Tonight

[Ed Lepedus]

I intend to be at Prototype from about 7, working on my new AI/Neural Network software project. Is anybody else coming up?

-ed

[Peter Childs]

On 16 October 2012 13:25, Ed Lepedus <ed.le...@googlemail.com> wrote:

I intend to be at Prototype from about 7, working on my new AI/Neural Network software project. Is anybody else coming up?

-ed

I'll be there at 7:30ish.

https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=prototypemedway%40gmail.com

If everybody adds when they plan to be there to the calender maybe we can get some idea of who is going to be there when and also get some idea of how much the room is used.....

Might have to create a better UI for that to actually work.....

I'm still trying to teach my self Android Programming I was looking at wring a simple timer/stop watch app to get my head round how it all worked and try and get my Java upto date, I've been doing QT and C++ for too long!

Peter.....

[ed]

I've posted a blog entry to the website, if you want to read a bit more about what I'm trying to do. 

Also, as far as calendars are concerned, what do you guys make of this?

-ed

[Peter Childs]

We'll have a chat tonight, but in Broad terms to get you started, look up Parallel Programming and then look at Occam (Which is a language that has been heavily developed at Kent (Look up Occam-pi and Kroc)) I can give you names of Key Lecturers if that helps! Your also going to need to look at Functional Programming.

Lets say your aiming very high, my thought is since your doing a degree in at Kent Uni that specialises in something pretty close to what your suggesting, do your research, ask questions, and you've got something to look forward too..... (Unfortunally they have changed all the modules since my time so my saying C502 will not help you, who had to check I still had my notes which have not really been touched in 10 years.......), But I'm pretty sure its still part of the degree!

Peter.

[Ed Lepedus]

Yeah, I'm fairly sure it is too. At the moment, I'm just doing it in Java, as that's what I know, but the plan is to migrate to Occam once I get my head around it :)

[Peter Childs]

You will find it easier in occam. Dealing in threads is a nightmare. But any functional will do. Even python or ruby.

Peter

[Ed Lepedus]

Threads are easy in java 

class implements runnable + run() + thread(name of object).start() = threaded object :D

[Peter Childs]

Hmmmm you have not done anything about inter-thread communication. Locks and synchronisation. Which is where the trouble begins. Then you have live lock and dead lock.......

Then you can look at recursion

I can tell you enjoying uni :)

Peter