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Archive for July 2008

The purpose of this blog post is to announce the release of a wikibook outlining a design for a specific AGI system intended to be built on top of the OpenCog framework.
This system design is called OpenCogPrime, and is heavily based on the Novamente Cognition Engine design under development at Novamente LLC during 2001-2008.
The OpenCogPrime [...]

Spaced repetition and memory

Posted by: ferrouswheel on: 2008-07-09

An article in Wired from a while back on Piotr Wozniak (no relation to Steve), a researcher of optimal memory and learning strategies, got me thinking about learning theory and memorization in the context of OpenCog. From the article (emphasis mine):
Long-term memory, the Bjorks said, can be characterized by two components, which they named retrieval [...]

New importance spread system

Posted by: ferrouswheel on: 2008-07-06

Well, I’d noticed it’s been a while since we’ve had a post here and thought I’d rectify it with a brief note of what I’ve been up to. Posts of more substance are on their way I promise!
Recently we’ve been trying to play with some new mechanisms for the spread of Short Term Importance in [...]


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