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Category Archives: Artificial Intelligence
Verschränkung: The Internet is a Schrödinger Device
The Internet is a Schrödinger device. On the interweb, after a while, things are simultaneously there and gone. They might be there, or they might not, depending on some earlier random event. On Kindle, when we look in the box, … Continue reading
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What is a Game? [Part 1]
What is a Game? Games are classified in many different ways and even after going round and round repeatedly, we still can’t seem to agree on what a game actually is. Here are a few examples: Some examples of casual … Continue reading
Visual-Syntactic Text Formatting
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen anything really new when it comes to presenting text, but this one looks like it has a lot of potential. Here is a link to the original article (the samples below come … Continue reading
The ID / AI Connection
I’ve noticed that quite a few big names in ID (Instructional Design: Papert, Schank, Merrill,..) have backgrounds in AI (Artificial Intelligence, rather than the other AI) I find this a little disconcerting. In some sense the application of concepts from … Continue reading