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#Github Collaboration process

Collaborating on GitHub can be confusing, especially because cloning a fork on your local machine doesn't clone all of its branches. Here are some instructions that make this process easier.

1. Fork project on GitHub
2. cd to desired parent directory on local machine
3. run git clone git@github.com:user/repo.git
4. cd into cloned directory.
5. Add remote upstream by running git remote add upstream git@github.com:user/repo.git with git@github.com:user/repo.git being your fork (that was just cloned).
6. Now, pull branches from your fork one at a time (ew... gross...) by first creating a new branch: git checkout -b branchname

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Classified Artificial Intelligence Projects

The United States Military and DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) potentially represent A.I.s biggest funders. For this reason I have chosen to compile a list of resources and documents that contain pertinent information regarding DARPA funding for AI, as well as suspicious or telling cases, rather than outlining a specific organization or event at this time in my research. For now, I am most interested in investigating the office of Silicon Valley Brain Spect Imaging but that may change as I gather more information.

Known DARPA funding for AI

• Apple's Siri
• Boston Dynamics SHERPA
• DARPA Brain Project

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Surveilling Covert Artificial Intelligence and Related Government Projects in the Public Realm

I was perusing the Federal of Information Act (FOIA) 2013 log when I came across an interesting request by one "Matthew LeDoux."

The request was for:

Documents sufficient to establish that DARPA has had a secret relationship with the office of Silicon Valley Brain Spect Imaging in order to conduct secret experiments on patients of that clinic without their consent: These experiments are related to DARPA's goal of developing technologies of artificially reducing the need for sleep

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Conversation

Person 1
1: "Do you feel better?"

Person 2
2: "Yeah, a little cleaner"

Person 2

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Artificial Intelligence and Algorithms Final

For my final project, I have continued work on the Exchatter framework. Exchatter is a Node.js framework for creating personalized chat bots.

How it works

While Exchatter is far from complete, my project exhibits some of the core algorithms that will be used in the release such as:

• Text normalization
• Cosine Similarity
• Levinshtein Distance

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main.js:

var data = {
    foo: "bar",
    val: $('#text-to-send').val()
}

$('#set-text').on('click', function() {
 var $this = $(this);

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Diamond Diamond Version 0.5 BETA, 4/8/13
This software has copyright by Brannon Dorsey under the CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 License. licensing information can be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/.

//----------------ABOUT-------------------

Diamond Diamond is a free artware tool that allows users to create poetic images using their own text and pictures. It aims to incorporate a balance of randomness and control over its content, leading users to draw inspiration from and make associations with imagery and language in new ways. 

//---------------USING DIAMOND DIAMOND-------------------

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An Open Letter to Young Software Authors

By Brannon Dorsey

I harbor a great fear that we have become overwhelmingly misguided in our mass popularization of networked computing and large-scale reliance/transcendence of proprietary software into our personal and social lives. We have strayed far from some of the revolutionary ideas from which the internet and personal computing were birthed and if our present trajectory is left unaltered the technological future we will find ourselves in is not overwhelmingly bright. It is for this reason that I feel compelled to speak up, asking much from young software authors like myself that are finding their skills so ever more in-demand and who I know care so deeply for the future of a media in which they have found such connection, challenge, and personal achievement.

For them (and others), this document is intended to present a perspective of technological positivism at its core layered deeply under a mantle of skepticism regarding aggr

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Crystal Palace

Exhibition Palace at the Great Exhibition (or the first Worlds Fair) in London in 1854.

More images here.

The Worlds Fairs served as the 19th century's largest gatherings producing perhaps the largest crowds in the entirety of the history that proceeded them. They provided the need for security and a "watchful gaze" that was unprecedented.

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//
//  Butterfly.cpp
//  ButterflyTest
//
//  Created by bdorse on 4/16/15.
//
//

#include "Butterfly.h"