I personally prefer a bottom up approach to Artificial Intelligence.

I have been having many conversations about this in the past. A few days ago I decided to take sometime off "normal study" and take sometime to browse the Internet querying Google for different keywords.

I stumbled upon this old article which basically summarizes some of the stuff I have been thinking about lately. I do not agree with some of it, but very interesting read nevertheless.

Videos from the Synthetic biology conference in Zurich are now available online.

BTW: with the internet, conferences are not what they used to be. Nowadays it is common to get videos and proceedings, so what's left of the purpose of conferences? Maybe networking and having fun is what's left ... but that again might change in the near future.

We now give it for granted that neurons fire, and basically work (mostly) digitally. It is amazing, though, that they work digitally, given the fact that the incoming patterns they are supposed to work on are not digital.

There is certainly a great incentive in being digital :-)

I spent the past few days hacking my new HP DV6000 Pavillon laptop. It came out with Vista Home Premium but I wanted to use Ubuntu 7.04. It was NOT easy. It seems this laptop uses very new HW (wireless, sound, graphics) so I had to really find a solution for many issues.

The Internet is fantastic. With a good combination of Google searches and Ubuntu Forums, I was able to find out about:
- WUBI (to install Ubuntu directly from Vista, because the CD would hang during installation)
- NVIDIA new drivers
- installing the new Linux Kernel (Gutsy)
- compiling and installing the Alsa drivers