dkondr

Вот оказывается что можно сделать с человеком!

2008-12-24T15:11:04Z

"Порекомендуйте нам внешнего клиента (компанию или физ. лицо), которому интересно обучение в УЦ ..., и вы получите 10% от ВСЕГО ОБЪЕМА ПРОДАЖ, который будет сделан Учебным Центром с данным клиентом в течение 4-х месяцев после рекомендации!"

Флот и не только в романах Патрика О’Брайана

2008-11-11T22:32:29Z

В книгах знаменитой исторической серии Патрика О' Брайана, можно найти немало фактов о кораблях эпохи наполеоновских войн.
В первой книге открывающей эту серию
КОМАНДИР И ШТУРМАН - Master & Commander - О’ Брайан знакомит читателя со своим главным героем капитаном британского королевского флота Джеком Обри и его другом судовым врачом и натур-философом Стивеном Мэтьюрином.
Романы О’ Брайана вдохновили многих написать специально о той эпохе. Хочу порекомендовать несколько книг по этой теме, читаю их с удовольствием:

Patrick O'Brian's Navy
Описание исторической эпохи, в которую жили Джек и Матьюрин. Много интересных фактов из жизни на корабле и на суше в те времена, а также замечательные иллюстрации!

'Seamanship in the age of sail' by John Harland.
Эта книга признана, может быть, одним из самых авторитетных и исчерпывающих описаний управления кораблем с прямым парусным вооружением (square rig sailing). В книге практическая информация, используя которую, можно научится управлять парусами брига, фрегата или линейного корабля!

Джек на скрипке и Стивен на виолончели – неплохо играют дуэтом не только Моцарта, но и менее известную, но не менее прекрасную музыку Locatelli, а также Баха, Генделя, Гайдна и Леклера, если можно так сказать, «популярную» музыку той эпохи.
Вот их репертуар, который в современном исполнении можно купить на 2-х дисках Musical Evenings With The Captain

Patrick O’Brain, Master and Commander – “легкости” перевода

2008-08-18T22:15:15Z

В качестве эпиграфа:
Чайник Simplicus обращаясь к сосуду непонятной формы: "Ты кто? Амфора?".

Patrick O’Brain, Master and Commander, Harper, paperback 2002
Патрик О’Брайн, Командир и штурман, Амфора 2005

1)
p.28
‘Why’, said Jack, filling their glasses and smiling through the wine at the sun, ‘it seemed to me that in speaking to Spaniards, it was reasonable to use what Spanish I could muster.’

стр.44:
-- Видите ли, -- отвечал Джек, наполнял бокалы и с улыбкой разглядывая их содержимое на свет, -- мне сдается, что я разговариваю с испанцами не лучше, чем немой с глухим.

2)
P32.
They know nothing of surgery, let alone physic; they learn on the poor seaman as they go along, and they hope for an experienced loblolly boy or a beast-leach or a cunning-man or may be a butcher among the hands – the press brings in all sorts.

Стр. 48
Они знать не знают, что такое хирургия, не говоря о медицинской науке. Они учатся ей на бедных матросиках. И еще они надеются заполучить опытного фельдшера, какого-нибудь мастера ставить пиявки, хитрована или мясника из числа матросов. В печати о таких пишут сколько угодно.

3)
p.33.
I wonder at it, for it was not as though he has no interest.

Стр. 49.
Для меня это удивительно – такое впечатление, будто повышение его не интересовало.

4)
p.35.
‘…He would have called an oath a childish thing – otiose if voluntary and rightly to be evaded or ignored if imposed. For a few people today, even among your tarpaulins, are weak enough to believe in Earl Godwin’s peace of bread.’

Стр. 51.
- … Он бы назвал присягу детской забавой – бесполезной, хотя и безвредной, если она добровольна. Присяги следует избегать, если ее вам навязывают. Но в наш век немногие, даже среди вас, морских волков, откажутся от сыра, если его надо достать из мышеловки.

TO BE CONTINUED ...

Flow

2008-01-14T17:17:03Z

Five C's:
1. Clear goals. Monitoring subgoals constantly.
2. Concentration. Focus.
3. Control. Doing what you need to do, not what you happened to do.
4. Commitment to what you do.
5. Challenge. Address it.

AI mail lists

2007-12-15T23:11:28Z

AI on the Web

dkondr @ 2007-12-16T00:39:00

2007-12-15T21:41:36Z

Kindle: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device

Behavior & emergency e-books

2007-12-15T20:56:28Z

The Situated Self
by: J. T. Ismael
ASIN / ISBN-10: 0195174364

The Framework of Human Behaviour
by: Julia Blackburn
ASIN / ISBN-10: 0415177820

Complexus Mundi: Emergent Patterns in Nature
by: Miroslav M. Novak
ASIN / ISBN-10: 981256666X

Emergent Properties in Natural and Artificial Dynamical Systems (Understanding Complex Systems)
by: M.A. Aziz-Alaoui (Editor), C. Bertelle (Editor)
ASIN / ISBN-10: 3540348220

Emergent Nature: Patterns, Growth and Scaling in the Sciences
by: Miroslav M. Novak
ASIN / ISBN-10: 9810249101

The Manipulation of Human Behaviour (1961)
by: Albert D. Biderman & Herbert Zimmer
ASIN / ISBN-10:

Evolutionary Explanations of Human Behaviour
by: John Cartwright
ASIN / ISBN-10: 0415241472

Nerve Cells and Animal Behaviour
by: Peter J. Simmons, David Young
ASIN / ISBN-10: 0521622166
password: 698xxm

Pengi running argument system?

2007-12-14T15:19:35Z

Does working code for Pengi 'running argument system' really exist?
Running argument system is described by Philip Agre in his thesis "Dynamic Structure of Everyday Life" (1988)

In this work Agre describes a system that maintains dependencies with rules accelerated by justifications records.
Propositions such as premises from sensors can (just once) trigger the rules which then create justification records for these propositions. When justification record is created rule does not need to fire anymore for the given values of variables in the rule that instantiated this justification record. Everything is stored in proposition database.

In his thesis Agre writes that a running argument system (started in 1983) "provided a language called Life, for writing rules about the critters and things in catoon world. ... initial goal was to animate Aesop's fable of The Boy Who Cried Wolf."

I am trying to find Agre's running argument system implementation as well as modern developments in this area.
Any ideas where to start looking for these?
Thanks!

1) "Pengi: Applying Eco-Problem-Solving for Behavior Modelling in an Abstract Eco-System"
Drogoul A., Ferber J. & Jacopin E.
in Modelling and Simulation: Proceedings of ESM'91, Simulation Councils, Copenhague, pp. 337-342, 1991.

2) "Viewing Cognitive Modelling as Eco-Problem-Solving: the Pengi Experience"
Drogoul A., Ferber J. & Jacopin E.
Technical report of the LAFORIA, University Paris 6, n° 2/91, 1991.

Eco-Problem-Solving

"The Smalltalk-80 2.5 Image containing Actalk, the Kernel and some examples (Blocks world, Hanoi towers, N-Puzzle, Pengi, etc.)"
drogoul@mac.com.

dkondr @ 2007-12-14T02:29:00

2007-12-13T23:30:40Z

Произведения, наиболее похожие по частоте слов на блог dkondr v. 0.8

Эдгар Аллан По: The Tell-Tale Heart

Чеченская война: Roy Conrad. Grozny. A few days...

Карлос Кастанеда: Misc. info. Bibliografy, interview... 1994

Нейл Стефенсон: Криптономикон (engl)

Сирил Паркинсон: Законы Паркинсона (engl)

Владимир Набоков: 09. BBC-2 [1968]

Perl: Perl tutorial Nick Silver

Александр Абрамов, Сергей Абрамов: Journey Across Three Worlds

Орсон Скотт Кард: copyright.txt

Салман Рушди: Дети полуночи (engl)

(c) stanislav_mikov
А какие произведения похожи на ваш блог???

Brain-attic

2007-12-13T23:08:10Z

"You see," he explained, "I consider that a man's brain
originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to
stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in
all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that
the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out,
or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that
he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the
skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes
into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools
which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has
a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order.
It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic
walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes
a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something
that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore,
not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."

" – Видите ли, – сказал он, – мне представляется, что человеческий мозг похож на маленький пустой чердак, который вы можете обставить, как хотите. Дурак натащит туда всякой рухляди, какая попадется под руку, и полезные, нужные вещи уже некуда будет всунуть, или в лучшем случае до них среди всей этой завали и не докопаешься. А человек толковый тщательно отбирает то, что он поместит в свой мозговой чердак. Он возьмет лишь инструменты, которые понадобятся ему для работы, но зато их будет множество, и все он разложит в образцовом порядке. Напрасно люди думают, что у этой маленькой комнатки эластичные стены и их можно растягивать сколько угодно. Уверяю вас, придет время, когда, приобретая новое, вы будете забывать что-то из прежнего. Поэтому страшно важно, чтобы ненужные сведения не вытесняли собой нужных."

Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study In Scarlet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Study_in_Scarlet

Game programming in Python

2007-12-11T16:43:45Z

Creating a Game in Python Using PyGame

learning python - Tutorial Index

Some books

2007-12-06T10:58:47Z

Daniel C. Dennett, "Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness (Jean Nicod Lectures)"

Douglas Hofstadter, "I Am a Strange Loop"

Alan Grafen, "Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think"

Brooks Hansen, Chess Garden: Or, the Twilight Letters of Gustav Uyterhoeven

2007-10-02T13:08:15Z

Rachel Funari (rf5838@hotmail.com), a reader, 10/23/2001:

"...Uyterhoeven believing that attributing cause to the known world limits our understanding of a world ultimately unknowable and lessens our experience of it. Uyterhoeven's letters to the neighborhood children of his adventures in the Antipodes parallel the spiritual journey that Uyterhoeven's lifetime is. It is the sheer beauty of Hansen's imagination as elaborated in the Antipodes that makes this book so wonderful. The land of the Antipodes is so sensually rich in detail and so breathtakingly original that I challenge anyone to find another fictional land like it. The philosophy of the book is one of integration--a philosophy that embraces individualism as well as humanitarianism, intuition as well as wisdom--and the spirituality of the book (god is cause) is one that enhances all religion or irreligion. If it were up to me, every person alive would read this book because it surely speaks to the artist in all of us and it cannot fail to enhance anyone's deepest spirituality and moral core."

"The Gist of Swedenborg by Emanuel Swedenborg"

Artist trading cards

2007-09-06T14:58:01Z

Artist trading cards
Art in your Pocket

How about "Robot-engineer trading cards", "Coder trading cards", "Writer trading cards", etc.?

Solitude as a Man's Diet or How a Porcupine Can Get Warm?

2007-09-05T09:38:01Z

In "Counsels and Maxims" Arthur Schopenhauer wrote:
"On cold days people manage to get some warmth by crowding together; and you can warm your mind in the same way—by bringing it into contact with others. But a man who has a great deal of intellectual warmth in himself will stand in no need of such resources. I have written a little fable illustrating this: it may be found elsewhere.(18) As a general rule, it may be said that a man’s sociability stands very nearly in inverse ratio to his intellectual value: to say that “so and so” is very unsociable, is almost tantamount to saying that he is a man of great capacity.

(18) Translator’s Note. The passage to which Schopenhauer refers is Parerga: vol. ii. § 413 (4th edition). The fable is of certain porcupines, who huddled together for warmth on a cold day; but as they began to prick one another with their quills, they were obliged to disperse. However the cold drove them together again, when just the same thing happened. At last, after many turns of huddling and dispersing, they discovered that they would be best off by remaining at a little distance from one another. In the same way, the need of society drives the human porcupines together—only to be mutually repelled by the many prickly and disagreeable qualities of their nature. The moderate distance which they at last discover to be the only tolerable condition of intercourse, is the code of politeness and fine manners; and those who transgress it are roughly told—in the English phrase—to keep their distance. By this arrangement the mutual need of warmth is only very moderately satisfied,—but then people do not get pricked. A man who has some heat in himself prefers to remain outside, where he will neither prick other people nor get pricked himself.]

Solitude is doubly advantageous to such a man. Firstly, it allows him to be with himself, and, secondly, it prevents him being with others—an advantage of great moment; for how much constraint, annoyance, and even danger there is in all intercourse with the world. Tout notre mal, says La Bruyère, vient de ne pouvoir être seul. It is really a very risky, nay, a fatal thing, to be sociable; because it means contact with natures, the great majority of which are bad morally, and dull or perverse, intellectually. To be unsociable is not to care about such people; and to have enough in oneself to dispense with the necessity of their company is a great piece of good fortune; because almost all our sufferings spring from having to do with other people; and that destroys the peace of mind, which, as I have said, comes next after health in the elements of happiness. Peace of mind is impossible without a considerable amount of solitude.

The Cynics renounced all private property in order to attain the bliss of having nothing to trouble them; and to renounce society with the same object is the wisest thing a man can do. Bernardin de Saint Pierre has the very excellent and pertinent remark that to be sparing in regard to food is a means of health; in regard to society, a means of tranquillity — la diète des ailmens nous rend la santé du corps, et celle des hommes la tranquillité de l’âme. To be soon on friendly, or even affectionate, terms with solitude is like winning a gold mine; but this is not something which everybody can do. The prime reason for social intercourse is mutual need; and as soon as that is satisfied, boredom drives people together once more. If it were not for these two reasons, a man would probably elect to remain alone; if only because solitude is the sole condition of life which gives full play to that feeling of exclusive importance which every man has in his own eyes,—as if he were the only person in the world! a feeling which, in the throng and press of real life, soon shrivels up to nothing, getting, at every step, a painful démenti. From this point of view it may be said that solitude is the original and natural state of man, where, like another Adam, he is as happy as his nature will allow.

But still, had Adam no father or mother? There is another sense in which solitude is not the natural state; for, at his entrance into the world, a man finds himself with parents, brothers, sisters, that is to say, in society, and not alone. Accordingly it cannot be said that the love of solitude is an original characteristic of human nature; it is rather the result of experience and reflection, and these in their turn depend upon the development of intellectual power, and increase with the years."

It is interesting to note that in "FEEDING THE MIND" Lewis Carroll talks about reading diet:

"Well, it is, I say, for us that the
consequences of neglecting the body
can be clearly seen and felt ; and it
might be well for some if the mind
were equally visible and tangible if
we could take it, say, to the doctor,
and have its pulse felt.

Why, what have you been doing
with this mind lately ? How have
you fed it ? It looks pale, and the
pulse is very slow.'

Well, doctor, it has not had much
regular food lately. I gave it a lot of
sugar-plums yesterday.'

Sugar-plums ! What kind ?'
' Well, they were a parcel .of conundrums, sir.'

' Ah, I thought so. Now just
mind this : if you go on playing tricks
like that, you'll spoil all its teeth, and
get laid up with mental indigestion.
You must have nothing but the
plainest reading for the next few
days. Take care now ! No novels
on any account !'

Considering the amount of painful
experience many of us have had in
feeding and dosing the body, it would,
I think, be quite worth our while to
try and translate some of the rules
into corresponding ones for the mind."

Can we say that both Schopenhauer and Carroll illuminate the universal idea of Man’s Diet which we may be extended from food to books, movies, ideas, people, events, places to visit, etc., etc.? In a meaning that there exist many things (books, movies, ideas, people, events, places to visit, etc.) that, when encountered by a man, most probably will do harm to his health?

dkondr @ 2007-08-23T17:16:00

2007-08-23T14:11:11Z

Verne's Nautilus
Models and speculation from the book data

A Catalog of Nautilus Designs

Zvi Har’El’s Jules Verne Collection !!!
Jules Verne Virtual Library
The Illustrators of Jules Verne’s Voyages Extraordinaires

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus - shell

RCV, ROV & Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

2007-08-23T13:14:45Z

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_control_vehicle - RCV
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remotely_operated_vehicle - ROV
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_underwater_vehicle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_gliders

Google: autonomous underwater vehicle

Robot subs head to the races
"Collegiate teams from around the country--and a few from abroad--are arriving in San Diego for a competition to see who has the best robotic sub."

Microsoft Robotics Studio

Steampunk

2007-08-22T16:10:16Z

Links:
http://www.crabfu.com/steamtoys/links/ - crabfu robotic links

Meccanoman - construction kits

http://steampunkworkshop.com/links.shtml

Steam:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_engine

Books:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Difference_Engine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age

Steampunk:
http://steampunkmagazine.com/
Wired: "Steam-Driven Dreams: The Wondrously Whimsical World of Steampunk"

Crabfu SteamWorks

Lights

Stephane Halleux’s Curious Creations

Discrete-event simulation in Python or just using Erlang?

2007-08-15T15:02:08Z

SimPy "is a Python-based discrete-event simulation system. It uses parallel processes to model active components such as messages, customers, trucks, planes. It provides a number of tools for the simulation programmer including Processes, three kinds of resource facilities (Resources, Levels, and Stores) and ways of recording results by using Monitors and Tallys.
The basic active elements of a SimPy model are process objects "

From "Erlang, the next Java":

"When you build a system in Erlang, you write a set of processes that communicate only by passing messages between them. There is no shared state; the only way to communicate with a process is to send messages to it."
...
"Unlike Java or Smalltalk, where you only write threads/processes when you want concurrency, Erlang programmers use processes for modularity, reliability, and reuse. Then they get concurrency for free."
...
"An Erlang process is a function that reads from the incoming message queue, pattern matches to find a particular message, and then responds to it. A function structured in this particular way is similar to a class in Smalltalk. Moreover, given several kinds of processes that have a common protocol and that share some things in common, it is easy to factor out the commonality into a function that they can both call. This is similar to class inheritance. So, you could even say that Erlang supports inheritance, though it does it very differently than in Java or Smalltalk. I imagine that many Erlang programmers think about programming as modeling. So, Erlang fits all the characteristics of an OO system, even though sequential Erlang is a functional language, not an OO language."

And:
What's all this fuss about Erlang?

dkondr @ 2007-08-15T18:39:00

2007-08-15T14:44:40Z

www.spaceandmotion.com: Metaphysics - Physics - Philosophy - Theology - Evolution

Arthur Schopenhauer

2007-08-15T14:38:56Z

http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/TextName.aspx?PhilCode=Scho
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/schopenhauer/#Oth

Java: "high order functions" >-)

2007-07-23T16:43:56Z


package dokondr.function.test;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;
public class FunTest {

	/**
	 * Java, so to say "high order function" map. Ugly? 
	 */


	interface Function <A,B> {
		B fun(A arg);
	}
	
	interface FunProc <A,B> {
		List<B> map(Function <A,B> f, List<A> inp);
	}
		
	class FunProcImpl <A,B> implements FunProc <A,B> {
		public  List<B> map(Function <A,B> f, List<A> inp) {
			List<B> resultList = new ArrayList<B>();
			for (A el: inp){
				resultList.add(f.fun(el)); //apply function to an element
			}
			return resultList;
		}
	}
		
	class Int2IntFun implements Function <Integer,Integer> {
		public Integer fun(Integer arg) {
			return new Integer(arg.intValue() * 2);
		}
	}
	
	List<Integer>  mapIntList() {
		FunProcImpl <Integer, Integer> fp = new FunProcImpl<Integer, Integer>();
		ArrayList<Integer> inpArray = new ArrayList<Integer>();
		for(int i=0; i< 10; i++){
			inpArray.add(new Integer(i));
		}
		return (fp.map(new Int2IntFun(), inpArray));		
	}
	
	/**
	 * @param args
	 */
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		FunTest ft = new FunTest();
		List<Integer> outList = ft.mapIntList();
		msg(outList.toString());

	}
	
	static void msg(String s) {
		System.out.println(s);
	}

}

ICFP Contests

2007-07-20T23:31:51Z

The 10th ICFP Programming Contest, July 20 - 23, 2007

The Tao Of Programming

Perennial ICFP Programming Contest Team: The Al-Gore-Rhythms

dkondr @ 2007-07-17T13:41:00

2007-07-17T09:41:08Z

Оцените перевод (с французского)

The 10th ICFP Programming Contest

2007-05-03T15:01:40Z

http://www.icfpcontest.org/
July 20 - 23, 200