Category Archives: Development

COVID-19 Modelling and Random Social Networks

Posted on April 22, 2020 by Linas Vepstas

Seems like everyone wants to be an epidemiologist these days, so why not OpenCog? After all, diseases spread through networks, propagating from one node to the next. A network is a graph, the AtomSpace is a graph database, and the … Continue reading →

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Inference Meta-Learning (part I)

Posted on October 14, 2017 by nilg

This is the introductory part of a blog series about my work on inference control learning for OpenCog. It introduces the problematic, an initial design solution and some early results. More interesting results will come in subsequent parts. Introduction Inference … Continue reading →

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Many Worlds: Reasoning about Reasoning

Posted on August 31, 2016 by Linas Vepstas

When one reasons about the world, what is one actually doing? This post is about that. Its also about some abstract nonsense. Continue reading →

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The Viterbi Parser

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Linas Vepstas

The new Viterbi decoder for Link Grammar should offer better integration with higher level semantic algorithms! Continue reading →

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Tuning Metalearning in MOSES

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Linas Vepstas

I’ve been studying MOSES recently, with an eye towards performance tuning it. Turns out optimization algorithms don’t always behave the way you think they do, and certainly not the way you want them to. Given a table of values, MOSES … Continue reading →

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