interintel's comments

On: Ask HN: If you have written and sold Ebooks, please share

[interintel]

After my 10 year old daughter came to me and told me that one of her goals was to learn how to program a computer, being a Computer Scientist, I was very happy to hear my child wanting to learn some of the things I knew, and I immediately started to look for something that would help her begin the process of computer programming.

After an initial search, I could not find anything that seemed appropriate, and probably more importantly, would keep the interest of a 10 year old. So I wrote my own: C# Programming for Kids and VB.Net Programming for Kids. Both are available from Lulu.com and other places like Amazon.

On: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

[interintel]

Working on simulating a complete nervous system (i.e. C Elegans Connectome) and connecting to a robot so we can see an entire organism simulated from environment to a simulated "brain". To my surprise the robot behaves in a similar manner as the worm; i.e. I wire the sonar to activate nose touch sensory neurons and when the robot comes upon an obstacle, it will stop, reverse a bit and change direction. This is not a program that tells the robot to stop, reverse and change direction but the connectome. This proves in part that we are our connectome. Furthermore, I have created a true "thinking" and autonomous inorganic creature. Currently I am analyzing the captured neural data to validate against the biological creature. Next I want to apply to an autonomous ground vehicle for exploration = throw a hundred of these guys out in the desert and have them search for minerals. Check out my work at http://www.connectomeengine.com

On: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2014)

[interintel]

  Location: Thousand Oaks, CA (Los Angeles area)
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Maybe
  Technologies: Connectomics, Neurorobotics
  Resume: http://www.linkedin.com/in/timothybusbice
  Email: interintelligence@gmail.com

Looking for the non-existent position of Connectomic Engineer, or anything applying my skills of neurobiology, computer science and/or robotics.

On: Ask HN: What project would you work on if you had half a year of free time?

[interintel]

Continue my work on connecting robots and avatars to simulated connectomes but do it full time and make some really cool break throughs, and more importantly, some very useful devices! http://www.connectomeengine.com

[Joof → interintel]

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