Roberto Blanco wrote: > >>I'm still awake... I should be worried. |] > > > > =D > > But the reply time tells me I should be even more concerned about your > times. =P Indeed. ;] > >>Hi! So nice to hear from you. > > > > ^^ This. ;) > > It'd be no surprise. I've been missing you lots. Me too. *paw* =] > > Ok. =) > > I'll write about grants, yeah. Just a bit short of time now. My class > happens to lack a Logic Systems teacher so I'm studying the subject on > my own. > > [preliminary gab omitted ;] Ok. > >>Giving the ALU a neocortex is the goal here. I have many sub-categories > >>in mind, but the basic modules should be laid down first. That's what I > >>am doing theoretically now. > > > > Hehe, I am beggining to see some patterns. (snip!) > > I think it would be an excelent oppurtunity for us to cooperate. ;) What > > do you think? > > Patterns are everywhere, aren't they? One just has to be clever enough > to catch them. > > (You + I)^computer = true > > Worried about my coherence now? =P Hmm. Lemme think... The "^" sign is AND, right? > Cooperating is always good. Doing something with you is always good. > When I started lending you a hand with ICI, though, I was needing to > catch up with a few concepts I unfortunately was not an expert in. So I > potentially generated a delay. =P Don't worry, this dealy I would say is hardly noticable if you keep in mind how many people before us have been "generating a delay" by not working on these matters. ;] I too have noticed the importance of sub-categories. Of course remind me if you actualy have a diffirent solution in mind and I have missunderstood you, but I see this as in making a neocortex as a standalone program and then looking for ways to connect it with any other programs in ICI. I see a mamal brain as being built of many sub-sections that interconnect with simple datalinks (the brain surface and a center 'spunge' are actualy just communication layers) and then the 'self' area or neocortex connects to various other centers to, for example to grab a small cube will make the neocortex send a "grab object in focus" command to the motoric centre, which then sends commands to the visual centere and various other centres to collect the information required to fire the required muscles and make the fingers carefully warp around the object and hold it in good grip. Various neural diseases support this hypotesys by the effects they generate (for example some people have a normal IQ and are unable to get their hands to get the expected grip on an object they are trying to grab). Making an artificial brain in a simmilar manner should help some aspects (many 'AI' programs do many things, but what has been most annoying to the critics appeared to be that none of the programs solve all the problems they have presented them with). I belive making many seperate approaches to artificial intelligence, let them actively exchange data for easier processing and connecting them to a common user interface is the solution. In ICI you have all of that prepared, you just need the programs themselves. Since I am working on the matter, I have already made some of the programs required for something minimal but of course the actual AI will require a lot of man-hours and I and Neil are only two men. I suppose you will need the interfaces (of course you can make them yourself it's not hard, but it would be possible for me to provide them). I have been working on exporting the interfaces from Visual Basic into ActiveX controls (OCX), for other devolopers as well for my own use in other programming languages. Does ADA support ActiveX controls? > Of course if you have a piece of junk of a motherboard, give it the > faster processor, and it will be still junk. > > An 80 GB 7,200 rpm HDD will do it now, there is always the possibility > of upgrading if the future (that of course depends on getting a good > motherboard!). > > There are no computer illiterates here. ;) 512 MB of DDR SDRAM will do > very, very fine. It is actually very fast, as well. The Asus motherboard > I've picked supports up to 4 GB, good expansion capabilty. But I don't > plan to use it now. The CPU consists on what I've mentioned so far, plus > a Sony CD burner (good'n'cheap), the graphics card and other > not-so-important components. I'll get you the list. You have a pretty good idea on it I see. The second important step will be making sure all of the hardware you intend to buy works togather (I'm sure you have thought of it, but it's quite witty to know a P4 will only fit in some motherboards and the DDR SDRAM should also have it's place in the mobo [some mobos have SDR slots for memory only] and so on). Then the obvious next step will be installing the operating system and with it the BIOS configuration. It is absolutely crutial to set up the BIOS for maximum preformance with all features enabled BEFORE installing the OS. When you get to that point, you can tell me about the features in your comp's BIOS and I'll see if I have any good hints to give you (for example setting the "PnP aware OS" setting to "Yes" before installing Windows is very important and there are a lot of other settings, but of course I can't know until I know which there are). > Windows 98 is pretty cool as an overall OS. It does everything and it > doesn't even spy on you. =P That's the problem with Windows XP, at least > with the Home version. Probably I will couple that up with a Linux > partition to get used to Unix-derived environments I need for my college > assessments. Yes Windows 98 is my choice after having seen all other varieties of Windows really. I have previously recomended Windows 2000 as it is good when it works, but it might not be the best choice really because as I have just learned at school, even the latest service pack has so many bugs in it, it can render the computer practicaly useless if you're out of luck. And you're usualy out of luck with costum-built computers, so be carefull there. Dual boot is also an excelent idea and oh right, the harddrive: Considering you're having an 80 GB one... any harddrive over 10 GB is good to be partitioned into many partitions. For a start you'll probably want a no more than 6 GB partition for Windows and programs that require to be installed in "C:\". Then I would recomend you use the disk space as seperate 10 to 15 GB partitions ending with one 20 GB partition for MISC. This is good because the file systems (on large partitions small files take a lot of disk space), it is good because of the sorting of data, it is good to prevent Windows from spreading too much (Windows that has grown too large will become inefficient and slow) and it is good for easy maintenence (scandisk, defrag, etc will no longer be processing all the data and archives that need not be scanned or moved around, plus the fact that each partition has an allocation table of it's own, in case of harddrive falioure, more of your data will remain intact). You will likely never fill up all of the harddrive space, so not to worry, but the categorization will make the weeding out of useless data much much easier; the only rule you have to follow is to install your programs into the 10 to 15 GB partitions, keep all backup on one partition, keep all install and setup programs of the programs currently installed in yet another partition, and put all of your downloads, "My documents" and other save-in-random-filename disorganized stuff on the 20 GB end partition. > > Burner drives, unless you're onto keeping your current ones, I recomend > > TEAC's drives. > > > > The other equipment in my view you cannot possibly buy nowadays anything > > that would be bad enough to degrade preformance. > > > >>There is Linux and some other OS's for Macintosh. One just has to be > >>tough testing equipment. ;) Actually from Linux on IBM you emulate Mac > >>OS proficiently. > > > > Curious. > > And quite useless, you may point out. The only good thing about Macs is > they are very compact. > > > That is far from old-fashioned... in my view anyway. It's just their > > marketing solution. > > Unintelligent enough to be hard to put into words. > > >>>>Squeeze? > >>>> > >>>Let me help you, it's a bit like a hug, just stronger. =) > >>> > >>Gee. I've got something for ya. > > > > What? =D > > Would it be a surprise if I told you? > > This isn't the surprise, but I just thought I'd tell. I have been > putting things together lately and I have made everyone know I'm taking > a vacation in advance. I would never miss a chance to get out of this > damned country. Any suggestions, destinations, whatever? > > How about, hmm... > > Kiev? =P > > >>Everyone knows Macs are toys. One of those would be good for most > >>average users. =P > > > > I'm glad you understand. ;P > > =P That's for sure. > > Love, > Robbie -- I could run like the wind just to be with you. 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