Thursday, September 25, 2025

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Private "MeshMap" node in 2023 and the brain for autonomous drones E.Z. - RtabMap SLAM in the city

 



* I Escaped The Matrix! SLAM-mapping the city in 2023: https://youtu.be/_7fVbCCnc5Q

A memory for my private "MeshMap" nodes from ~ September 2023, experimenting with RealSense  depth camera and RTabMap SLAM (the only one which managed to run on my the 11 years-old laptop, LOL, and supposedly on another outdated accompanying computer of a drone 4-core ARM Jetson Nano (with GPU which couldn't be utilized though, maybe it wouldn't sustain the electric load either).

Unfortunately that was a requirements of one "visionary" whom I was helping at the time, practically for free.

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The goal was to capture these maps, to convert them into meshes, to feed them into Gazebo simulations and to fly an Ardupilot-SITL simulated autonomous drone with custom computer vision module which, I was starting to develop, utilizing ROS2 and OpenCV.

These simulation used directly the actual drone control protocol MAVLINK and the ROS2 module would operate the same with a real drone, as long as the depth-map captured by its cameras were correct.

Cool project?

Yes, but in "uncool" circustances. (...) The E.Z. project was frozen for now and it is private.

I recalled this when discovering that the above mentioned "visionary" demonstrated using Isaac Sim - a library I proposed back in 2023, but he rejected vigorously, because "he wanted open source". Isaac Visual SLAM would worked with no worries and fast enough on the more modern Jetson Orin etc., and as RTabMap utilized only the CPU, it would have struggled either. 

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Olimex recently organized an event for MeshMap enthusiasts in Plovdiv.


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https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/meshmap 
MeshMap 
Growth Score
62
CB Rank
63346
Heat Score
69

MeshMap is a decentralized 3D map developer focused on creating a decentralized 3D globe map and augmented reality (AR) content network.

Founded 2024PrivateSeed1-10meshmap.com
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Tuesday, September 23, 2025

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Stack Theory is yet another Fork of Theory of Universe and Mind - SIGI-2025 and new volume of The Prophets of the Thinking Machines


Stack Theory is yet another Fork of
Theory of Universe and Mind

Todor Arnaudov – Tosh

Appendix to

The Prophets of the Thinking Machines:
Artificial General Intelligence
& Transhumanism:
 History, Theory & Pioneers;
Past, Present & Future

https://twenkid.com/agi/Stack-Theory-is-Fork-of-Theory-of-Universe-and-Mind-13-9-2025.pdf  
https://github.com/twenkid/sigi-2025

 
Abstract 
/ Introduction[1]: Theory of Universe and Mind (TUM) is an interdisciplinary, multi-paradigm Cybernetic Theory of Everything; of the Universe Computer, Artificial General Intelligence, Mind and Creativity. TUM was developed and published between 2001-2004 as a collection of works, including philosophical science fiction, in the Bulgarian AGI e-zine “The Sacred Computer”, by a polymath teenager.
            For almost 25 years since its inception, many insights and directions, delivered all at once in a complete framework and research program, have been repeatedly rediscovered and presented as novel in academic settings by more recent similar theories and publications, often by top-tier researchers, without acknowledgment of the priority or the  existence of the visionary originals. Stack Theory (ST) offers contributions, peculiarities, formal definitions and “academic formatting”, but it is yet another rediscovery of many fundamental principles of TUM.
            This paper reviews correspondences and differences, offers interpretations, clarifications and cross-references between ST and TUM, and briefly mentions several of the many other related theories or publications, which TUM precedes; the study further introduces some ideas from the upcoming Universe and Mind 6.
            TUM was presented at several public and academic events: (1) a lecture on TUM was delivered for the curious general public at Technical University of Sofia in September 2009, and core ideas and predictions were published in a follow-up interview for a popular-science magazine, titled: “I Will Create a Thinking Machine that Will Self-Complexify”, which
also served as a pitch for an AGI start-up, one year before the creation of DeepMind. Two earlier articles had already made such pitches in 2003: the first invited partners to join the author’s AGI R&D efforts at The Sacred Computer, and the second outlined the groundbreaking first modern national AI strategy, titled “How Would I Invest One Million for the Greatest Benefit for the Development of my Country?” Fifteen to twenty years later, this strategy was adopted worldwide by AI institutions and governments, validating its foresight and enduring relevance. (2) TUM was featured as a key lecture in the world’s first university course in Artificial General Intelligence at the University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria in 2010 and 20118 years before MIT offered an experimental collection of talks on the same topic; the course at the University of Plovdiv was conceived after giving the public lecture at Technical University of Sofia; the unique interdisciplinary curriculum was designed with the goal to prime and justify the conclusions of TUM and its research program; (3) TUM was communicated at the international informal “mini-conference” Self-Improving General Intelligence 2012 in Plovdiv .
            These events took place a decade after the first publications, still during the
“dark age”
of AGI, when even the AI experts, except a few visionaries, were “rolling eyes and leaving”,
whenever they heard the word “AGI”[2], because these ambitions were considered a fantasy. Today, in 2025, Stack Theory’s papers declare that „AGI is also a well established and rigorous field of research , while presenting as novel ideas and directions categorically formulated back in 2001-2002.
            A distinctive “meta-contribution”[3] of this study is the engagement of a set of large language models to review and evaluate one of the foundational works of TUM, published in 2001 by then 17-years-old author: “Man and Thinking Machine: Analysis of the Possibility that a Thinking Machine Could be Created and Some Disadvantages of Man and Organic Matter in Comparison” and an excerpt on creativity from the 2003 treatise “Universe and Mind 3”.
           
Symbolically, it was the predicted thinking machines themselvesrather than AGI researchers or human commentators – who were the first beings to acknowledge the “striking clarity” and prophetic insights” of TUM, even in its initial seeds.
            If a machine, a next-token predictor, learned the value of prodigy’s contributions –  maybe humans can too[4].

Keywords: Artificial General Intelligence, AGI, thinking machines, Theory of Everything, Universe, Mind, generalization, efficiency, sample-efficiency, consciousness, conscious machines, the hard problem of consciousness, hierarchy, causality, multi-scale, embodiment, embodied computation, embodied cognition, Large Language Models, LLM, hybrids, extended mind, Artificial Intelligence, AI, philosophy, AI philosophy, cybernetics


* Virtual yearlong conference Self-Improving General Intelligence 2025
https://github.com/twenkid/sigi-2025

* The Sacred Computer
: Thinking Machines, Creativity and Human Development
https://twenkid.com/agi




[1] First published on 13.9.2025. This edition: 20.9.2025, 20:44, 204 p. See some latest additions on p. 7.

[2] See cited interviews with Shane Legg, Demis Hassabis; Sam Altman etc. in “The First Modern Strategy …”, 2025 and the Main Volume of The Prophets of The Thinking Machines … See the note below.

[3] A meta-contribution of this book and other parts of The Prophets is also the iterative revisiting and refinement of the ideas with deep nested interpretations and remarks, which are branching, multi-layer and sometimes multi-view etc.; they are extended historically, while keeping track and preserving the originals, the time of their conception and the reasoning which generated them etc., in a process, that continues for decades. The method allows the traces of the thoughs and the possible sources of the in-sights to be tracked and different branches to be preserved for future traversal, revisiting, criticism, ex-tension and refinement. Some readers may struggle with this “fragmentation” and prefer only “monolith-ic” and “finished” thoughts, but we prefer to have “many doors” to our “palace of knowledge” and to remember our trajectories. A predecessor with related style of exploration is Arthur Schopenhauer. [15.9.2025]

[4] By the way, most humans misinterpret the message of the movie from which this style of epilog was inspired – they read the opposite of the intended message. If you can’t recall the movie or want to read the arguments, see “Letters between the 18-years-old Todor Arnaudov and the Philosopher Angel Grancharov”, 9.2002 (“Universe and Mind 2”), The Sacred Computer #18. See also my letter to Oxford University from 2.2012. Also, if you wish, “hold your thought” and check how mine continues after the LLM’s reviews near the end of the book ~ p.195. See also the long footnote about the two hierarchies of values at p. 9.


 


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Thursday, September 18, 2025

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Gemini 2.5: Can you say: "I Will Create a Thinking Machine that will Self-Complexify”?

 



LOL.

Editing "Stack Theory is yet Another..." - "official" announcement coming soon.
Yet another appendix of The Prophets.  LOL2.

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Friday, September 12, 2025

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Институти и стратегии за изкуствен интелект на световно ниво в източна европа и света - Пророците на мислещите машини приложение | World Class AI Research Institutes and Strategies in Eastern Europe and the World - The Prophets of the Thinking Machines

Най-новото публикувано приложение към Пророците на Мислещите Машини, 139 с. 7.9.2025 (ред. 10.9.2025 до сега). То е допълнение към "Първата Стратегия". 
В последните две седмици написах и едно "извънредно" допълнително приложение (на английски), отговор на поредната нова теория в общия ИИ, която всъщност не е нова. Следват също: Вселена и Разум 6 - на английски (свързано с "Нужни ли са смъртни изчислителни системи..."? и разделите за съзнание, панпсихизъм и др. от Листове), Ирина, "Фантастика. Футурология. Кибернетика. Развитие на човека"; вторият по големина и разнообразие том: Листове (около 500 стр. в момента), "Котката" (продължение на Анализ на смисъла на изречение въз основа на базата знания на действаща мислеща машина. Мисли за смисъла и изкуствената мисъл" от 3.2004 г. - сега тестван върху истински "мислещи машини" - доколко се справят?) и др. до Основния том, който в момента е около 1870 стр. Може да откриете този и другите томове на книгата и бъдещи версии на страницата на целогодишната конференцията SIGI-2025 и познатите адреси на Свещеният сметач: мислещи машини, творчество и развитие на човека. И ако желаете може да помогнете на Сметача и да намалите "коефициента на Сингулярност на Тош", защото не отговарям за действията на децата си, ако коефициентът достигне абсурдно високи стойности. Какво е сингулярност на Тош или уравнение на относителната ефективност виж в "Първата стратегия" и "Институти и стратегии...".


Редакция и първо издание: 10.9.2025 (7.9.2025)
http://twenkid.com/agi
https://github.com/twenkid/sigi-2025
http://artificial-mind.blogspot.com
https://research.twenkid.com/    

 

ПРОРОЦИТЕ НА МИСЛЕЩИТЕ МАШИНИ
Изкуствен разум и развитие на човека:
история, теория и пионери
;
минало, настояще и бъдеще
[TT1] 

ПРИЛОЖЕНИЕ


Институти
и стратегии за изкуствен интелект „на световно ниво“ в Източна Европа и света[1]
България, Русия, Румъния, Чехия, Словения, Сърбия, Хърватия, Полша; Унгария, Словакия, Гърция, Турция, Албания, Северна Македония, Беларус и др.



[1] Шеговита препратка към спорни рекламни твърдения на INSAIT и изтъкването на първенство „в източна Европа“, „в региона“, „на Балканския полустров“, „първи по рода си“, първи с „условия за работа на световно ниво“ и пр. лозунги използвани „по света и у нас“ – виж в края на тази глава и обзор по-подробна бележка. Сравни с „рекламата“ на Свещеният сметач, изпреварила ИНСАЙТ и в това: „Първият в света университетски курс по Универсален изкуствен разум“ и пр.
 * Виж в края също две български групи „на несветовно ниво“ с по-философска и хуманитарна насоченост: Сфера и Център за изследване на глобални системи и бележката за един друг любопитен български изследовател на психиката и разума, който е хуманитарен учен.

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Частично съдържание

* Списък с томове и приложения на Пророците …
*
Въведения от основния том и Първата стратегия…
* България…
~ 46
* Институти на световно ниво в Източна Европа .. 52 – Русия, ..
* СССР и Русия … 69
* Румъния … 80
* Хърватия, Сърбия, Словения, Унгария, Полша, Турция, Чехия, Словакия, Гърция, Албания, Беларус, Северна Македония, Европейски съюз, Израел, Исландия
* Лидери от всички страни – съединявайте се!  …
~ 110
* Други изследователски групи за философски изследвания на разума и социално прогнозиране на „несветовно ниво“. …
  * СФЕРА – изследователска лаборатория
* Допълнителни статии
~ 116
  * Рейтингите на университетите са в порочен кръг
* Проекти на независими учени и разработчици
* Настоящите национални стратегии за развитие с ИИ наистина ли „развиват страните“ икономически и водят ли до промяна на мястото им в йерархията на благосъстоянието на гражданите им? Доведоха ли досега след 2017 г.? …
~ 127


 








7.9.2025 Ново приложение: ИНСТИТУТИ И СТРАТЕГИИ ЗА ИЗКУСТВЕН ИНТЕЛЕКТ НА СВЕТОВНО НИВО В ИЗТОЧНА ЕВРОПА И СВЕТА, 139 стр., 7.9.2025 /10.9.2025

https://github.com/Twenkid/SIGI-2025/

https://github.com/Twenkid/SIGI-2025/blob/main/AI_Institutes_Strategies_The_Prophets_Thinking_Machines_7-9-2025.pdf
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Tuesday, August 26, 2025

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Forever Young - Todor Arnaudov's system: Strict Front Lever at Age ... | Вечно Млад - предна везна






More details, besides videos - in the future. A piece of information is shared  in "The Prophets...", but as both the "bible" and my program are evolving, some of the details change, as do some aspects of my food and workouts since 2020.

Regarding the front lever in particular, I did train for it for a while in mid 2024 and I did perform it, but then switched focus to other exercises etc. and in a this-summer short sequence of trainings it ended up  better.

Perhaps you have heard of the "centi-millionaire" Bryan Johnson, the "professional rejuvenation athlete" who wants to be 18-years old again - I never was 18, LOL, and I don't want to become - that's too old. ;))) (See what Twenkid means).

My "blueprint" is not inspired by his and is organically developed, my diet has never been like his either, however one thing which I discovered that matched, when I found his, was the average ratio of macros during one period. Mine was organic though, my body has settled there and wanted to eat that (I don't plan in advance what exactly to eat and how much, because I don't know, my body wants different amounts). From some points on the ratio changed as well, I haven't checked Bryan's details lately.

Call me if you need a mentor or a coach for rejuvenation or for preserving your youth: :)

Video:
https://youtube.com/shorts/PmEQXwNGCYs

Примерен резултат от системата на Тош "Да бъдеш вечно млад" или просто "Вечно млад": Стриктна предна везна на халки, 8.7.2025 г. Малко повече информация в "Пророците на Мислещите Машини:..." и др. Ако ви интересувате и искате наставник - пишете или се свържете. "За приятели - отстъпки", хаха.


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Wednesday, August 20, 2025

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LAZAR - Appendix to The Prophets of the Thinking Machines: Surveys on Continual Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Computer Vision from 1950s to 2020s, Transformers, Speech Recognition, Evolutionary and Genetic Programming ...

 

THE SACRED COMPUTER  
TODOR ARNAUDOV - TOSH

LAZAR

THE PROPHETS OF THE
THINKING MACHINES
ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE & TRANSHUMANISM

 

 


HISTORY THEORY AND PIONEERS
PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE



by the author of the world’s first university course in
Artificial General Intelligence and the
Theory of Universe and Mind



ПРОРОЦИТЕ НА МИСЛЕЩИТЕ МАШИНИ
ИЗКУСТВЕН РАЗУМ И РАЗВИТИЕ НА ЧОВЕКА
ИСТОРИЯ ТЕОРИЯ И ПИОНЕРИ; МИНАЛО НАСТОЯЩЕ И БЪДЕЩЕ



* First edition: 20.8.2025 (To be continued and refined)
* 128 Pages

Edition: 20.8.2025

http://twenkid.com/agi

For now download from: https://github.com/twenkid/sigi-2025
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© Authors: All cited original authors
                        and Todor Arnaudov – author of The Prophets of the Thinking Machines and editor: selecton of authors, papers, concepts, citations; summaries notes etc.

The Sacred Computer: Thinking Machines, Creativity and Human Development


 

You can join or help The Sacred Computer!

...

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#lotsofpapers  #lazar

 

Lots of Papers: ] In AI, ML, CV, ANN, DL, …  throughout history, classical 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, early 2010s to 2020s. Computer Vision, Reinforcement Learning, Program Synthesis. Lifelong Learning, Human-Computer Interaction, Mixed Initiative Interfaces; Evolutionary programming, Genetic Algorithms, Self-improving agents; Speech Synthesis, Speech Recognition, Audio Generation etc.  Groundbreaking or important researchers or related to the flow and context of the reviewed topics; and a few Bulgarian researchers who participated in some of the works.

*  Lifelong Learning, Continual Learning, Reinforcement Learning (historical Q-Learning, modern Deep Q-Learning: Atari DeepMind …), RL for LLMs, policy optimizations (DPO, PPO, OREO) … Conditional Random Fields (CRF); Chain-of-Thought prompting …

* Survery of other techniques and research in computer vision,  preceding the explosion of the application of convolutional neural networks after 2012: DBN, RBM, MRF, SIFT etc.

* Survey on Early Deep Learning architectures and Normalizations; seminal papers and PhD theses by pioneers in DL from the schools of LeCun, Hinton, Bengio: M.Ranzato, V.Mnih, A.Krizhevsky, I.Sutskever, A.Mohamed …

*  Survey of Object Recognition and Classification before Deep Learning

* Selected Computer Vision works from 1960s to 2020s

* Exploration and introduction of concepts and techniques in computer vision, machine learning, neural networks

*  Mixed-Initiatve Interaction

*  Audio: Speech Synthesis, Audio Generation, Speech Recognition; 1980s to 2010s

* Neural Machine Translation, Language Models, LLMs, Text Generation, Text and Language Learning and Representation, Word-Embedding

* Alternative approaches for sequence and next words prediction, instead of neural networks: stochastic memorizer, sequence memorizer* Transformers - the seminal paper from 2017

* Tansformer architectures for images and for reducing the quadratic complexity

* Neural Program Synthesis

*  Tansformer architectures for images and for reducing the quadratic complexity

* Evolutionary Algorithms | Genetic Algorithms | Genetic Programming
*  Genetic Programming, Genetic Algorithms, Evolutionary Programming: Part II

* Summary and selection of important concepts in Evolutionary Algorithms | Genetic Algorithms | Genetic Programming etc

*  Vision Transformers – ViT

*  Multimodal Learning, Dialog Learning, Continual Learning

* Diffusion Models

* Self-Improving General Intelligence, Recursive Self Improvement


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Introductory Notes

* Most of the text in this volume of references is in English, with a few small  sections and notes in Bulgarian.

* It is a record of explorations and can serve as a dataset for study, recall and food for thought for curious readers and thinking machines.

* The order and clustering is both thematical and chronological through the literature review study.

* Search for specific topics, names, fields etc. as with the other volumes.

* Why diferent fonts? Diversity. Future versions may be generated from a database core or displayed with Vsy/AI agents and generate different layouts, connections etc.

* In the future it would be operated with the AGI infrastructure Vsy (
Вседържец, Вси) and the Research Accelerator ACS (unpublished yet), which will make it “living”, dynamic, self-extending, translating etc.

* For more Bulgarian and other selected research see also #Anelia #prophets #Listove etc.

* Основно на английски, някои бележки на български. Виж: Лазар Вълков, Боян Александров.

* Изследвания на други методи в компютърното зрение от 1960-те до 2000-те и в навечерието на бума на приложенията на конволюционни невронни мрежи в края на 2012 г.; методи в машинното обучение: DBN, RBM, MRF, SIFT; MSER и др. (…)

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Legend: Cmp: compare. Tosh, T.A., TA, Todor: comments by the author of “The Prophets …”
File: Lazar-…


See also appendices: in English: Universe and Mind 6, “Calculus of Art: …”, …
parts of Listove and Irina; some parts of the main volume; #Anelia – the work of many Bulgarian researchers In English and Bulgarian. E

@Vsy: Systematize, draw diagrams, tables, collect in memory

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