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  1. Re:Anagram for "rank poole"? by ASeed · · Score: 3 · on Kubrick's 2001: A Triple Allegory

    Google solves it again... giving us this link: MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT 2001

    There, you can find this text:

    The space voyage begins, and Dave Bowman - Zarathustra - becomes the central figure. Dave's colleague, Frank Poole, symbolizes the rope dancer (tightrope walker), a character in an important parable in Zarathustra. One clue to Poole's allegorical identity is that the last nine of the ten letters of [F]rank Poole are an anagrammatical rearrangement of the last nine of the ten letters of "[W]alk on rope"; another clue is that Frank, like the rope dancer, is killed by an entity symbolizing God who sneaks up behind him; a third clue is that Zarathustra (Bowman) picks up the rope dancer's (Poole's) body and later disposes of it. Next, Zarathustra and God clash, and Zarathustra kills God (Bowman shuts down Hal's brain). The words "Beyond the Infinite" flash on to the screen. You undoubtedly gave those words a spatial meaning, but Kubrick gives them a temporal meaning. "Beyond" means after, and "the infinite" is one of theologian Paul Tillich's names for God. "Beyond the infinite" means "after God " - after the death of God (Hal).


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  2. Doesn't anybody know about ISABEL? by ASeed · · Score: 1 · on On the State of Scientific Telecollaboration?
    Check this out!: http://isabel.dit.upm.es/
    It will surely meet all your needs.

    The ISABEL CSCW application is a group communication tool for the Internet

    Summary of features:

    free of charge

    widely used (since July 1993)

    yeah!, works under Linux (recommended RH 7) and there are versions for Solaris & IRIX

    Not only Teleconferencing (Video + Audio), also Shared WhiteBoard, Slides, Chat, ...

    Several distinguishing features over standard videoconferencing

    ISABEL was also mentioned here a long time ago: Ask Slashdot: Can Linux do Video Conferencing?

    It was developed at the school where I studied (Telecomm. Engineering School, Madrid: etsit.upm.es) and some people I admire contributed at it.
    Isn't it a project to be proud of?
    Hope you like it

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  3. That's what Genome Research discovered by ASeed · · Score: 1 · on NEAR to Fly Once More

    "NEAR to fly" The human being has less than twice the number of genes of a fly, so we are are very near to the fly... ;) Seriously, the number of genes doesn't mean very much...

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  4. Parallel distributed AI - InterSAINT by ASeed · · Score: 1 · on SETI@home Explained, From Inside

    Why search for E.T. intelligence? If you are not happy with most of the human intelligence... (I agree with you in that ;) ) why search for a better intelligence ouside this planet? I think we can make a powerful AI with many parallel distributed contributors... The unused cycles could be used to train Artificial Neural Nets instead of processing signal from a big telescope... Of course, there are other nice projects like Folding@home than can be very good too.

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  5. Re:AI with 1 Ghz PC?? hehe by ASeed · · Score: 1 · on Son of HAL For Sale

    Well, some "friends?" of mine think than I was surpassed by most machines... ;)

    Seriously, a human brain contains about 10^10 neurons with about 10^4 synapses each... If you want to do real-time video input recognition + sound recognition + understanding... (I mean, some higher capabilities) dont try with a simple PC...

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    ACid

  6. AI with 1 Ghz PC?? hehe by ASeed · · Score: 1 · on Son of HAL For Sale

    What kind of marketing lie is that?
    I think that the only way we could have AI (I mean with a similar power than human intelligence) would require at least 10^7 Megabytes of memory and about 10^14 Instructions per second... And it could be done today!! But that would require many of the computers from the Internet (at least about 100000 Ghz-PCs)... That is the direction of The InterSAINT Project.

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    ACid

  7. AI with 1 Ghz PC?? hehe by ASeed · · Score: 1 · on Son of HAL For Sale

    What kind of marketing lie is that?
    I think that the only way we could have AI (I mean with a similar power than human intelligence) would require at least 10^7 Megabytes of memory and about 10^14 Instructions per second... And it could be done today!! But that would require many of the computers from the Internet (at least about 100000 Ghz-PCs)... That is the direction of The InterSAINT Project.

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    ACid

  8. InterSAINT Re:AI by ASeed · · Score: 1 · on Distribute Stuff: Cosm Project's CS-SDK

    Yeah! That's the aim of the InterSAINT Project! Imagine Artificial Neural Networks algorithms running in millions of distributed computers. They would learn from different data inputs to achieve good goals. There's also a mailing list for the project. NOTE: The power of all the computers connected to the Internet could now be very near to the power of one human brain (in terms of speed, memory,... ).

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    ACid

  9. InterSAINT Re:AI by ASeed · · Score: 1 · on Distribute Stuff: Cosm Project's CS-SDK

    Yeah! That's the aim of the InterSAINT Project! Imagine Artificial Neural Networks algorithms running in millions of distributed computers. They would learn from different data inputs to achieve good goals. There's also a mailing list for the project. NOTE: The power of all the computers connected to the Internet could now be very near to the power of one human brain (in terms of speed, memory,... ).

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    ACid