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OpenCogPrime tutorial sessions official page on the wiki

What do I expect from this first tutorial?

What did I learn so far?

  1. Sep 10, Chapters 1 & 2, Introduction & Overview of the OpenCog Prime System [ log ]
    1. to add log of discussion with xfred (basically that it's advance but not usuable enough for me yet ? still what is the 2nd best option, if none then I should go for this one)
  2. Sep 17, Chapters 3 & 4, Knowledge Representation [ log (missed!]
    1. seems very close to what I wanted to build before (reference to work done in Brazil and after it, provide timestamps too)
      1. semantic / ANN base structure
      2. hypergraph > graph in order to match the natural NN structure
      3. statistic based nature
      4. detection of emerging sub-network and automatic creation of "condensed node"
      5. (add syntax+example of such actions)
    2. some crawling of Wikipedia could provide evidence for the choice of Hypergraph usefulness
    3. could be fun to try to map a wiki (pmWiki ? ;) over it
  3. Sep 24, Chapters 5 & 6, The Combo Language & The OpenCog Framework
    1. Moshe Looks' thesis and how MOSES could help to create knowledge by forming new cognitive procedures based on a mutation in a pool of existing one and evaluation of their results. "do not discuss evolutionary epistemology - the closest I get is the distinction between learning across different representations and learning within a representation - evolutionary algorithms can do both, but I show that the former is very costly without prior knowledge." (cf email)
    2. Lisp was a good choice for a language but the lack of lazy evaluation a la Haskell seems to be problematic (Qi, Lisp for the 21st Century could be an option)

Possibility of using OpenCog as part of a online Mashup

Converting from a wiki

Objective = converting my existing wiki to an OpenCog net and *still* be able to use it as a wiki ( to be able to use a wiki page as a node and thus make actions on edit a bit more interesting that ?action=edit with a web client) My wiki being data as text but also pseudo code or real code, pages being just nodes.

  1. opencog source tree
  2. src/guile/README for the core syntax (by linas to provide a better introduction, trivial wrapper functions that simplify this syntax a lot)

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