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"On Intelligence"
September 24, 2008
I've done a little more poking around recently to see what else is out there, and today I came across what looks to be a real winner. The book On Intelligence, surprisingly "old" book publish in 2004, was written by Palm's inventor Jeff Hawkins. From what I've read, Jeff's ideas can be summarized as Hierarchical Temporal Memory. I remember blogging about a news article that made reference to that term, but I didn't delve into reading more at the time.
I couldn't resist: I've ordered the book off of ebay.
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Current inputs and future inputsSeptember 24, 2008
Here I'm brainstorming a series of inputs that I'd like to work towards supporting. These are all statements about me.
Currently supported statements, and their core representation:
  | My first name is Daniel |
| speaker.first_name = 'Daniel' |
| My middle name is James |
| speaker.middle_name = 'James' |
| My last name is Bigham |
| speaker.last_name = 'Bigham'
speaker.full_name = 'Daniel Bigham' (derived) |
| I am a Christian |
| speaker is_a Christian |
| I work at Navtech |
| speaker.employer = NavtechInc |
| I am a man |
| speaker is_a man |
| I am 27 |
| speaker.age = 27 |
| My birth month is November |
| speaker.birth.date.month = November |
| My birth year is 1980 |
| speaker.birth.date.year = 1980 |
| My wife's name is Meredith |
| speaker.wife.first_name = 'Meredith' |
| I live in Waterloo |
| speaker.home.city = Waterloo |
| I live in Canada |
| speaker.home.country = Canada |
| I live in Ontario |
| speaker.home.province = Ontario |
| My eye color is blue |
| speaker.eye.color = blue |
| My hair color is strawberry blond |
| speaker.hair.color = strawberry_blond |
Future:
| My birthday is Nov 20 |
| Requires parsing 'Nov 20' into a structure that contains a day-of-month and a month
speaker.birth.date = $d, $d is_a date, $d.month = November, $d.day = 20 |
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Canon 5D Mark IISeptember 21, 2008
http://www.usa.canon.com/dlc/controller?act=GetArticleAct&articleID=2086http://gizmodo.com/5052767/a-taste-of-the-canon-5d-mark-iis-mindblowing-full-hd-videoI guess it was just a matter of time. Amazing.
Update: Apparently there isn't any auto-focus on these DSLR cameras when in video mode, so I guess they're not
quite ready to replace the video camera.
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