29 Nov 2008
Live demonstrations at ICT 2008 will include several robotic heads that show facial emotional responses to humans’ faces and voices. Of course, the first thing I thought of was Thomas M. Disch’s Fun With Your New Head. If I remember correctly, it was a user manual of sorts for bodyless human heads [...]
Posted in Life-Society, Sci-Tech by: hornlo
Tags: AI, artificial-intelligence, eliza, robots
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26 Nov 2008
Having seen Typealyzer mentioned on several blogs recently, I thought I’d give it a try. It purports to classify a blog’s writing style into one of the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator types (INTP, ESTJ, etc.).
I didn’t really expect anything other than an amusing random result since there’s not enough original content here to be [...]
Posted in Life-Society by: hornlo
Tags: big-5, keirsey, MBTI, myers-briggs, personality, temperament
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24 Nov 2008
VMware Server is great for keeping a copy of Windows handy on my Fedora Linux-based laptop. The only annoyance is that every time the kernel updates, VMware has to be rebuilt — although that’s just a simple command ($ vmware-config.pl). However, about a week ago I updated the kernel to version 2.6.27, [...]
Posted in Sci-Tech by: hornlo
Tags: fedora, linux, vmware
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