10-30-24 BACON.5: THE DISCOVERY OF CONSERVATION LAWS Here's something I've been wondering about for awhile now. BACON was an early AI program, from 1987, designed to find scientific laws. This is a paper describing its function. Here's a Ycombinator post about it. I found the paper through a link there. With all the hullabaloo about Ai nowdays, I've become interested in earier Ai programs, which are hard to find info on. It's out there, but it's burried by all the new excitment & services.
Bible Verse of the Day: Ephesians 2:2-10
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Search Service of the Day: FrogFind Have I featured this before? Even if I ahve, it deserves a mention. It's not really a search engine; rather, it's a front end for DuckDuckGo which strips websites of most of their CSS, encrypting, & scripting, so they can run on older PCs.
10-24-24 Search engine of the Day: Search.Marginalia! Another search engine designed to find small sites. Has a lot of information on the sites, like what otehr pages link to them. Can recommend similar sites.
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2 Samuel 7:22
English Standard Version
22 Therefore you are great, O Lord God. For there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
10-10-24 Oh no!
Archive.org is in trouble. Lawsuits, for one thing. And now it was apparently hacked & is offline.
In honor of today's date, here's the first movie Warner Bros made with Rin-Tin-Tin.
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Old-Site of the Day I've been interested in story-generation programs for awhile now. Today, I did a search for old ones, from 2004 & before. Found this "Lovecraft" generator in an old fourm link. Don't know how old the generator itself is, but the fourm post was from 2002.
And now for a different kind of horror...
10-8-24 Isaiah 43:11-12
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10-1-2024 Old-Site of the Day: Colorful Personalities With all this talk about AI of late, I thought it might be fun to explore older systems. This page records conversations between ELIZA, PARRY, & other early chatbots. Enjoy. Archived in 2000.