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Barber's paradox

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Thursday 05 August 2010 17:36 Through the book "Het wiskunde boek" I came across the "Barber's paradox", which states [from Wikipedia]:

"Suppose there is a town with just one male barber; and that every man in the town ... full story
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Back from Switzerland

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Monday 02 August 2010 13:23 Just arrived back from a holiday in Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland. Site of the camping. We had a great time seeing the mountains, the numerous waterfalls, the glaciers and the plants and animals (we ... full story
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Dieren eten (Eating animals) - Jonathan Safran Foer

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Tuesday 29 June 2010 21:00 When I was about 17 I read Animal Liberation, Peter Singer's influential work on animal rights, and one of the reasons why I stopped eating animals. I was converted for life so I never felt the ... full story
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Concerns

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Friday 12 March 2010 21:07 One of the most important things I learned from "The Emotions" (N. Frijda, 1986) is the concept of Concern.

Concerns are the things that are important to you: staying alive, have enough to eat, ... full story
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Books on cognitive architecture

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Sunday 28 February 2010 11:26 Lately I have been reading some books on cognitive architecture, and browsing Amazon to see what else is available. There is as yet no single book that covers all of the subject, but there are ... full story
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J.O.B. Orquestra

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Sunday 10 January 2010 20:03 Ik heb deze plaat (nog ergens op zolder liggen). Ik kocht hem geloof ik toen in een half jaar filosofie studeerde. Het bevat een aantal disco achtige nummers van Hare Krishna devotees. En Hare ... full story
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Article "Semantic Web Marvels" in Chinese mag. "Programmer Magazine"

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Saturday 17 October 2009 13:12 A month ago I received an e-mail from Xiaogang Guo (Guo is his first name), editor with Programmer Magazine (visit using Google Translate), China's largest software development magazine. He asked ... full story
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De held met de duizend gezichten

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Tuesday 01 September 2009 21:09 Ik heb de nederlandse uitgave van The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Joseph Campbell) gelezen. De ondertitel is "De oorspronkelijke betekenis van de verhalen uit de godsdienst en mythologie." en dat ... full story
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Interconnected systems architecture

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Friday 14 August 2009 19:35 During my recent holidays I found the time to read a book on car technique: De techniek van de auto. A good book giving me a much better understanding of the workings of a car. I brought along two... full story
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Context as a state machine

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Sunday 28 June 2009 22:58 I think a context (an active unconscious process influencing current actions and perceptions, the stuff you are doing at the moment, in whatever way) may best be implemented as a state machine. ... full story
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Procurios zoekt nieuwe developer

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Tuesday 23 June 2009 14:07 Procurios (het bedrijf waar ik werk) zoekt PHP webdevelopers om mee te werken aan ons platform en klantprojecten. http://www.procurios.nl/webdeveloper full story
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Ternary trees

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Monday 22 June 2009 09:22 Beter dan hashtables? Lees zelf. full story
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Analysis of a context switch

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Sunday 21 June 2009 21:01 Say, you are writing a letter. At one moment you hear the door bell. You get up, open the door, get the Amazon.com package from the postman, open it, smell the new book, put it away, and return to writing the letter. What happened here? full story
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Interactionist dualism

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Saturday 20 June 2009 16:07 I have located the philosophical stand that matches my own view on the subject: interactionist dualism. It holds that conscious experience is a substance in itself (different from matter), and ... full story
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Articles about Procurios' semantic web implementation.

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Friday 19 June 2009 23:20 I wrote two articles about my companies semantic web implementation: part 1 and part 2. I was really great for me personally to bring this knowledge out in the open, because I really felt we made ... full story
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vvvzeeland.nl

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Thursday 04 June 2009 21:17 De nieuwe website van Promotie Zeeland Delta (de "VVV Zeeland"): vvvzeeland.nl is live. Eergisteren al. Gisteren officieel gedoopt. Goed ontvangen. Tot op het laatste moment nog allerlei dingen ... full story
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Activity automation

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Sunday 24 May 2009 11:08 Baars ("In the theater of consciousness") mentions a person playing Tetris. When the person first starts to learn it, his brain is very active. After four weeks, the person plays much better, and ... full story
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Agent architecture

Sunday 17 May 2009 22:05 Here is a sketch of the raw idea of the agent I am working on. I want to implement a reference architecture.



 

The agent aims to be an implementation of Bernard J. Baars' Global ... full story
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Great week for semantic web

Saturday 16 May 2009 16:37 Wolfram Alpha launched today. Pages still take 20 seconds to load, because of huge interest. But no matter! The whole concept makes me happy. This is truly the next step for the WWW. Finally we ... full story
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LillyBot

Saturday 16 May 2009 16:17 This project is able to learn and answer questions using OpenCYC. It's fascinating. It can really answer questions using a vast database of common knowledge questions (for that was what CYC was ... full story
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