Shaun Malone wrote:

> Great to hear from you!



Yeah, I thought it was about time to mail again. =P



> Your projects sounds like they're going well. I

> noticed the activity on your website has gone down a bit recently but

> maybe that's a sign you've got down to a bit of heavy coding :-)



Well yes, I am basicaly working all day on responding mails to get

something to work on and then coding the rest of the time. And breathing

sometime inbetween. =P It pays, tho. I get $25 per month which is surely

better than nothing. ;]



> Glad you contacted me when you did. I'm due to leave my placement here

> at IBM next Friday, so this email address (sm182@york.ac.uk) is the best

> one to use from now on...



Ok. I'll just keep a list of all of your addresses.



> NLU - is that something to do with Natural Language processing? I'll be

> taking a NLP course next year at university,



Yes. It's a simple one based on translating Natural Language into ICI

commands and then executing them and linking the automated responses

into reasonable Natural Language again. Not much coding in it, but takes

some hard thinking.



> in fact I've chosen quite a

> few AI modules, so hopefully I will learn a bit more about it in the

> coming months. I'm still playing around with genetic algorithms /

> cellular automata, although it's on a bit of a back-burner. Am trying to

> develop a system to learn algorithms for image processing (e.g. simple

> filters like blurring, edge enhancement, etc.) which will be a bit of a

> challenge, but I have a theory that image processing is the key to the

> development of intelligence, so that is providing me with a bit of

> inspiration.



Hehe, get's me thinking. Now if we each think an aspect of intelligence

is key to it (since I have a theory that with NLU computers will appear

a lot more intelligent), we might actualy reach AI if we work togather.

=]



> Thankfully I'll have lots of free time over the summer

> before going back to university so might have a chance to work on a few

> things before then.



Well the team that I am working with on ICI is currently working

(actualy we all are) on getting other devolopers to cooperate with us,

so I can actualy ask 'em to send around quite some free copies (keep in

mind here that each sent copy works only in one instance at a time;

copyprotection) to people that now work with us (2 of those weren't

programmers before, but wanted to help with the debugging, but now they

both decided to learn how to code, so they will be able to work with

us).



What programming language are you working with again?



> At the moment I'm mainly interested in music though. Have you done any

> tracking or anything recently? I'm interested in starting a small

> tracker-group for unusual / experimental styles of music. Also have put

> a couple of my recent tunes on my new website at http://berkano.cjb.net/

> if you're interested.



I'll be sure to check that out. But myself, no not much. There is a

track called "The Werewolf", that you might have not heard before. I can

send it to you if you want.



More interestingly, I was coding recently (uh, well it seems to be all

I'm doing lately, so no wonder it comes togather with tracking as well)

on a little system, that will provide an auto-insert playback for track

CDs too. The thing works great with my two TW2k CDs.



> How are things in general? Are you still at school?



Well summer's off here as well of course. I got some new good friends

for life since on a newsgroup with an interesting name. I guess that's

the most significant thing that happened to me since "in general". How

are you doing?



C'ya!



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