Arduino

Hi

Everyday I see some people checking this blog out, and so now I've changed my mind, and I'm going to update the blog.

So, for today, I talk about ARDUINO, constantly improved and supported open-source platform, from Italy.

Have a look.

1.  http://www.arduino.cc/

Arduino "is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments."

2.  Introduction to Arduino: Web-link to video, Vimeo, 28:17

3.  Arduino Forum: http://arduino.cc/forum/

4.  Arduino Blog: http://arduino.cc/blog/

Your way to the forum and blog you also find from the main website (see above).

5.  Some video tutorials on Arduino (YouTube):

Tutorials Arduino , by sciguy14.

Also check YouTube yourself, there are so much good info about the platform and what could be done with it.

Arto.

The end, I guess

Hi everyone.

I've been away from this blog for a while, and I came back to say that it's difficult for me to update the blog, and I'm not interested in AI as much as I was before.
I'm thinking of stopping posting here since I have 2 other blogs run.
I believe they are more useful for our society and for me than this one.
I'll leave all the posts here for a while and then will delete the blog itself.

For now, I suggest you have a look at this book as it's good for beginners.
"Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" - 2nd or 3rd edition, by Stuart J. Russel and Peter Norvig.
http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/
awesome book.
To find out more, google information and find forums on AI with constant updates.

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One of my other blogs is about sustainable development, renewable energy and health issues.
Your green home:
http://ecotechnoadvice.blogspot.com/

Another one is not so much of technology, instead it's mostly storytales I write, things that matters and happen to me.
Mind tells the story, by Arto Lavi:
http://netsesor.blogspot.com/

These two are what I'm focusing on.

Regards,
Arto Lavi

Virtual worm project

A few days ago I got to know the Virtual worm project [see the previous post]. 

It made me interested in "the evolution of artificial intelligence in silico". Although the idea is simple, it is not easy to make it working in real.

So, what's so special about that worm [Caenorhabditis elegans]?

The uniqueness is that it has 302 neurons, compared to a hundred thousand of a fruit fly. The worm is well understood too, therefore we can simulate its life in a computer programme, or in silico for shot. Said this, there're lots of issues to handle. It's not the number of neurons that plays the main part, it is how the neurons themselves work. Understanding the exact mechanism of neuron's behaviour and its interactions with other cells is the key to success.

The presentation on the Virtual Worm Project

Open worm public hangout 10-08-11

View more PowerPoint from Stephen Larson

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update is coming later today. I'll write about the project.

IT and neuroscience meet to create AI

Okay guys,

One idea of creating an IT is to simulate a simple form of life in a computer programme and let it evolve to a more complex one, ultimately to human beings, or alike. And since computer allows to accelerate the evolution, it takes a reasonable time to run the simulation. Such simulation throws new light on how the brain works that we yet to completely understand.

Overall, this concept is even more interesting form the point of view of scientists that are interested in alien forms of life as they can manipulate the environment in the simulations and see different outcomes.

Modelling C. elegans 

So, coming to the point..

There's an interesting project going on in the Internet called the Virtual Worm Project.

That project is open-source, and I found good tutorials on how to work with the programmes involved.

It is also highly active, so let's have a look.

Next posts I'll make on exploring this concept of IT evolution and this particular project.
It is as promising as interesting.

Resources to check out:
1. The Virtual Worm Project
http://code.google.com/p/openworm/

2. Stephen Larson talking about the concept [5:42]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb1V_OKqRfc

3. Stephen Larson's YouTube page:
http://www.youtube.com/user/cgrove1111
There are mostly the tutorials.

4. Info on the worm, Caenorhabditis elegans:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caenorhabditis_elegans

First words

Hi fellows

More and more people get interested in artificial intellect. 

Many of them do it as hobby, many take it seriously.

I myself think that computers have already done a good deal of things we could not do ourselves.

I mean computer did the action, not people operating it.

We have had the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution, and the next revolution will be the computer revolution. This is the one when computer programmes will be able to assess their initial code and improve it and build other programmes without human help. In other words, programmes make programmes. The only thing we need to do though is to provide them with the hardware. And for that purpose AI would help us to develop high-tech computers.

Well, there has been lots of speculations and controversy on whether it is dangerous or not to develop computer programmes so much and let them control themselves.
Let's leave that stuff to those who want to argue and see what IT industry brings about.

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