i don't know what kind of rock i've been living under, but i have never heard of alicebot which looks like eliza on steroids:
alice plus jabber could be a barrel of fun. [ alice via taylor ]
posted by e3
9:51:58 PM
"A.L.I.C.E. (Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity) is an award-winning open source natural language artificial intelligence chat robot. The software used to create A.L.I.C.E. is available as free open source Alicebot and AIML software."alice gets it smarts via the artificial intelligence markup language, which looks easy to extend. i'd bet it wouldn't be too hard too translate opencyc to aiml predicates. hmmm.
alice plus jabber could be a barrel of fun. [ alice via taylor ]
whooohooo! thanks lawrence and dave:
posted by e3
10:12:56 PM
"Last Friday, I decided to delay closing the site until I could lay out my exact situation and brainstorm with some readers different scenarios to keep the site going. Well out of that discussion, I am happy to announce a week later that I've decided to join the team at UserLand Software and to also continue my work on Tomalak's Realm. "
Business Opportunities for PHP in the Wireless Market:
posted by e3
10:10:50 PM
"The benefits of PHP as a server-side, cross-platform HTML scripting language are generally acknowledged.
However, PHP's advantages for developing wireless applications are less well known. PHP is a great tool to generate Wireless Markup Language (WML) for the WAP protocol, and cHTML (a subset of HTML) for i-Mode."
i didn't see this around, so i guess i'll post it here. if any one care, netscape released netscape 6.1 beta 1, which is based on mozilla 0.91.
posted by e3
10:38:11 PM
i haven't thought much about marv minsky since i read the society of the mind way back in the day; however, It's 2001. Where Is HAL? led me to this nice picture which does what nice pictures are supposed to do - sum up a thousand words.
who knew that san diego was actually cool, cloudy and dreary this time of year? not me.
posted by e3
9:36:15 AM
hmmm. blogger is acting strange and giving me a "error 500: HTTP post too long" if my posts are, umm, too long. strange.
posted by e3
8:47:36 AM
Microsoft Tries To Get Smart illustrates the obvious concerns that people are having with smart tags:
posted by e3
9:33:35 PM
"What's gotten people like Winer and others (link to photo of protestors burning the flag) riled is concern that Microsoft (link to Microsoft stock chart showing how well company is performing) might, because of its OS monopoly (link to article by anti-trust expert detailing why Microsoft is not a monopoly) be able to force its technology down the throats of unsuspecting, uninformed or apathetic users (link to photo of lemmings) who might not realize the implications of the technology (link to Microsoft XP order info page)."i don't know. this whole smart tag thing, juxtaposed with the demise of suck and feed has me a little less optimistic that things are going to turn out o.k.
i'm going west young man, going west and will be in la jolla for the next couple of days. posts may be sporadic. or maybe not. hi. ho.
posted by e3
8:10:22 AM
if you work in a software shop you've undoubtably encountered a development process of one sort or another. currently lightweight methods like the horribly titled, extreme programming, are all the rage. The New Methodology gives a pretty balanced overview of xp and its ilk:
"In the past few years there's been a rapidly growing interest in agile (aka "lightweight") methodologies. Alternatively characterized as an antidote to bureaucracy or a license to hack they've stirred up interest all over the software landscape. In this essay I explore the reasons for agile methods, focusing not so much on their weight but on their adaptive nature and their people-first orientation. I also give a summary and references to the processes in this school and consider the factors that should influence your choice of whether to go down this newly trodden path."while i'm the last one to line up for documentation, i think as usual it's a matter of not going to one extreme [no pun intended] over another as the good folks in Applying an Architecture-Centric, Iterative Development Process point out.
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