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The Real Theorem Generator: a Context Free Grammar

I should probably document the real origin of the Theorem of the Day and Philosophy of the Day. Coffee and Henry David Thoreau are perhaps less involved than originally indicated.

The theorem generator was written by a good friend of mine, Matt Gline, as a project for CS51: Abstraction and Design in Computer Programming, which we took together as freshmen.

The assignment was to use LISP to implement a context free grammar — basically a set of rules for computer-generated mad libs. The subject was whatever we wanted. Good ones from past years include computer-generated mystery novellas, course-guide...

David Simmons-Duffin

Posted at 2009-01-21 03:14:02 | Blogroll | read on

Philosophy of the Day

New Philosophy

How it Works

You press button. Button tell robot hand “pick up Henry David Thoreau, move over next to pond.” Robot hand pick up Henry David Thoreau, put him next to pond. Result recorded.

How we get the philosophy of the day

David Simmons-Duffin

Posted at 2009-01-21 02:37:06 | Blogroll | read on

Honda Needs a Tune-Up

https://invidious.privacyredirect.com/watch?v=sJFGacuxcSM

This is the story of how Honda engineers screwed up a big expensive project with a simple arithmetic mistake, tried to fudge their result with sound editing software, and congratulated themselves for being totally awesome.

When I was a kid, my family used to drive up to The Pinery in Ontario, a beautiful park by Lake Huron. Very scenic. My favorite part, though, was a stretch of road a half-hour outside of the park. To discourage reckless Canadians from barreling past the houses and barns, the local government carved five sets of grooves in the road before...

David Simmons-Duffin

Posted at 2008-12-23 12:45:09 | Blogroll | read on

PhD finished! A thesis on Ambient Intelligence

Note: this entry is not new. It has been imported from my old blog and included here in order to have it as reference.
At last! Almost a month ago, on June 12th, I received my PhD degree after succesfully passing the PhD exam. The title of my dissertation was "A Reactive Behavioural Model for Context-Aware Semantic Devices".
For those of you interested, this is an excerpt from the abstract:
In this thesis, we propose a model for knowledge sharing between devices and for representing their behaviour in a way that promotes autonomous context-aware reactivity. In our approach, we bring Semantic Web...