tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69887835131725962202024-03-21T23:59:26.442+01:00z]z]http://www.blogger.com/profile/04842600960151093252noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6988783513172596220.post-15844063655407500802013-10-29T19:25:00.003+01:002013-10-29T19:25:48.571+01:00Hide'n'Seek:) I've moved my blog to a new address. I would gladly tell you how to find my new home, but it would be too easy, wouldn't it? Therefore, we can play a game. First to post the new address gets a chocolate. I can ship all over the world, so.. Let's see how easy it is to find something hidden on the web. <script type="text/javascript">
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Just kiddin', I played final fantasy and read comics..<br />
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Anyway, let's not waste the precious reader's time. Right to the point of this post, namely science and why we actually believe in it *. Actually, all the noise is only due to this quote I wanted to share at any cost, just because it summarises my feelings about the future of humanity thanks to science:<br />
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<i><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"The oil will never run out. It's not because we have a lot of it. It's not because we'll gonna build a billion windmills. It's because, well, thousands of years ago people had ideas, inventions, technology and the stone age ended. Not because we ran out of stones… "</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">* (I know you expected a picture of cat and here is the official sorry for disappointing you: Deeply, truly sorry!)</span><br />
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"The question is not whether intelligent machines can have any emotions, but whether machines can be intelligent without any emotions." (Marvin Minsky)z]http://www.blogger.com/profile/04842600960151093252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6988783513172596220.post-69675022661470399872012-07-23T20:56:00.002+02:002012-07-23T21:01:33.004+02:00penguins and ostriches<script type="text/javascript">
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"It's not bad to start with "Birds can fly." and later change it into "birds can fly, unless they are penguins or ostriches". But if you continue to seek perfection, your rules will turn into monstrosities:
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Birds can fly, unless they are penguins or ostriches, or if they happen to be dead, or have broken wings, or are confined to cages, or have their feet stuck in cement, or have undergone experiences so dreadful, as to render them incapable of flight.
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Unless we treat exceptions separately, they'll wreck all the generalizations we may try to make.
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We almost never find rules that have no exceptions- except in certain special artificial worlds that we ourselves create by making up their rules and regulations to begin with. Artificial realms like mathematics and theology are built from the start to be devoid of interesting inconsistency. But we must be careful not to mistake our own inventions for natural phenomena we have discovered. To insist on perfect laws in real life is to risk not finding any laws at all."z]http://www.blogger.com/profile/04842600960151093252noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6988783513172596220.post-33330563852602142052012-02-11T09:32:00.017+01:002012-02-11T12:24:24.624+01:00Nonsense<p>It seems that I have lots of spare time recently. :) I'm still waiting for the Stanford University open courses to start. That will take awhile..<script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-17906114-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();</script></p><p>But now for something completely different... I might have mentioned about the "Society of Mind" lectures. In one of them, Minsky started to explain theories about "Why jokes are funny?". According to the mighty Freud, jokes are funny, because they are messing with "not allowed" topics. Things our society try to suppress thinking or talking of, like violence, sex, bad politics, etc.. So our mind is trying to mask our real thoughts by making them seem not serious. And you might say, "Ye, Freud, the guy is nuts!", but I find it reasonable explanation for the majority of the jokes. And here's the funny part, Freud's theory does not explain why the nonsensical jokes are also funny. Does it?</p><p>Think about it for a moment. Why are nonsense jokes funny? This is extremely interesting question for me, because I'm a big big fan of Monty Python, and the jokes there are totally nonsensical. It's like a surrealism without the depri-art part. So I needed to know why people are laughing like crazy when they hear a punchline that's completely illogical and sometimes not related to the rest of the joke.</p><p>The answer is <a href="http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/jokes.cognitive.txt">here</a>. In this wonderful paper, Minsky suggests that the reason people laugh when hearing nonsense jokes is the same as the reason they laugh about all other kinds of jokes . And this reason was originally formulated by Freud - they allow our childish consciousness to play with forbidden things. This time, the forbidden topic is logic, or more precisely, the lack of it. Illogical thinking is considered bad thing in our society and the people speaking nonsense are labeled dumb. Of course, not if you are telling jokes ;) .</p><p>And now for something completely the same: a fine selection of toys for your mind I found around the web:</p><p>________________________________________________ </p><p> <span style="color:#336666;"><em>Two strawberries were sitting in the bathtub, one said to the other 'can you pass the soap' the other replies 'what the fuck do I look like, a typewriter?'</em></span><span style="color:#336666;"><em> </em></span></p><p>________________________________________________<span style="color:#336666;"><em><br /></em></span></p><p><span style="color:#336666;"><em> </em></span><span style="color:#336666;"><em> </em></span><span style="color:#336666;"><em>If you say Jesus backwards it sounds like sausage. </em></span></p><p>________________________________________________<span style="color:#336666;"><em><br /></em></span></p><p><span style="color:#336666;"><em> </em></span><span style="color:#336666;"><em> </em></span><span style="color:#336666;"><em>- Why did the plane crash? </em></span></p><p><span style="color:#336666;"><em>- Because the pilot was a loaf of bread. </em></span></p><p><span style="color:#336666;"><em> </em></span><span style="color:#336666;"><em> </em></span>________________________________________________<span style="color:#336666;"><em><br /></em></span></p><p><span style="color:#336666;"><em>- What's the difference between a duck? </em></span></p><p><span style="color:#336666;"><em>- One's twice as long as itself. </em></span></p><p><span style="color:#336666;"><em> </em></span><span style="color:#336666;"><em> </em></span>________________________________________________<span style="color:#336666;"><em><br /></em></span></p><p><span style="color:#336666;"><em>- Ask me if I'm an orange. </em></span></p><p><span style="color:#336666;"><em>- Are you an orange?</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#336666;"><em>- No.</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#336666;"><em> </em></span><span style="color:#336666;"><em> </em></span>________________________________________________<span style="color:#336666;"><em><br /></em></span></p><p><span style="color:#336666;"><em>Driving down a road Santa sees a sign that says, “Watch for Fallen Rocks.” A few kilometres later, he sees some rocks at the side of the road, so he stops and picks them up. When he gets to the next town, he carries the rocks into the Highway Maintenance office and puts them on the counter. “Here are your fallen rocks,” he says to the man behind the counter. “Now where is my watch?”. </em></span></p><p>________________________________________________<span style="color:#336666;"><em><br /></em></span></p><p><span style="color:#336666;"><em>Inpatient customer, sarcastically: </em></span></p><p><span style="color:#336666;"><em>- "Waiter, do you serve crabs?" </em></span></p><p><span style="color:#336666;"><em>- "Sit down, sir - we serve anyone." </em></span></p><p><span style="color:#336666;"><em> </em></span><span style="color:#336666;"><em> </em></span>________________________________________________<span style="color:#336666;"><em><br /></em></span></p><p><span style="color:#336666;"><em>Descartes is sitting in a bar. The bartender asks him if he'd like another drink. Descartes replies, "I think not" and *poof* he disappears. </em></span></p><p><span style="color:#336666;"><em> </em></span><span style="color:#336666;"><em> </em></span>________________________________________________<span style="color:#336666;"><em><br /></em></span></p><p>These here are from the paper:<span style="color:#336666;"><em> </em></span><span style="color:#336666;"><em> </em><em><br /></em></span></p><p><span style="color:#336666;"><em> </em></span><span style="color:#336666;"><em>A gentleman entered a pastry-cook's shop and ordered a cake; but he soon brought it back and asked for a glass of liqueur instead. He drank it and began to leave without having paid. The proprietor detained him. "You've not paid for the liqueur." "But I gave you the cake in exchange for it." "You didn't pay for that either." "But I hadn't eaten it". </em></span></p><p><span style="color:#336666;"><em>--- from Freud (1905). </em></span><span style="color:#336666;"><em> </em></span><span style="color:#336666;"><em> </em><em><br /></em></span></p><p><span style="color:#336666;"><em> </em></span><span style="color:#336666;"><em> </em></span>________________________________________________<span style="color:#336666;"><em><br /></em></span></p><p><span style="color:#336666;"><em>"A man at the dinner table dipped his hands in the mayonnaise and then ran them through his hair. When his neighbor looked astonished, the man apologized: "I'm so sorry. I thought it was spinach."</em></span><span style="color:#cccccc;"><br /></span></p><p>________________________________________________<span style="color:#336666;"><em><br /></em></span></p><p>Well, some of them are not complete nonsense, see.. But they are in the same category, since they make fun of false interpretations. (Btw, if you have more, please share! :)<br /></p>z]http://www.blogger.com/profile/04842600960151093252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6988783513172596220.post-62136195990192197242012-02-09T23:20:00.019+01:002012-02-11T09:30:44.645+01:00Thinking like a moss :)<p>Two days ago as I was derping around the web (not surprising at all), I discovered this awesome open course called <a href="http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/podcasts/critical_reasoning_for_beginners">"Critical reasoning for beginners"</a>. What's all about? The title does not say much to me, as I simply cannot catch what's so critical about reasoning. However, the content is circling around the nature of arguments and how by using logic and simple structuring rules to make your arguments stronger. </p><p>What's nice about all that stuff is, that even from the first lecture, one learns a lot of definitions formulated in "human understandable language" ( I mean, not only with symbols, as we learned it in the formal systems course, e.g. P or !P = true ). Besides, the lecturer has soooo amazingly wonderful beautiful amusing British accent, which might be the real reason for me listening to the lectures. Btw, she started the lecture with part of a Monty Python sketch (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y">this one</a>)! </p><p>Here's some interesting stuff: we are somehow used to say that an argument is true or false. But arguments cannot be true or false, they can be simply good or bad. The premises of an argument can be true or false, for example, but not the arguments themselves. And the good arguments are truth-preserving, because they can preserve the truth of the premises in the conclusion. </p><p>There is also this interesting statement I very much like: "There are only 2 sorts of things that can be true or false in this world. One of them is beliefs and the other is the sentences we use to express beliefs." At first, I was little bit confused, because beliefs are kinda subjective. But later on, it became clear, that there is a difference between religious beliefs, etc. and the term belief in the philosophy. </p><p>Also, I found out, that there are levels of abstraction and often the reason for a bad argument is when you are not able to make the difference between those. The clarity of thoughts is a consequence of not confusing those levels. And there's a very nice example:</p><p>Let's use chair, concept of chair and "chair". Saying that chair has 5 letters is not true, because chairs don't have letters. It also does not make sense to say that the concept of chair that someone has in mind has 5 letters. Therefore saying "Chair has 5 letters." makes sense only when chair is seen as a word. And that's definetely different abstraction level from the first two.</p><p></p>z]http://www.blogger.com/profile/04842600960151093252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6988783513172596220.post-65055032084712809372012-01-16T21:16:00.005+01:002012-01-16T21:50:49.559+01:00SingularityRecently, I found some nice graphical novels. Pure pleasure. One of them is Singularity 7 by Ben Templesmith, who is sooooo god damn kiddnapped by UFOs, that my head explodes when I see his paintings.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e5/Singularity_7_Issue_1_Cover_Variant.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 455px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e5/Singularity_7_Issue_1_Cover_Variant.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Another nice stuff is Robotika, which is a story about Niko - steam punk samurai.<br /><br /><a href="http://store.archaia.com/product_images/e/457/Robotika_HE__55944_zoom.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 450px; height: 611px;" src="http://store.archaia.com/product_images/e/457/Robotika_HE__55944_zoom.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Some times ago, I had to buy paper comix, which was pretty expensive, very slow (especially for a person with NO patience like me). But now with my iPad, it is so easy and fast and cheap and does not require extra space to store the decaying paper bodies. *rainbows and unicorns*<br /><br /><script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-17906114-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();</script>z]http://www.blogger.com/profile/04842600960151093252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6988783513172596220.post-90338001014489612972011-11-22T22:10:00.003+01:002011-11-22T22:31:35.247+01:00society of mindLong time no writing.. I know.. :) But this time it's for a good.. So many amazing things happen around me and all over the world, that I can hardly find the time to write about them.. I'm learning everyday new stuff and perhaps that makes me happy. The big step is in accepting that knowing everithing is imposible. Which reminds me of that funny story about the little girl, that came to Marvin Minsky and asked him " Do you know what I'm thinking of?". Marvin replied - "No.". "I thought so!" conclueded the girl and ran happily away.. End of story :)<br /><script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-17906114-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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<br />This year's Conquest was a little bit of disappointment.. Not enough action and this time we (the NPCs) didn't have fortress. So it was more like, players are playing and we were their discomfort element.
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<br />The plot was cycling around the closed seal of the "Technische Ratio" (no idea how to translate it properly, sry) It is the 5th and most powerful element of the ostracized (Schwarzes Eis, Untoten, Pestilenz and Leere). For some reason the NPCs cannot open this seal, so the elements got this honor. I personally cannot find much of a sense behind that action, because as we know, the "Technische Ratio" is on the side of the evil. Why should the elements (the good guys) want to set free the biggest evil? Hopefully there is a good explanation, different from "knowing there is a monster behind that door, makes you twice likely to open it". We'll see. Just patience (virtue I don't possess, unfortunately)..
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<br />Oh, and there is that awesome LARP I recently found the website of - <a href="http://www.mind-forge.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=77&Itemid=105">42k</a> . A nice mix of futuristic cyber war. DO WANT! Plans in progress…
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Since he likes both girls equally well, he simply takes the first train that comes along. In this way he lets chance determine whether he rides to the Bronx or to Brooklyn. The young man reaches the subway platform at a random moment each Saturday afternoon. Brooklyn and Bronx trains arrive at the station equally often - every 10 minutes. Yet for some obscure reason, he finds himself spending most of his time with the girl in Brooklyn: in fact, on the average he goes there nine times out of ten. Can you think of a good reason why the odds so heavily favor Brooklyn?<script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-17906114-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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This doesn't make them less beautiful and useful, however..<br /><br />Here some questions to ponder:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUFVccJz3z3Opq7ISXmsljqO77ACaJWQKl6LlFIrZzHo4f2JUpocUwSTNpoqKA8MECSzg6ly6X3jdOQYnLc1ZmsXUID9NJWB43Dk5E5bWgyUC1MoNFtiTgXwbYv5mFCR3E7W2X286AhxE/s1600/Logic111.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 257px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUFVccJz3z3Opq7ISXmsljqO77ACaJWQKl6LlFIrZzHo4f2JUpocUwSTNpoqKA8MECSzg6ly6X3jdOQYnLc1ZmsXUID9NJWB43Dk5E5bWgyUC1MoNFtiTgXwbYv5mFCR3E7W2X286AhxE/s400/Logic111.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629194167454915506" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpwZ9gBlKvvKb4D7-ImQ09aH4lPK7M9mwQ5zkGGNrA-OCr7mPuwrBTKWSYYm4UMW7UsO-Z9PTIIsHDx6F7CukAVS67cuKvP8QSPsoY2Kcv6n0WMINZuHp8D5YsnVkkZ5ff_KVdNLriJ3M/s1600/Logic2.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 327px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpwZ9gBlKvvKb4D7-ImQ09aH4lPK7M9mwQ5zkGGNrA-OCr7mPuwrBTKWSYYm4UMW7UsO-Z9PTIIsHDx6F7CukAVS67cuKvP8QSPsoY2Kcv6n0WMINZuHp8D5YsnVkkZ5ff_KVdNLriJ3M/s400/Logic2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629195662079974674" border="0" /></a><br />A classical example of statement, that is a paradox, but not recursive..<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEingIqPOoT_uCj_h4dt2Fi_FCbqmISSK-gV-b56ER7GPSplTxEzgtaSFoHMPneDiLmG57vn4vYeIc-9mrTwECg9o_yIdyP1YBqUa7Sgis5qEPT9hONMmNg2GItODCtLtik6BXRWW6T_IYo/s1600/Logic3.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 243px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEingIqPOoT_uCj_h4dt2Fi_FCbqmISSK-gV-b56ER7GPSplTxEzgtaSFoHMPneDiLmG57vn4vYeIc-9mrTwECg9o_yIdyP1YBqUa7Sgis5qEPT9hONMmNg2GItODCtLtik6BXRWW6T_IYo/s400/Logic3.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629195768742955074" border="0" /></a><br />The Devil's argument:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoXe_a3Z6XjrqMrPvjyyMOZ3EZctqEIxul9ja2QsFg90RsKcoTbUbWi_2T5GJL7TcGgPfDbdEi1D7N9LqxN-njR_-uPiX25ewVzvBKApEKpmi1_5cghQXmjuLJ3b65eviguFCJK9P2UGk/s1600/Logic5.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 333px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoXe_a3Z6XjrqMrPvjyyMOZ3EZctqEIxul9ja2QsFg90RsKcoTbUbWi_2T5GJL7TcGgPfDbdEi1D7N9LqxN-njR_-uPiX25ewVzvBKApEKpmi1_5cghQXmjuLJ3b65eviguFCJK9P2UGk/s400/Logic5.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629195977701021522" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMeUVtQYN5FEk6SnL5zR72lqjkXmN2YfaEIglfqNyXhTvmAn1RpIvcDELgKOx0VeToWsu-EyxBTFH5hXuHxFO65XoeMqxwu9VGjjsEarPSkuyChkg_NVywNI1LPM2YIHyQ0Wh4Z6ImbjM/s1600/Logic4.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 381px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMeUVtQYN5FEk6SnL5zR72lqjkXmN2YfaEIglfqNyXhTvmAn1RpIvcDELgKOx0VeToWsu-EyxBTFH5hXuHxFO65XoeMqxwu9VGjjsEarPSkuyChkg_NVywNI1LPM2YIHyQ0Wh4Z6ImbjM/s400/Logic4.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629195856096195138" border="0" /></a><br />BUT:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH5hcyi1hk8wTC4qrkTIC14GpbpMDu8TFtLeRaLx1ieuxFINOLQk5_qDtrpOx_c9oKb4JvJ5IlG5L0FRBcBp81jRCPp-E5FDkA_Tlzhlf5_P06ypsGQN7gi7t1ouLIv74pWlSGlbrBxvc/s1600/Logic6.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 399px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH5hcyi1hk8wTC4qrkTIC14GpbpMDu8TFtLeRaLx1ieuxFINOLQk5_qDtrpOx_c9oKb4JvJ5IlG5L0FRBcBp81jRCPp-E5FDkA_Tlzhlf5_P06ypsGQN7gi7t1ouLIv74pWlSGlbrBxvc/s400/Logic6.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629196047787364498" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-17906114-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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But the last % of perfect speech recognition performance can be gained only by understanding speech on top of parsing sounds successfully. In my opinion it is time to start more eagerly exploring structures that will capture the meaning and reflect the data organization of human mind. The problem here is, we need knowledge from engineering, linguistics, cognitive science, neuroscience, philosophy and behavioral psychology. We need a concept that will merge these areas and people brave enough to step aside of the path that is thought to be "the right". And while waiting for the new universal genius to be born.. a fun comic-shaped fact:<br />
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Of course, this process takes time and unfortunately, I don't have enough space on my cell phone.<br /><br />:) They have, of course leaders. These are robots that place themselves somewhere and wait for the others from the army to store collected blocks around the selected location.<br />They can also, communicate with each other, but only with very simple messages, like.. "Hey, I'm here, in front of you, let's both turn left, or we'll crash." (ok, not exactly this way.. however..)z]http://www.blogger.com/profile/04842600960151093252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6988783513172596220.post-67358306248796583032011-02-05T00:56:00.004+01:002011-02-16T19:58:37.060+01:00sursum cordaThat's what one very special for me person used to say..<br /><br />My grandpa passed away on 16th December.. It happend the same day I spent on the airport waiting for the plane to take me home.. He was the most amazing human being in the world and what I learned from him is that there is nothing stronger than the human spirit and nobody wiser than the one, who is thinking with the hearts of the other people. <br /><br />There are moments like this one, when I'm about to lose my belief that the sun will rise tomorrow, but then, I think I can hear him, calm and wise, like always, saying 'cheer up your heart!'.. and, of course, the morning comes...z]http://www.blogger.com/profile/04842600960151093252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6988783513172596220.post-38317416291483128492010-12-06T04:53:00.008+01:002010-12-06T04:58:41.261+01:00the robot competition last week<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXh30z6Cf2MzIed8YmCPHeZHdRn_HFkQIs8VhFY5ki9CBFR2nVgsFe7nKiCfuItbkzl_x_FtYa77L5pKAGI6pEyR0TwHuH5qf_4VTWkkWzt1Wl_BokGJJTlClHECHnjzmGc6SuOVZTOhU/s1600/Image0024.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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So he introduced his close friend Lee (x-US Marine) to us and we ended up equipped with some dangerous stuff in the shooting range. After the initial fear, we saw that it is not so easy to shoot yourself in the leg by mistake and then the fun began. :)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWBWJYv9r2p5b1En1vt7NkVXlXyktQ6jwI4IzGIo7sJnL53gTREghIKJ9BiUB22DlNB6fklIzyOkhQl3Rct-dtuYzYDfmj6hcGesDSwfM2dE_YZadTkM2vwzqn6nrgp9K-R5QX4zj8WYc/s1600/IMG_3568.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWBWJYv9r2p5b1En1vt7NkVXlXyktQ6jwI4IzGIo7sJnL53gTREghIKJ9BiUB22DlNB6fklIzyOkhQl3Rct-dtuYzYDfmj6hcGesDSwfM2dE_YZadTkM2vwzqn6nrgp9K-R5QX4zj8WYc/s400/IMG_3568.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5532592648920201634" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjokPo94G3wtiYBE5XR-1AmQv73ADWbLQUcGDquRfwj2K4b1kDDz1wwETN-ckdhOef7JDbtfHKtrH6JzEcnore3Ux3IXtsePLVYer7sKCKRF9vkPQJmy3NOpTazpBrKxgxoHxBNMjeFKJU/s1600/IMG_3579.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjokPo94G3wtiYBE5XR-1AmQv73ADWbLQUcGDquRfwj2K4b1kDDz1wwETN-ckdhOef7JDbtfHKtrH6JzEcnore3Ux3IXtsePLVYer7sKCKRF9vkPQJmy3NOpTazpBrKxgxoHxBNMjeFKJU/s400/IMG_3579.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5532593144902851522" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmG4ycLItNtJoRO2nU2m_v10sKd-yJaqDemXca9r2swcOdI38WLbCayul5Htq72_3ErVLVgjGermz9-AD1KBYdoZXtevVdlvFJog_KV0pj4JmvESUpeyT4EUhIcuBZfu8mOd5YxcJgPUg/s1600/IMG_3570.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmG4ycLItNtJoRO2nU2m_v10sKd-yJaqDemXca9r2swcOdI38WLbCayul5Htq72_3ErVLVgjGermz9-AD1KBYdoZXtevVdlvFJog_KV0pj4JmvESUpeyT4EUhIcuBZfu8mOd5YxcJgPUg/s400/IMG_3570.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5532596998362545730" /></a><br /><br />And of course, just for the sake of completeness, we finished with a biiig niceeee American lunch.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicblakLA2iaj48fNc7Re__TlDnyvQ5xyKgPCTWTb9504RUQbdv7jqInNQDWDGK8m9_HYHzyQz9YaJa8Jf_VJ1gyvq7R-V00g321UET0bXW8ao8MopsBt-ZB3qGp24Rb4fCKLXaciF4I1A/s1600/IMG_3583.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicblakLA2iaj48fNc7Re__TlDnyvQ5xyKgPCTWTb9504RUQbdv7jqInNQDWDGK8m9_HYHzyQz9YaJa8Jf_VJ1gyvq7R-V00g321UET0bXW8ao8MopsBt-ZB3qGp24Rb4fCKLXaciF4I1A/s400/IMG_3583.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5532593612648235618" /></a> <br /><br />The guys (Mike, Manuel, Johannes and Peter), actually continued the American experience by watching football (not soccer), but I had some work, so I went home, took my books'n'papers and completed the day in the laundry :) Actually, that was also kinda American.z]http://www.blogger.com/profile/04842600960151093252noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6988783513172596220.post-85193503149853671242010-10-06T03:18:00.008+02:002010-10-06T03:44:50.716+02:00NIST SNR toolAfter I lost a lot of time, trying to compile the NIST signal to noise ratio (SNR) tool,<br />I've decided to write about the solution and probably that will save some time to those, who have the problem with compiling it. Not that a lot of people use it, but anyway...<br /><br />The NIST Speech Quality Assurance (SPQA) package is special for calculating the SNR for speech and the biggest advantage of this piece of sw is that it is something like standard and it can also calculate the SNR of an audio file without a reference audio file (noise or noise free). <br />It can be downloaded from here:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.itl.nist.gov/iad/mig//tools/">NIST spqa</a><br /><br />It's compiled on a 64bit machine running SuSe. But after the compilation I copied the executables on another 32bit machine, running Ubuntu and they were usable. Here the solution that worked for me:<br /><br />Unpack spqa_2.3+sphere_2.5.tar.Z with the command:<br /> > zcat spqa_2.3+sphere_2.5.tar.Z | tar xvf -<br /><br />That will create a nist directory. Go to the dir<br /> > cd nist<br /> <br />Before you start, you have to know your system architecture. To find that out, type in the bash.<br />> uname -a<br />Example architecture is i686, i585, SUN, Darwin etc..<br /><br />Before you run the install, open the exit.c file (located in dir nist/src/lib/sp) in a text editor. Make the following changes:<br />1. Replace the line: <br />extern int errno;<br />with the following line:<br />#include <errno.h><br />2. Comment out the line:<br />extern char *sys_errlist[];<br />and also the line:<br />strcat(exitmessage, sys_errlist[errno]);<br />3. Save the file<br /><br />Now, start with the install. Run:<br />> sh src/scripts/install.sh<br />If you use gcc as a compiler, choose the "Custom" option when asked. Then write gcc, when you're asked about the compiler. Then you can accept the proposed options by pressing enter. They should be fine, except for the last one, when you should enter your system architecture (i686, i585, SUN, Darwin etc).<br /><br />The installation begins then. When finished, checked if errors occurred. If you find executables in the nist/bin directory (for example the stnr, segsnr, atismd, etc.), then the compilation was successful, otherwise, go to nist/lib directory and rename the libutil.a library with the following command:<br />> mv libutil.a libsputil.a<br /><br />Then change directory to nist/src/bin and open the Makefile. In the Makefile, find the following line:<br />LLIBS = -lsnr -lsp -lutil -lm<br />and change it to<br />LLIBS = -lsnr -lsp -lsputil -lm<br />so that it reflect the change you've just made.<br /><br />Now, from the nist/ directory run:<br />> make clean<br />and then repeat the make with the command:<br />> make<br /><br />If after that you still get errors, see where the error comes from and change some code if necessary. The problematic library is usually the sphere (nist/src/lib/sp), because it is pretty old (1992) and some functions are deprecated (that's why the high amount of warnings you'll get while compiling). Good luck.<br /><br />Btw, I also tried another tool, which is much easier to compile and seems to be reliable. Here it is: <a href="http://noel.feld.cvut.cz/speechlab/start.php?page=welcome&lang=en"> CTU snr tool </a> . I suspect, that it will spit the same result as the NIST tool, when the appropriate options chosen, but didn't tried to compare them. More about the algorithms behind the CTU snr tool here: <a href="http://www.radioeng.cz/fulltexts/2005/05_01_06_11.pdf">Calculating the SNR for speech - paper</a>.z]http://www.blogger.com/profile/04842600960151093252noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6988783513172596220.post-17506969239902914682010-09-28T05:05:00.002+02:002010-09-28T19:07:50.607+02:00Types of computer viruses<span style="font-weight:bold;">Adam and Eve virus:</span> Takes a couple of bytes out of your Apple.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Airline virus:</span> You're in Dallas, but your data is in Singapore.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Arnold Schwarzenegger virus:</span> Terminates and stays resident. It'll be back.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">AT&T virus:</span> Every three minutes it tells you what great service you are getting.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />The MCI virus:</span> Every three minutes it reminds you that you're paying too much for the AT&T virus.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Bill Clinton virus:</span> This virus mutates from region to region and we're not exactly sure what it does.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Federal bureaucrat virus:</span> Divides your hard disk into hundreds of little units, each of which do practically nothing, but all of which claim to be the most important part of the computer.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Freudian virus:</span> Your computer becomes obsessed with marrying its own motherboard.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Gallup virus:</span> Sixty percent of the PCs infected will lose 38 percent of their data 14 percent of the time (plus or minus a 3.5 percent margin of error).<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">George Bush virus:</span> Doesn't do anything, but you can't get rid of it until November.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Government economist virus:</span> Nothing works, but all your diagnostic software says everything is fine.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Politically correct virus:</span> Never calls itself a "virus", but instead refers to itself as an "electronic microorganism".<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Texas virus:</span> Makes sure that it's bigger than any other file.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />UK Parliament virus:</span> Splits the screen into two with a message in each half blaming other side for the state of the system.z]http://www.blogger.com/profile/04842600960151093252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6988783513172596220.post-30486734448200520392010-09-24T00:03:00.008+02:002010-09-28T19:08:36.999+02:00punk evolvesLooking an year back in my playlists, here they are - some of the tracks I've killed from listening:<br /><br /><object width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/puBg-OpTP8Y?fs=1&hl=de_DE"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/puBg-OpTP8Y?fs=1&hl=de_DE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XXKEQB5Fzao?fs=1&hl=de_DE&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XXKEQB5Fzao?fs=1&hl=de_DE&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFVr9N4q4JY"><br />Slagsmålsklubben – Malmö Beach Night Party </a><br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PR3XB-982Bg?fs=1&hl=de_DE&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PR3XB-982Bg?fs=1&hl=de_DE&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E24Sb-IwkE">Toy - 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Most of them are something similar to punk evolved for synthesizers. And most of them are part of the Scandinavian pop culture.z]http://www.blogger.com/profile/04842600960151093252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6988783513172596220.post-58470956178241453742010-09-16T02:28:00.001+02:002010-09-28T19:32:43.534+02:00Welcome to Europe<object style="background-image:url(http://i4.ytimg.com/vi/oQ_UrfrAVe0/hqdefault.jpg)" width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oQ_UrfrAVe0?fs=1&hl=de_DE"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oQ_UrfrAVe0?fs=1&hl=de_DE" width="425" height="344" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object><br /><br /><script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-17906114-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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