Hello. I'm an experienced Burner looking for someone who by some miracle might have an empty extra spot in their RV. I'm going to be at BM the whole week but am flexible and can deal fine if the RV is only around part of the time.
I've been to BM five times so far -- 1995, 96, 98, 00, and 02. I lived in San Fran all through the 90's but then moved to Austin TX, and it got hard to keep going to BM, so I haven't been in 8 years. I'd planned on staying this year with Anat's Love Camp but there's no RV available there and I'd much much rather stay in an RV so I can sleep better.
A bit about me: I am a PhD student in computational linguistics (artificial intelligence, more or less). My passions are world travel, learning languages, salsa dancing, classical and jazz piano, etc.
Please contact me if you have a spot. Email me using ben at-sign benwing period com (substituting the at and dot characters appropriately) or call 5206616661.
Thanks,
Ben
multi-year burner looking for RV to share, all week or part
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JohnPaulQuilliard
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[quote="JohnPaulQuilliard"]Artificial Intelligence? Wow. That is cool. Do you try to "create" life like with "living computers" or do you just try to create like a more realistic "Eliza" program?
What ever the case I would love to meet you if I ever got the chance. Have fun no matter what.[/quote]
It's more like the latter. I work on getting computers to understand human language. There's are some people explicitly working on smart question/answering, but a lot of the work is more basic, esp. on trying to make sense of the ambiguities that are all over the place in language and that humans are so good at. An example problem: In a block of text, which previously mentioned entity does "this" or "that" or "he" or even "the", as in "the car", refer to? More generally, how do you extract the set of entities (people, objects, etc.) in a block of text and figure out when two or more different words refer to the same entity? E.g. depending on context, "John", "Jake's brother", "my friend" and "his father" might all refer to the same person, but in a different context, they might refer to two or three or four different people.
What ever the case I would love to meet you if I ever got the chance. Have fun no matter what.[/quote]
It's more like the latter. I work on getting computers to understand human language. There's are some people explicitly working on smart question/answering, but a lot of the work is more basic, esp. on trying to make sense of the ambiguities that are all over the place in language and that humans are so good at. An example problem: In a block of text, which previously mentioned entity does "this" or "that" or "he" or even "the", as in "the car", refer to? More generally, how do you extract the set of entities (people, objects, etc.) in a block of text and figure out when two or more different words refer to the same entity? E.g. depending on context, "John", "Jake's brother", "my friend" and "his father" might all refer to the same person, but in a different context, they might refer to two or three or four different people.
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JohnPaulQuilliard
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Wow you have my mind reeling. What if you had the person that was using the program answer a list of questions upon first start up and then after the machine answers a question there can be a link that says "I am correct?" or something like that.benwing wrote:
It's more like the latter (Eliza). I work on getting computers to understand human language. There's are some people explicitly working on smart question/answering, but a lot of the work is more basic, esp. on trying to make sense of the ambiguities that are all over the place in language and that humans are so good at. An example problem: In a block of text, which previously mentioned entity does "this" or "that" or "he" or even "the", as in "the car", refer to? More generally, how do you extract the set of entities (people, objects, etc.) in a block of text and figure out when two or more different words refer to the same entity? E.g. depending on context, "John", "Jake's brother", "my friend" and "his father" might all refer to the same person, but in a different context, they might refer to two or three or four different people.
You are never going to be able to get the slang right to start as those words change.
What about associating pictures with the words and have all three happen, Speech, words, and image?
What do you think? This is your field not mine. I do find it fascinating though.
I wish you all the success in the world with this. Man I hope I get to meet you.
So I am thinking about this, what if you say to the computer. "I am so happy with her right now." and the computer says "Her?" and you reply "My mother." and the computer puts associates mother in the array of words. Man this stuff is cool
