Alberto Bustamante

Short film – Error 0036

Posted by Alberto - 16/05/12 at 09:05:58 pm

Madrid, year 2057. Technology provides humans with a life full of comforts and… without errors? Jorge Arellano, a normal guy, will find himself trapped in his house by the same devices that guaranteed his security. How will a man used to machines solving all his problems react to this situation?

Albert Einstein and crisis

Posted by Alberto - 12/05/12 at 02:05:33 pm

I have found this text while reviewing some materials of a course I took some time ago. It contains Albert Einstein’s thoughts about the opportunity that crisis means in terms of creativity.

Let’s not pretend that things will change if we keep doing the same things. A crisis can be a real blessing to any person, to any nation. For all crises bring progress. Creativity is born from anguish. Just like the day is born form the dark night. It’s in crisis that inventive is born, as well as discoveries, and big strategies. He who overcomes crisis, overcomes himself, without getting overcome.

He who blames his failure to a crisis neglects his own talent, and is more respectful to problems than to solutions. Incompetence is the the true crisis. The greatest inconvenience of people and nations is the laziness with which they attempt to find the solutions to their problems. There’s no challenge without a crisis. Without challenges, life becomes a routine, a slow agony. There’s no merits without crisis. It’s in the crisis where we can show the very best in us. Without a crisis, any wind becomes a tender touch. To speak about a crisis is to promote it. Not to speak about it is to exalt conformism. Let us work hard instead. Let us stop, once and for all, the menacing crisis that represents the tragedy of not being willing to overcome it.

Albert Einstein

eBook – Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning

Posted by Alberto - 20/02/12 at 02:02:39 am

One of the objectives of this blog is to gather interesting resources about Artificial Intelligence. So today, I want to share with you that David Barber, professor of the Computer Science department at University College of London, offers a free online version of his book “Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning“.

Makefile: commands commence before first target

Posted by Alberto - 03/02/12 at 06:02:15 pm

If you are using make for compiling your code and you get this error:

Makefile: commands commence before first target. Stop.

Open your Makefile, and check if you included a space after a backslash when defining a variable in several lines, i.e.:

VARIABLE = value1 \
value2

Introduction to AI, done!

Posted by Alberto - 03/01/12 at 02:01:12 am

Well, I did it, I passed “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence”! I really enjoyed the experience. Although I was expecting an introductory course, I think its content is very wide. I have learnt more than I expected. Next stop: the Machine Learning course starting this month.

GCC, GNU compiler collection

Posted by Alberto - 01/10/11 at 11:10:46 am

I was taking a look at some old files in my computer and I found some slides about GCC (set of compilers developed by The GNU Project and Free Software Foundation) that I presented in the University in 2006 for the Language Processing course. Although they were written some years ago, I think the content of these slides is still valid, so I have upload them to Slideshare, hoping someone will find them useful.

GCC, GNU compiler collection

View more presentations from albbus.

More free courses at Stanford!

Posted by Alberto - 19/08/11 at 01:08:22 am

My last post was dedicated to Stanford University and its initiative of offering a free online version of the course “Introduction to AI”. Well, now we have good news: “Machine learning” and “Introduction to databases” are going to share this experiment, so next Autumn there will be three free online course to choose from!

Free Stanford course: “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence”

Posted by Alberto - 07/08/11 at 05:08:43 pm

I have read in Barrapunto (the Spanish version of Slashdot) about an interesting experiencie at Stanford University. Professors Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig (co-autor of “Artificial Intelligence, a modern approach”, the “bible” that everyone studying IA has read) are offering a free online version of their course “Introduction to AI”.

This University have published different courses in iTunesU or Youtube (I talked about one of them before, “Machine Learning”). But in this case, they are going one step beyond: all online students will be evaluated, they will have to do the same exercices and exams than Stanford students. And if they pass the course, they will obtain a certificate. And this is for free.

I have signed up to receive more information about this course, it can be an interesting experience.

Predator: learning applied to visual tracking

Posted by Alberto - 04/05/11 at 12:05:34 am

Predator is an open source software developed by Zdenek Kalal at University of Surrey (UK), that uses learning to improve the visual object tracking process.

There are more videos availables in youtube.

Via ALT1040

April Fool´s Day and Linkedin

Posted by Alberto - 05/04/11 at 07:04:49 pm

We dont celebrate April Fool´s Day in Spain (well, we do it on 28th December), so you can imagine my face when last friday I saw these recomendations on Linkedin:

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