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Exocortex Paper

28-Dec-08

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I have finished my independent study course titled Exploring the Exocortex.
I enjoyed it immensely and learned a lot while doing it, only some of which I was able to condense into the paper below.
Some thanks:

Dan Grover — for mentioning MontyLingua to me and speeding up the development process many-fold
Hugo Lin — for […]

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Processing User Goals and Narratives

11-Nov-08

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In order to model a strategy to reach a goal, we need to parse some user input.
A goal is a particular frame with particular arguments. Each step in a strategy is—in fact—also a goal! Some goals are stubs, certainly.
This feature means that the system understands the underlying details better and better. If […]

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Douglas Engelbart - Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework

15-Oct-08

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In my paper reports I focus on materials that are relevant to my goals, rather than a general and exhaustive overview of what the papers discussed. I will concentrate on presenting the pertinent ideas I have gleaned from these sources. I will include asides by myself—i.e. comments on the material—within blockquotes.
As one […]

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Exploring the Exocortex

08-Oct-08

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For the past several weeks I have been working on an Independent Study course at Brandeis University which I have titled Exploring the Exocortex: Machine Learning for Human Behavior, advised by Professor Tim Hickey.
Originally conceived as an attempt to use biologically inspired machine learning techniques such as neural nets and genetic algorithms […]

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