Do not know what to code

What does /prog/ do when it's bored and doesn't have any idea on what to code?

I have no ideas for any programs that I or someone else would find useful really, but I am so bored.

What do?

Code a CAPTCHA breaker.

>>1

I usually have more ideas than I can implement. And they're all shit. But they keep me entertained, so I can't complain.

>>2,2,2,2,2,2

make an ERIC RAYMOND

>>1 STATE OF THE WORLD, PEE?

-- esr

>>1
code a meta-circular evaluator.

Contribute to the ReactOS project.

Find a job. That will exhaust you mentally so that you don't want to code anymore.

>>7
I wish I could find one. Looking around a lot without much luck.

>>7

Haha, I know this too well.

Make an ncurses interface to posting on and reading /prog/

i recently made a game, where I can shoot a cow and the bullets were left as a mark, so the player could see where he shoot. The bullets also changed their colors at random.

OP, create a terrain engine, like in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSOQGazo7Oo

more realistic with 3d fluid simulation.

>>12
Never mind that, make it consist of voxels.

http://mind.sourceforge.net/aisteps.html

will show you how to code an artificial intelligence like

http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/AiMind.html in English;

http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/Dushka.html in Russian;

http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/mindforth.txt in English

http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/DeKi.txt in German.

You are now infected with Memes of Mentifex!

it doesn't even work

>>14
There is no polite way to say this. The author is a crackpot. Reading the materials he provides on his website, an astute reader will notice several things. Firstly, this person doesn't know how to design software at all. He also presumes that his reader knows even less than he does. The "AI" he proposes is nothing more than a basic for(;;) loop. (One of the primitive constructs provided by C, C++, Java and their dirivitives...). He is aware of some of the limititations of his design but is unaware of their obvious (to any intermediate-level programmer) work-arounds. Secondly, while he is happy to put lavish names, such as "Sensorium", on empty or nearly empty functions, he seems to be completely oblivious to the real issues a succesful AI mind must address.

He throws about refferances to concepts in the AI and futurist community such as the technological singularity but fails to demonstrate any understanding of what they mean. He claims that his design solves the AI problem when, infact, it hardly does anything at all.

He claims that his system is suitable for use in robotics, yet he has done no orrigional experamentation.

He continues to troll the usenet (sending between 5-7 messages to every AI and transhumanism related newsgroup per month) pushing his book and his lame ideas.. (If his ideas had even a tenth the merit he claims he would be world-famous...)

I am an AI enthuseast myself and hope to, oneday, publish my own work on the subject. (you can find some of my writings on my website). I do not have the audacity to claim that my work is yet worth anything because I have not yet made much progress. In general, you should stay away from all books on AI unless they are based on actual work that has been done in the field. Work, in this case, being either hard research on biological systems or software development efforts that have shown some type of results.

>>16
The "AI" he proposes is nothing more than a basic for(;;) loop.
To tell the truth, every AI runs inside some kind of feedback loop. Basically any AI (even degenerate cases, like ELIZA) reads sensors and writes to manipulators in a loop.

>>16
is it copypaste or usenet still exists

>>18

usenet still exists, faggot-2.0

>>16
link to your website?

>>19
1.0

>>14
>>16

...speaking as a computational biologist with both a machine learning background and a neurology background, this is "lol wat" to the extreme. He couldn't even get emotions right.

>>22
le reductionist face

i like his ascii-diagram

                            __________                          
            ___________    /          \    ___________          
           /           \  ( TABULARASA )  /           \         
          /  motorium   \  \__________/  /  BOOTSTRAP  \        
          \_____________/\    __|___    /\_____________/
       __________         \  /      \  /           ________
      /          \         \/  MAIN  \/           /        \
     (  volition  )--------<  ALIFE   >----------( SECURITY )
      \__________/         /\  LOOP  /\           \________/
           _____________  /  \______/  \  _____________   |
          /             \/      |       \/             \  |
  _______ \    THINK    /   ____V_____   \  SENSORIUM  /  |
 /       \/\___________/   /          \   \___________/  _V_
( ENGLISH )  ___________  (  emotion   )       |        /   \
 \_______/  /           \  \__________/        |       ( HCI )
     |     ( VERB-PHRASE )   ________          |        \___/
     |     /\___________/\  /        \      ___V____________
   __|__  /     |      |  \/          \    /                \
  /     \/    __V__    |  (   SPEECH   )--(     AUDITION     )
 (  SVO  )   /     \   |   \          /   /\________________/
  \_____/   ( REIFY )  |    \________/   /   |            |
     |       \_____/   |    /           /    |            |
     |          |      |   /           /   __V__         _V___
     V__________|______V  /   ______  /   /     \       /     \
    /                   \/   /      \/   / OLD-  \     / NEW-  \
    \    NOUN-PHRASE    /   ( audSTM )  ( CONCEPT )   ( CONCEPT )
     \_________________/     \______/    \       /     \       /
                             /           /\_____/       \_____/
                  ________  /   ________/    |  \_______/  |
                 /        \/   /        \    |  /       \  |
                ( audRecog )  ( ACTIVATE )   | ( enVocab ) |
                 \________/    \________/    |  \_______/  |
                    _________  /             V_____________V
                   /         \/             /               \
                  ( SPREADACT )            (   INSTANTIATE   )
                   \_________/              \_______________/

>>16
>Secondly, while he is happy to put lavish names, such as "Sensorium", on empty or nearly empty functions, he seems to be completely oblivious to the real issues a succesful AI mind must address.

they are not empty :3

http://mind.sourceforge.net/aisteps.html

2. Code the  Sensorium module of AI4U Chapter 23(2002):99-103.
Start a subroutine or module that is able to sense something  coming in from the outside world, i.e., a key-press on the keyboard.
First code recognition of the Escape-key (ASCII 27).
Next code recognition of the Tab-key (ASCII 9).
Then code recognition of the Enter-key (ASCII 13).
Take the ESCAPE-key handler or other mechanism of stopping the
 AI out of the main Alife loop and transfer it to the Sensorium stub.
Test the embryonic robot mind by demonstrating that the main Alife loop either waits briefly for Sensorium input during each cycle, or generates an event-driven response to input detected by a Sensorium module. The proper response will be to keep cycling upon normal input or to terminate execution upon halt [ESCAPE] input. Share your code on the Web.

>>25 he is trying at least ^^

looks like he's(?) already gone too complex though.. things like vision can be done, but just about need separate processors / or at least a core/thread(?) to itself..?

needs to be simpler..

=) but complicated enough to work..

Can a mind be built of a finite state machine?

...things to implement.. (jk)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_thought_processes

Typically I just code whatever my clients are paying me massive amounts of money to code, then I go to the club and throw around money until the hottest 3D pig in the place comes home to blow me.

>>30
You wish.

Code a realtime unbiased renderer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZFM4p3l2is

You can easily get impressive visuals without ugly hacks, like SSAO or fake HDRI, used in contemporary games.

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Slience

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Ernest : "YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN."

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>>14
Oh shit I'm infected!

Oh shit Mentishit knows how to BBCoad!

poor megan..

So anyway, thoughts on building a software-based mind..?

>>9 Okay.

Truth against you UNIX drones.
Your first pile of shit. Keep in mind that you're writing a shotty post on 4chan, not scamming people with a weight-loss program.

The best OS is the one with the most relevant software and the most hardware compatibility.
More shit. In my point of view, the best OS complies with standards like POSIX and also has good hardware compatibility. It's entirely a matter of opinion.

Even fucking SOLARIS would be "the best" if it had the software for it.
According to the criteria you listed for "the best OS", it would also need the most hardware compatibility. Try to be consistent in what you say.

Linux is a good OS in "theory". Until they can actually break through into the desktop, productivity and other relevant markets as anything more than a toy OS (android), it's still "shit".
More shit. The following point has just as much substance:
Windows is a good OS in "theory". Until they put a picture of Ballmer defecating like your typical Western human on their start-up screen, it's still shit.

>mfw I run slackware 14, gentoo with dev-kernel builds and Windows 8
>mfw you're still fucking retarded
That's just baby talk.

>>1 I suggest being less of a whiney, shitty baby. Try getting away from your computer for a while, and try reading a few books or talking to a few humans. It'll do you good.

Can it be done? And since i'm a sucker for a good challenge... Can it be done Here? =)

So first, What is a mind..?
I don't expect to build a human one (just yet), don't think my lappy has enough grunt for that anyway..
What about an ant brain? / something smaller perhaps?
What input would it need? / Desired output?

>>35

neural networks seem to be the most promising way

as i understand, metifex wrote some loop feedback system, the conception which is widely used without all those big words and which can be loosely compared to simple reflexes

>>39 ty for a serious answer =)
r.b.m's too are quite neat, but then you meet the next barrier(?)/how to automatically build them (& do so appropriately..)
mentifex is kind of interesting as a feedback loop since there is a black-box style human element (dialogue).. Don't suppose it would run in monolog // self-conversing system?

Check them out to learn programming  :

1) http://www.code.org

2) http://developers.google.com

3) http://www.codemag.com/training

4) http://www.mactech.com/bootcamp

>>40
Get biological: http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/11/30/1719238/spaun-a-large-scale-functional-brain-model

Seriously, I love RBMs and all other Boltzmann machines, but you're not going to find the answers to the great questions of cognitive science here. Start with a semi-inflexible but biological model like Spaun and work from there.

mentifex is kind of interesting
Dude, retard-kun is seriously fucking braindead.

Usually, I post bullshit on the Internet.

>>42 nice link =) see if i can scratch up some more info..

This simulation takes an hour to simulate one second of neural activity..

The model is called Spaun, which stands for Semantic Pointer Architecture Unified Network. It consists of 2.5 million simulated neurons. The model captures biological details of each neuron, including which neurotransmitters are used, how voltages are generated in the cell, and how they communicate.
from https://uwaterloo.ca/news/news/waterloo-researchers-create-worlds-largest-functioning-model-brain

abstract: mindmodeling.org/cogsci2012/papers/0184/paper0184.pdf

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>>46
Try again.

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