User talk:Chopchopwhitey

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[edit] Greetings

Hello Chopchopwhitey, welcome to Wikipedia. Here are some useful links in case you haven't already found them;

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Angela 08:33, Nov 9, 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Bio-inspired computing

Thanks for contributing to Bio-inspired computing! The article is very interesting. Keep up the great work!

If you have any questions, or you would like someone to review an article for you, you can always ask me.

—Noldoaran (Talk) 04:06, Dec 10, 2003 (UTC)

Yes, this a new category of which I have not heard. Keen to read more outgrowths from it. Is this currently active area of research for you? I am personally interested on how these computing approaches will be useful in explorationary ways, and in entertainment (esp. computer games). Brent Gulanowski 05:01, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)
It's an active area of research for me only in the sense that I try to read up as much about it as possible in my spare time--I'm currently doing undergraduate studies in comp sci, where it's hard to find much relating to bio-inspired computing. While there's plenty of the more traditional AI, the bio-inspired stuff seems to be kept to graduate level, in general. Sometimes courses from the mathematics department are more useful for getting a grounding in bio-inspired techniques.
Most of the topics I mention in the article have maybe been around for 10-20 years or so; I think simply the umbrella term 'bio-inspired computing' is a lot newer than the topics it covers. Even so, in relative terms the topics are a lot younger than much of traditional AI. As such they still seem to be considered more 'research' level, and more for graduate studies.
Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean by explorationary? ...As for entertainment, I'm fairly sure I've heard of neural nets being used for AI in some games--can't remember where though, sorry! The game Creatures used techniques along those lines for the Norns, but that was more an exercise in AI itself than a game utilising AI as a means to an end. I'm sure some first-person shooter must be using neural nets for bad guy AI by now though.
Artificial life plays a big role in computer graphics, particularly for movies. Something called Boids, by Craig Reynolds, in which the flight patterns of birds were mimicked with a few simple rules, was a basis for much of the flocking/swarming behaviour you might get in some CGI. Lindenmayer systems are also used for making nice looking 3D trees and plants for the movies.
There's probably lots more examples too, that either I can't think of right now or I don't know about. I'm no expert. Yet!
—Chopchopwhitey 07:16, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Lindenmayer system

Sorry for the delayed responce, I've been sick. The article looks very good. Your revision is much more organized. —Noldoaran (Talk) 03:10, Dec 17, 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Peer review

Hi, there have been some suggestions that we need to start cleaning out the old requests posted to Wikipedia:Peer review. You are receiving this because you have posted one or more requests that have been there a long time. When you have a moment, please check it out and remove the request(s), along with any related material, if you have received adequate feedback. Thanks! -- Wapcaplet 23:26, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Fluxbox

Regarding the terminal shown in the Fluxbox screenshot - that's Multi Gnome Terminal. You're actually not the first to ask that :-) Nice little term program, though I've since reverted to using rxvt (and blackbox).

Thanks for the praise on the auto images! They're not in use anywhere yet, and I guess I was holding off until the thing was done, but that could be a long way off. I've put a lot of time into making sure the stuff is fairly functionally accurate, but hardly any time yet into thinking of how to actually show how things function. Like, how on earth am I going to illustrate fluid pressure and movement inside the power steering mechanism? Using only still images? So that may be a while, unless I get some requests for them. -- Wapcaplet 00:04, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] IDM

Hello Chopchop, you've probably noticed the recent vandalism on the IDM page. I notified people on the discussion page and added the IP's that are responsible. Should I add them to the "vandalism in progress" page? Should they be blocked, and how can they be blocked? The Ip's are: 217.42.113.54/81.153.181.86/213.48.240.135/213.48.244.24

[edit] Will Oldham photos

Whoops, forgot to state where I got them from, thank you for noticing. I'll try to find them again via Google and post the URLs. -Gmcapt

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

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Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

[edit] Sustainability category/project/series

Hi. I noticed you have worked on the Sustainability page. There has been, as you might expect, a little heat recently at the Hubbert Peak page, and some of us are discussing ways we might better organize the information about energy sources and developments. Articles/subjects that we are discussing the organization/hierarchy of include Hubbert Peak, Energy development, Sustainability, Future energy development, Alternatives to oil. It occurred to me that you might have some fresh ideas about how to go about organizing a rational hierarchy, whether it be a project, a system of categories, a series, or simply an informal vision. Please give your input at the bottom of Talk:Hubbert Peak. Tom - Talk 17:27, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Nmather_passport_photo.jpg listed for deletion

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[edit] Image:Nmather_beartaming.jpg listed for deletion

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