AI for Poker

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Daniel Crenna, one of the finalists in the "Made in Express" contest, felt I went too far in dismissing …

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Unpredictability and recognition systems

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On "On Intelligence"

On [On Intelligence]{style="FONT-STYLE: italic"} Sunday, May 28, 2006

9:11 AM On the suggestion of John Lam, I bought Jeff Hawkins' book On Intelligence and pretty much read it through in one sitting. That was possible because it's a very accessible book and also because, to a large …

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Editing and State Transitions

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Blogged from OneNote

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VS2005 Add-In Project Doesn't Appear in "Tools" Menu: Workaround

For me, the VS2005 "Extensibility Project"|"Visual Studio Add-In" wizard doesn't produce the expected result -- the add-in doesn't register itself with VS. I've tried this on two machines and it fails on both. Registering an add-in is done via an XML file with a .AddIn extension that (documentation indicates) should …

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Office 12 / 2007 Tied to MS Desktop Search

When you start the beta versions of Outlook or OneNote, you get a dialog box that says "Blah blah blah functionality requires Microsoft Desktop Search. Download now?" That seems dangerously close to using the Office monopoly to "tie" Microsoft's offering in personal search. Not only that, you don't even have …

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Windows Media Player SDK 10 in C# or VB.NET

The WMPlayer10SDK does not contain the expected primary interop assembly (PIA) so that Windows Media Player can be programmed from .NET languages such as Visual Basic and C#. The WMP 9 SDK puts a PIA in the /redist directory. However, the WMP10 SDK can be programmed in a managed language …

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Darn it -- dasBlog Posting from Word / OneNote not supported yet

Oh well. Being able to blog from OneNote is a dream. I had a whole bunch of posts using graphics and ink all set to go.

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Office, Vista Betas

Well, there goes my bandwidth for the next few hours... Office Beta 2 is available for all comers and Vista Beta 2 is available on MSDN for subscribers.

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