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and RTabMap SLAM (the only one which managed to run on my the 11 years-old laptop, LOL, and supposedly on another outdated accompanying computer of a drone 4-core ARM Jetson Nano (with GPU which couldn't be utilized though, maybe it wouldn't sustain the electric load either).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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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 2011 – 8 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 themselves – rather 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

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[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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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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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.

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[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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