1st April 2009, 09:24 am
Given recent Google’s developments in artificial intelligence, it seems the field has reached a very exciting milestone! The first artificial soul humanity produced has developed a surprising personality, though.
This seems like a good context to announce that this September I’ll be starting a master in computer science, more specifically machine learning, at Université de Montréal. And that was decided before April 1st, if you’re wondering 
This blog might therefore turn towards such topics as neuroscience, AI, cognitive science and Zen philosophy.
18th February 2009, 12:37 pm
Here’s the project I’ve been working on for the past 3 weeks with another programmer named Aneesh: Clusterify.com .
It’s a site on which you send project proposals, usually very short in time demand (2 hours is suggested), and through them you meet other programmers.
I can’t spend too much time writing a two-volume novel about it for the moment, as the launch is still ongoing, but here’s the launch thread on Hacker News.
2nd February 2009, 04:12 pm
In the two years preceding my entrance to university, I had spent some time learning about AI and neurosciences, but never delved really deep. In university, having even less free time, I focused more on software engineering. Ever since I’ve wanted to get back to the topic. Lately, pondering about how to fit that into my schedule, I thought this blog will be a perfect pretext: explore the topics and write about interesting things I stumble on along the way.
So I’m still thinking of how to approach this in a structured manner. Yet, sometimes idly browsing YouTube brings amazing results. I was looking for environments in which to test small neural networks “hello world”-equivalent programs and discovered all sorts of interesting videos, only tangentially related, but hey, that’s the whole point of “stumbling upon”, right?
First there was this generative art piece. This reminds me of fractals, though the principle is quite different (the artist says he’s trying to emulate the principle behind butterfly wings patterns ). If you like Winamp/WMP/iTunes visualizations, then try searching for “generative art” on YouTube. Further tangential wanderings led to these:
