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Monthly Archives: May 2008
scheme shell
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
A week in Maryland
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
Posted in Administravia, Development
Tagged AttentionAllocation, Brainstorm, Meeting, OpenCog
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Hebbian Links and Importance Spreading
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.
Posted in Design, Development
Tagged AttentionAllocation, HebbianLinks, ImportanceSpreading, OpenCog
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Software code quality
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
Introducing the Importance Updating Agent
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