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["Ben Goertzel" <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The most important PLN book chapters for you to read are

--- up thru chapter 6

-- 10-14

Chapters 7-9 can be skipped on a first read

If you have to skip some of the above I'd say skip 12 and 14... tho
matt and I will likely discuss  12 extensively as it's largely
unimplemented so far...

ben

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Joel Pitt <joel.pitt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Ben, Sorry for the lack of updates last week, I've been a bit flat
> out and juggling between contracts so haven't had a full day of
> opencog stuff for a while. Still been doing the work though, it's just
> been a little more fragmented than usual...
>
> Anyhow, some things I've been doing:
>
> -Running hopfield network replications - because the link adding is
> stochastic any one run may have poor performance. I've created python
> scripts to graph the performance after each imprint so that it can be
> judged easily (I got tired of looking at text tables!) and also
> created scripts to graph the final distribution of performance across
> replicates. I'm going to through a few of these up on the wiki tonight
> after visiting my Mum for Mother's day (even if it is a slightly
> consumerist holiday, it's still nice to spend time with family!).
> Smaller (3-5 square) networks have pretty good performance (consistant
> improvement for a mutated cue pattern) but 10x10 networks are still a
> bit erratic at times... still have ideas, but I'd like to commit what
> I've already done to the wiki before I start fiddling with more
> aspects attention allocation.
>
> -Wrote a blog article on the ImportanceUpdatingAgent for OpenCog Brainwave.
>
> -Added a bunch of miscellaneous stuff to the OpenCog wiki and
> suggested wiki improvements to David about formating, word
> definitions, and math (Dave: I saw you added math and source code
> support, nice!).  Some things that might be of note when you are
> writing/converting the documentation: There is a theory page linked
> off of the sidebar, so you'll probably want to add to or link from it
> http://www.opencog.org/wiki/Theory . As I mentioned in another email,
> there are pages for LinkTypes and NodeTypes with a page for each type.
> There is also MindAgents and each MindAgent should have a separate
> page too. We've also put in place a tool tips system that allows a
> wiki page to act as the text of a tooltip (these pages should begin
> with "tt:") - this is useful for difficult words that have reasonably
> simple definitions (in particular I'm thinking about the lingo for NLP
> - where I hadn't heard things like meronym and holonym before).
>
> -Reading more about PLN - are there any particular chapters in the
> book that are more important than others, particular for our meeting
> next week? I'm about half way through so far.
>
> Cheers,
> J
>



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Ben Goertzel, PhD
CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC
Director of Research, SIAI
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