Guide to Web Development – Level 2: Basic
At this point you should be familiar with the HTML tags above and you may even have a few other tags committed to memory or have started to use some…
Guide to Web Development – Level 1: Introduction/Novice
Before I begin I should just tell you what this tutorial is all about. At a web board called HackerHours.org a few people asked how to get started in the…
Programmer’s Corner: Website Development
I was asked a while back about the steps involved in developing a website. While it may seem like a simple answer to come up with, there should always be…
Artificial Emotion for AI
Emotion can be categorized as: happy, sad, afraid, angry, trust, disgust, surprise, anticipation. These groups are from Plutchik’s wheel of emotions. He postulated that an entire spectrum of emotional states…
Things To Do With a Supercomputer
For the purpose of creating a task list, the definition of supercomputer can be loosely expanded to include clusters, grids, clouds and all forms of conglomeration of a large amount…
Are naming conventions really necessary when programming?
There is a lot of debate over this topic. Are naming conventions really worth it? Aren’t they a hassle to learn and use? Can’t you code quicker if you don’t…
A Limit to Intelligence
In Singularity theory, we often assume there is no limit to the growth of intelligence. That may not be an accurate assumption. While we cannot currently define a limiting factor,…
Issues and Consideration of GUI Development
What is a GUI? A graphical user interface (GUI) is an interface to a system that uses more than just text on the screen. It can use pointers (such as…
Interacting With Intelligent Software
As our software embeds more human intelligence and more human behavior, we can expect to interact with it in a more human fashion. At one point, in the beginning of…
If the World is a Program
When we first learn geography we learn about how the world first came into existence. Some say that the Earth owes it’s existence to a massive supernova while some others…