With all my AI posts lately, I'm sorry I hadn't realized that the May 2006 issue of the CACM had a theme on the language-action perspective, a critique by Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores that dates from 1986 whose essential point the CACM summarizes neatly:

[S]killful action always occurs …

I tried to add one of those "action bars" under my posts -- you know "email it! | digg it! | del.icio.us it!" but couldn't get the dasBlog template to work. The \<%permalink%> macro expands, not to a URI, but to HTML.

Update:

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Exploring Artificial Intelligence is an exciting prospect for non-professional programming (it's a quite rare part of professional programming). Rather than criticize others for being On Intelligence) Architecture on Tic-Tac-Toe

Naturally Speaking 8 ), the underlying processing is still realtime (and, last time I checked, single threaded). This is foolish! I would …

Apparently the North Koreans aimed their Taepodong towards Hawaii . I'll bet anything that our congressmen will demand an anti-missile base now. Sigh.

So I decided to register a piece of shareware, but when I went to the publisher's site, their domain had expired. Well, thinks I, I reckon that's a situation for which "cracking" the protection is reasonable. So I open the assembly in Reflector and...

So this is what I want …

Greatest. Pillow. Ever.

Edward Tufte's new book, Beautiful Evidence, is now available on Amazon. As The Elements of Style is to writing The Visual Display of Quantitative Information is to visual design. I don't think that Tufte has ever quite reached that level again, but that's a testament to TVDoQI, not a damning …

Rick Strom has a nice page showing how he used genetic programming to create a path-finding algorithm. This is real genetic programming, which differs from a genetic algorithm in that GP evolves an actual behavior tree of (potentially) arbitrary size, while a GA evolves the optimal parameters for a complex …

Colin Coller's "Copy Source as HTML" is, without a doubt, worth the download. It now supports Visual Studio 2005.

Interested in writing a domain-specific language for the CLR? Explore:

Microsoft DSL Toolkit CTP : This is a step towards Microsoft's Software Factories concept (which seems to be gaining buzz at the marketing level even though I'm not sure that the "factories" being released are actually aligned with the technical concept …