Anhinga anhinga playground

The Fourth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence is hosted by Google in Mountain View, California on August 3-6, 2011:

http://agi-conf.org/2011/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford

http://crockford.com/

The main thesis is that JavaScript is essentially a language in the spirit of Scheme and also Self, a language where inheritance is not class-based, but prototype-based:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_%28programming_language%29

Crockford teaches how to avoid the bad parts of JavaScript, and how to write nice functional JavaScript, with closures and everything.

I'd like to see a set of software tools which would allow me to use the Web more efficiently. In particular, when I browse Web, sometimes I end up feeling that I have spent time well and learned interesting new things. On other occasions, I feel that I've read a lot of boring things and got myself tired without anything to show for that.

It would be nice to have tools which would take a user's feedback on the quality of Web pages, and would help the user to predict the quality of new pages. We were working on such a set of tools for the last few months, and I think we reached the stage when this toolset can be useful to other people.

So, this is, in some sense, a micro-launch of the alpha release of this toolset called WebPredict. One can use the following URL to create an account which allows to give feedback on the quality of Web pages one reads, and to get predictions of the quality of new pages based on that feedback:

http://www.webpredict.net/wp/PreSignup.do?userConfigId=original-flavor

For the time being, this only makes sense if one is using a Firefox browser, and one needs to install our Link Rater Firefox add-on for the resulting workflow to make sense. ( other functionality; feedback )

I've learned about a new organization (functioning since Summer 2006), which is doing various strange things, for example, "modifications to existing medical imaging programs that enable their use in astronomical research". ( they are hiring too )

Other than that, I am torturing myself trying to understand why for (pre)sheaves on a topology, it is not enough to take the topology itself as the set of logical values, but one needs to consider "sieves" aka "crib(b)les" (решета) over this topology to obtain the "classifier of subobjects"..

Хочется такую игрушку:

http://avva.livejournal.com/1734644.html?thread=40852980#t40852980

И очень не хочется делать ёё с нуля..

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;-) Хотя, конечно, если учесть, что люди делают АИ "по образу и подобию своему".. проект тот ещё.. ;-)