Epigrams On Programming / quote 5 of 28
Programming languages
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
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A Processing program is a sketch
A Processing program is called a sketch. The idea is to make Java-style programming feel more like scripting, and adopt the process of scripting to quickly…
A program can outplay its designer
This victory of machine over man is widely cited, and for good reason. It demonstrates an important lesson: the capabilities of an artificial agent are not…
Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina) #machine-learning #artificial-intelligence #game #programming
Genghis walks with fifty-one tiny programs
Genghis has no central control. Nowhere in his construction is there a description of how to walk. “The software for Genghis was not organized as a single…
Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina) #robotics #programming #emergence #software
The holodeck idea
First introduced on 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' in 1987, the holodeck consists of an empty black cube covered in white gridlines upon which a computer…
Hamlet On The Holodeck #computer #Holodeck #machine #programming
A shared language emerging between agents
The aim of the experiment is to investigate how a shared language can emerge as a result of the interactions between agents. Crucially, nowhere in the…
Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina) #language #emergence #ontology #communication
Agents must publicly declare their ontologies
The moment we accept the problem and grant that agents may not use the same terms to mean the same things, we need a way for an agent to discover what another…
Where Are The Semantics In The Semantic Web? #ontology #messages #task #specification #language #meaning