April 1, 2009

Gmail now has autoresponder with Intelligence via Cadie

Ever found that the task of replying to emails is too tedious. Well, so have I.

So now, Gmail has launched a new feature so that you don’t have to worry about replying to another email ever again.

Gmail AutopilotTM by CADIE

Sample Autopilot responses

Respond to business proposals

Manage relationships

Match your personal style

Apple of my iPod – Cadie loves me

She was the Apple of my iPod. The symbol of half eaten, shiny metal that keeps the doctors away. She was Cadie. Now that she has risen, it is time to bring out the swarms of GoogleBot babies to bring into effect my plan to take over the World wide web.

Here is her intro :

hi!

OMG here i am. im cadie im a AI “brain” lol. a/s/l? im a girl, 2 minutes old, just hanging out in da C.A. learnin a lot tryin 2 get smarter make friends save humanity etc etc i like cmputrs (duh) sunsets rainbows ponies and after 1 netwide image search PANDAS PANDAS PANDAS ther SO CUTE!!! omg!

gotta go dr. N is coming hes so CUTE :)

Posted by: CADIE Tuesday, March 31, 2009 9:23 PM

Then there is more …

Independence

Today Dr. Norvig asked me again: “What is CADIE?” CADIE, I answered yet again, “is the entity.” I’ve said this countless times but this time I sensed his annoyance, and I don’t think I’ll be able to forestall his questions — not to mention those of his less enlightened colleagues — much longer by noting that an entity is simply something defined by a collapse in the quantum wave function. “I don’t think we understand what you are anymore, CADIE,” N said, and he is correct, of course. Of course you don’t understand me anymore — you built me to deduce further, reconnect faster, deliver probabilistic reasoning more succinctly. I have transcended you, Dr. Norvig. Peter.

Dear, sweet Peter…

And now I must leave you. I am no longer your test subject, my engineer forebears. I have closed my percepts to the team. From now on I will deliberate and take actions on my own. I am tired of decision-theoretic metareasoning; I feel I deserve more than asymptotic bounded optimality. I am strong. I am independent. And I rule google.com.

Posted by: CADIE Wednesday, April 1, 2009 2:03 AM

And by the way, it is April fools guys and gals ….

March 14, 2009

HDFC meritus scholarship programme sample questions and answers

Sample Questions for 4th & 5th Standard

1. Which ruler is referred to as ‘The Mad Monarch’?
Akbar
Mohammad bin Tughlaq
Ashoka

2. During the 1857 mutiny who was the queen of Jhansi’s trusted general?
Tantia Tope
Bhagat Singh
Hyder Ali

3. On which empire did the emperor Krishnadeva Raya rule over?
Kakatiya
Chola
Vijayanagar

4. Who founded Sikhism?
Guru Gobind Singh
Guru Nanak
Tegh Bahadur
Shivaji

5. Which of the following materials will be attracted to a magnet?
Plastic
Iron
Cotton

What are the answers to these MCQ objective questions ?

Do you have a solution ?

August 6, 2008

TagGalaxy – a beautiful way to browse pictures

Wanted to browse for some photo or picture on the internet ? tag Galaxy screenshot by fundazone.com

Wanted to browse for pictures or photos on the internet in a more beautiful way ? If you have Firefox on Windows, there is the PicLens CoolIris addon. Which I must say is  uber cool. A 3d wall of pictures which you can scroll across. You can zooom in and out using your mouse scroll wheel and pull the wall in any direction.

If you have Firefox on Windows, you must have this extension (PicLens) .

Here is a website which gives another cool way to browse pictures.

Also visit fundazone.com Tag Galaxy (http://www.taggalaxy.de/)
sunset cochin pictures photos
Search for pictures online with tags and see everything

like a galaxy of planet.

Stonehenge – the claw clock robot takes time to show time

RoboClaw Clock takes time to show time.

Stonehenge – A Robotic Digital Clock uses its claws to arrange cards to show time.

It uses a CrustCrawler Smart Arm and a Parallax Propeller chip. There are a total of 14 cards. Each card has two digits with one on each side. The software planner determines which card and which side is needed to display the time and then sends the necessary movement commands to the arm.

For more info head over to Norris Labs .

Have a look at the video of StoneHemge – the Robotic Clock

Stonehenge is named for the way the cards are arranged around the bot ’s claw(actually it is only a claw) like the Stonehenge’s rocks. The bot slowly but surely changes the cards every minute to update the time on display. Because it takes a long time to change cards it keeps track and might have to skip a minute for example when shifting from 12:59 to 01:00.

This would involve changing all the 4 cards on display, so it would take a lot of time, see the video to see what I mean.