Gnod is my experiment in the field of artificial intelligence. It's a self-adapting system, living on this server and 'talking' to everyone who comes along. Gnod's intention is to learn about the outer world and to learn 'understanding' its visitors. This enables gnod to share all its wisdom with you in an intuitive and efficient way. You might call it a search-engine to find things you don't know about.

Gnod Music: Discover new bands and artists. Let gnod find out what music you like and what you don't like.

Gnod Books: Get to know new authors and find out what other people like you like to read.

Gnod Movies: Discover new movies, travel the world of film and discuss it all in the forums.

The music map is cool, but it works best in Internet Explorer.

It works OK in FireFox

Gnod - The global network of dreams

Nice lecture. Isn't the usual "use tables for layout stupid" and "Structure should be seperated from content" rant. This site actually shows you how to break an existing webpage down to its basic structure and built it back up with CSS, DIVs, and more.

I've been working today on using some Javascript to make the Recommendation page have more, but hidden, options. Inserting this into a page that uses tables for layouts is a bitch.

-Memestreams includes CSS defined inline with each page.
-Memestreams uses Tables instead of DIVs for layout. The main page is over 30k, most of it table formatting. I know Tom has a good Co-Lo deal, but the bandwidth savings here will help Memestreams users.

[ I only wish he had said : "The only problem with CSS is that all browser manufactuers are FUCKING ASSHOLES and don't properly support the spec. You'll spend more time dealing with silly goddamn tricks than laying out your page."

Fuck IE. Fuck Firefox, Mozzilla, Safari, and every browser on the planet. There's a spec. If you're gonna call it a standard, then bloody fucking comply with it.

I dare you to try and align a div with the BOTTOM of the screen. Check it out, it's awesome! -k]

Why tables for layout is stupid: problems defined, solutions offered

Kevin Kelleher suggested an interesting way to compare programming languages: to describe each in terms of the problem it fixes. The surprising thing is how many, and how well, languages can be described this way.

Some of my favorites

Fortran: Assembly language is too low-level.

Cobol: Fortran is scary.

Basic: Fortran is scary.

C: Assemby language is too low-level.

C++: C is too low-level.

Java: C++ is a kludge. And Microsoft is going to crush us.

C#: Java is controlled by Sun.

Perl: Shell scripts/awk/sed are not enough like programming languages.

Python: Perl is a kludge.

Paul Graham: What Languages Fix

The whole intuitive idea is word of mouth.

Recommender Systems, Collaboration, and Social Good

] The US military is planning to deploy robots armed with
] machine-guns to wage war against insurgents in Iraq.
]
] Eighteen of the 1m-high robots, equipped with cameras and
] operated by remote control, are going to Iraq this
] spring, the Associated Press reports.

] Mr Quinn says there are plans to replace the computer
] screen, joysticks and keypad in the remote-control unit
] with a Gameboy-style controller and virtual-reality
] goggles.

IMHO the word "Robot" should not be applied to tools that require a human operator. These are RC troops, not robot troops, and one wonders what has taken so long.

BBC NEWS | US plans to deploy 'robot troops' in Iraq

] LGL is a compendium of applications for making the
] visualization of large networks and trees tractable. LGL
] was specifically motivated by the need to make the
] visualization and exploration of large biological
] networks more accessible. Essentially the network is a
] graph, which is the data that you define, and LGL is
] responsible for showing it to you.

Soon to be played with...

Large Graph Layout (LGL) - Beyond Graphviz

] SHA-1 has been broken. Not a reduced-round version. Not a
] simplified version. The real thing.

All your digital signatures are belong to us.

You have no chance to survive make new keys.

(well, not really new keys, but you get the drift)

Schneier on Security: SHA-1 Broken

Jeremy wrote:
] lclough wrote:
] ] Jeremy wrote:
] ] ] This conference was held in Greece in May 2003. There are
]
] ] ] several papers of interest, including:
] ] ]
] ] ] Architecture and Algorithms for a Distributed
] Reputation
] ] ] System
] ] ]
] ] ] Hardware Security Appliances for Trust
] ] ]
] ] ] Trust Management Tools for Internet Applications
] ] ]
] ] ] Simulating the Effect of Reputation Systems on E-markets
] ] ]
] ] ] Trust Propagation in Small Worlds
] ]
] ] I'm looking for academic research pertaining to social
] ] networks and reputation algorithms within p2p systems, and
] ] rememebered this meme'd link. This should've been a real
] good
] ] starting point, but the link now stops at the SpringerLink
] ] homepage. Can you remember anything equivalent?
]
] You can access the table of contents for this conference at
] the following URL:
]
] http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=issue&issn=0302-
] 9743&volume=2692
]
] You'll still need access to Springer Link (usually through a
] university or corporate library subscription) in order to
] download the full text electronically. Many research
] libraries also subscribe to the hard copy edition of LNCS.
]
] You can access Internet web sites related to this conference
] at
]
] iTrust 2003 - Program
] http://www.itrust.uoc.gr/conf2/program.cfm
]
] iTrust 2004 - Call for Papers
] http://www.itrust.uoc.gr/
] http://www.trustmanagement.cclrc.ac.uk/

That's great -- thanks! What I'm looking for primarily is the list of authors. Trying to identify the "graybeards" in this area. In an academic setting the memes tend to cluster around schools of thought associated with individuals. An active researcher will have a lot of versions of his/her research concepts. Some of those papers will be hanging off their web page, or free repositoreis (like citeseer) or digital repositories for which I have a subscription.

Of course, if you know who the leading lights are in the field are, I could skip a some of those steps.

RE: Trust Management: First International Conference

Jeremy wrote:
] This conference was held in Greece in May 2003. There are
] several papers of interest, including:
]
] Architecture and Algorithms for a Distributed Reputation
] System
]
] Hardware Security Appliances for Trust
]
] Trust Management Tools for Internet Applications
]
] Simulating the Effect of Reputation Systems on E-markets
]
] Trust Propagation in Small Worlds

I'm looking for academic research pertaining to social networks and reputation algorithms within p2p systems, and rememebered this meme'd link. This should've been a real good starting point, but the link now stops at the SpringerLink homepage. Can you remember anything equivalent?

RE: Trust Management: First International Conference

] Moore's Law, as chip manufacturers generally refer to it
] today, is coming to an end, according to a recent
] research paper.
...
] Resolving these issues is a major goal for the entire
] industry. Under Moore's Law, chipmakers can double the
] number of transistors on a given chip every two years,
] an exponential growth pattern that has allowed computers
] to get both cheaper and more powerful at the same time.

Moore's law hits a wall at about 2021, when fundamental physics prevent devices from becoming any smaller. After that it will
be ncessary to take other steps (larger chips, 3D chips?) to continue the performance increase.

Intel scientists find wall for Moore's Law | CNET News.com