Posted by Notcot on Jun 1, 2012 in
Cult Film 
The eleventh Discworld novel! ; ; “Death has to happen. That’s what bein’ alive is all about. You’re alive and then you’re dead. It can’t just stop happening.” ; ; But it can. And it has. So what happens after death is now less of a philosophical question than a question of actual reality. On the disc as here they need Death. If Death doesn’t come for you then what are you supposed to do in the meantime? You can’t have the undead wandering about like lost souls. There’s no telling what might happen particularly when they discover that life really is only for the living…
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Posted by Notcot on Apr 29, 2012 in
Steampunk 
Jacob Burn: pilot, criminal and disgraced son of one of the founding families of the ancient city of Veridon. When an old friend delivers to him a strange artefact, Jacob’s world crashes down around him as he runs not only from the law but also from those who were once friends. But even as the array of machines and strange creatures stalk him through the streets of Veridon, something even more sinister and dangerous makes its move against him, an entity that will make Jacob question everything he thought he knew about himself and the city…
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Posted by Notcot on Oct 10, 2010 in
Gadgets 
It knows what you’re thinking. The amazing 20Q will leave you and your friends amazed as it reads your mind. If it reads your mind within 20 questions it wins if not you win! This is “Artificial Intelligence” in its most spherical form. ; ; Who Invented 20Q? ; Robin Burgener the inventor of 20Q is based in Ontario Canada. He began working on 20Q in 1988 with the game running on a 5/14 inch floppy disk. Until 1996 over 2000 games were played in this way creating the basis for the larger online experiment which led to the launch of the pocket version by Radica. ; ; How does the 20Q guess what you are thinking? ; The artificial intelligence behind the game is a neural-network similar to a human brain. A brain or neural-network is built from neurons connected by synaptic connections. A human brain has about one hundred trillion (100 000 000 000 000) synaptic connections. The 20Q.net online version has about ten million (10 000 000) and the pocket version has about two hundred and fifty thousand (250 000). The game uses the neural-network to choose the next question as well as deciding what to guess. ; ; How did it get so good at guessing the right answer? ; The 20Q.net Web site was created in 1996 and currently plays over twelve thousand games per day. The game is still learning through playing and analyzing the results from the games played to enable it to learn new objects and hone its skills on items currently in its vocabulary. Radica’s version of 20Q has taken the most popular items to create an addictive and sometimes uncannily accurate pocket mind-reader!
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Posted by Notcot on Jul 28, 2010 in
Handhelds & PDAs 
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