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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 18 posts.
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On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning
Chomsky's remarks were in response to Steven Pinker's question about the success of probabilistic models trained with statistical methods. This essay is a response to Pinker and Chomsky, and will address these questions:
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Siri meets Eliza
Jordan Mechner is an author, graphic novelist, screenwriter and video game designer, best known as the creator of Prince of Persia. Follow his latest projects here.
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John McCarthy: The Robot and the Baby
THE ROBOT AND THE BABY
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The brain's 5-million core, 9 Hz computer
Weekly essays on biology, philosophy and other topics.
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Chess@home: Building the largest Chess AI ever (in JavaScript)
Update: We’ve won Node Knockout in the “Completeness” category ! Congrats to the team!
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Human Brain Project: $1.61 billion to achieve human brain emulation by 2024
Henry Markram, a neuroscientist at the École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, Switzerland, has assembled a team of nine top European scientists for the research effort to build a computer model of a human brain. The Human Brain Project is in discussion with the EU for a £1billion (US$1.61 billion) grant.
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How Siri Works
Once again someone has offered us incredible artificial intelligence, and once again we are bracing for disappointment. It happened with handwriting recognition on the Newton, which proved to be slow and clumsy. It happened with the not-as-smart-as-they-first-appeared creatures of Lionhead’s Black and White . And…
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Machine Learning: A Love Story
The video from my keynote at Strange Loop 2010 is up! You can watch the video here: Machine Learning: A Love Story The original abstract: Machine learning has come a long way in recent years — from…
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How the Winning Tron Bot Works
[ Update 8/2/2011 : you can play against a dumbed-down Javascript version of the bot here .]
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The AI-Box Experiment
On the first occasion (in March 2002), Eliezer Yudkowsky simulated the AI and Nathan Russell simulated the gatekeeper. The AI’s handicap (the amount paid by the AI party to the gatekeeper party if not released) was set at $10. On the second occasion (in July 2002), Eliezer Yudkowsky simulated the AI and David…