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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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Gargoyle Roadmap

22-Apr-08

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Official Gargoyle Roadmap, calluh callay!
Currently, Gargoyle consists of 3 parts:

Gargoyle POI Server (GPS)
Gargoyle Extraction Agent Service (GEAS)
Gargoyle Personal Agent (GPA)

At the moment, only GPS is truly usable, and even that is to a very limited degree. A proof of concept for GPA was posted, and most of a v0.2 was written, but […]

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Introducing Gargoyle POI Server

22-Apr-08

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Version 0.2 of the Gargoyle POI Server (GPS) is now ready.
The latest source code tarball is here: Gargoyle POI Server v0.2. (Warning, almost no documentation and only basic comments)
Requirements: python, web.py, CouchDB, couchdb-python
But, what is it?
A POI is a Point of Interest. That is, it is an atomic element of geospatial information. The Gargoyle […]

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Moving Gargoyle to CouchDB

14-Apr-08

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Gargoyle will now use CouchDB as its data storage backend.
This will allow for rapid develpment, as well as easy adaptation to evolving scheme requirements.
Releasing code for POI storage on couchDB within the next two weeks.
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Progress on Gargoyle

24-Mar-08

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Remember Gargoyle?
Well, it hasn’t been abandoned yet. I’ve been rewriting the design and scrapping it over and over. I think I’ve finally reached a design that’s stable, and that will plug nicely into all kinds of stuff.
Today I wrote a lightweight web.py-based POI system. It gives a user a random hash which […]

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Introducing Gargoyle - The Geospatial Web in Your Pocket

12-Dec-07

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I have just finished v0.1 of Gargoyle (yes, it’s a Snow Crash reference).
Gargoyle is a python application that periodically queries your location via GPS and then checks to see whether you are withn range of an item on your watch list. It is written to run on Maemo devices such as the […]

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