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Rocket Simulation

July 31, 2013by droctagonopus Leave a comment

I wrote the basic code for a very simple rocket simulation in Processing. In the program, a rocket moves through zero gravity. The rocket contains two types of components: fuel […]

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Swarm AI

July 30, 2013by droctagonopus Leave a comment

Finally completed the code of the swarming AI. http://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/104840

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First Attempt at Prolog Programming

July 30, 2013by droctagonopus Leave a comment

The simplest program ever. It tells us what flavour(s) of ice cream are available in Stanford’s Arillaga Dining Hall. Program flavour(chocolate). Query flavour(chocolate) Yes. flavour(vanilla) No. It took two words […]

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Open Source vs. Closed Source vs. Paid vs. Free

July 30, 2013by droctagonopus Leave a comment

After reading Bill Gates’s letter to hobbyists and GNU’s Free Software Movement, I realised that they talk about to different arguments. Bill Gates’s  letter talks about free software in terms […]

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Autonomy & Agency

July 29, 2013by droctagonopus Leave a comment

Computers have both autonomy and agency. What’s the difference between the two? Autonomy is the ability to do something without needing to be constantly told. Computers excel at this. Tell […]

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Swarm Intelligence Conference

July 26, 2013by droctagonopus Leave a comment

I was looking for some conferences involving swarm intelligence and I found one. The International Conference on Swarm Intelligence occurred between June 12th and 15th in Harbin, China (http://www.ic-si.org/). I […]

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What is AI?

July 25, 2013by droctagonopus Leave a comment

If a random person asked me what AI was (and if he looked genuinely interested), I’d tell him this: I don’t know what AI is. There is no fixed definition […]

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The Consequences of Modern Electronic Surveillance

July 23, 2013by droctagonopus 3 Comments

Article: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/the-pros-and-cons-of-a-surveillance-society/?_r=0 With the increasing use of technology for surveillance in today’s society, many contradictory issues are being thrown into the spotlight. One good example of these issues is presented in […]

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First Attempt at Lisp

July 22, 2013by droctagonopus 4 Comments

I tried out Lisp for the first time. It’s a functional/declarative programming language which is so much more different from an imperative language like Java that I was totally confused […]

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Final Project Idea: Swarm Algorithms

July 19, 2013by droctagonopus 2 Comments

I couldn’t think of a good idea for my final project until David (http://davidsteinberg49.wordpress.com/) started talking about swarm algorithms which sounded really interesting, so I thought why not collaborate with […]

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