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June 24, 2009
C RadixSort
GeneralAs always, whenever I find or write some piece of useful and reuseable code somewhere, I post it up here as well. This time it’s the C version of the radix sort algorithm for integer numbers.
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June 23, 2009
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June 22, 2009
Submission Impossible
General
I did not get much sleep recently. The main reason, besides the terribly humid weather, was our submission for the ISWC’09. After presenting the first runnable version back a few weeks, we put much time into writing a paper for the conference and now we hope to get accepted. Maybe, after being accepted, I will post some materials including videos and/or posters from the presentation at the OpenHouse day.
Now I am back to my main project on classification. I already wrote a part of the paper and now we (my boss and me) are playing with a few promising optimizations. Even better, I have time to visit the more interesting parts of Japan. So more photos are to come!
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June 11, 2009
AGAPE 2009
GeneralNano and I attended to the Spring School on Fixed Parameter and Exact Algorithms on Corse. First of all: the talks where just awesome. About every big name in The Field I Really Really Really Want to Write My Thesis In was there! Probably because Corse looks like this:
That was the beach about, oh, 50 meters away from our place. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!
I’m going to post my photos later on, the above was taken by Standa (a cool Czech guy we met there) whose gallery you really should take a look at — he’s a great photographer.
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June 2, 2009
What happens in Tokyo, stays in Tokyo.
Culture
To pack it into a few sentences: Things are just great. I am satisfied by my work’s progress and I am having way too much fun on and off the job. My biggest wish right now would be a 40 hour day so I could do everything I want to do before I leave again.In addition to my own work, I am currently participating in collaborative efforts to publish another paper. Two fellow students from Munich and I developed a prototype for a 3D-Frontend for Amazon. The Amazon database is extended by semantic information from the web and the system uses clustering to help people find shopping buddies. We will submit it to the Use Track in the ISWC’09.
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May 20, 2009
Fail-proof turing test
GeneralAbstract
We propose a new solution to the AI-determination problem, which asks whether a given computational entitiy exhibits human-like intelligence. Previous approaches where either based on a behavioral paradigm [1] or recognition by another intelligence (e.h. a human) [2]. While the former has drawn criticism for including non-intelligent mechanism, like the famous “chinese room”, the latter seems to actually exclude some human beings [3,4]. We therefore propose a novel, fail-proof Turing test that we claim solves these problems: A computational mechanism is assumed to be conscious on a human level if and only if it can get wasted, like, really wasted.
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May 13, 2009
Computer Science?
ScienceWe named our blog Science & Code for a reason (and I am not talking about the first name initially proposed by Michael): it captures the big ambivalence of our field of study. Many scientists do not regard Computer Science as a science but an engineering discipline — something I can only partly disagree with but which I nevertheless oppose strongly. The beauty of our field lies in its diversity, it affects about every scientific, economical or medical field there is. But this very diversity also makes it virtually impossible to convey a coherent picture of Computer Science, something we all know from trying to tell our family/friends what we are actually doing (my short answer to that is usually: “Math.”, but that is again only partly right).
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May 7, 2009
Do you feel offended, Punk?
General7:20 is my absolute favorite: “Are you offended by the photos of the priest with a women on the beach?”
Yes, do you feel offended by a couple of adult humans having a good time? Ah, but he’s a catholic priest, they aren’t supposed to have those… -
April 25, 2009
Cognitive mechanisms exploited
GeneralI just saw this almost one-hour talk of Andy Thomson on the American Atheist 2009 convention. He presents several mechanisms that make humans in some way perceptive and vulnerable to religious thoughts — brilliant!
(via Atheist Media)
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April 23, 2009
New logo
designI’ve been trying to re-design this blog for some time now, but a recent visit to logopond got me thinking — why not start by designing a logo?
Here’s my current favorite:
Pale in comparison to some of the genius found on logopond, but still good in my opinion. The balance is a bit off, maybe I’ll put everything on one line instead of breaking in between. Or I’ll scrap it. Judging by how other attempts went, that’s quite possible.
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