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 […]

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]