Archive for December 29th, 2005

How to make $1M in 4 months

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

This student has made almost a million dollars within four months by selling pixels on his homepage for $1 each!

Thinking Machine 4

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

This is a beautiful java applet that plays chess and displays its thought processes on the board.

The artwork is an artificial intelligence program, ready to play chess with the viewer. If the viewer confronts the program, the computer’s thought process is sketched on screen as it plays. A map is created from the traces of literally thousands of possible futures as the program tries to decide its best move. Those traces become a key to the invisible lines of force in the game as well as a window into the spirit of a thinking machine.