Monthly Archives: May 2008

scheme shell

Posted on May 27, 2008 by Linas Vepstas

I needed the ability to hand-edit opencog data while other processes were running. And so I hacked with guile for a while, and now there’s a scheme shell for opencog. So far it’s very simple: just say ‘scm’ at the … Continue reading →

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A week in Maryland

Posted on May 22, 2008 by Joel Pitt

I’ve been spending the last week at Ben Goertzel’s place to discuss the work I’ve done on attention allocation and to get up to speed on Probabilistic Logic Networks (PLN). There was also an introduction to Relex and RelexToFrame and … Continue reading →

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Hebbian Links and Importance Spreading

Posted on May 19, 2008 by Joel Pitt

This post will cover the HebbianLink, and two MindAgents, the ImportanceSpreadingAgent and the HebbianLearningAgent. The former agent spreads Short term importance (STI) along HebbianLinks, while the later updates the HebbianLink truth values.

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Software code quality

Posted on May 13, 2008 by Linas Vepstas

I spent the weekend creating a small, simple shim to import WordNet data into OpenCog. it got me to thinking about software quality. At first, I intended to use the NLTK Python interfaces into the wordnet data … it seemed … Continue reading →

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Introducing the Importance Updating Agent

Posted on May 9, 2008 by Joel Pitt

The ImportanceUpdatingAgent handles the exchange of currency between atoms. Every thought cycle It pays out wages in the form of Short Term Importance (STI) and Long Term Importance (LTI) to atoms that are currently in use, and also collects rent … Continue reading →

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