Archive for August, 2006

Back to School Time

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

Classes started today.
More boring.

  • SE 166 InfoSec
  • SE 152 Programming Languages
  • SE 157a Intro to DBMSs
  • SE 137 Wireless
  • SE 197a Senior Design Project
  • PHYS 50 Bonehead Physics


Developing the Social AI

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

On machine intelligence systems…
Researchers for the National Science Foundation are using hapless web wanders to train their image recognition AI. Play an image identification game to train the AI to classify images.

ESP Game

Weird Dashboard bug

Friday, August 4th, 2006

dashBoardBug So I log in this morning and my Dashboard calculator decides it wanted out of the Dashboard! I don’t blame him, it’s dark in there when I’m not using him. Has to hang out with the weather report… Anyhow, I smacked him down and put him back. Weird.

Shatner vs. Damon

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

shatnervsdamonIt looks like Matt Damon might be playing Kirk in the upcoming Star Trek 11. I think that’s not entirely implausible.