<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi David,<div><br></div><div>If you like Peter you might find his talk on our video site <a href="http://videos.syntience.com">http://videos.syntience.com</a> interesting.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm CEO of a research company working on an entirely new approach to problems that require intelligence. You can see two of my talks on that same site. Please don't circulate that URL too widely yet, since we want to add one more video to the set for maximal impact. We're working on what we call Model Free Methods and especially on our own MFM named Artificial Intution. See <a href="http://artificial-intuition.com">http://artificial-intuition.com</a> for an introduction. Peter's talk touched on what Google calls Non-parametric Methods; the example he gave was based on Table Lookup which is in fact a (primitive) MFM.</div><div><br></div><div>If you want to discuss what to study in the AI field you might benefit from reading my blog at <a href="http://monicasmind.com">http://monicasmind.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>We're on the Big Data boat ourselves. Our goal is to crate software based systems that can learn the way children do and actually *understand* what they have learned. Understanding is a prerequsite for reasoning, which is what AI has been overly preoccupied with until now.</div><div><br></div><div>Oh, I ran into Eric Baum last night at a function here in Silicon Valley. A nice place to be. If you want intellectual action, you have to live here. If you already do, check out <a href="http://aimeetup.org">http://aimeetup.org</a> .</div><div><br></div><div> - Monica</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Sep 17, 2009, at 17:10 , David Salamon wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hey guys,<div><br></div><div>I'm not sure which keyword you bid on, but your gmail ad managed to be perfectly placed on a recent College of Creative Studies (<a href="http://ccs.ucsb.edu/">ccs.ucsb.edu</a>) administrative email. This project looks awesome :-)</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm a big fan of Peter Norvig's, and in one of his recent talks he harped on the idea that young projects should leverage other people's data as much as possible.</div><div><br></div><div>Or to put it another way: since we now produce more data than we know what to do with, even small teams can make a big contribution if they focus on reuse and organization.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm sure you've already discussed it, but using all the open courseware lectures on your site would rapidly help fill out your corse catalogue... Interdisciplinary bonus points could be had by making it easy to see "what I just saw, but from a different instructor" (so Stanford's version rather than MIT's, then Berkely's if Stanford's also sucked), and by interlinking the videos (links to applications of what you just had explained).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Hopefully that made sense :-p</div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, I'm a 7th year College of Creative Studies Computer Science student with interests in:</div><div><br></div><div>* Machine Learning (Eric Baum's Hayek Machine, Hinton's recent work with restricted boltzman machines)</div>
<div>* Weirdo programming languages (smalltalk, lisp, ruby, haskell, etc)</div><div>* Direct Response Marketing (Caples, Collier, Hopkins, Ogilvy, etc)</div><div>* Cognitive Biases (<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">Cialdini</span>, Munger's Seeking Wisdom, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">Kahneman & Tversky, etc)</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">* Management (Peopleware, Mythical Man Month, etc, etc)</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">* Entrepreneurship (Stephen Gary Blank, Craig Newmark, Seneca)</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">And a bunch of dryer supporting subjects for the above that I'll spare you :-)</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">Who else is on here? Anyone near Santa Barbara?</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">Looking forward to learning more about you,</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">David</font></div>
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