Archive for May, 2006

Minsky on AI, Immortality and More

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

Here is a cool article about a talk given by Marvin Minsky at MIT.

Structured Procrastination

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

I’ve known this for years! How else would I finish all of the things on my plate? I do robotics and research instead of studying, and then study instead of…sleeping? Keeping myself under pressure certainly makes me productive. Things get done like in a priority heap; when something turns urgent, it gets done. In the […]

Singularity Summit at Stanford

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

Kurzweil’s at it again. I’m eager to read some of his books this summer. My feeling is he’s mostly correct, but also a little crazy and over-zealous.

Biological Electronics

Monday, May 15th, 2006

Interesting article. Implications: wetware to hardware interfaces are coming! Enhance your brain! Reprogram your brain! Scary, but good?

Robotics Articles

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

Recently, two articles about the Carleton Robotics Team have appeared in some of my school’s publications. Exciting! One more will be appearing shortly…but I wrote it.
Carleton Website Article
Shout Magazine Article