Computation
Algorithm and Code
What came first, the algorithm or the code?
To the modern day developers, there may or may not be a clear distinction between algorithm development and coding (as it is sometimes lovingly coined).
For me personally, the algorithm always comes first. It is the attempt to define in non-ambiguous terms what exactly needs to be done and [...]
Artificial Intelligence and Self Awareness
Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Inc. (http://www.singinst.org/)
EXCERPT: ABOUT US/Our Mission (http://singinst.org/aboutus/ourmission)
In the coming decades, humanity will likely create a powerful artificial intelligence. The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI) exists to confront this urgent challenge, both the opportunity and the risk.
SIAI is a not-for-profit research institute in Palo Alto, California, with three major goals: furthering [...]
Computation Driven Art
Sometimes while browsing the internet, I have come across sites that make me sit up and pay attention. These sites are portals, not in the true sense of web-portals, rather they are portals to a different way of looking at things, or doing things.
I am talking about www.levitated.net.
It is a web site dedicated to computation [...]
