Chavez at the UN General Assembly, September 15, 2005

cool speech - check it out here

contributing common sense to an Open Mind

MIT's Open Mind Common Sense Project is working to gather common sense knowledge that can be used to improve AI technology.

The Open Mind Commonsense project is an attempt to make computers smarter by making it easy and fun for people all over the world to work together to give computers the millions of pieces of ordinary knowledge that constitute "common-sense", all those aspects of the world that we all understand so well we take them for granted. This repository of knowledge will enable us to create more intelligent and sociable software and better understand the structure our own minds.

if you've got any common sense to spare, you can join the project and share. theres another article on this project here
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then, if you're interested, the resulting knowledgebase is available for download from the ConceptNet project
ConceptNet v2.1 is written in the Python programming language. It is distributed as a Python API and a standalone XML-RPC Server.

belarga? .. bothered? .. me?

belarga
Originally uploaded by jaysen.

so, i finally put some pictures from the holiday in belarga .. over here at flickr.com.

an invitation to Stumble

checkout StumbleUpon - a social bookmarking tool, and a good way to share sites.

"StumbleUpon is a community-oriented and personalized approach to web surfing - a browser add-on which automates "word of mouth" recommendations of quality web sites. The people-driven technology combines human recommendations with machine learning of personal preferences and interests to filter through the vast amount of information on the web and direct users to relevant web sites."

my stumbles can be found ..here

The ZoomQuilt .. expressing scale

a brilliant piece of flash animation art at Flash The ZoomQuilt

wikidpad goes opensource

WikidPad has been opensource for a few months now. the group has settled on using Trac/Subversion along with two google groups (dev and user).

hoggar mountains, sahara

there's some pics from our trip down to hoggar mountains in the south of algeria on my flickr page

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around Tamenrasset
Originally uploaded by jaysen.

BBC Radio 4 - Reith Lectures 2003 - The Emerging Mind

BBC - Radio 4 - Reith Lectures 2003 - The Emerging Mind: "Vilayanur S. Ramachandran" - Brilliant audio lectures from the forefront of evolutionary neuropsychology

Lecture 4 covering synesthesia and the evolution of language was particularly funky. you just need realplayer (downloadable from the bbc site) to listen.

snowy algiers

snow for the first time.. lots of fun. apparently the most snow algiers has seen in 50 years. more snow pics on my flickr page.


Originally uploaded by jaysen.

pics on www.flickr.com :

I've started using flickr as an online gallery. free with lots of cool services..

checkout some Algeria pics on Flickr.com from 2004.