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AI Funding for Open-Source Artificial Intelligence
Sun, 9 Nov 2008 16:01:52 GMT
Abstract: Many programmers of Open-Source software would like to dabble
or specialize in artificial intelligence but are concerned about how to
obtain AI Funding. The author of http://code.google.com/p/mind
forth/ offers a few ideas.
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The Great Wannabe Hacker Emblem Controversy
Thu, 6 Nov 2008 05:18:42 GMT
If you think a polemic about a symbol
devised to represent people
who mockingly declare themselves
unworthy of displaying some other symbol
designed to represent them
[*breathe*]
is much ado about nothing,
we have something in common.
It may be one
of a very few things we have in common.
Indeed,
we are probably quite different,
and I am sure I have not done enough
to earn the privilege
of being counted as one of you
—
regardless of who you are.
That's because,
as it turns out,
one cannot earn
membership in hackerdom.
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Open Letter to Richard Stallman
Tue, 4 Nov 2008 21:52:59 GMT
Dear Mr. Stallman,
I am writing to express my disappointment with the Free Software Foundation
regarding the recent release of the GNU Free Documentation License
version 1.3.
The new version 1.3 adds a new clause, section 11, which, according to
the FAQ, allows wiki sites to relicense specific content from GFDL 1.3
to CC-BY-SA 3.0, for content added before November 1, 2008. They have
this relicensing option until August 1, 2009.
This, in my view, is a serious moral mistake and breach of trust. Even if
this new clause does no harm, it is still the wrong thing to do.
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Understanding the ways of the Internet
Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:39:20 GMT
People have embraced the internet so much that even in a country like
ours, Honorable Finance Minister (Dr. Baburam Bhattarai of CPN-Maoist)
has a Facebook
profile (looks genuine so far). He (or whoever maintains the profile
on his behalf) regularly updates his status. Sometime back, while I was
busy with work and couldn't catch up with news, his status updates
served as a good substitute. He also posts pictures from events he
attends. The most followed part, in my opinion, are the notes he posts
to his profile- interviews, articles published in newspapers, political
notes, and other pieces. The problem, as stated by many of his "friends"
(well, facebook friends) is that he never replies (or interacts with)
their queries and comments. There is a feature called "Facebook Page"
that he could have used to update his "fans" (just another facebook
word), without engendering expectations of interaction in them. There
are other ways of avoiding interaction on the internet too. While I
appreciate Dr. Bhattarai's efforts to make use of technology at a time
when most Nepalese leaders struggle to use even the basic tools, I
disagree with his mode of operation.
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NewsChallenge $USD 5m for Free Software news/info solutions
Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:13:17 GMT
The Knight Foundation deadline
for preliminary applications for $USD 5m grants ends Midnight, PST, 1st
Nov 2008. Applications must include an actual real-world
geographical location where the free-software-based hardware and/or
software solution is deployed. I have an urgent request to make:
FIND SOMEWHERE. FAST.
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Enough Hot Air
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:59:08 GMT
Once upon a time in the not-too-distant past,
a hacker I know blogged about
using object-oriented C to implement
a lightweight imitation of some of C++'s features
for his latest project;
almost immediately,
somebody saw fit to reward this charming piece
of acceptably self-congratulatory writing
with a stern and quite public deconstruction.
Does this scene seem familiar?
Why does this keep happening?
And what, if anything, can we do about it?
We can hardly hope to appease
all of hackerdom's malcontent
—
but we can at least try to avoid
stepping on each other's toes.
Accordingly,
this article will waste no time
on a platitudinous condemnation
of the surf-by put-down;
rather,
I wish to take a moment to reflect
on what the hacker did to earn it,
and to consider what he might have done
(or, rather, not done)
instead.
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Random October 2008 Free Software News
Sun, 5 Oct 2008 11:23:58 GMT
I'm missing steven's little news posts, so I thought I'd make one up.
Things happening recently: Bruce
Perens on a landmark appeals decision which strengthens the
legitimacy of Free Software Licenses; Venezuela
orders 1 million Intel Classmate PCs; SGI relicenses OpenGL;
The FSF launches a
campaign to highlight the high-priority list, and KDE 4.1.2
codenamed "Codename" is released.
Also coming up: Pyworks will be
held at the same time as PHPworks in Atlanta, Nov
12th-11th; FSCon, the Nordic Summit,
will be on October 24th - 26th at the IT-University Gothenburg; UKUUG Developer Conference
2008 will be in Manchester, Nov 7th-9th.
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pyv8: python v8 bindings and a python-javascript compiler
Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:03:02 GMT
pyv8 is an experimental project to combine two-way python bindings to v8
with the python-to-javascript compiler from pyjamas. a simple test has shown a ten times
performance increase of python code converted and executed as
javascript, when compared to running the same program as python. (to be
fair, cython gives a 100 times performance increase).
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Software Freedom Day in Nepal
Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:02:16 GMT
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Community of Nepal (FOSS-Nepal)
observed the fifth international Software Freedom Day today. The day was
celebrated by over 500 different volunteer groups in 120 countries. The
theme for this year's celebration of FOSS-Nepal was "Create, Share,
Collaborate." Honourable Minister of Science and Technology, Ganesh Shah
started the proceedings at Yala Maya Kendra in Patan, Kathmandu by
unveiling a compilation of Free/Open Source Softwares in a CD named
"Nirvikalpa." Honourable Minister also announced the launch of a
web-portal named "Prasfutan." "Prasfutan" which means "blossoming" in
English aims to provide a collaborative environment to a vast number of
local talents in Nepal whose creativity has a reach only up to a limited
audience comprising of their acquaintances. This is in sync with the
theme of "Create, Share, Collaborate."
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ePractice community for OSS in the public administration
Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:13:43 GMT
Only want to introduce you into the ePractice community for OSS in the
public administration ( http://www.epractice.eu/community/opensource/
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which supports the OSOR.eu inititative.
OSOR.eu will be formally launch in Malaga's OSWC.
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