My Carnaval is a Mockup

Well, not really but right now I'm working in some mockups for my new project, still a secret but I can say most of my friends that read or talked witk me about that said that is a awesome idea. Or they really love me to the point of listening and giving support to my crap ideas. And as the title say, right now in Brasil is Carnaval holyday, to me a day like any other. But here in Brasil there's a, how I say that, a (bad) common sense...from christmas to carnaval everyone works at a light pace. People goes to vacation, kids in home, weekends barbecues or going to the beach. And anything really important can wait until Carnaval is over. I'm not saying even the crise, but close to it. Anyway, my Carnaval, instead of wasting time I'm going to study a lot and make my mockups. But to be honest I don't think that Carnaval, as a holyday, is a waste of time. I just don't like the "feeling" associated to it. I'm not a Carnaval people anyway. =/

Wake up song...or Damn Annoying Cuco that ignores a morning sunday

5a.m early morning. To be honest I'm going back to bed as soon as I finished to write this. For god sake normally 5a.m was my bedtime back in my student life, good times. Well, I'm not here to prove that I'm not a morning person instead I just organized my "research" material (papers, tutorials, essays, websites...). Right now I need to define my priorities, so here a list of what I got:

• XML: To be honest I know XML, but I need to review XSLT, XPath and XML Schema.


• Ontology: I do love Data Organization and how each component is related. I'm going to review some concepts and later RDF and OWL.


• Ruby: Well I just started reading and writing code in ruby so I'm going to do a "full-course" here. I got a lot of tutorials, examples and the API documentation.


• AI in Games: Ok, not only game but I guess this a good place to start.


• Game Dev: Mostly related to Ruby and XNA (Microsoft). I'm thinking in a RPG plataform like Final Fantasy Tactics, Fire Emblem, a tactical militar game with resources control or a Starcraft/Red Alert Game but Turn-based.


• Japanese: I need to review Hiragana, start Katakana and learning some basics words and sentences. Sadly my favorite language course (iknow.co.jp) can only be accessed through a web browser and I don't how long I'm going to have internet access here.

Anyway, I guess I have a lot of things to read and learn for the next few weeks. This week I should start reading ruby on rails and writing some code, reviewing XML or reading about AI concepts when i need some time away from the big bright red gem. I got a japanese e-book here but I still need to review my hiragana before reading it. I guess I'm going to search today (again) for a hiragana flashcard program. I have two programs here but I have to say: they sucks a lot.

Time to go back to my bed. o/

Do Re Mi

Well, I couldn't think on a better title for this. Ok, that is a obvious lie, surely I could say...brief note, short notice or even I'm here to say that I'm going to post not only in Portuguese but also in English. But I couldn't make it somehow related to music, you know, maybe using a ~ or some symbol. 

Well, considering that I'm going to study Ruby on Rails to develop a AI for my game (RPG like Final Fantasy Tactics, Disgaea, Fire Emblem, Shinning Force...), I guess that experience should be shared. For example, today I searched AI algorithms implemented on Ruby and found two libs (or gems) that should keep me busy for awhile: ai4r and english. English (english.rubyforge.org) is a text/language processor while the ai4r (ai4r.rubyforge.org/) is a collection of AI algorithms, im my case I'm interested on the Neural Net implementation and Genetic Algorithm. Because of my MSc. in Computer Science, I guess I'm going to search for algorithms related to Bayesian Inference. Also, I found some APIs that integrate video to Ruby but for now I'm not interested in working using ffmpeg. For now I'm going to stick with  VLC and control it remotely using a telnet interface, in the same way I used on my project. 

I know what you going to say, I'm trying to grab a lot of eggs with only two hands but my intention is clear: I want to know how good ruby on rails can be and for that I want to compare with things that I know best.  =)

Primeiro acorde

Para quem não entendeu ainda estou fazendo um pequeno gracejo por causa de meu sobrenome (Eisinger - Ei singer, sing). A piada já não tinha muita graça, explicando fico até com medo das vaias, facepalms e outros recursos usados para manifestar o desgosto. eheheh

Falando sério, estou criando este blog na esperança de manter um diário (não tão diário) das coisas úteis  que ando fazendo para ocupar meu tempo. Claro, eu considero quase tudo o que faço útil, infelizmente sou viciado em filosofia, mesmo tendo minhas raízes nas Exatas. Talvez por isso minha fascinação pela inteligência artificial. Em todo caso meus hobbies devem ocupar pouco espaço aqui, a maior parte do tempo devo falar de minhas tentativas, frutíferas ou não, em aprender novas linguagens (Ruby on Rails no momento), meus planos para construir uma AI "inteligente" ou pelo menos esperta o bastante pra não enfiar o dedo na tomada, enfim essas coisas que todo mundo faz enquanto não surgem outras coisas para ocupar seu tempo. 

Porque apesar de eu saber coisas que eu quero fazer ainda vai levar algum tempo até tudo se acertar por aqui, sendo sincero minha próxima postagem pode acabar sendo meio corrida, no poupatempo de minha cidade. Mas sem as incertezas a vida seria rotineira demais, não?

Boas incertezas para quem ler aqui e até uma próxima oportunidade. =)