Харесвания във Фейсбук и Социалните мрежи - Какво всъщност показват и обективни ли са? Първа Част

Чета и обяснявам статията  "Недостатъци на гласуването с харесвам/нехаресвам в Уеб 2.0 и социалните медии и различни дефекти в системите за обществено оценяване и класиране" 

  
                                       

https://youtu.be/nWX4myd75M4

https://youtu.be/BEwPzDYAYsk

Харесвания във Фейсбук и Социалните мрежи - Какво всъщност показват и обективни ли са? Първа Част

1. Част. Чета и обясняваме статията "Недостатъци на гласуването с харесвам/нехаресвам в Уеб 2.0 и социалните медии и различни дефекти в системите за обществено оценяване и класиране".

0:00 Въведение

0:20 Абонирайте се, харесвайте, подрепете

0:30  Анонс за серия за трансхуманизма и космизма - отговор на обвиненията на проф. Иво Христов, Иван Спиридонов и др. - Човекът и мислещата машина или ...

1:40 Изпушил български киборг ИЗОТ

1:47 Начало на четене на статията - объркани и мъгливи замисъл и мерки, ... заличава подробности 

2:12 ... Интердисциплинарна - Психология, Маркетинг, Социология, реклама, езикознание/лингвистика, психолингвистика, избор/вземане на решения, ... също философия

3:07 ПейджРанк PageRank, ... звезди 1 до 5, рейтинги, ... Ютюб Youtube - Как точно зрителите преценяват кой колко звезди заслужава?

3:54 Палец нагоре/надолу, харесвам/не харесвам ... 

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Защо и какво  "лайкваме"? Каква е функцията на харесванията? Какво всъщност показват? Втора Част

2. Част. Чета и обясняваме статията "Недостатъци на гласуването с харесвам/нехаресвам в Уеб 2.0 и социалните медии и различни дефекти в системите за обществено оценяване и класиране".

0:00 Въведение -  Абонирайте се, харесвайте, подрепете

0:30 Социални медии и мрежи, обобщения от първа част и каква е целта на харесванията?

1:25 Истинската цел на лайковете

2:20 Как се преценява кое натежава за харесване?

3:00 Полезно за обществото - как се оценява и от кого?

4:00 Изкривявания на преценката. Склонности при избор: най-лесното с най-малко усилия.

4:30 Прилично и неприлично, скандално и банално.

5:10 Клипове от известни хора и от неизвестни - кой се харесва?

5:45 Продавачи и разпространение, търговия

6:00 Пример с AMD и Intel - процесори Athlon, Athlon 64, Pentium III, Pentium IV ... Athlon FX ...

7:30 Разлика в мащаба на конкурентите

Не всички гласуват - някои само харесват, други само не харесват

Да се гласува по всички показатели от всички

(...)

Каква е функцията на лайковете/харесванията? Тренировка за извършване на друго действие.

2:13 Пакво е обществото и кое е полезно за обществото? Как се определя?

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AGI-21 Talks - Review/selected talks and workshops

In general, the old stuff is still circulating, I expected something more novel or deeper, unexpected.

Selected lectures from the sessions:

Day 1:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yky-9rZVZEQ

AGI-21 Conference Day 1 - Room 1 - Scaling up Neural-Symbolic and Integrative AGI Architectures

Temporal and Procedural Reasoning - 15:00 min
- Temporal logic
- Monoaction, diaction, polyaction plans (37:)
- Behavior tree 46: ...

Goerzel's talk 7:04 - General theory of general intelligence

Day 2: 3:20 h
* 3:22:55 Cognitive Science and the Path to AGI Joscha Bach Or about or after ~ 3:44 h, or mostly 3:48 h+ - 4:03 h These are mostly general things, but it doesn't hurt to revisit them and find something new.

Day 3

Bengio's lecture.
* 1:32 h
(the discoveries/principles related to "consciousness prior are well known since at least early 2000s though)

* Mikolov lectures was superficial for me

* 5:04 h - Johnatan Warrel - an interdisciplinary guy, who "started with music "- a good lecture on semantics, logic

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* Modularity 6:47 h

* Sigma cognitive architecture 8:04 h 

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Twenkid FX Studio Alpha release - Video Editor and Visual Effects Software Introduction - Part 1

Twenkid FX Studio Alpha release - Video Editor and Visual Effects Software Introduction - Part 1

My custom video editing and effects software prototype that had to be first released 11 years ago after the initial R&D effort, possibly open source, but (...) This editor was used for the production of many videos in my Youtube channel with the most complex one looking impressive anyway: the artistic lyrically-"muscle art" music video suite "Star Symphony in Chepelare", with its most part being a VFX (cartoon-like), embracing a bunch of custom visual effects and color grading, implemented from scratch; a complete director's version, short version, action version and a lyrical forest only version.

https://youtu.be/eUtk5Xxb89A

#videoediting #software #prototypes #art #visualeffects #vfx #video #tutorial

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Making of the Visual Effects of the "Dream in a Summer Rain" - Artistic Nature Short Film from the "Wild Plovdiv" series (2019)

The movie is a sweet impressionistic story about the life of a cat "pride" just before, during and just after a short summer storm: what they do, where and how they hide, how they evade the drops, how they fight and rest etc.

* на български: http://twenkid.blogspot.com/2020/09/18-visual-effects-in-dream-in-summer.html

The VFX was unnoticeable by a test viewer (just one though) and is blending well with the painting-like aesthetics of the shot, although it is far from perfect.

In short: A small and smart programmatic trick for removing an unwanted logo from a difficult and highly zoomed-in unstable shot during a hard rain.

In more details:

* A shot with a big zoom, filmed with an unstable camera and somewhat noisy picture during hard rain, where the individual drops are seen. What was the goal of the effect? Using a simple-enough to develop smart method which automatically removes an unwanted logo of a supermarket, which is constantly being crossed by the drops. The retouched shot shouldn't look unnatural and the drops should be preserved, i.e. the dynamics and look and feel of the drops have to be preserved.

The making of the shot shouldn't take too much time, because it was only one shot, less than 3 seconds long, and there were 11 other episodes from the "first run" of that series. Yet I didn't want to scrap the shot, because, aside from the logo, the rest of the image was picturesque and interesting.

I coded the effect in Python with OpenCV, where technically the latter served only as a video and image interface for I/O, because the processing is "manual": the image is accessed "pixel by pixel", not with some specific cv2 methods. As an idea it was inspired by VFX I developed for my 2018 fantasy "muscle art" and nature music video suite "Star Symphony in Chepelare", most of which was a VFX and had a cartoon-like look of a painting.

An alternative: if it was not raining and if the camera/shot were stable, the frame could be painted by hand by rotoscoping with GIMP or Photoshop once and then the painting be multiplied in the subsequent frames. The scene wouldn't be so interesting, though.

Note: The masked logo could be shaded a bit lighter, in order to match the shade of the supermarket façade, however as it was painted it is also reasonable, as it appeared like a continuation of the metal column.

Code: https://github.com/Twenkid/Twenkid-FX-Studio/tree/master/Py/MaskRainyShakyLogo

Python, OpenCV PURPOSE: Automatically remove a logo in shaky, rainy, noisy video and preserve the raindrops crossing the logo

The whole movie: https://lnkd.in/dnV9Q9aF

#opencv #computervision #video #python #programming #animation #art #visualeffects #hacks #painting #naturelover #catsanddogs #animals #plovdiv #bulgaria #bulgarian #vfxartists #specialeffects

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GPT2-Medium Training from Scratch on Google Colab for Any Language - Tips & Tricks by Twenkid

My tips for training on Colab on Tesla T4 16GB, based on the obstacles that I had to overcome. I trained on a custom-built Bulgarian dataset. https://youtu.be/F-Xt-cK4L-g The code is based on: Arshabhi Kayal's tutorial: https://towardsdatascience.com/train-gpt-2-in-your-own-language-fc6ad4d60171 However his example was for local training on a modest Nvidia Geforce RTX 2060 (6 GB) for GPT2-Small (3 times smaller) and a fixed dataset. The code in the experiments in this video was extended and debugged for application in the Colaboratory which has its hurdles and for gradual extension of the dataset after each training epoch, without retraining the tokenizer (see Dataset Skip None in the video). ...

Some impotant points and discoveries: * Google Colab hurdles (the dataset should be sampled in parts, can't run too long epochs at once)

* The inputs/labels output of tokenization after changing the dataset should be filtered (Dataset Skip None)

* Etc.

...

Съвети за машинно обучение на GPT2-Medium модел на български или друг език от нулата през Google Colaboratory, от Тодор Арнаудов - Тош/Twenkid. Следва продължение. Errata: ~ 2:05 Tesla K80, not P100.

#gpt2 #transformers #tutorial

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Смарти - Най-умният Английско-Български Речник: Безплатен и Мощен | Smarty - the most powerful comprehension assistant

Интересно и подробно видео представяне наа интелитентния речник, помощник в разбирането "Смарти", който беше най-мощното подобно приложение в света, когато беше създадено, въобще в категорията умни речници/езикови помощници - и все още ще да е един от най-мощните, макар че имаше огромно поле за развитие. За двойката английско-български съм срещал само един съвременен само с частично сравнима интерактивност и само в една от всички категории на "Смарти", защото работи само по с по една дума, няма изрази и пр. Другите онлайн речници са от най-простия вид като от преди 20 години.

Гледайте видеото:  https://youtu.be/QPWfpYwT_Ic

Виж също за изтегляне и др.: https://artificial-mind.blogspot.com/2020/06/smarty-comprehension-assistant.html

Най-мощният интелигентен английско-български речник "Smarty/„Смарти“, на който бях архитект и разработчик в изследователската група по компютърна лингвистика в Уулвърхамптън, Англия с научен ръководител проф. Руслан Митков. Речникът е безплатен и може да го използвате на всяко Windows PC, дори да е само с 256 МБ RAM и .NET 2.0 (C#) Какво е умен речник или помощник в разбирането? Това е приложение, което не извършва пълнотекстов превод, така че не може да допусне и фрапиращи грешки, и в същото време е много по-мощен и "умен" от обикновен електронен речник, "разбира" езика и подпомага и ускорява превода и изучаването на чужди езици, чрез по-сложна автоматична обработка на текста и чрез по-взаимодействащ и богат потребителски интерфейс. Разпознаване на изрази, на части на речта (съществителни, прилагателни, глаголи, наречия), търсене по окончания на думи, онтологията/синонимен речник - Wordnet и Balkanet и др. Обработка на естествен език, езикови бази данни, NLP, Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics. Wolverhampton Research Institute in Information and Language Processing. RIILP ... Разказва също за Xerox Locolex comprehension assistant, SA Dictionary, Езикотворец - речник на юнашкото наречие и сметачобългарския, ДЗБЕ. (...) Лематизация, нормализация, т.нар. Стеминг ((stemming) - намиране на корена на дума или основна форма – например при търсене или посочване на дума в мн.число или спрегнат глагол - програмата знае спрежения на неправилните глаголи, времена, образуване на мн.ч., части на речта и пр. Разпознаване на изрази чрез размито сравняване с шаблони и показване без да е нужно да ровите в статията. (...) Бързо разглеждане чрез посочване на дума от текста. Речник по окончания на думи/край на думи - търсене на рими, съчиняване на стихове. Виж също Reverso Context - много години/10-тина години след "Смарти". Българска и английска лексикография, езикознание. Дружество за защита на българския език - ДЗБЕ.

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Who is the fittest AI researcher or developer in the world?* [FUN FACTS]

Watch the performance: https://youtu.be/e95ZdzVzSsc


Edit: Outdated video. 1-2 months later I've been in a better shape: both conditioning, legs and performance at about 28 reps per minute +- , depending on the technique. Funnily (but not new for my training).

The video is from late August 2021, these are an year old shoots for the project "Bulgarian Ninja", or a later name: "Balkan Ninja" -  a project for a fighting video game (in Bulgarian) ~ 10.2020.

https://github.com/Twenkid/Plovdiv-Kombat

 

Well: not the fittest developer in any domain, and not working out too hard either.

For the fittest developer and also man, see the Belarusian guy Max: Максим Трухоновец. He seems as the best/the beast & the G.O.A.T. Max is Guiness record holder in many street work-out disciplines.

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Body Art & Muscle Art using 3D Depth Camera made of two Logitech C270 webcameras - Бодиарт с 3D-камера

https://youtu.be/pIGcdBaoZxU

Depth camera body art / muscle art - done with two Logitech C270 and opencv coding in python. If anyone cares, the code is in my github repository that is linked in the video description, in the recent commits. Note that the current version of the code is experimental and not polished. That output also could be interpolated etc. to fill-in black discontinuities etc., however as of "art" they serve as contours etc.

Author, coder and model: Todor.

To be continued...

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"Бодиарт"/мускулно изкуство създадено чрез стерео камера (3D-камера, камера за дълбочина). Направих го с две камери Лоджитек C270 и програмиране на Питон с OpenCV.
Автор, програмист и модел: Тодор - Тош.

Следва продължение...

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Видео: Общ изкуствен интелект – Конференция по Самоусъвършенстващ се ИИ в Пловдив: Self-Improving General Intelligence SIGI 2012-1

https://youtu.be/9a0IrhsLVgY

Видео разказ за първата по рода си в България конференция по Общ ИИ в Пловдив през 2012 г. и информация за развитието на някои от участниците в нея.

Имах намерение и желание да бъде редовна, поне по два пъти в годината, вероятно частично онлайн, затова и името беше "2012-1", но тогава не успя да се продължи.

Сега може да има нов опит. Очаквайте продължение: следете и ФБ групата по Универсален изкуствен разум.

 

 

 

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Google announce they are working on an AGI algorithm called Pathways

Scarce info on reddit. Thanks to E. for the link.

Posted byu/QuantumThinkology - 23 hours ago
Google is developing a nimble, multi-purpose AI that can perform millions of tasks. Called Pathways, Google’s solution seeks to centralize disparate AI into one powerful, all-knowing algorithm, Jeff Dean, Google’s AI chief revealed

https://qz.com/2042493/pathways-google-is-developing-a-superintelligent-multipurpose-ai/?utm_source=reddit.com

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ETH AI Center - Todor's 2003 interdisciplinary AGI research strategy materialised in Switzerland's Technological Institute

Compare with the strategical suggestions in this 18+ years old essay: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://artificial-mind.blogspot.com/2020/07/interdisciplinary-research-institute.html

In the 10.2020 message they mention 29 professors, as of 7.2021: 93.
https://ai.ethz.ch/about-us/faculty.html

20.10.2020 

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2020/10/pr-new-centre-for-ai-research.html

Press release ETH Zurich is opening a new research centre for artificial intelligence.

A core team of initially 29 professorships, a new executive director and a Fellowship programme aim to promote interdisciplinary research into this key technology. (...)

Core team with around 29 professorships The new research centre is made up of core members, associate members and AI fellows. The core members already comprise 29 professors from seven departments who specialise in fundamental AI topics such as machine learning, perception and natural language understanding. These members will also supervise the new fellows of the ETH AI Center, talented young AI scientists who have been recruited from around the world and awarded a scholarship. “This will enable us to train experts who will be able to implement interdisciplinary AI projects,” says Günther. The ETH AI Center will also maintain contact with associate members from all ETH departments, other institutions and the private sector in order to implement joint research projects. (...)
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M.V's. post on linkedin (bold: mine):

"...The density of AI activities here cannot be found anywhere else in the world..." -- Dr. Alex Ilic Executive Director, ETH AI Center

Sounds about right :)

Alex Ilic doing amazing job in creating the ETH AI center, a world leading science and research inter-disciplinary think-tank in the general AI space, with nearly 100 world-class professors at ETH from a wide range of disciplines, including statistics, mathematics, computer science, physics and many more. Exciting times!

Comment of mine from a few days ago:

Finally... Well, Stanford and MIT embarked on something like that in 2018, but, in fact, such an interdisciplinary institute, even "more interdisciplinary" in its philosophy, was proposed *18 years ago* by me in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, where also the world's first interdisciplinary course in AGI was offered in 2010 and 2011 at Plovdiv University by the same author. Note that the MIT's course was from 2018 and was just a compilation of lectures by various guests, without a coherent structure, unlike the Bulgarian one. By the way, the 2003 proposal explicitly mentioned the term "Strategy" for AGI (Thinking Machine), as well as code synthesis (automatic programming) as an important milestone. The work was an essay for an investments proposals competition, called: "How would I invest one million Euro with the greatest benefit for the development of the country?": https://artificial-mind.blogspot.com/2020/07/interdisciplinary-research-institute.html

An archived version of the original: https://www.oocities.org/todprog/ese/proekt.htm

 
More info: in the book "History, principles and pioneers of the Artificial General Intelligence, or How an 18-year old researcher from Plovdiv was 15 years ahead from MIT and Stanford in AGI".

Kind Regards

As you know I've been preparing, mostly in mid-2020, a big book (initially in Bulgarian) which serves as yet another invitation for partners, investors and sponsors for the creation of that projected institute-research company. The title is being evolving, the current one changed to just mentioning "by the author of the world's first interdisciplinary course in AGI" or in occasions self-promotingly "by the prodigy author of ...".

However I am still unsure how exactly should I present it; probably starting with podcasts etc. Selling it commercially in its entirety seems unlikely and it may need heavy editing and trimming, also splitting it in many volumes. It is about 1030 A4 pages at the moment, in one file... :))

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