From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id A0C2B1EF69C; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 15:37:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu (mta1.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.23]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id A53DD1EF69A for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 15:37:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF5A9388851 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 14:37:51 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mta1.math.wisc.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id npmddZ7Vq3lI for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 14:37:51 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 303CC388777 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 14:37:51 -0500 (CDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on mta1.math.wisc.edu X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-99.0 required=6.5 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_50, USER_IN_WHITELIST autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from mailhost.math.wisc.edu (erdos.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.25]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 14:37:51 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [144.92.166.19] (vv507j.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.19]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mailhost.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2D9564288EB for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 14:37:51 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <53B1BC89.9020505@math.wisc.edu> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 14:37:45 -0500 From: "John G. Heim" Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: small super computer References: <53AF79A2.5030502@math.wisc.edu> <20140629023754.GA4657@localhost.localdomain> <53B028D2.5030601@math.wisc.edu> <20140629165747.GA3481@localhost.localdomain> <53B17D3B.8010006@math.wisc.edu> <20140630172651.GA4786@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20140630172651.GA4786@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 19:37:54 -0000 I would be willing to bet your house (not mine) that you don't need a super computer for that. It would be really embarassing to me if I lost your house in a bet. But I'm not so certain that I'd be willing to bet my house. For sure though, you should start small. You would need to develop the AI program first and that is going to be like 90% of it. By the time you get that done, we will all have computers with 32 cores on our desktops. I actually started working on an app to throw dice for me when I'm playing D&D. I never made much progress. But there are open source speech recognition systems out there. All I wanted to do was to be able to say something like, "Roll d20" and have it generate a randome integer between 1 and 20 inclusive. And if I said "Roll d8x4," it would roll 4 random integers between 1 and 8 inclusive and give me the total. Easy. On 06/30/14 12:26, Doug Smith wrote: > > > Ok, what I am wanting to do. research have you seen something like Commander Data, RoboCop, the computer on the Star Trek ship which can understand > speech in a conversational way as though we were carrying on a conversation together; intelligent machines to do some of the work around our assisted > living facility that causes problems for the staff, those kinds of things. If I can get some concept of the software going and have someone to build > the hardware, this or any time could be a lot of fun. Well, my friend, welcome to Future World as far as I am concerned. > > The reason I want something like that is because I know that the hardware used in these experiments would have to be really really fast and as many > cpu cycles as possible would be a good thing. I am just looking for something more powerful than the average for a research platform. > > > > Thanks. > > > > -- --- John G. Heim, 608-263-4189, jheim@math.wisc.edu