Five Principles of Developmental Robotics... Matches of Todor Arnaudov's works from 2003-2004 to a 2006/2009 academic paper ... Yet another one :)

This post is regarding the paper:  Five Basic Principles of Developmental Robotics, 2006, posted Sep 2, 2008 10:30 AM by Brian Tanner   [ updated Sep 2, 2008 10:48 AM ] http://prw06.rl-community.org/posters/five-basic-principles-of-developmental-robotics by Alexander Stoytchev, Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University Also in a 2009's IEEE edition, with extensions based on Stoychev's PhD thesis: " ... Some Basic Principles of Developmental Robotics Stoytchev, A.Page(s): 122-130Digital...

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AGI Researchers: Unite! Thinking Machines are Coming Really Soon.. Act NOW!

In the late years, and increasingly with time, I fail to see any meaningful conceptual or technological reason for thinking machines not to exist already... I've claimed it before and I claim it again.* I dare to say that one of the reason why AGI has not been implemented yet are my own distractions and other problems which prevented me to work. The time is ticking away, though, I see crucial breakthroughs next year or in the worst case - in the next few years, and I'm switching to working mode, so look forward to see them... We...

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Compression and Beauty: matches between a work by Todor Arnaudov from year 2003, and 2010-2011 new acаdеmic contributions... - comments on "Musical Beauty and Information Compression: Complex to the Ear, but Simple to the Mind" - Part I

I wrote this as a letter to the author several days ago, but it's not personal anyway, and what I've published the original reflections of the topics I mention here 10 years ago. I haven't got any answer so far [as of 9/12/2012], not that I am optimistic about getting such by the author, but I will answer with a more solid response.[I got a response on 17/12, the author has been busy.]I'm warming up for a new iteration over the topic...

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Nature or Nurture: Socialization, Social Pressure, Reinforcement Learning, Reward Systems: Current Virtual Self - No Intrinsic Integral Self, but an Integral of Infinitesimal Local Selfs - Irrational Intentional Actions Are Impossible- Akrasia is Confused - Hypothesis about Socialization and Eye-Contact as an Oxytocin Source

Аn article, inspired as an answer to a post by Russell Wallace at the AGIRI's AGI List, "Killer Application" Need to put explicit links to some of the references, if anyone cares: ask, and I'll update it, otherwise I'll add them later. (C)  Todor "Tosh"Arnaudov , 29/11/2012***   Personal AGI Coaches I agree that one of the early applications of thinking machines will be managing, advising, coaching, suggesting and assisting in all kinds of human activities ("intelligence/mind augmentation"), I myself am working...

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News: TILT - Efficient Rectification (Texture-Pixel-Based 3D-Like Perspective and other) by Microsoft Research - and the SIGI-AGI Prototype and Research Accelerator News

I've discussed about the must-be simplicity of 3D-scene-and-light reconstruction, back in the 1/1/2012 article about Optical Illusions, and later on the AGI-List*, and I see it very soon coming en mass. "TILT" by Microsoft is yet another demonstration of this coming... :X The RGB-D sensors (such as Kinect and ASUS Xtion) that are getting cheap and popular are also a jump to that direction, they make 3D reconstruction trivial. In the last two months I've been also directing my mind into visual-vision-images R&D for...

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Nietzsche is a XIX-century Transhumanist... - Философът Фридрих Ницше е трансхуманист от 19-ти век...

Have you thought about that? :) The concept of Superman (Übermensch), one to whom current humans are like the apes to humans. Check his work for yourself, right from the beginning: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1998/1998-h/1998-h.htm I won't discuss the work as a whole, the "new moral", and Nazi's abuse of the term "Superman". I care for Nietzsche's "Superman" from a transhumanist point of view: a superman in cognitive and functional sense. The "dead God" and the creation of a new god...

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Yale Open University - Open Courses Done Right | Отворени лекции от Йейл - Фундаментална Физика

Remember my post about the quasi-free courses (the trendy ones lately) which were threatening you with legal actions against you? Open Yale courses seem to be different: http://oyc.yale.edu/ It's Creative Commons, therefore you can use and share for educational purposes the materials - video, sound, transcripts - without being threatened. I would recommend myself the Fundamental Physics courses, - excellent coverage with an excelent and very funny teacher. In general, the "novelty" promoted by the major online courses...

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Анимация, озвучаване, актьорска игра: Озвучаване на трейлър на анимационен филм - забавно :))

English: A funny online competition on a video sharing Bulgarian site for writing an original script (if you can, using your worlds) and voice acting over a trailer of an upcoming animated movie. Обновено: 14/10/2012 Благодаря за подкрепата! :P Не ме избраха да озвучавам герой от филма, но с 32 гласа бях в челото на класирането на публиката, а също и по гледанията (от около 220-230 участници) - 10 м. по положителни гласове - и пише,...

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News: Mathematics, Rendering, Art, Drawing, Painting, Visual, Generalizing, Music, Analyzing

What's going on lately? The second SIGI conference was postponed - not enough commitment from the circle. But I am working on making the conference more interesting when it happens: I've been into a Mathematical research mode lately, I started it as "Incremental Arithmetic" in an unpublished paper (shared with one person only) in 2011, some insights from 2010-2011 were around that theme. More explicitly on this - when I have beautiful...

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Extreme Futurist Festival 2012 in LA, Los Angeles USA - Фестивал на дръзки футуристи 2012 в Лос Анджелис - футурология - бъдеще - визионери

That would be a great place for me, a pity I won't be able to visit it this year... :/ :) Extreme Futurist Festival 2012 Trailer from H+ Worldwide on Vimeo. Futurists, transhumanists, artificial, general, intelligence, events, футурология - бъдеще - визионе...

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Super Smartasses - The Premiere of the new Graphical novel/series/comics/pictures/production of Todor Arnaudov/Tosh/The Twenkid

Enjoy the first pilot episode of the "new/old" production of Tosh/The Twenkid/Twenkid Studio, written 3 years ago, but first episode completed and presented now: Super Smartasses First Episode: Companions (International Version in English) About "Super Smartasses" and Twenkid FX Studio...

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News: Comics - Multi-Platform Story Novels - Animation - Cartoon - Voice Acting - Animatic - Visual Effects Software VFX -- Upcoming Twenkid Studio Satirical Production, featuring the IT, Semiconductor, AI, AGI, Science and Everything also | Скоро - мултиплатформена продукция - комикс, озвучен, аниматик, анимация, разкази, роман, филм

На български Title: S.S. (see later) Drawings from the first epidose: Deliberately not telling what's the story about. It's an amusing and funny satirical series, having serious/intelligent/dramatically/comically presented messages, with many characters, starting from the high-tech industry and people (semiconductors, hardware, software, automotive, aerospace, electronics, architecture, medicine ... researchers), but also spreading...

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