Older blog entries for superant (starting at number 88)

Working on Erlang for my Web Framework. ERDialog is a simple web framework for small home projects. http://erdialog.sourceforge.net You need Erlang, a web browser and the Erlang Yaws program to use it. Can load applets like calculators, graphics views, MPD clients and text viewers. Have come back to working on it during this summer break from school.

Working on a poster:
Modeling building blocks for language production and processing

This paper describes the design and implementation of software that models an aspect of language use. This software postulates that human linguistic activities can be treated as modules that can be assembled and joined together. This model represents activity of modules in the production of language behaviors. The model asserts these modules interpret sensory data and respond with language behaviors. This paper seeks to offer a unified model to explain language production and processing. The software demonstrates elements that are added and fulfill language needs. The model also expresses the coexistence of multiple modules that will interact and support each other. While this model does not offer a complete solution to all language use, it presents indications that language processing can be modeled computationally. Future work will be suggested to build on the model. ASIC Conference

My paper "Process Algebra Modeling of Human Communication" has been accepted to 2009 World Congress in Computer Science in July in Las Vegas

My paper has the idea of using process algebra and mathematical tools to model human communication for research http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/

WORLDCOMP'09 - The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing

If you are interested a draft is at: http://superant.livejournal.com/

Working on rwdtinker. This Ruby web gui framework has lots of applets now. music playing, text editing, gif showing, etc. http://rubyforge.org/projects/rwdapplications/

Need to get more translating done. Would like to have Japanese translation.

Have been using Compendium for the last few weeks. http://compendium.open.ac.uk/

I find it, for me, the best concept mapper, mind mapper. But, I hesitate to fire it up each day. It seems like such a big app. It is like launching the space shuttle. And I kind of lose my place in the different nodes of the maps I have going. I have a daily node, for my daily diary and notes. I have a ToDo node for the things I want to remember to get to. I have several Ruby programming nodes. I have an ebook node, local harddisk file node, contact phone and email node, and a book writing node.

I love the way it works and the reports it can generate. But perhaps its beatiful graphical layout is a drawback also? So it occured to me to take the limited text forms of rwdtinker to make a concept mapper. I will call it a Dialog Mapper. I am not sure of the exact program logic, But the idea is simple, I think. Record links and connections between ideas and information. Be able to find the ideas and trace forward and backward between links. Be able to output the information in useful ways.

This is a mashup between wikis, outliners, mind mapping and harddisk directories.

Look for the rwddialogmapper coming soon at http://rubyforge.org/projects/rwdapplications/

working on rwdtinker.

http://rubyforge.org/projects/rwdapplications

The idea of this ruby project is to build simple web forms to communicate with programs.

I have always had concerns about gui code interspersed with program logic. It is difficult to read someone elses program. And it is hard to port. With so much attention to MVC now, I think program construction is moving in the right direction.

I first worked on rwdtinker when ruby on rails was first being developed. It is a small simple gui system for those quick projects you need to get working in a few minutes. RwdTinker is meant for personal use on your own computer. Say you want to write a quick program to track movies you watched. It should only take a few minutes to handle gui portion.

Tinker was my wife's idea for the name. It is useful for tinkering together programs.

I have been so busy with ruby tinker coding I haven't read the book I picked up from the library. Null-A Continuum by John C. Wright. This is a modern update of the old World of Null-A books by A.E. Van Vogt based on General Semantics.

Poster presentation in Hamilton Island at the end of July.

ISBA 2008 (9th World Conference of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis) (ISBA) http://www.isba2008.sci.qut.edu.au/

my poster title is:
"Rule Tables for Animal Response"

Flying from Los Angeles on July 18

In this presentation I propose a model for calculating animal choices using rule tables that includes high levels of uncertainty.

Giving poster presentation at science conference today: http://www.wolframscience.com/conference/2006/program.html

My presentation is that 1-dimensional cellular automata can be used for modeling the correspondence between the real world and features of the arithmetic number line.

I will post a version of it at: http://superant.livejournal.com/

Flying back from DC on Sunday.

Used avidemux to create a trailer for the movie Serenity, based on Firefly that is coming out this month. SciFi action movie.

I edited down a Small Damn Trailer from Eric Olsen's Big Damn Trailer

A Trailer by fans for fans. 3.48 minutes, 56 megs.

http://www.superant.com/serenity/sdt2005.avi

Found it easy to use, but I was not able to be as precise on the timecuts that I should have been.

Am working on AI with work on RwdEliza. This little coded frontend using rwdtinker will give simple responses to simple dialog like the old Eliza program

http://rwdapplications.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?RwdEliza

The program now uses the Link Parser that was rubyfied:

http://advogato.org/proj/Ruby-LinkParser/

The long term plan is to parse input sentences and generate responses that are learned over time.

There are more than 3700 downloads of rwdtinker applications in the last 6 months. I need to improve the documentation and write articles to explain the framework.

My wife's mother died on Thursday. Why do I post when bad things happen? It was so sudden, we are not adjusted.