21. GOEDEL MACHINE FAQ - FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Human machine learning researchers routinely prove theorems about expected A Gödel machine, however, needs to prove only what is relevant to its goal http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/gmfaq.html

Answers to some of the frequently asked questions received since the publication of the in 2003. Last update: 19 Aug 2005 machine home page Does the exact business of formal proof search make sense in an uncertain real world? A: Yes, it does. We just need to insert into the original software p(1) the standard axioms for representing uncertainty and for dealing with probabilistic settings and expected rewards etc. Compare the discussion of probability axioms and the definition of utility as an expected value in the paper (2003) . Also compare the overview pages on reinforcement learning and universal learning machines living in probabilistic environments. Human machine learning researchers routinely prove theorems about expected rewards in stochastic worlds - a machine equipped with a general theorem prover and appropriate axioms can do the same. The target theorem seems to refer only to the very first self- change, which may completely rewrite the proof- search subroutine. Doesn't this make the proof of the Global Optimality Theorem invalid? What prevents later self- changes from being destructive? A: This is fully taken care of. Please have a look once more at the proof of the Global Optimality Theorem, and note that the first self- change will be executed only if it is provably useful (in the sense of the present untility function) for all future self- changes (for which the present self- change is setting the stage). This is actually the main point of the whole self- referential set-up.

22. GOEDEL MACHINE HOME PAGE Goedel machines are selfreferential universal problem solvers making provably since the code first had to prove that it is not useful to continue the http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/goedelmachine.html

Scroll this page all the way down for abstract, papers, talks 's HOME PAGE last update 15 Sep 2005 Original preprint cs.LO/0309048 (2003, revised 2004): PDF arXiv HTML bibtex ... FAQ Goedel machines are self-referential universal problem solvers making provably optimal self- improvements. Related links: Optimal scientist Meta- Learning Reinforcement Learning Universal AI ... Online publications Inspired by Goedel's self-referential formulas (1931) showing that math is either flawed in a certain sense, or contains unprovable truths. OOPS and of non- self- referential Universal learning algorithms and AIXI and of Universal search and the asymptotically "fastest" algorithm for all problems and of our previous metalearners. Gödel machines can be implemented on traditional computers! No hypothetical super- Turing capabilities and the like. Is the GM conscious? Is consciousness the ability to execute unlimited self- inspection and provably useful self-change (modulo limits of computability and provability)? Then the Goedel machine's Global Optimality Theorem provides the first technical justification of consciousness in the context of general problem solving.

23. Machine Vision Seminars Prove Popular: News From UK Industrial Vision Associatio The UK Industrial Vision Association has recorded the best attendance figuresever at its series of free seminars run at the recent IPOT/machine Vision http://www.engineeringtalk.com/news/uki/uki120.html

News Story from: UK Industrial Vision Association Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial Team on 18 April 2005 Machine vision seminars prove popular The UK Industrial Vision Association has recorded the best attendance figures ever at its series of free seminars run at the recent IPOT/Machine Vision Show. Note: free email newsletter will have read this news the week it was announced. Send us a blank email now to join the circulation The UK Industrial Vision Association has recorded the best attendance figures ever at its series of free seminars run at the recent IPOT/Machine Vision Show. The seminars, now a regular feature of the show attracted over 270 delegates over the two-day period, each receiving a CD containing copies of all the presentations. The seminars provided an excellent mix of information for machine vision. Subjects included new technology for machine vision, infra-red and thermal imaging, open platform processing, pixel shifting and cooling technology for USB2 cameras, tools for fast solutions to machine vision problems, as well as discussions on IEEE1394b and integrating vision data to improve manufacturing process efficiencies. UKIVA Director, Don Braggins, commented: 'Not only were advanced bookings up by 50%, but the interest shown by visitors over the two days was extremely encouraging'.

24. Control Systems Prove Popular On Machine Tools: News From ACI (UK) The popularity of Anilam control systems with machine tool builders and distributorsas well as end users has been borne out again recently with comments http://www.engineeringtalk.com/news/ani/ani104.html

News Story from: ACI (UK) Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial Team on 18 January 2001 Control systems prove popular on machine tools The popularity of Anilam control systems with machine tool builders and distributors as well as end users has been borne out again recently with comments from Gate Machinery International Note: free email newsletter will have read this news the week it was announced. Send us a blank email now to join the circulation The popularity of Anilam control systems with machine tool builders and distributors as well as end users has been borne out again recently with Gate Machinery International stating that "Anilam CNC is our customers' preferred control". According to Alain Fidelia, managing director of the Watford-based company which markets Eclipse knee and bed mills among its wide range of machine tools and accessories: "We always give customers a choice of control - and for milling applications their choice is predominantly Anilam." During recent months, Gate Machinery has sold a number of mills fitted with Anilam two- and three-axis MK 3200 and 3300 systems - systems that combine Anilam's characteristic high performance and user-friendliness. The PC-based controls feature colour graphics, Pentium 166MHz MMX processors and a minimum 8 Mbyte RAM.

25. Can You Prove You Aren't A Machine? Can you prove you aren ta machine? Increasingly ISPs and other businesses areresorting to challenge response systems in an effort to provide their users http://www.spambutcher.com/press4/456273/

SpamButcher Spam Filter Homepage Cutting Edge Spam Elimination The latest advances in spam fighting lets SpamButcher catch more spam than similar applications. Free Anti-Spam Download - Click Here! Can you prove you aren't a machine? Increasingly ISPs and other businesses are resorting to challenge response systems in an effort to provide their users with spam free email Many systems only challenge suspicious looking content which isn't easily categorized as either spam or legitimate. A typical test will involve requiring the end user to answer a question about a picture or decipher some obscured text. This of course poses problems for legitimate automated email such as order confirmations and other notifications. If the spam tool doesn't notify the user about the blocked message - they could miss important information. While most spammers write-off mail blocked by this kind of spam email blocker software rumor has it some have partnered with adult content providers to come up with a unique work around. Users who want to view their sites have to pass through a page which presents one of the questions poised by the spam email stopper - the information is then passed back through the spammer's automated system - and the mail goes through.

26. Jorns Bending Machines Prove Their Worth: News From Shear-Form Machine Tools Norma CNC hydraulic 6000mm bending machine,supplied by ShearForm machine Toolshelps Salford based JWEntwhistle productivity levels. http://www.subcontractingtalk.com/news/she/she103.html

News Story from: Shear-Form Machine Tools Edited by the Subcontractingtalk Editorial Team on 18 December 2003 Jorns Bending Machines Prove Their Worth Norma CNC hydraulic 6,000mm bending machine,supplied by Shear-Form Machine Tools helps Salford based J.W.Entwhistle productivity levels. Note: free email newsletter will have read this news the week it was announced. Send us a blank email now to join the circulation Salford based J.W.Entwhistle is probably the oldest manufacturing Company in the Manchester area and is a long time user of Jorns Bending Machines from Switzerland, which they have operated for over 20 years to make roofing and building products. The Company has been in existence since the late 19th century and is to-day still located on the exact same sight. Since they were founded, their business has changed considerably, because in the beginning they were not only manufacturing steel mesh products for local industry, they were also involved in sealing embalmed bodies into steel coffins for shipping to the far corners of the Empire. As Chris Dunkley, Entwhistle's Manager said: "At the time HM Customs and Excise were closely involved and oversaw the sealing of every coffin.

27. Gödel S Incompleteness Theorem - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Since by second incompleteness theorem, T1 does not prove its Let T be aTuring machine which represents me in the sense that T can prove just the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel's_incompleteness_theorem

28. Minds, Machines, And Mathematics (b) F could prove the conditional If F is consistent, then G(F) is true ; It is true that for any Turing machine that accepts a certain class of http://consc.net/papers/penrose.html

Minds, Machines, and Mathematics David J. Chalmers Department of Philosophy University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 chalmers@arizona.edu Published in a PSYCHE symposium on Roger Penrose's book Shadows of the Mind in 1995. Penrose's reply is here Introduction 1. The First Argument expect F . One possibility is that F F is sound? Then we would expect that: (a) F G(F) (b) F could prove the conditional "If F is consistent, then G(F) is true"; (c) F could not prove that F is consistent. If our reasoning powers are capturable by some sound formal system F , then, we should expect that we will be unable to see that F is consistent. This does not seem too surprising, on the face of it. After all, F is likely to be some extremely complex system, perhaps as complex as the human brain itself, and there is no reason to believe that we can determine the consistency of arbitrary formal systems when those systems are presented to us. Penrose is much more cautious in his phrasing. In Chapter 2, he argues carefully for the conclusion that our reasoning powers cannot be captured by a "knowably sound" formal system. This seems to be correct, and indeed mirrors the analysis above. If we are a sound formal system F , we will not be able to determine that F is sound. So far, this offers no threat to the prospects of artificial intelligence. The real burden of Penrose's argument is carried by Chapter 3, then, where he argues that the position that we are a formal system that is not "knowably sound" is untenable.

29. The Four Hundred--OpenPowers Prove IBM Can Do Puppy I5s OpenPowers prove IBM Can Do Puppy i5s. by Timothy Prickett Morgan McGaughan saysthat IBM will deliver a 2U form factor Power5 machine early next year http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh092004-story01.html

Newsletters Subscriptions Forums Store ... Home Volume 13, Number 38 September 20, 2004 OpenPowers Prove IBM Can Do Puppy i5s by Timothy Prickett Morgan If you like IBM 's Power5 hardware, which has about as much horsepower under the skins as any server out there, and you like Linux, you are probably going to like the new line of Linux-only servers from IBM, called the eServer OpenPower machines. And if you like the OS/400 platform, like I do, you will probably be wondering why IBM can't give such a great deal as it has with the OpenPowers on puppy OS/400 servers. Putting out the OpenServer machines, as IBM did last week, makes perfect sense. The OpenPowers have something approaching X86 prices for what is arguably midrange OS/400-Unix iron. IBM hopes the OpenPower machines will kickstart customer and ISV enthusiasm for running Linux applications on IBM's Power architecture. Big Blue is hoping that it can ride up the Linux wave and boost the volumes of its Power5 machines as it gets tougher to boost volumes in the RISC/Unix market. This is all well and good. But the OpenServers may make AIX customers feel a little chilly, and OS/400 shops feeling left out in the cold. IBM has offered Linux as an operating system option on its pSeries Power4 server line for more than a year, and has been offering Linux within logical partitions on its iSeries line for several years. The OpenPowers are a little bit different, in that IBM is actually creating a machine that has an intentionally lower price and that will be restricted to running only Linux operating systems from

30. Commonwealth Conservative » More On The ‘06 Senate Race Why don’t you guys run Warner against Allen so you all can prove how much better he Leslie Byrne, and machine of women will carry LF to victory. http://vaconservative.com/archives/2005/08/03/more-on-the-06-senate-race/

@import url( http://vaconservative.com/wp-content/themes/commonwealth-conservative/style.css ); Filed under: Virginia politics 2006 Senate campaign by Chad @ 5:13 pm this gem Permalink 15 Comments What a stellar choice. 5:19 pm Comment by Will Vehrs 5:40 pm Bring it on, I say! Comment by Shaun Kenney 6:05 pm 6:30 pm really quiet about it. Comment by Waldo Jaquith 7:15 pm Comment by Will Vehrs 8:46 pm Behan, Second, thanks for your semi-kind comments re: L.F. Payne. He is one of the Dems. who has views and positions which would have gotten him elected had he been a candidate in a different year. 8:57 pm L.F. Payne is extremely sensible Virginia Democrat and could win if the tide is at all against the Republicans next year Comment by notvirgilgoode 9:24 pm Payne also ran ahead of Bill Dolan, FWIW. And now, a decade later, a rematch. 10:03 pm 11:43 pm During the 2003 General Assembly campaign, Don Beyer attend the county fund raiser. Weird political science, huh? However, L.F. Payne is another Blue Dog Democrat. ~ the blue dog 6:40 am 12:32 pm I wonder if Allen engineered Payne getting into the race somehow just so that he does have an opponent and can use that as an excuse to raise money before 2008.

31. Time Machine Is Impossible And I Ll Prove It. - SCIENCE Chat Bbs Time machine is Impossible and I ll prove It. Just that you could kill yourselfin the past doesn t prove that time travelling isn t possible. http://www.perspectives.com/forums/forum73/41883-1.html

Click 'new topic' to start a discussion, or the graphic to see other subjects. -rules- Red Cross spammers may be sued. -FAQ- Donations Search Members ... Home Search by username Not logged in - Login Register Message Board forum: life ... SCIENCE chat bbs Time Machine is Impossible and I'll Prove It. Moderated by: NiteHawk heatherly New Topic Reply ... Print Author Post Federalist Society Member Joined: Fri Mar 18th, 2005 Location: Did Someone Say Puffy Shirt? Posts: Posted: Sat May 14th, 2005 05:05 am Quote Reply Hypothetical Situation which disapproves any notion on creating a "time machine" Let's say the possibility to travel back in time is real. Well, then traveling back in time means an infinite of possibilities to occur or happen, and if you were to travel back in time and murder or kill a direct relative of older descent like your grandfather,grandmother,etc. then you would cease to exist and thus you would never be able to travel back in time in the first place.This possibility disapproves all notion of "traveling back in time" *So, let this be a lesson for you nerdo's and to save you a whole lot of time whose currently attempting to build a time machine, a time machine is only an illusion.

32. The Museum Of Unworkable Devices Perpetual motion machines and other unworkable devices analyzed to expose the they do this in order to conclusively prove their claims for the machine. http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/unwork.htm

The Museum of Unworkable Devices. This museum is a celebration of fascinating devices that don't work. It houses diverse examples of the perverse genius of inventors who refused to let their thinking be intimidated by the laws of nature, remaining optimistic in the face of repeated failures. Watch and be amazed as we bring to life eccentric and even intricate perpetual motion machines that have remained steadfastly unmoving since their inception. Marvel at the ingenuity of the human mind, as it reinvents the square wheel in all of its possible variations. Exercise your mind to puzzle out exactly why they don't work as the inventors intended. This, like many pages at this site, is a work in progress. Expect revisions and addition of new material. Since these pages are written in bits and pieces over a long period of time, there's bound to be some repetition of ideas. This may be annoying to those who read from beginning to end, and may be just fine for those who read these pages in bits and pieces. Galleries The Physics Gallery , an educational tour. The physics of unworkable devices and the physics of the real world.

33. Greet Machine To his credit, David doesn t have anything to prove to anybody and he isn t afraidto write passionately about what he believes in. Nothing wrong with that. http://blog.lib.umn.edu/snackeru/greet/

Referendums are the enemy of progress. September 16, 2005 Links of the day In 2004 The Onion mocked razor companies like Gillette for the number of blades on their razors and the competition surrounding that number. In this article, Gillette angrily announces their intentions to come out with 5 blades! Almost 2 years later, ... Considering joining the Church of Scientology? Take a look at the mythology around this "Xenu" character. Very enlightening, to say the least ... That's it. Have a great weekend everyone... Posted by Shane at 04:00 PM Comments (1) TrackBack (0) Links of the day No, I'm not dead... I just haven't had much to say over the past couple of days. So, in honor of my lack of things to say I will now write a stream of consciousness type post of whatever pops into my head: American Idiot is approaching "Bohemian Rhapsody" status for me. What a phenomenal song. 9.5 minutes of pure musical genius. Magic Street from Orson Scott Card. This is a very good book that reinterprets Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream by using the characters of Puck, Oberon, and Titania in a contemporary setting. Card is a master at re-examining old myths and beliefs and trying to glean the truth of them. Why did people believe in fairies so long ago? Is there an inkling of truth to these old beliefs? What would happen if fairies were still around today? I'm not sure this book answers all these questions, but they are the questions I have after reading it.

34. Statistical Data Mining Tutorials This tutorial concerns a wellknown piece of machine Learning Theory. We showhow you can prove properties of A*. We ll also briefly discuss IDA* http://www.autonlab.org/tutorials/

Statistical Data Mining Tutorials Tutorial Slides by Andrew Moore The following links point to a set of tutorials on many aspects of statistical data mining, including the foundations of probability, the foundations of statistical data analysis, and most of the classic machine learning and data mining algorithms. These include classification algorithms such as decision trees, neural nets, Bayesian classifiers, Support Vector Machines and cased-based (aka non-parametric) learning. They include regression algorithms such as multivariate polynomial regression, MARS, Locally Weighted Regression, GMDH and neural nets. And they include other data mining operations such as clustering (mixture models, k-means and hierarchical), Bayesian networks and Reinforcement Learning. I hope they're useful (and please let me know if they are, or if you have suggestions or error-corrections). Click here for a short list of topics. Decision Trees. Information Gain. This tutorial steps through the ideas from Information Theory that eventually lead to Information Gain...one of the most popular measures of association currently used in data mining. We visit the ideas of Entropy and Conditional Entropy along the way. Look at the lecture on Gaussians for discussion of Entropy in the case of continuous probability density functions. Probability for Data Miners.

35. Minds, Machines And Gödel Gödel s theorem seems to me to prove that Mechanism is false, that is, formal proof every operation of the machine is represented by the application of http://users.ox.ac.uk/~jrlucas/mmg.html

First published in Philosophy , XXXVI, 1961, pp.(112)-(127); reprinted in The Modeling of Mind , Kenneth M.Sayre and Frederick J.Crosson, eds., Notre Dame Press, 1963, pp.[269]-[270]; and Minds and Machines This I attempt to do. The foregoing argument is very fiddling, and difficult to grasp fully: it is helpful to put the argument the other way round, consider the possibility that "This formula is unprovable-in-the-system" might be false, show that that is impossible, and thus that the formula is true; whence it follows that it is unprovable. Even so, the argument remains persistently unconvincing: we feel that there must be a catch in it somewhere. The whole labour of Gödel's theorem is to show that there is no catch anywhere, and that the result can (113) be established by the most rigorous deduction; it holds for all formal systems which are (i) consistent, (ii) adequate for simple arithmetic-i.e., contain the natural numbers and the operations of addition and multiplication-and it shows that they are incomplete- i.e., contain unprovable, though perfectly meaningful, formulae, some of which, moreover, we, standing outside the system, can see to be true. must do, but with what it

36. Heller Ehrman And Venture Law Group Prove Case For RightFax And HP Heller Ehrman and Venture Law Group prove Case for RightFax and HP Even morefrustrating was a challenge common to fax machine users lost faxes. http://www.captaris.com/news_and_events/case_studies/print_Heller_Ehrman.html

Back to Normal View Home Case Studies Heller Ehrman and Venture Law Group Prove Case for RightFax and HP Heller Ehrman and Venture Law Group Prove Case for RightFax and HP Two prestigious law firms called their manual faxing methods into question. Both researched the best technology for servicing clients. Later, when the firms merged, they found enterprise fax and e-document delivery from Captaris RightFax, the industry leader had won both cases, hands-down. BACKGROUND Heller Ehrman is a full-service law firm that represents a wide range of industry leaders, from entrepreneurial, technology-driven enterprises to established, global corporations. CHALLENGE Long before the firms merged in late 2003, both Heller Ehrman and VLG maintained a commitment to excellent client service. As a result, both firms reviewed their respective communication processes and recognized the need to replace less effective manual fax methods. SOLUTION Upon looking for a reliable replacement to manual faxing, both Heller Ehrman and VLG found evidence pointing to one solution: enterprise fax and e-document delivery from Captaris RightFax. Using RightFax, companies can send and receive documents electronically from the desktop, email, CRM, ERP and other business applications.

37. International Robots & Vision Show And Assembly Technology Expo Announce Blockbu said the colocation will prove beneficial to manufacturing and For moreinformation on the show as well as other robotics and machine vision http://www.roboticsonline.com/public/articles/articlesdetails.cfm?id=1366

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39. 20th WCP: What Does Nozick's Experience Machine Argument Really Prove? What Does Nozick s Experience machine Argument Really prove? Eduardo RiveraLópezUniversity of Buenos Aires postmast@filpol.filo.uba.ar http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Valu/ValuRive.htm

Philosophy of Values What Does Nozick's Experience Machine Argument Really Prove? University of Buenos Aires postmast@filpol.filo.uba.ar ABSTRACT: Nozick's well-known Experience Machine argument can be considered a typically successful argument: as far as I know, it has not been discussed much and has been widely seen as conclusive, or at least convincing enough to refute the mental-state versions of utilitarianism. I believe that if his argument were conclusive, its destructive effect would be even stronger. It would not only refute mental-state utilitarianism, but all theories (whether utilitarian or not) considering a certain subjective mental state (happiness, pleasure, desire, satisfaction) as the only valuable state. I shall call these theories "mental state welfarist theories." I do not know whether utilitarianism or, in general, mental-state welfarism is plausible, but I doubt that Nozick's argument is strong enough to prove that it is not. I Nozick's well-known Experience Machine argument can be considered as a typically successful argument: as far as I know, it has not been very discussed and has been widely seen as conclusive, or at least convincing enough to refute the mental-state versions of Utilitarianism.

40. The Whole-House Machine - Discover Magazine - Science News Articles Online Techn Discover Magazine Issues apr05 features The Whole-House machine To prove automated troweling could work, he invented a small-scale machine for http://www.discover.com/issues/apr-05/features/whole-house-machine/

Magazine Subscribers and Discover.com Members Login Here Not a Subscriber Member Entire Site Advanced Search Discover Magazine Issues apr-05 features The Whole-House Machine This is why people think robotics are the future By Brad Lemley Photography by Sian Kennedy With a soft whir, the contour crafter’s head lays down inch-high extrusions of viscous concrete, one atop another, as a pie-shaped trowel smooths the surface. The head moves at 5 inches per second, which would create a 2,000-square-foot house in 24 hours. In a sunny laboratory at the University of Southern California , a robotically controlled nozzle squeezes a ribbon of concrete onto a wooden plank. Every two minutes and 14 seconds, the nozzle completes a circuit, topping the previous ribbon with a fresh one. Thus a five-foot-long wall rises—a wall built without human intervention. The wall is humble but portentous. “If you can build a wall, you can build a house,” says Behrokh Khoshnevis, an engineering professor, as he watches the gray mixture squirt out in neat courses from what he calls a contour crafter, a machine about eight feet tall and six feet wide. If all goes as planned, Khoshnevis will use a larger, more advanced version of the device later this year to erect the first robotically constructed house in just one day. Khoshnevis believes his contour crafter will revolutionize building construction, dragging it into the digital age. Today, despite the advent of tech tools like power saws, mechanized cranes, and pneumatic nailers, construction is essentially the same tiring, gritty job it has been for 20,000 years. Workers still have to cut, grasp, hoist, place, and fasten materials, which is why labor accounts for about half of a building’s cost. The process is dangerous, slow, and wasteful: More than 400,000 American construction workers are injured each year, and a typical American house takes at least six months to complete, generating about four tons of waste.

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