a bit. The very popular 19 year old free comp... xanthian (647)

cellular automata puzzle 21 25 (11/15/2006 9:41:06 PM) comp.theory GAME: Assume a NxN grid/matrix. Cells can either be black or white. A cell's neighbors are the UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT cells, i.e. 4 neighbors for cells that are not on the border, 2 neighbors for the ones on the... andersen_800 (66)

FAQ ought-to-be: Statistical Image Replication 4 22 (5/10/2007 4:10:09 AM) comp.theory After a quick check here: http://cgafaq.info/wiki/Images_and_image_processing came up dry, I'll throw this out to the Usenet-iverse. The task/need: Given some image with a useful texture, but with parts cut... xanthian (647)

MindForth artificial intelligence lives forever. 42 26 (9/4/2008 5:26:36 PM) comp.lang.forth The AI Mind in Win32Forth free online for robots at http://mentifex.virtualentity.com/mind4th.html has just been updated with a KB-traversal feature that traverses the knowledge base and keeps the AI Mind think... mentifex (216)