Monday, September 29, 2008

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Ада (2004) - второ издание на романа, реклама | Ada - second edition (a novel)

Български - по-долуAda is a multi-genre SF-fantasy-philosophical-parody-cyber... tragedy I wrote 5 years ago. It is a second part of a trilogy, first of them is a SF about creation of artificial intelligence and philosophy about, and is not smoothly connected with the second and third parts."Ada" is named after Augusta Ada Lovelace, "the first programmer", and after the Hell where the main character is sent - "ad" in Bulgarian means hell,;"ada"...
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Sunday, September 28, 2008

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Wake up, Tosh!

I should wake up...Competition in our "mad-scientists" AI-club is awaken and funded!See what De Garis says he's doing now:http://iss.whu.edu.cn/degaris/about/profile.htmlHuge Virtex FPGAs with zillions of logical gates, building a brain-machine, Utah State University - funding, etc....Not to mention Jeff Hawkins in Numenta - however it's nice, that currently I'm not really impressed by their demos. I should mention again Boris Kazachenko, who's also really working.Poor twenkid - me... I thought I'm a part of the "mad-scientists"...
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Friday, September 26, 2008

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Theories of Intelligence and Mind by Todor Arnaudov, Jeff Hawkins, Boris Kazachenko and others - Teaser

Български - после... Did you know, that there are few "mad scientists" around the globe, who are claiming they do have theories of intelligence, theories of mind or something? :) Probably the number of researchers in that direction has grown, since the most famous amongst them, Jeff Hawkins has published a book about his speculations in 2004. Actually my theory, which was about Mind, Universe and everything, was conceived and constructed...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

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Nikon D90 - ново тяло за хибридната ми фото-видео душа? | Nikon D90 и Canon 5D Mark II

Nikon D90 - the new DSLR camera with 1280x720 24 fps MJPEG video. A hybrid, which maybe is an answer of my Quest for movie making camera.ПредисторияЧудя се каква камера да си купя за супер продукциите ми... Искам и огледално-рефлексен...Не се кефя на презредовата развивка на любителските камери, не се кефя и на това че не miniDV-камерите компресират... Харесах един Canon HD с прогресивно сканиране, той е вариант, но е скъпа, май имаше...
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Monday, September 15, 2008

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Новини от филмовото студио на Тош | News from the film studio of Tosh

Кадър от "Подарък", реж. Тодор АрнаудовВ деня на отворените врати в БНТ ПловдивКадри от "Зад кулисите на БНТ Пловдив" - репортаж на Тодор Арнаудов НовиниВ събота ходех да снимам за филма "Подарък" на Гребната база, и случайно се запознах с един режисьор. Той дойде при мен да го снимам с приятелите му, и спомена, че е режисьор. :))На следващия ден се разходих до БНТ Пловдив - беше много приятно, запознах се с готини телевизионери, заснех...
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008

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Blue Gene/P supercomputer in Bulgaria (23 TFLOPS)

Good news - the government has bought the machine and opened a supercomputer center in Sofia... :)IBM Blue Gene/P, 8192 CPUs, Linux, 23.4 TFLOPS...Cool... :)I wonder how much it gonna cost to hire it.Суперкомпютър от Топ 100 ще заработи у н...
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Sunday, September 7, 2008

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FPGA is Cool! A Spartan-3 FPGA Board

Many years ago a friend of mine told me that if I don't start doing something serious, meaning to play with FPGAs like Xilinx Spartan 3, or Altera Cyclone II, she will not talk to me...I promised her that I will, when the time come, and then she stopped talking to me. Such a mistake, because she could have helped me a lot... (This is an almost true story.)But... Anyway, it seems the time for FPGA and doing some hardware design is about...
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