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Thank you! It uses the Unity Game Engine plus a bunch of custom tools I built on top to create the playback and animation systems.

The screen resolution issue seems to stem from the fact that I've locked the book to a 16:9 aspect ratio, and I'm still working on it. Thank you for sharing it as well!

Huh... I didn't know about this! But FYI I only wrote the no refund policy as a means to prevent/discourage refund abuse, as the product is only available digitally. I have however…

Hello HN! I’m Elias. I’ve been an educator in Engineering and Computer Science for some years, and I'm always looking for ways to make learning more engaging and hands-on. A few mo…

I believe "the society of mind" contains a bunch of really good but unorganized ideas for building intelligent models, but was written in such a way that it remained virtually impo…

I believe before claiming AGI is possible or impossible, one would need to define the operational features as well as the properties of what an AGI system is or can do. The primary…

While I agree with Prof.Marcus' ideas on the limitations of deep learning, I still don't think neurosymbolic approaches are sufficient for a generalized AI agent. I think a unified…

Minsky's subsequent book called "the emotion machine" probably has some of the most complete treatments of topics like intelligence, understanding and consciousness.

As a former structural engineer, I completely agree with this sentiment. For every engineering project I was involved in, the automated components were at most 2 to 5% of the rest …

I had it in August, just two days after getting vaccinated. Headaches, fever and body aches continued for three days after which I had complete loss of taste and smell for about a …

With regards to fallacy #2 in fact, it is the other way around, I. E. "Easy things are hard" also known as Moravec's paradox. The symbolic AI generation always assumed that really …

Q: How many prolog programmers does it take to change a light bulb? A: No.

This theory reminds me of Marvin Minsky's "society of mind" theory where multiple agents/parts of a certain brain center encode the same object/concept in different ways and have a…

HAL from 2001 seems to be the most grounded in reality, as you could actually sense some how some of its advanced capabilities might be implemented even today, not to mention Marvi…

Yes. But I don't think we've millions of years to make that happen nor do we have the capabilities or the knowledge to create the environmental situations that could potentially re…

Adding to the fact that thousands of tricks are involved in the resourcefulness of the human brain and that each trick has multiple ways to interact with other tricks or modify its…

I wonder if it was possible to use Hinton's idea of local features (where a 3 is recognized as an E in a 180 rotation map and a W in 90 deg. rotation map) to make the recognition p…