Lisp Conversation with Gábor Melis, Google AI Contest Winner(franz.com)
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Lisp Conversation with Gábor Melis, Google AI Contest Winner
http://www.franz.com/services/conferences_seminars/webinar_1-20-11.lhtml
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Is the video available somewhere that doesn't require both registration and Windows Media Player?
Try this:
Using Opera, follow the link from the Franz site to the GotoMeeting site. Then, set Opera to "Mask as Internet Explorer" in the "Edit Site Preferences" dialog that you can access by right-clicking on the background of the site you want to edit preferences for. After that, you may need to reload the GotoMeeting site (or maybe even clear your cookies and reload).
The above procedure should hopefully keep GotoMeeting from noticing that you're not using Internet Explorer. The same procedure can be used on other sites that complain about your using an "incompatible" browser.
Anyway, next you should be able to fill out the registration form and then you should see a button called "View Recorded Webinar". When you click that button in Opera, you should be prompted to save a certain long-named ".asx" file. Save it as any name you like. Let's say you saved it as "foo.asx".
Then you should be able to play that file directly in mplayer by typing:
That's it!
If any content providers happen to be reading this, please make your videos directly and simply downloadable as .mp4 or .avi or .wmv or .ogv videos, instead of making users jump through ridiculous hoops like this when they can't or don't want to use your streaming technology.
mplayer mms://a323.v235432.c23543.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/323/23543/v0001/citrixvar.download.akamai.com/23543/www/630/099/7858717095955630099/2-7858717095955630099-12da5740387.wmv
mplayer http://tinyurl.com/46wsq3d
Using Opera, follow the link from the Franz site to the GotoMeeting site. Then, set Opera to "Mask as Internet Explorer" in the "Edit Site Preferences" dialog that you can access by right-clicking on the background of the site you want to edit preferences for. After that, you may need to reload the GotoMeeting site (or maybe even clear your cookies and reload).
The above procedure should hopefully keep GotoMeeting from noticing that you're not using Internet Explorer. The same procedure can be used on other sites that complain about your using an "incompatible" browser.
Anyway, next you should be able to fill out the registration form and then you should see a button called "View Recorded Webinar". When you click that button in Opera, you should be prompted to save a certain long-named ".asx" file. Save it as any name you like. Let's say you saved it as "foo.asx".
Then you should be able to play that file directly in mplayer by typing:
mplayer -playlist foo.asx
That's it!
If any content providers happen to be reading this, please make your videos directly and simply downloadable as .mp4 or .avi or .wmv or .ogv videos, instead of making users jump through ridiculous hoops like this when they can't or don't want to use your streaming technology.
i can view it fine in chrome & ubuntu via
chrome --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; MSIE 9.0; WIndows NT 9.0; en-US))"
chrome --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; MSIE 9.0; WIndows NT 9.0; en-US))"
At least you can use a dummy email - it didn't require confirmation.
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"This competition can be viewed as an AI contest. But it can also be viewed as a programming contest. And it was a question of speed: how quick your development is; how much your tools drag you down. This is where I see that Lisp is just great. It allows me to iterate extremely quickly over ideas."
Unsupported OS... Right....
That really is quite an interesting development, given that the people that compete in these contests typically are pretty good at what they do, I'm really surprised that a GA derived program would do that well. Is there something about this particular challenge that sets the stage for that to happen or is there more to it?
http://ai-contest.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1136