News: Coming up - on probabilities, logic, language, developmental psychology, bottom-up pattern discovery and prediction etc.

I've been involved a lot in working on my artistic career some months ago, but recently I've been turning on the research thread again - joined AGI mail list to notice the community there about the two AGI university courses taught in Plovdiv, and started to spend some time in AGI studies and reflection. A comment of mine on Narrow AI-niks, in an Ben Goertzel article on "AI Nanny". http://hplusmagazine.com/2011/08/17/does-humanity-need-an-ai-nanny/Matthew: Ben, I respect the opinion of AGI experts but because I have no programming...

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Участието на Тош в онлайн реалити шоуто "Програмист търси жена" - Todor's Participation in a Funny Online Reality Show (Interview/Picture Story)

Гледайте участието ми във веселото Интернет риалити шоу "Програмист търси жена". Уникалното интервю-фоторазказ с мен, "всестранно развития пънкар", Китаристът и др. излезе в сряда, 27/7. (...няколко малки фрагментчета...) (...) С какво се занимаваш? - С всичко... Обаче дамите ще ме изкарат самохвалко, ако тръгна да изреждам, затова после ще ти кажа част от нещата, които може би най-много ще ги... развълнуват. Как така? Не си ли програмист? -...

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Why shorter Stature and Lower camera angle are Unconsciously associated with "Inferiority"? Memories from childhood (Nature or Nurture)

!-- --> I think this one is very obvious, I'll share my view on it: We've felt like this as children, when we've seen the bigger ones and adults from down below and had to bend our necks to look up to see their eyes. Bigger and older ones made us feel inferior, and we really were - back then. (*See also below) Similarly, we felt superior to the smaller ones, and that's why looking from higher angle feels like being "superior" to the subject on the picture. Both are for pictures displaying people, particularly faces,...

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